Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Palin failed to get in and went to Oxford instead . |
| 2 | It got quite windy in the morning but he got his head down and played to par , not speaking hardly a word , even to me . |
| 3 | The pair then lay down and went to sleep ! |
| 4 | I was so exhausted that I lay down and went to sleep . |
| 5 | I drank from the river and then lay down and went to sleep . |
| 6 | Then nothing else seemed about to happen , and she eventually calmed down and went to sleep . |
| 7 | I caught a bit of it on and we sat down and went to sleep . |
| 8 | Jess set the tankard down and began to unbutton his shirt . |
| 9 | I was beginning to think that the staring match would never stop when he suddenly sat down and began to finger some papers on the top of his desk . |
| 10 | After listening to it on his headphones for a few minutes , Syrian George stopped the tape , looked Mikalis up and down and turned to Coleman . |
| 11 | A few minutes later he banged the receiver down and turned to Claudia , a heavy scowl on his face . |
| 12 | She looked at them for a moment with pleasure and then set the bucket down and turned to Murphy . |
| 13 | My husband 's always coming home and saying ‘ Oh I sat down and talked to so-and-so today ’ or ‘ we had a laugh today with so-and-so … ’ |
| 14 | At Blackberry Hill , I slowed down and explained to Werewolf how I guessed that Salome , coming the other way , down the hill , had been bumped into space . |
| 15 | It had been written for an age when wind was still the motive power for most of the world 's shipping , so that , though technically out of date , it was invaluable for some of the work I was doing , particularly wire splicing , and if we were rolled over and had to jury-rig the ship it would be a life saver . |
| 16 | He leaned over and said to Ari , ‘ You were right . |
| 17 | ‘ Good night , Ruth , ’ he said , then he rolled over and went to sleep . |
| 18 | He moved off and looked to Maurice to follow . |
| 19 | Constanza found him uncouth and a bore — that was one of the things being with Simon did to one — she broke it off and went to parties again . |
| 20 | The affair lasted about three weeks then he broke it off and confessed to Sarah that he had been seeing someone else . |
| 21 | One of the senior officers looked up and said to Ryan : |
| 22 | John , who had hoped there might be some gin , jumped up and began to hand round glasses . |
| 23 | Then Marcus stood up and began to unbutton his shirt further . |
| 24 | The next morning , November 7th , she got up and went to work . |
| 25 | got up and went to work and had this bloody awful throat and I thought , |
| 26 | He married a girl from the Co Down town where he grew up and went to school . |
| 27 | By leaving they know they have renounced the country where they were born , grew up and went to school . |
| 28 | Reasoning from this he made himself a jading substance compounded of stoat 's liver and rabbit 's liver , dried and powdered up and added to dragon 's blood which was a code name among the old horsemen for one of their more powerful jading substances . |
| 29 | Of course , it was n't long before she was rumbled , so she packed up and returned to Scotland , taking me with her . |
| 30 | A number of Westerners in Kuwait are rounded up and moved to Iraq . |