Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the horse was bedded down it was time for Sirrell to celebrate properly , and most of Nantgaredig turned up to assist : he eventually got to bed at 3 a.m . |
| 2 | Sharpe 's current illness apart , he also missed several months with repeated hernia problems which eventually led to surgery . |
| 3 | There they eventually led to coalition governments . |
| 4 | 11 To there friends who knew her , her self-assertion was born from nothing but a necessary and confident determination to succeed in an area where women rarely rose to prominence . |
| 5 | On the other hand , his determination to win became such that he frequently appeared to condone his fast men bowling in an intimidating fashion , which obviously led to criticism from press and public . |
| 6 | ( Well , I only got to page 8 … ) . |
| 7 | The rise in the price of oil had little immediate impact , but the collapse of world stock markets , the fall in demand , especially in the USA , for Hong Kong exports and the fear that Japanese banks would cut back on investment all led to growth predictions being revised downwards , in some instance to negative growth . |
| 8 | Shadshit 's voice suddenly rose to rehearsal pitch and he walked out of the toilet and into the dressing room . |
| 9 | A hot food trader in the market square , who only moved to North Ormesby two days ago , said : ‘ People told me not to move here . |
| 10 | We have become so habituated to market relations that it can seem merely banal to observe that types of work which make a loss will , within market production , be reduced or discontinued , while types which make a profit will be expanded . |
| 11 | ‘ The helicopter I 'd been watching suddenly veered to port and its rotor blades did n't look the same . |
| 12 | He only came to life when she began unbuttoning his trousers , for as she touched his fly buttons , so he grabbed at his belt . |
| 13 | ( The General Next to God , Collins ) Many of his far-reaching proposals only came to fruition during the social reforms after the Second World War . |
| 14 | Part of the scandal only came to light when an eagle-eyed bank clerk spotted changes made to the bank destination information on an authorised cheque from Craven Grain . |
| 15 | The crimes only came to light in 1990 when one of Oldfield 's victims , then an adult , was himself charged with indecency to children . |
| 16 | This new evidence was held by the defence and only came to light during the trial . |
| 17 | Parts of the contents of the manual only came to light as a result of criminal trials following an incident at Orgreave during the strike , at which some of the techniques were implemented for the first time . |
| 18 | The spraying of the pesticide , Galecron , took place in 1976 , but only came to light during a recent Swiss TV programme . |
| 19 | ( Details only came to light in 1972 , when London Transport received a compulsory purchase order , in connection with a further rebuilding of the bridge . ) |
| 20 | The offences only came to light because of an attempt to inflate profits at Alexander Howden , which was discovered by the American company Alexander and Alexander after it bought the company . |
| 21 | It only came to light today . ’ |
| 22 | News of the car smuggling scandal only came to light when Col. Luis Catalino González Rojas , commander of the fourth infantry division , defied orders and leaked evidence of the affair to the press . |
| 23 | ‘ But , unfortunately , this undesirable side to your brother 's character only came to light after I 'd hired you . |
| 24 | The assault only came to light four days later , when he went to hospital for treatment . |
| 25 | Her case only came to light because the Health Authority meeting were mistakenly sent to the media . |
| 26 | The matter only came to light when police , conducting an inquiry into the running of children 's homes in North Wales , interviewed the boy last year . |
| 27 | The matter only came to light when police , conducting an inquiry into the running of children 's homes in North Continued on Page 5 Continued from Page 1 Wales , interviewed the boy last year . |
| 28 | Police were not informed and the matter only came to light last year during a police investigation into the running of children 's homes in North Wales . |
| 29 | I put on the dress and it suddenly came to life . |
| 30 | A thought suddenly came to mind . |