Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 As Speaker O'Neill forcibly pointed out to the newly elected President Carter , tactics that had worked in the relatively sedate politics of Georgia were unlikely to be effective in Washington .
2 And , yes , I saw the incident at Southampton , where Mark Nicholas was eventually given out to a disputed close catch and then brought back to the crease .
3 SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone .
4 Do you remember when as a child you would stand transfixed , gazing up at the grandfather clock , with your little heart beating faster and faster as the minute hand slowly crept up to the hour when suddenly , with magical ringing chimes it burst into life .
5 On Aug. 8 the British hostage John McCarthy was released in Beirut ; he was swiftly transported to the Syrian capital , Damascus , and thence flown back to the United Kingdom .
6 It may paper over things and succeed in buying time , but it can not overcome the class-based conflicts that will eventually bubble up to the surface .
7 She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin .
8 I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager .
9 As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England .
10 The Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh .
11 This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees .
12 ‘ I was all right walking down to the pit until I met the group of supporters then I had to crack . ’
13 However , not merely was there a conflict of medical evidence , but even Dr. D. , upon whose opinion Thorpe J. eventually based his decision , described W. as having ‘ a mild case of anorexia nervosa ’ and that although he ( Dr. D. ) had eventually come round to the view that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit , the decision was quite finely balanced .
14 The track eventually drops down to a road .
15 This in effect meant that PFF actually did 45 sorties , but please to remember that few Pathfinder aircrew elected to opt out at the 45 mark and most carried on to the magic 60 , And further take note that over 100 PFF aircrew managed the ton ( 100 sorties ) .
16 A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture .
17 Much of the meeting was apparently given over to the specific role X/Open will play .
18 Much of the meeting was apparently given over to the specific role that X/Open will play .
19 You 'd better hustle back to the stand , pronto !
20 So we 're going to keep we 're going to try and keep our costs on this obviously stripped down to an absolute minimum .
21 She is full of admiration for the care and attention she is receiving at the hospital but is already looking ahead to the time when she is strong enough to go on to a convalescent home .
22 Shop manager , Jim Willcock 's been allowed home from hospital , but he 's not well enough to go back to the co-op in Cam .
23 3 Stir in the peanut butter and gently bring back to the boil until the sauce thickens and goes glossy and smooth .
24 Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house .
25 I wanted only to go down to the summer-house and watch the leaves falling until night fell with them .
26 An hour later she was still happily chatting to the woman , finding out about the terrible Harry who had ‘ torn the heart ’ right out of her daughter and gone off with a woman from Cork , which naturally led on to the dreadful and often incomprehensible ways of men and the stupid way women always put up with it .
27 He could see in a three hundred and sixty degree sphere via the pod sensor modules , just as he could feel the ambient temperature , and even smell the lubricant that someone had carelessly leaked on to the floor .
28 Sweetman turned a furious smeared face at us , then drove his garish boat hard at Wavebreaker 's hull to gouge a long scratch down to the bare metal .
29 Lucie 's thoughts were entirely given over to the pain in his chest ; he was overrun with pain .
30 A savings plan is also an annuity but in this case the cash that you pay in builds up to a sum that you receive at the end of the plan 's term .
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