Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] to their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Love ( 68 ) and Couples ( 71 ) clung on to their overnight lead , three shots ahead of host nation Spain . |
| 2 | Walking through Ricky 's woods , Daisy noticed ruby-red sticky buds thrusting out on the chestnuts , although many of the trees still clung on to their shrivelled brown leaves . |
| 3 | B Squadron then moved out to their rear base at Bir Fascia , 200 miles to the west . |
| 4 | Gloucester came back to their best and pulled level with a try from Simon Morris . |
| 5 | When they began to move the flow of blood came back to their stiffened limbs and they felt better . |
| 6 | He had married late , a buxom research scientist from Cambridge twenty years his junior , and drove back to their modern flat on the outskirts of the city each night in his Jaguar — his chief extravagance frequently late , but seldom too late to bear her off to their local pub . |
| 7 | These cells give a large excitatory response to the onset of a small spot of one wavelength shone on to their receptive field centres and a much smaller response to a much larger spot . |
| 8 | JOHN PRENN and Willie Boone , both former world champions , lived up to their second-place seedings in this year 's Lacoste British Open doubles rackets championships at Queen 's Club , with a 15-1 , 15-9 , 15-7 , 5-15 , 15-0 victory over Terry Whatley and Giles Palmer , writes Dudley Macdonald . |
| 9 | And when it came , the announcement lived up to their worst fears . |
| 10 | And with seven and a half minutes of injury time Milton hung on to their slender lead ; final score here at Bishops Cleve was Bishops Cleve nil , Milton United one . |
| 11 | produced one of the shock wins of the competition when they hung on to their 6–3 lead to beat side who are two leagues Selby 's seniors . |
| 12 | produced one of the shock wins of the competition when they hung on to their 6–3 lead to beat side who are two leagues Selby 's seniors . |
| 13 | No talk of going out for meals then , everyone rushed off to their respective homes , grateful for the knowledge that they would not have to be back in the Variety Theatre until the ‘ half ’ on the Monday evening . |
| 14 | After Downes had been driven away , Morse and Lewis walked back to their own car , where Morse gave urgent instructions to the forensic lab to sent a couple of their whizz-kids over to the railway station — immediately ! — and to Kidlington HQ to see that a breakdown van would be available in about an hour 's time to ferry away a certain Metro . |
| 15 | Few of them got back to their own country . |
| 16 | Erm , they just went on to their fifth form |
| 17 | His pleasure was that England went on to their first home victory against the West Indies since 1969 . |
| 18 | His pleasure was that England went on to their first home victory against the West Indies since 1969 . |
| 19 | Boosted by the appearance of Chris Wilkinson , who had just returned home after gruelling 5 month tour of the Far East and Australasia , Hampshire went on to their historical achievement with some sterling doubles ' performances by the whole team . |
| 20 | BREDBURY , league leaders in the Meller Braggins Cheshire Cricket League , went down to their first defeat of the season at Cholmondley on Saturday . |
| 21 | They went up to their separate wings and I was left to last . |
| 22 | With a sense of impending doom heavy on her shoulders , she went up to their shared suite to have a long , relaxing shower before preparing herself for the fireworks that would inevitably , as night overtook day , follow . |
| 23 | ‘ It was all set up for us on Tuesday night , yet we went out to their only effort on goal . |
| 24 | Certainly — she hoped — not Luke himself , and while her acquaintance with Florian Jones went back to their high-school days in South Africa , she knew he was impervious to anything that did not affect him directly . |
| 25 | Then they went back to their separate homes , to their men , trying to balance the love and the hate in their hearts . |
| 26 | Feeling vaguely foolish , the pair went back to their own room . |
| 27 | Violet and Eddie then went back to their respective boarding schools , paid for by Granny Macleod , which only stepped up Perdita 's paranoia and jealousy . |
| 28 | His mind went back to their brief conversation of the night before : ‘ I want to see you , ’ she had said , ‘ now . ’ |
| 29 | The PVO rebels went back to their old game of harassing the Karens who had been restless ever since their claims to a separate state on ambitious lines had failed . |
| 30 | Unfortunately they went back to their bad old ways during the autumn in the championship , but they have now regained that hungry look which can only spell trouble for their rivals . |