Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was blue in the face and appeared to have collapsed , but the vessel had carried on out to sea . |
| 2 | It is all the fault of speculators who used the cars as a means of making mega-bucks , like buying paintings or antiques , rather than as personal playthings. 11 MC2966 meteoric rise in the price of even the most mundane of so-called classic motorcars , such as Morris Minors and Volkswagen Beetles , which have now come back down to earth with a thud . |
| 3 | What is most interesting , however , is that after a long famine , Latin America and its political and economic uncertainties have been thrust back on to centre stage . |
| 4 | Mobility is repeatedly linked in Out to hypertrophy of the imagination which , like a prism , refracts the ‘ colourless ’ light of the protagonist 's civic identity into the protean kaleidoscopic images of his fantasy selves by means of the ‘ coloured ’ language of metaphor . |
| 5 | The next evening , the Thursday , I was brought back down to earth with a bump . |
| 6 | If you want to graft the two sets ( front and back ) of stitches together then each set of shoulder stitches can be run off on to waste yarn and you are left with three separate groups of stitches all on waste yarn . |
| 7 | My father had gone off up to bed and she suddenly began to tell me what her life with him had been , the bribery and the humiliation and so on . |