Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First year pruning will take each stem of a bush rose down to no more than 3–4 inches ( 8–10cm ) , cutting where possible to suitable outward-pointing buds . |
| 2 | Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job . |
| 3 | The latter came in to the same platform and so two trains were in the same section , in conflict with Rule B. |
| 4 | ROBIN Smith 's majestic 167 not out won all the plaudits at Edgbaston yesterday but today England 's cricketers woke up to the same old problems . |
| 5 | She got out of bed and thought everything over very carefully , and although it was difficult to keep emotion out of it , she still came back to the self-same answer . |
| 6 | It came back to the same thing . |
| 7 | He was awarded his first degree by the college where he was now a fellow , spent a year in the United States , and came back to the same college to complete his PhD . |
| 8 | Even more basic , though , was the pressure on a Celtic team playing for their dignity and self respect and who did so in such a convincing manner that all diagnoses of the final result came back to the same conundrum , where does the level of commitment shown against Rangers go when Liam Brady needs it most ? |
| 9 | Alan got off to a less than |
| 10 | Melanie tuned in to the same image and whispered : ‘ Go on , pick a card , any card , ’ in a Tommy Cooper voice . |
| 11 | And then there is this long-standing relationship between Martinez and Jefferson , and the dirty work they got up to a few years ago . |
| 12 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 13 | When the war ended the OSS was busted up : they hung on to a few units — there was a whole alphabet soup of SI , SSU , X-2 , CIG , for a time — but most of us just went home to build a brave new world with law books and Shakespeare . |
| 14 | After the furriers we all trooped off to the same dentist who X-rayed our teeth which was unusual in Britain then . |
| 15 | This revolving of him in her mind led invariably to the same end , the same fear , that he would go away from Hilderbridge without her seeing him and then she would never see him again . |
| 16 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 17 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 18 | That the subject was in fact normally accorded Cinderella status mattered little to the many who objected to its being there at all . |
| 19 | We by-passed the town and went straight to the former station , which is actually not in the town itself , but at Minllyn . |
| 20 | She was most solicitous ( scheming bitch ! ) so he told her that his wife was cured and they went back to the same old routine . |
| 21 | But they went back to the same orphanages which were grim.There was a determination to help them . |
| 22 | In July 1988 the patient presented again to the same hospital with a three week history of generalised pruritus , painless jaundice , dark urine , and pale stool . |
| 23 | Whether the world could continue to support its present ‘ uncontrolled economic growth ’ in the face of diminishing resources and pollution was a question on which all the candidates latched on to the latter issue . |