Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Sarah got back to the attic bedroom in Newcastle Place the first thing she did was open the window , letting in damp , wintry air . |
| 2 | Blair crept down to the bank whilst I rehearsed various reasons to explain why he had not caught the trout : lack of experience , bad casting technique . |
| 3 | Cecilia got on to the platform . |
| 4 | Kolchinsky was waiting in the foyer when Whitlock got back to the hotel . |
| 5 | Allan got away to the best start and led for the opening thirty metres ( the commentators were going berserk ! ) . |
| 6 | Hun Sen sold out to the Vietnamese , and is now selling out to Thai businessmen as well , it says . |
| 7 | Tony Rickardsson cruised through to the Nordic Final stage of the World Championship when he finished third in the three-leg Swedish heats last week . |
| 8 | ‘ Go for the girl , ’ ordered Randy Sherwood , as South Sussex rode on to the field . |
| 9 | After a moment or two Hosanna moved back to the step again . |
| 10 | Trent swam back to the catamaran dragging the fish behind him . |
| 11 | The village of Arrington in Cambridgeshire moved sideways to the improved Old North Road ( A14 ) in the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | Ben moved across to the other side s ) f the window , trying to keep them in sight , but he lost them in a moment . |
| 13 | When they 'd finished their simple meal , obeying Michele 's instructions , Luce moved back to the couch while he cleared away the dishes and brought in coffee , glasses , and a crystal decanter . |
| 14 | Herr Nordern sank on to the sofa and , astonishingly , found himself holding his wife 's hand , and feeling hers firmly gripping his . |
| 15 | Having handed over her letter and waved goodbye , Perdita wandered down to the stables . |
| 16 | Isabel sank back to the grass , beginning to shake . |
| 17 | In December 1932 Nizan referred unequivocally to the " new life " and " new culture " to be instigated by the proletariat in post-revolutionary society , and to the " heroic social project being undertaken in the USSR " . |
| 18 | The Caribbean lapped on to the deserted palm-fringed beach just beyond . |
| 19 | At a banquet in Beijing on Oct. 23 Akihito referred obliquely to the Sino-Japanese War as " an unfortunate period in which my country inflicted great sufferings on the people of China " . |
| 20 | The practice of appeal from ducal courts of first instance in the duchy to the Paris Parlement led ultimately to the formulation of the theory of independent Plantagenet sovereignty over Gascony . |
| 21 | The helicopter and the keys to the private villa were promptly removed ; Branson rode back to the airport in a taxi . |
| 22 | As Mazur got closer to the big players in the Colombian drug world , one name began to come up more and more often : that of BCCI . |
| 23 | Ultimately Childebert and Guntram patched up their quarrel , and Chilperic moved on to the defensive , only to be murdered at Chelles in 584 . |
| 24 | Gazza moved out to the villa in July to acclimatise before the football season kicked off . |
| 25 | Millie moved back to the window now . |
| 26 | Bernice moved over to the creatures . |
| 27 | Quickly , Marie moved over to the entrance . |
| 28 | Hatch bent down to the plants . |
| 29 | Immediately after the war , the United States moved politically to the right and Europe moved dramatically to the left — the prewar establishments had been discredited by appeasement and collaboration . |
| 30 | Donna moved closer to the painting . |