Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You more or less stood to attention . . |
| 2 | All thoughts of where they were and what was happening fled abruptly as she stared at him with a shock that soon turned to joy as she saw the expression on his face . |
| 3 | He had this quirky sense of humour that always seemed to surface whenever Lisa least expected it . |
| 4 | Their wails and screams rose above the crackle of their burning homes and were made even more blood-curdling by the clangorous din of the church bells that frantically appealed to heaven for aid . |
| 5 | ‘ He evolved in such a way that really came to life for me , ’ she says . |
| 6 | The two that immediately came to mind were running a charity and looking at whether any of her work was commercially viable which , since it is biotechnology-based , there was a good chance it would be . |
| 7 | They had made love before of course , a gentle , tentative , lovemaking that never came to fruition . |
| 8 | Besides cleaning up the city 's litter , he was determined to cure its chronic pollution problem , and duly went to war on public and private traffic , proposing a total ban from some areas . |
| 9 | The history of the game is littered with talented players who were never capped and so defected to league . |
| 10 | This new evidence was held by the defence and only came to light during the trial . |
| 11 | Quinn eased the armchair away from the wall , grunted a few times for the benefit of the wall microphone , switched off the tape-recorder , rolled on to the bed and genuinely went to sleep . |
| 12 | The Portuguese escudo joined the European exchange rate mechanism on Friday and yesterday shot to pole position , hitting the top of its 6 p.c. band , and heaping pressure on the pound which remains the weak man of Euro currencies . |
| 13 | The broad gauge set the standard for developments for half a century , largely because the greater stability permitted higher speeds than were then possible on the narrow gauge and hence led to engineering advances that would make such speeds possible , eventually in the narrow gauge as well . |
| 14 | She lived out of doors and often went to work in the fields with the contadini . |
| 15 | When he spent the Whitsun weekend with John Hayward in Cambridge , he looked " very haggard and washed out and dispirited " and simply went to sleep on Hayward 's bed for two afternoons . |
| 16 | Just , get a bath and then got to bed . |
| 17 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 18 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 19 | The Dormouse woke up for a minute and then went to sleep again . |
| 20 | However , her feelings of hopelessness increased over the next 3 weeks and late one night , after she had been drinking alone , she took an overdose of the tranquillizer mixed with paracetamol and then went to bed . |
| 21 | Nothing happened at all , she waited all day to see , and then went to bed , no doubt very pleased with herself . |
| 22 | I sang and danced in town , and then went to bed in Edinburgh Castle . |
| 23 | ‘ Last night I went to an art exhibition in my sister-in-law 's gallery and then went to dinner to celebrate my brother-in-law 's birthday . |
| 24 | It used every means at its disposal : it argued and pressured the Versailles politicians ; it cheated in the plebiscites ; it engineered uprisings in Silesia and Wielkopolska ; it skirmished and then went to war with the Red Army for territory in the east . |
| 25 | At school he had a three-year affair with a fellow student — ‘ a rummaging around adolescent affair ’ — and then went to college ‘ and got into girls ’ . |
| 26 | The woman , whose hands were still bound , clambered from the back seat into the front of the two-door car and then struggled to safety . |
| 27 | Leslie reported one such descent on their camp : ‘ This morning we had a visit from ‘ Boy ’ Browning [ G.O.C. , 1st Airborne Corps ] , who gave us a truly excellent talk , and then stayed to lunch . |
| 28 | Hope looked keenly at the man , held his gaze a moment — a glance which could have ruled a line straight from eye to eye — and then snapped to attention . |
| 29 | High red serpents swayed up to hang for a lingering minute and fade ; busy green heads with white tails thrashed hither and thither and then dived to death . |
| 30 | The row below dulled and then flickered to life , muted for a short while and then raised into a furious crescendo . |