Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The destruction of the temples and the towns round them led directly to a rebuilding programme . |
| 2 | I clung hard to a sapling with my eyes closed , waiting for things to get better , telling myself that if I fell down again it would be much much much worse . |
| 3 | I tottered across to a cottage on the edge of the loch and asked for a pot of tea and a bite to eat . |
| 4 | After primary school I moved away to a different High School but I have the photographs and certificates of achievement that I have worked for . |
| 5 | When they were well out of the way we made tracks for home and I looked forward to a quiet evening . |
| 6 | The do that in wonderful community centre , I went there to a good function the other evening , very good fish and chips and as well . |
| 7 | In this perspective , it was industrialization and urbanization which triggered those processes and which led ultimately to a weakening of family ties , and especially ties with kin outside the so-called ‘ conjugal family ’ composed of a couple and their immature children ( Morgan , 1975 , ch. 2 ; Harris , 1983 , chs. 6–8 ) . |
| 8 | It was the beginning of our curiosity about each other which led ultimately to a mutual understanding and respect upon which our friendship became firmly based . |
| 9 | Good humour helped to see Victor through his prolonged ill health , caused by a lung complaint which led ultimately to a transplant operation from which he did not recover . |
| 10 | The prospect of losing the traditional source of their wealth and authority induced among many noblemen a reappraisal of their role which amounted almost to a crisis of identity . |
| 11 | Her startled eyes absorbed the thick , short , golden-streaked hair swept back from a broad forehead , ears long and narrow as a satyr 's which grew close to a beautifully formed skull , a mouth of unutterable sweetness countered by a long jaw carved out of golden teak faintly blurred by a light stubble , and a chin that jutted in a formidable challenge . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , there was little in the debate which looked forward to a bright new future . |
| 13 | If by the outbreak of the Second World War there existed a substantial body of opinion which looked forward to a fresh approach to economic and social problems , this increasingly influential consensus found its moment with the coming of the war and , in particular , in the atmosphere of national emergency after the evacuation of Dunkirk and the fall of France in 1940 . |
| 14 | Beyond , a heat haze shimmered above the fields which sloped upwards to a wood which seemed about to explode in midgy darkness . |
| 15 | Some of the larger aircraft were transferred to the parking area at Amman airport , for a long time the only point from which Iraq could be entered from abroad , as foreign airlines were hesitant about using traditional air corridors which ran close to a war zone . |
| 16 | He was suddenly shaken from his thoughts by a car which slid silently to a halt beside him . |
| 17 | Sybil had composed a poem about dead flowers , each quatrain ending with the line ‘ And the spent petals fall , one by one , to the ground ’ , which she read aloud to a receptive audience , a note of melancholy in her voice and a trace of moisture dimming her eyes . |
| 18 | She reported sternly to a meeting of the management team that word-of-mouth recruitment might be taking place . |
| 19 | Evenings she came home to a stack of manila envelopes with folded papers lettered in scarlet and black . |
| 20 | In the afternoon , when only her mother was with her , she stated spontaneously to a nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she had been a Jehovah 's Witness and retained some beliefs . |
| 21 | She nodded sympathetically to a passing workman , ‘ I see the launderette was closed . ’ |
| 22 | She stepped inside to a chequered marble floor , swept clean and neat , with flowers on the table . |
| 23 | Then she padded across to a low stool and sat down , surveying herself in the mirror that lined her bathroom walls on two sides . |
| 24 | She looked across to a bureau on which stood a framed certificate for TV Presenter of the Year Award . |
| 25 | That tree there , for example — ’ He pointed and she looked across to a singularly impressive specimen of holly . |
| 26 | This report describes the case of a patient who was initially diagnosed and treated as having coeliac disease and lymphocytic gastritis but who responded poorly to a gluten free diet . |
| 27 | We stopped close to a small graveyard where a tribe of wild goats stared suspiciously at us from between the mounds of earth and bleak wooden crosses . |
| 28 | We drove straight to a panelled restaurant in the dining district between Fifth and Sixth for an exploratory meeting with Christopher Meadowbrook . |
| 29 | As we walked away to a coffee-shop in the Royal Mile , Meehan said , ‘ That 's the first court in my life I 've been turned away from . ’ |
| 30 | Ferranti 's senior management was extremely unhappy about the arrangements , but at that stage took the view that they amounted merely to a credit risk rather than a fraud . |