Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since delivery only required one of us , I 'd undertaken to go down to Fraxilly while Mala stayed with the ship . |
| 2 | After some of the descriptions she 'd seen tagged on to her own name in newspaper reviews , she could hardly disagree . |
| 3 | One of the boys was Charlie , who 'd bothered to turn up to school for the first time in weeks . |
| 4 | I 'd hoped to come on to Prague after that . |
| 5 | She 'd tried to hold on to the anger she 'd felt earlier , but it had slipped away from her , dissolving with the wine . |
| 6 | He did n't feel up to the mildest of rebuffs from her ; he seemed to have gone back to a relationship like an adolescent infatuation , reading rejection in the most innocent of her actions . |
| 7 | Everything seemed to have moved on to a level of fantasy . |
| 8 | She seemed to have come down to earth , leaving behind the soap-opera image that she had once appeared to be caught up in . |
| 9 | I 'd planned to go back to Australia when I 'd made enough . |
| 10 | He 'd planned to storm up to General Kopyion and demand to be told what the Justice Police were doing to prevent further bloodshed . |
| 11 | The Corporal stopped , ordering the boy who 'd fired to go back to the spot and engage the malais as they came down the road . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd managed to hang on to it . |
| 13 | They claimed to have killed up to 200 government soldiers , especially in the provinces of Chalatenango , Morazan and Usulutan where fighting had been fiercest , and to have " neutralized " the main Ilopango air base near the capital , San Salvador . |
| 14 | She happened to have dropped in to Charles 's to leave some shopping on her way over here . |
| 15 | Flattered , even , that someone so utterly different and reserved had opened up to her , late-thirties dyke pottering around to nowhere . |
| 16 | Hastings began to try to get back to its pre-war holiday resort living . |
| 17 | I kept imagining coming up to London to see you . |
| 18 | I kept trying to get back to Changez 's lugubrious face , which reclined morosely in his good hand as the guests filled the air around him with cultivated noises . |
| 19 | ‘ I called last Friday , ’ Fabia mentioned , rescuing her hand from Lubor Ondrus , who appeared to enjoy holding on to it . |
| 20 | As irony would have it , however , an examiner that I did have passed on to Rowse the information that , in the paper on Political Institutions , in which I did badly , I had vigorously attacked Rowse 's pamphlet on ‘ The Question of the House of Lords ’ . |
| 21 | Some of the stories will now appear dated , and as the years ticked by a few of his novels did tend to veer on to the wrong side of the far-fetched . |
| 22 | It was superbly performed and I found it enjoyable , although it did seem to hark back to an earlier period of American modern dance . |
| 23 | Now in January 1979 , as he fled Teheran for the second time in his life , the Shah had intended to fly on to America after just a few day in Egypt . |
| 24 | He had intended to head back to the funicolare station but perhaps he had taken a wrong turning somewhere in his hurry to get away from Maidstone 's apartment . |
| 25 | I went on to say to him that I wished to make it clear that my disquiet did not relate to any particular name , but if in fact the names that I had heard turned out to be a correct report , and he published the List , the List would support legitimate criticism . |
| 26 | In the end , the big woman with the cherries in her hat had dragged the now screaming child from his mother 's arms , pulling poor Edith along with her for a few steps until she had dropped sobbing on to the linoleum . |
| 27 | He 'd met her on the beach walking with a dog , a wire-haired terrier called Dolly which had come sniffing up to him . |
| 28 | The time had come to splash out to the tune of forty quid a head for the eight members of his party who had travelled with him from the Forest of Arden to Sussex by the Sea . |
| 29 | However , a report in the Jerusalem Post of June 21 claimed that Germany , at the behest of the USA had decided to withhold up to US$1,000 million in financing for Israel 's absorption effort in an attempt to halt settlement of the occupied territories . |
| 30 | He had decided to drive back to London to check the companies register in the City . |