Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , people met at work or in the pub will not be asked home or invited to go out to a dance . |
| 2 | After landing , they are given a number and expected to conform quickly to an institutional existence in conditions worse than many of Hong Kong 's prisons . |
| 3 | The contradictions were beginning : a man almost more famous than his work , his best work largely ignored , and expected to play up to his own eight by ten . |
| 4 | quite a few people have seen the conditions here and asked to go back to where they came from |
| 5 | Martin netted a peach of a goal within 17 minutes of his debut at Walsall on January 2 , but he only managed one more goal in the following seven appearances and failed to live up to his Hammers pedigree — he had played for the West ham first team on three occasions . |
| 6 | But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law . |
| 7 | Since the MBO , BSM has started to refurbish its branches , launched a motorway test and sought to move closer to the corporate fleet market by offering courses on risk minimisation to corporate drivers . |
| 8 | The father pleaded with the elder brother and tried to point out to him that it was only right to celebrate for it was as if the younger son had come back to life from the dead . |
| 9 | With a shrug , Melissa left the office , fetched notebooks and a writing-pad from her car , and tried to settle down to work . |
| 10 | Poor Kate sat up straight on her bed , her legs crossed beneath her , and tried to hang on to her sanity . |
| 11 | Not given to self-pity , he heaved the problem out of his mind and tried to look forward to the challenges of tomorrow , but weariness overtook him and he retired to the shed and his mothy sleeping bag . |
| 12 | The completed cross-cut now meant that water needed only to be lifted to the level and allowed to run out to day . |
| 13 | When the bell sounded he dropped his gloves and turned to go back to his corner . |
| 14 | She unlocked her eyes from his and turned to pass through to the apartment . |
| 15 | Patrick shook his head and turned to walk back to the foyer . |
| 16 | Many men battled valiantly with what they conceived of as temptation and strove to live up to a higher ideal of married life , and few women , including leading feminists , would have thought of demanding more . |
| 17 | They laboured inside , trailing their horses by the reins , half of them fighting a ferocious rearguard battle whilst the grypesh massed within the gate and strove to win through to the courtyard beyond . |
| 18 | AN international policy shift on Bosnia 's civil war buoyed the former Yugoslav republic 's rebel Serbs at the weekend but the Muslim-led government felt betrayed and vowed to fight on to recapture lost territory . |
| 19 | The passengers , replete with the lamb and chocolate mousse , lingered over coffee , and began to drift away to the dome car 's bar lounge . |
| 20 | I climbed into the boat and began to go back to where my friends were . |
| 21 | He passed Responsions that June and began to look forward to the payments he would get for his journalism — especially for his ‘ prose poems ’ in the Speaker . |
| 22 | Mother liked him and began to look forward to his visits , and would greet him with : ‘ Hello , Mr Green . |
| 23 | Rohmer turned away from Cardiff and began to walk over to them . |
| 24 | The brave man turned his back on Silver and began to walk back to the beach . |
| 25 | when Sir Henry left the house and began to walk back to the Hall |
| 26 | He swung round and began to walk back to Church Row . |
| 27 | I stood in for at the meeting of BAIE 's Regional Chairmen in London last week , and undertook to pass on to you the name and address of the Chairman of the London & Home Counties Region , who might well like you to do a seminar or seminars for them . |
| 28 | It went on so long that finally I did undress and started to give in to the sleep I could feel coming on me . |
| 29 | The men turned together and started to walk back to the hotel . |
| 30 | After his sensational ( and bloodthirsty ? ) triumph over the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel , he was told of the threat to his life by Ahab 's foreign queen Jezebel , and decided to flee down to the desert around Mount Sinai , the home of many prophets and a place of pilgrimage for many more . |