Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car , already doing eight-five , roared up to over a hundred . |
| 2 | The first person I ever came out to as a student was a person I suspected of being gay and everyone else thought he was gay ; in fact , he vehemently denied it after I came out . |
| 3 | Manage thus expresses notionally the movement of approach signified by to from a position before the event up to the point where its realization begins . |
| 4 | It would , of course , be unthinkable to actually put down in print what Rex and Laura got up to during the next hour . |
| 5 | See for yourself what Carr got up to with the sun on his back in an exhibition of his paintings on the continent . |
| 6 | No tales about defectors and what the Brits got up to in the Cold War . |
| 7 | Not now anyway , though God knows what they got up to in the past . |
| 8 | Some of the wacky and wonderful things people got up to in the last ITV Telethon 2 years ago . |
| 9 | But the two lifestyles were incompatible ; the herdsman followed — and later drove — his animals from grazing to grazing and became a nomad , whilst the gatherer settled down to till the soil and defend his crops from predators . |
| 10 | I remember er a flock staying here and the shepherds got their supper here and then they went on to for the night . |
| 11 | But during the period of the war the bakers sadly fell down to about the middle of the table through the old saying that you 've got to be patriotic and help the war effort . |
| 12 | Slowly to dry it was always as , as he went up to about a |
| 13 | Oh well it was just this er meal we went out to in the evening . |
| 14 | I remember when after it finished , I went back to for a while I went with ports and things like . |
| 15 | Er they crossed there to for the mails for years and years . |
| 16 | The festa we all looked forward to in the village was that of the miraculous Madonna on 15 August . |
| 17 | Then he crept across to beside the Master 's head and squatted there , clutching his knees , waiting for the playmaster to sense his unhappiness and wake up . |
| 18 | First , Rousseau 's concept of the ‘ Noble Savage ’ proposed that ‘ savages ’ who lacked the civilizing influence of Western culture were free of mental disorder — and it was this idea that many psychiatrists in England , France and the US latched on to in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries . |
| 19 | While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War . |
| 20 | All the same , Jane stayed on to within a month of the birth because they could n't do without her and she needed the money . |
| 21 | Suddenly , Clinton was leading in the polls a position he held on to throughout the remainder of the campaign . |