Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [conj] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father threw his calipers away and went to Charlie Hancock the chemist , who made him up a bottle of oil from an old family recipe . |
| 2 | Spurred on again by a stream of oaths , it staggered a few paces further and sank to the ground , defeated . |
| 3 | The improved colt quickened well to take it up over two furlongs out and went to the line clear of the dead-heaters Steinbeck and Wilde Rufo , with the latter subsequently disqualified when jockey Richard Quinn weighed in 6lb light . |
| 4 | I shut my eyes then and went to work . |
| 5 | ‘ Enter , ’ said a bored voice and the two men marched in , took four paces forward and came to a halt in front of Captain Trentham . |
| 6 | Anyway , erm we went to the Ca Polly had n't seen them in the shops anywhere and went to Caerphilly market on Saturday morning and as we were coming from it he said look there 's a shirt you want for Robert there . |
| 7 | She pulled Fergus 's shoes off and nodded to the door . |
| 8 | The chaplain called our office a few days later and seemed to be open to information offered regarding preparation for Todd 's First Communion . |
| 9 | He resigned his post at the Infirmary on the grounds of poor health four years later and moved to Aughton near Ormskirk , where he continued to practise surgery . |
| 10 | There should have been a large timber column but this had been removed for some reason many years ago and led to the roof sagging some 4 ’ . |
| 11 | She says it 's a joyous occasion , this little girl was born one hundred years ago and grew to be one of the most renowned writers of her generation . |
| 12 | Her mother married housing manager John Moluf four years ago and moved to a big house in neighbouring Malta . |
| 13 | He checked his bearings again and pointed to the sand-spit . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) That , although the scope of Code C of the Codes of Practice ( 1985 ed. ) extended beyond persons in detention , it was intended to protect suspects who were , or thought themselves to be , vulnerable to abuse or pressure from police officers , and applied where a suspect was being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as such for the purpose of obtaining evidence ; that , since the appellants were not being questioned by police officers acting as such and conversation was on equal terms , there could be no question of pressure or intimidation by the officers as persons actually or believed to be in authority ; and that , accordingly , Code C did not apply in the circumstances and the judge 's approach could not be faulted ( post , p. 237C–E , H ) . |
| 15 | ‘ But the learned educationist thrust these horrible suspicions aside and said to himself that the facts derived from books are making no impart because they are not properly learned . |
| 16 | By 0930 they were all in their coaches for the long journey back to Brighton , for that evening they all became civilians again and had to be ready for their ordinary jobs on Monday . |
| 17 | Now there are times when Jesus actually sat down with his disciples afterwards and explained to them what the parable was about and there was a reason for that , it was because , simply , the folk would not have understood it . |
| 18 | He put his hands out and fell to the floor , as if to do fingertip push-ups . |
| 19 | Now , I understand Chairman that the Lib Dems have changed their minds now and succumbed to the demands of the Labour group |
| 20 | Coffin laid the papers aside and went to the window to look out . |