Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 3 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 4 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But he above is a representative of the general tone of the interview which constantly referred back to the suspiciously ‘ instant ’ political aspects of the band . |
| 8 | Others hated and ignored them , saying they only came down to the city to steal . |
| 9 | He carried on flying , looking for a place to land and so flew back to the wireless station and decided to land in a field next to it . |
| 10 | Jessamy shakily got to her feet , took a couple of very deep breaths , then stubbornly went over to the door . |
| 11 | I really only went along to the interviews for a lark , as company for a friend . |
| 12 | From that point on he only went down to the hospitals ‘ as and when required ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ But the lift buttons only went down to the ground floor . ’ |
| 14 | He stayed there , watching it taxi away , and only went out to the cab rank when the plane had actually taken off . |
| 15 | Paradoxically , the more the middle class increased and flourished , diverting resources towards its own housing , offices , the department stores which were so characteristic a development of the era , and its prestige buildings , the less went relatively to the working-class quarters , except in the most general form of social expenditure streets , sanitation , lighting and public utilities . |
| 16 | At first he refused to answer , then realised that no assassin would make such a noise so went down to the door and called out : ‘ Who 's there ? ’ |
| 17 | She merely went off to the nursery for a brief inspection , came back and pronounced him gorgeous . |
| 18 | So , as the other person already occupied part of the left hand bench , he quite naturally went over to the right hand bench and promptly sat down . |
| 19 | And this ‘ vague altruism ’ apparently permeated up to the highest levels in government : for example , Neville Chamberlain , who had been a leading figure in the pre-war National Government 's denial of the problem of child malnutrition , was so shocked by the stories of the children 's condition that he commented to his sister , ‘ I never knew that such conditions existed , and I feel ashamed of having been so ignorant of my neighbours . |
| 20 | And since there did n't seem anything she could do , and there was n't anything else she dared to say , she turned round and slowly trudged back to the house . |
| 21 | We rarely played close to the building which , when not lit up , had something of the baleful haunted house about it . |
| 22 | In the same year he became the chairman of the radical Green Ribbon Club , but he briefly and secretly came over to the court interest . |
| 23 | Well he supposed to give up smoking , it had caused clotting in one of his legs and then it just whipped over to the other one , he 's had to have it cut off |
| 24 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
| 25 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 26 | Despite this , Junius soon got down to the business of casting aspersions against the King 's character . |
| 27 | The irony that Charlton finally got back to the First Division in 1986 , the year their exile from The Valley began , is n't lost on Ufton . |
| 28 | Mr Hamilton-Renwick soon moved on to the Dobermann 's smaller relative , the Miniature Pinscher . |
| 29 | McCallen meanwhile came back to the starting area but then failed to take part and was escorted back to his pit by his team manager Neill Tuxwsorth . |
| 30 | Entering the competition was entirely Barbara 's idea and when the phone call came through to say they 'd won , Betty was quite shocked to discover that she , too , was going to London to have a makeover — but she soon came round to the idea ! |