Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellen just went to sleep . |
| 2 | Mr Koch soon had to back-track . |
| 3 | In 1982 the enfeebled Leonid Brezhnev still clung to power in the Kremlin , detente was dead , the end of the cold war nowhere in sight . |
| 4 | Bainsfair Sharkey Trott and Butterfield Day Devito Hockney also presented to group marketing manager Mike Hind , but KWS 's creative solution swung the decision , he says . |
| 5 | There is no way of telling how many of these men were actually raised , but Sir Edward certainly went to sea with a fleet at the end of April , and Dorset was thought to have accompanied him . |
| 6 | There is no way of telling how many of these men were actually raised , but Sir Edward certainly went to sea with a fleet at the end of April , and Dorset was thought to have accompanied him . |
| 7 | Later they went to a jazz club in the King 's Road — Uncle Ted had never seen black walls before — where Eva slyly said to Dad , ‘ I think it 's about time we moved to London , do n't you ? ’ |
| 8 | In her despair and grief Mrs McDermott also turned to alcohol for relief . |
| 9 | Well , Marius never went to bed before one , so I do n't believe that for a start . ’ |
| 10 | FORMER union chief Ken Gill yesterday refused to hand back £30,000 worth of perks from his £201,000 retirement package . |
| 11 | The seismic activity gradually increased in intensity until on Sunday , 20 May 1883 , Krakatoa abruptly came to life , announcing its re-awakening with a series of explosions audible in towns over 150 kilometres away . |
| 12 | Among his Anglican friends , Coghill probably went to confession . |
| 13 | In Russia , Yeltsin also came to power on a wave of anti-communist feeling augmented by Russian nationalism . |
| 14 | Francis Bacon never went to art college , she pointed out . |
| 15 | JTR never referred to world events . |
| 16 | When Margy eventually went to court for her new shoplifting charge the judge gave her a probation order . |
| 17 | His 28 goals were free tickets to every night-club in London and despite a quiet off-field life when he first moved to London , McAvennie finally succumbed to temptation and took his rightful place in the twilight zone . |
| 18 | Rachael seldom went to bed before 11 pm . |
| 19 | Abraham finally went to sleep on the waggon . |
| 20 | Peter clearly took to heart what must have been a challenging and potentially testing message . |
| 21 | According to Morolli : ‘ The seed sown by Lorenzo eventually came to fruition in Rome in the time of his son Giovanni , the future Pope Leo X. Seen in this light , Bramante and Raphael are the products of Florentine taste ’ . |
| 22 | The NRA also appealed to water users to use washing machines and dishwashers only when fully-loaded and to use the minimum of water for gardening and car washing . |
| 23 | Ramos also submitted to Congress an amnesty proclamation covering 4,500 former rebels from the CPP , NPA , the Moslem separatist Moro National Liberation Front ( MNLF ) , and right-wing military dissidents implicated in coup attempts against Corazon Aquino , Ramos 's predecessor as President . |
| 24 | Lennie spoilt everything for George but George never seemed to mind terribly much . |
| 25 | The EC also agreed to phase out limitations on their steel imports by March 31 , 1992 , in order to open up the EC to Third-World steel imports which flooded the US market . |
| 26 | In support of their view , Belgium and Greece also referred to article 5(1) of the Convention of 1958 and to the Convention of 1982 . |
| 27 | Since Jasper and Bienvida never went to bed until Tina did but fell asleep wherever they happened to be , Jarvis hardly took this protest seriously . |
| 28 | ‘ The Comyns hardly came to court and though Bruce was close to Alexander , the late King never bothered to consider their claims to his throne . |
| 29 | In spite of this partial acquittal Leese still went to prison . |
| 30 | On the other hand , the main credit for resolving the dilemma of Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe really belonged to Commonwealth leaders such as Julius Nyerere of Tanzania and Malcolm Fraser of Australia , and especially to Lord Carrington and the mandarins of the Foreign Office . |