Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben got away to a really fast start and there was no heading him . |
| 2 | Ben got away to a lightning start and won in a blazing 10.06 seconds ; Chidi ( not going to Scotland ) was second , and I was some way back in third place with 10.32 seconds . |
| 3 | The lady Alianor refers always to the new king thus , thought Joan . |
| 4 | Because Xtradrive requires a device driver , which means that it is a system level device , bypassing DOS and the BIOS to go straight to the hard disk would result in the swap file not benefiting from compression . |
| 5 | Allan got away to the best start and led for the opening thirty metres ( the commentators were going berserk ! ) . |
| 6 | In the 100 metres Allan got away to a fine start , I came through fast at the end , there was a photo-finish between us and he got the verdict . |
| 7 | This in turn encouraged Samsonov to drive farther to the west than originally intended , before turning northward , in the hope of encircling even greater numbers of Germans . |
| 8 | In 1890 , Beatrice Webb referred caustically to ‘ individualists , reinforced by a batch of excellent ladies ( eager for the Right of Woman to work at all hours of the day and night with the minimum space and sanitation ) ’ who opposed any attempt to regulate conditions in workshops and the homework trades . |
| 9 | The village of Arrington in Cambridgeshire moved sideways to the improved Old North Road ( A14 ) in the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | Ben moved across to the other side s ) f the window , trying to keep them in sight , but he lost them in a moment . |
| 11 | Minnis decided to do something for others who might similarly be afflicted which resulted in the Kenilworth Club and the PGL contributing annually to a fund . |
| 12 | Stirling has yet to be convinced even by Samuel 's figure . |
| 13 | Curran referred later to his ‘ Irish birth without an Irish upbringing ’ , since after three weeks he left Dublin for Aberdeen , his mother 's native home . |
| 14 | Sarah bent close to her . |
| 15 | Just hear me out , ’ he said sharply as Sophie rose indignantly to her feet . |
| 16 | Heinrich moved closer to her . |
| 17 | In December 1932 Nizan referred unequivocally to the " new life " and " new culture " to be instigated by the proletariat in post-revolutionary society , and to the " heroic social project being undertaken in the USSR " . |
| 18 | His clothes business brought him increasingly into contact with the rock music world , and in 1974 McLaren moved briefly to New York where he managed the prototype glam-trash group , the New York Dolls . |
| 19 | At a banquet in Beijing on Oct. 23 Akihito referred obliquely to the Sino-Japanese War as " an unfortunate period in which my country inflicted great sufferings on the people of China " . |
| 20 | Although Ian Wright will be included and is likely to get another chance , Taylor has yet to be convinced he is the right man to play alongside the Blackburn striker . |
| 21 | BESO looks forward to developing its collaboration with TRANSAID and to making greater use of its bank of expertise , not only in transportation but also in other fields in support of TRANSAID 's objectives . |
| 22 | The practice of appeal from ducal courts of first instance in the duchy to the Paris Parlement led ultimately to the formulation of the theory of independent Plantagenet sovereignty over Gascony . |
| 23 | As Mazur got closer to the big players in the Colombian drug world , one name began to come up more and more often : that of BCCI . |
| 24 | The Life of Udalric of Augsburg refers lyrically to the specially composed chants which were performed at the Palm Sunday services on the hill called ‘ Perleihc ’ by the canons and boys of Augsburg cathedral . |
| 25 | The fire finally doused with water , a young doctor across the hall was called and he advised Dustin to go immediately to the hospital . |
| 26 | For a man without overt ambition , his memorialist in the Dictionary of National Biography was to write , Irwin rose swiftly to high office . |
| 27 | Eleanor Pitman ( Kent ) one of the first Qualified Teachers , Eleanor looks forward to spending and enjoying more time with her family . |
| 28 | As Richard looks forward to 1992 , he also thinks of two people he never met who carried donor cards and saved his life not once , but twice . |
| 29 | It is not necessary to suppose that Wilfrid behaved treacherously to Aethelwealh in associating with Caedwalla ; the warfare between the two was probably outside his control . |
| 30 | Immediately after the war , the United States moved politically to the right and Europe moved dramatically to the left — the prewar establishments had been discredited by appeasement and collaboration . |