Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hawken and the Grenville families soon got together and repaired to Ince . |
| 2 | But I just fled rather than talk to her . |
| 3 | To the alarm of his companions , he stopped , knelt down and said to them , ‘ Let us take time to pray to the Lord . ’ |
| 4 | She rose swiftly and went to the cubicle , where a nurse was straightening the bed and she asked , ‘ Where are they taking him ? ’ |
| 5 | She had begun to climb the bank when the four-wheel drive suddenly appeared on the rim above , bumped down and drew to a halt alongside . |
| 6 | Stray dogs and chickens wandered in and had to be shooed out , and in the winter evenings when her mother told stories about saints and piskies and dragon-fillers by the light of the fire , the neighbouring children would crowd in at the door to listen , so that after a while her mother became known as the best storyteller in Polruan . |
| 7 | Madge had offered to carry her bag but she drew away and clung to the bannister rail . |
| 8 | They rose steeply and led to a fair-sized landing with a bedroom at each end , with a wash basin in each — bliss ! |
| 9 | She stood on the stool and reached up to replace it , and when she stood back down again she bent over and whispered to me , ‘ That 's a bad omen , luv . |
| 10 | Tuathal dismounted and helped the man up , and the King himself bent over and spoke to him , for that was all there was time to do . |
| 11 | He moved off and looked to Maurice to follow . |
| 12 | Franco made clear what those choices were in a " National Programme for Resurgence " which he personally drew up and passed to his ministers for action in October 1939 . |
| 13 | Then Robert Topping , the Conservative Chief Agent , drew up and presented to Chamberlain a memorandum saying that ‘ from practically all quarters ’ he heard the view that the leader ought to go . |
| 14 | She rose restlessly and moved to the door . |
| 15 | Grace swung her handbag in recognition , and a ball of wool jerked out and fell to the gutter . |
| 16 | Even though , forged before the introduction of recoil mechanism , they bounced back and had to be relaid after each shot just like cannon of the Napoleonic era , the elderly French 155s cracked and thundered with remarkable accuracy . |
| 17 | Eva moved out and went to a hostel . |
| 18 | Carson tried again and got to his feet . |
| 19 | Patrick rose obediently and went to the door . |
| 20 | As soon as Schmidt settled , she rose again and walked to and fro in the room pecking at her cigarette . |
| 21 | I called , got through and spoke to a man who sounded as ordinary and as sane as I thought I was . |
| 22 | But the rivalry smouldered on and came to a head as the king advanced in years , without an obvious successor . |
| 23 | I dropped down and crawled to the front of the wood to have a look . |
| 24 | I remember when my school opened , or just before it did , erm I got the staff together for a conference for a day , and got another East Sussex Head , James Quinn , who came along and talked to them , and one of the things he said was now for the next week or two , whatever John Werner says goes . |
| 25 | All these came together and seemed to us a clear call , which we shared with the church . |
| 26 | But after he sat down and thought about it he came in and apologised to the lads . ’ |
| 27 | And they came in and chatted to us about it . |
| 28 | The disdain spilled over and spread to the other commuters scurrying to their cars . |
| 29 | Then a young man came over and spoke to her . |
| 30 | The turbulence was such that his head hit the ceiling and his headset came off and fell to the floor . |