Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we got on to this the other day does anybody remember that ? |
| 2 | Recognising that Uganda permits barter deals , General Motors Trading Corporation in Kenya , for example , negotiated the export of Isuzu buses ( assembled in bond in Kenya ) in exchange for hides and skins which it then sold on to third parties . |
| 3 | Yet in Scotland the majority of the ‘ salariat ’ ( 58 per cent ) clung on to such views . |
| 4 | Many builders of smaller houses in the Cotswolds clung on to this much-loved style which they had so perfected . |
| 5 | This led on to many of our older members recalling their experiences too . |
| 6 | According to the CIA report on the October 3 coup bid , when the dictator was imprisoned in his bedroom , he phoned his mistress , who passed on to loyal troops his message that the uprising could be thwarted . |
| 7 | When news was brought to the hotel that the general had , ‘ passed on to that great trout loch in the sky ’ , people were genuinely saddened because the general had been a much-respected member of the community . |
| 8 | Such generative practices structured my early experience , and built a constructed hierarchy of ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ which was set up and passed on to all initiates . |
| 9 | What was given to her , passed on to all of us , was a powerful and terrible endurance , the self-destructive defiance of those doing the best they can with what life hands out to them . |
| 10 | It has been given new genetic information by injecting DNA into the nucleus and this will be inherited by all the cells in the body and passed on to future generations via the germ cells . |
| 11 | Such errors would not he passed on to future generations but would die out . |
| 12 | A similar course held at the beginning of the year in Brasov , attended by sixty people including teachers , nurses and doctors , was particularly encouraging as much of the material was , in turn , passed on to other colleagues for their use . |
| 13 | A practical means of identifying approximate levels of output uncertainty also requires that some basic recommendations are made about how this variability can be retained , used and passed on to subsequent operations and applications using the data . |
| 14 | The ten most frequently occurring ( from a corpus frequency count ) are ordered and can either be presented to the user , or passed on to further stages of analysis , depending upon the implementation . |
| 15 | These are then collected , distilled and passed on to social workers and others in basic texts , training manuals , child abuse courses and conferences ( cf Moore , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | Then the crew got down to serious drinking . |
| 17 | It was high time she got down to serious thought about her doctorate . |
| 18 | Needing to think very deeply about her situation , however , Leith pushed thoughts of Sebastian from her and got down to serious thought . |
| 19 | Mr Tillingham got down to churchy business , the funeral would take place at three in the afternoon … |
| 20 | I got down to eleven stone and then I stuck |
| 21 | On tour in 1988 , Gedge often shouted into the microphone ‘ Status Quo — 25 years in the business , ’ as he and Solowka got down to some mindless guitar boogie . |
| 22 | He put up some token resistance : he 'd never had my advantages , it was time I got down to some hard work , and so on . |
| 23 | ‘ Is n't it about time we got down to some work ? |
| 24 | I got down to ten stone . |
| 25 | But I got down to ten stone . |
| 26 | I got down to ten |
| 27 | Books were obviously supernumerary , and he began jettisoning them until he got down to those two which every guest on ‘ Desert Island Discs ’ is furnished with as a bare , civilised minimum : the Bible and Shakespeare . |
| 28 | I 've spent all these years thinking about it , wondering how it got in to that house . |
| 29 | At the time of Stalin 's death , some two years before the signing of the Treaty , the USSR 's European clients maintained at Soviet behest over 1.5 million men under arms ( half again as many as today ) , supervised by thousands of Soviet ‘ advisers ’ posted down to regimental level and , particularly in Hungary and Poland , by Soviet Commanders in East European uniform . |
| 30 | The juveniles could be brought into a place of safety and passed along to one of the agencies for intensive counselling , but the rest of them — those over eighteen , and who were neither obviously offending nor mentally ill — were free agents . |