Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The calls come via three sources : personal requests made by members of the public at the station 's enquiry desk ; telephone calls made directly to the station ; and messages relayed from BRC , the central communications network . |
| 2 | The search for new policies led additionally to the widespread adoption of monetary targets in most economies , including the UK , apparently giving some acceptance of the monetarist claim that inflation is a consequence of a rapid growth in the money supply . |
| 3 | During Charles 's reign , lay-abbacies contributed significantly to the maintainance of royal power . |
| 4 | Village communities anywhere are notoriously conservative , so when two young cyclists wandered in to the Gasthof Löwen with shoulder-length hair and matching headbands , they received some doubtful glances from the table where five farm-workers sat steadily drinking their way through the evening . |
| 5 | Adjusters reports should be carefully checked and any omissions or queries referred back to the Adjuster . |
| 6 | Trotskyists drew closer to the ILP again in opposition to the war , making full propaganda use of the Communists ' rapid change in policy in September 1939 and June 1941 . |
| 7 | Mrs M. parked the car in a street of stone houses , where steps led up to the tower . |
| 8 | Steps led down to the banks of the river , and from the water 's edge , the ruins of the castle dominated the skyline . |
| 9 | A short flight of stone steps led down to the entrance . |
| 10 | During the 1960s and 1970s interest in the language of Caribbeans in British schools led eventually to the publication of specialised teaching materials and the implementation of policies in the light of two Commissions of Inquiry ( Bullock 1975 ; Rampton 1981 ) . |
| 11 | The flesh and bones of words rose again to the salvation of their etymologies . |
| 12 | A report by a Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food provided the first official acknowledgment that lead fall-out from cars contributed significantly to the lead content of food . |
| 13 | The reporter 's eyes flickered down to the floor . |
| 14 | His eyes flickered down to the gondola . |
| 15 | Her eyes moved swiftly to the others . |
| 16 | So neither television nor the parties moved closer to the electorate on unemployment : they moved away from the electorate , increasingly avoiding an issue the public wanted to discuss . |
| 17 | Völkisch opinion on these subjects came increasingly to the fore with simplistic solutions that fitted in well with the Junker status quo . |
| 18 | Eyes turned again to the tea urn . |
| 19 | The listeners tuned in to the German wavelengths because they found Joyce amusing unintentionally or for his anecdotes , or else because they wished to hear both sides of the argument , or even because they did not trust their own authorities to tell them the whole truth . |
| 20 | The size of the holes , and the thickness of the surrounding bubbles of enriched galaxy formation , depend on the details of the perturbations fed in to the idealised model calculations , and this offers hope that better observations of these holes in the Universe may reveal information about the kinds of disturbances that made the big bang of creation develop irregularly . |
| 21 | Several nearby Frenchmen started belatedly to the rescue , but the guilty knowledge of his responsibility for the impending disaster had lent Joseph 's legs extra speed . |
| 22 | The survivors scrambled back to the sepoy lines pursued by a vengeful squadron of Sikh cavalry . |
| 23 | Her eyes went straight to the wicker chair by the window where a baby was just waking from its morning sleep . |
| 24 | But his eyes went back to the Workshops and he frowned and sought for the right thing to say . |
| 25 | As his eyes went back to the old lady , she saw the smile turn on again , and quick suspicion kindled in her breast . |
| 26 | Towards the centre of that area were roses and rhododendrons that had been left to grow like weeds , and a willow tree whose branches reached right to the ground to create a shady den around its trunk . |
| 27 | At least 12 other women candidates went through to the second round of voting . |
| 28 | Kebbel 's eyes drifted over to the window . |
| 29 | Her eyes fell irresistibly to the firm , broad chest , the gleam of hard , taut muscle and then he was pulling her to him , kissing her mouth , her neck , the base of her throat , finding the clasp of her bra , discarding it , so that her breasts hung heavy and exposed , aching with longing and desire . |
| 30 | Bits of the guide books floated familiarly to the surface . |