Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I moved out to stay in a hotel and I think Tracie preferred it that way . |
| 2 | How and why sport assumes the status of a central life interest for black kids are the questions I set out to answer in chapter eight . |
| 3 | I settled down to wait in the passageway between the garage and the house where I was a little protected from the inclemency of the weather and whence I was eventually plucked by the constabulary . |
| 4 | After the usual spate of clocks , lamps , bowls and ‘ anything round ’ during my learning period , I settled down to specialise in bowls . |
| 5 | I went on to say in the new world in which we live legislation has grown like topsy and thus requires more drastic pruning . |
| 6 | Then I went down to live in London and face reality . |
| 7 | Beyond , a heat haze shimmered above the fields which sloped upwards to a wood which seemed about to explode in midgy darkness . |
| 8 | In one school of thinking , durables , pharmaceutical goods , insurance , etc. , have been christened ‘ information-intensive ’ products , and there are agencies which set out to specialize in this type of product . |
| 9 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |
| 10 | Indeed , this is precisely what Russell Reynolds himself set out to achieve in modelling his business on top service organisations like Morgan Guaranty — where he had worked before entering search — and Morgan Stanley and McKinsey . |
| 11 | The managing director who suddenly assumes a very friendly , familiar manner may be regarded with suspicion ; the accountant who turns up to work in his track suit may be ridiculed . |
| 12 | As usual , she strolled over to drink in the view — mistress of all she surveyed . |
| 13 | How might your boss react if you turned up to work in your best disco gear ? |
| 14 | Mrs Tholen , who went on to specialise in theatre work , has proved herself to be the gardener of the family despite her husband 's success with carnations carefully nurturing the acre of gardens in which their four-bedroomed detached home is set . |
| 15 | The photograph was taken in 1987 and shows and up and coming local athlete who went on to compete in the Olympic Games . |
| 16 | Mr Patrick Corbally Stourton , who went out to work in Australia several years ago , and is now managing director of Originals Outback Limited , invited me to the opening of the first comprehensive exhibition of Aboriginal art from the Central Western Desert of Australia to be seen in Europe . |
| 17 | AT least one Labour MP , and probably a few more , think that Labour leader John Smith should ditch his troubled shadow Scottish secretary Tom Clarke , who went back to work in January after a three-month illness and promptly inflicted two unnecessary controversies upon himself . |
| 18 | It may well have been used to make bows for local archers who went off to fight in the battle of Agincourt . |
| 19 | Brushing the unruly wet tendrils of hair from her cheeks , she went over to stand in front of it , holding out her hands to the heat . |
| 20 | And she went down to check in the winter time and she said your van was really dry . |
| 21 | Unfortunately for him , his feelings were not reciprocated and she went off to work in America . |
| 22 | I think if she went in to live in the back woods , you know , way beyond |
| 23 | Then she lay down to rest in the lounge , surrounded by other women who even here never stopped talking . |
| 24 | You are most at risk if you strip off to bask in blazing sun after a year covered up . |
| 25 | Relief came when she jetted out to co-star in Christopher Columbus alongside Marlon Brando ( space permitting ) . |
| 26 | That is what we set out to do in this paper , proceeding from three assumptions that differ from those of the traditional leadership literature . |
| 27 | It was too close to Christmas to bother about embarking on any sort of adult education before it , so I pacified Toby by saying I 'd got plenty of time and would look into it after the New Year , and we settled down to wallow in being together and getting into the Christmas spirit . |
| 28 | It was past midnight and we shivered through to dawn in guilty contemplation of our good fortune . |
| 29 | Before we go on to explore in some detail how the Stress Syndrome comes about I want to make a couple of general points . |
| 30 | ‘ The response was so amazing , ’ Chris recalls , ‘ that we went on to exhibit in London and the business really took off . ’ |