Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The swan became so attached to Sam that it stayed for twelve years . |
| 2 | He was joined on most of his hunting expeditions by two Aborigines , Natty and Jemmy , ‘ two intelligent and faithful natives of the Yarrundi tribe ’ , who became extremely attached to Gould and later accompanied him on his most ambitious and successful expedition to the Mokai and Namoi Rivers in December of that year . |
| 3 | Algernon Peckham glanced at him , and there was a momentary pause before he moved on to speak to James Pegg . |
| 4 | She tried not to listen to Mr Skinner . |
| 5 | She moved away to talk to Eustace Tolby who had come with his wife , an elegant Asian woman . |
| 6 | Disappointed by her dull response , he moved away to talk to Muriella . |
| 7 | I learnt this lesson some years ago when the soldier to whom I referred earlier came to Christ . |
| 8 | This was one aspect of his life that Charles found hard to come to terms with , especially during this period when he was evaluating and reassessing his role in life . |
| 9 | In return , Louis-Napoleon agreed not to return to France for some years . |
| 10 | Derek Jeffries was bought for Crystal Palace for £100,000 in September 1973 by Manager Malcolm Allison , who h , ad also been his boss at Manchester City , to help boost Palace 's struggling midfield as we sought desperately to come to terms with life after relegation to Division Two . |
| 11 | Yeah , we 'd better go to Sainsbury 's , |
| 12 | ‘ You 'd better go to bed , ’ she said . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'd better go to bed . ’ |
| 14 | She was not very good at smiling these days , and the unease disseminated by her unconvincing efforts led Eddie Duckworth to mutter to her in a corner , with a mixture of sharpness and sorrow , that perhaps she 'd better go to bed . |
| 15 | ‘ David , I think we 'd better go to bed . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I think we 'd better go to bed , ’ Harold said , shuffling impatiently . |
| 17 | ‘ You 'd better go to bed , ’ he said curtly . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd better go to bed , ’ said Leonora hastily , moving further away , but he held up his hand . |
| 19 | I think you 'd better go to bed . |
| 20 | We 'd better go to Miss Miggs and tell her what happened . |
| 21 | You 'd better go to St Stephen 's for tests : they 're properly equipped to handle this sort of thing . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 'd better go to supper , Nurse Avery , ’ said Wendy Target briskly . |
| 23 | First I 'd better speak to Tom . |
| 24 | Before you leave , you 'd better apologize to Simon , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Well matey , you 'd better write to Vicky then ! |
| 26 | So I told him to take these tablets and says if he felt no better he 'd better get to doctors , well he did n't even move out of bed , apart from summat to eat |
| 27 | Oh man , I 'd better get to California soon , while the transplant people still have something to work on . |
| 28 | Come on , you 'd better get to bed if you 're going to take us to England tomorrow . |
| 29 | And er he 'd only got to sort of look at you and er that was it . |
| 30 | If we 'd only stuck to Perrier … |