Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to others , he was a stubborn old man , in constant physical pain , who harassed his opponents , drove his ministers to resign and clung ignominiously to power after losing his once-crushing parliamentary majority . |
| 2 | This was , and is , one of the largest machine shops in Europe and geared exclusively to aerospace and military manufacture . |
| 3 | He jumped from the cart and came straight to Den . |
| 4 | Ebert marched to the centre of the room and came smartly to attention , lowering his head respectfully , waiting for his T'ang to speak . |
| 5 | Ralph Pottinger boarded her and she was brought clear and returned safely to Challenge . |
| 6 | When the old lady was helped into a newly made-up and just warmed bed , with clean sheets and blankets , and a coverlet of soft down unearthed from a trunk in the attics and hung outside to air , she sat back against the bank of lace-edged pillows and burst into a paroxysm of dry sobs . |
| 7 | I tried to turn in behind him but found that I was going to overshoot and pulled away to starboard . |
| 8 | Last September the Royal Mint stopped making penny and two-penny coins from bronze and started instead to electroplate steel disks with copper . |
| 9 | The art nouveau artists who turned against the conventional gem-set ornaments of the 1890s and looked instead to nature for inspiration are represented by Lucien Gautrait . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , it hit the upright and went away to safety . |
| 11 | As for his goodness , the attempt to live a Christian life was so much a part of Irwin 's public persona that the legend became current that , arriving in India on Good Friday , he ignored the official ceremonies of welcome and went straight to church . |
| 12 | It was pretty late and I was tired , so I found my old room and went straight to bed . |
| 13 | ‘ I just came home , let myself in by the back door and went straight to bed . ’ |
| 14 | I got out of my wet clothes and went straight to bed . ’ |
| 15 | He came home late and , according to Lizzie , had a bath and went straight to bed . |
| 16 | She took the lift up to the sixth floor and came to the room one O nine , which was her room , as she entered she noticed cobwebs and dampness on the walls , she flung her bed , bags on the bed and went downstairs to supper , after her supper she went to report , she went to the reception desk to report the cobwebs and dampness , she rang the bell a few times but no one answered , she was just about to go back to her room when she heard Mr Sandy the receptionist in the back room talking to her assistant , I put the body in Miss Hall 's wardrobe , Jane ran upstairs and sure enough there was a body , Jane rang the police then straight away , please could you come to the Riverside Hotel , there 's something I think you should see , there was a knock at the door and Mr Sandy answered it , hello , oh hello we 've just had phone call from here , are you sure this is the right hotel ? |
| 17 | She fell down on the mattress and went instantly to death . |
| 18 | Not wishing to find myself involved in contention , I ex-cused myself and went upstairs to bed before the coffee ritual was completed . |
| 19 | Soon the lawyer said goodnight and went home to bed , where he lay awake for a long time thinking about Enfield 's description of Hyde , and Doctor Jekyll 's will . |
| 20 | I made and ate supper , washed up , then watched the changing view of evening from the haven of the cottage window , and went early to bed . |
| 21 | Juliet laughed , and went across to Room F , where Donna Hazell was sitting by the window reading a book . |
| 22 | Successive waves spread through the Canadian archipelago to northwest Greenland , moved down the Mackenzie River , and crossed eastward to Labrador and southern Greenland . |
| 23 | After the story was finished , Nosheen and Simeen said goodnight and disappeared upstairs to bed . |
| 24 | She was then exposed to various synthetic chemicals in turn , and reacted badly to diesel fumes , cigarette smoke , natural gas , chlorine and alcohol . |
| 25 | Roger was a criminal who escaped from prison and ran away to South America . |
| 26 | According to one story he started out as a liveryman in England and ran away to sea after stealing his mistress 's jewels . |
| 27 | I wolfed the lot and crawled upstairs to bed , requesting an early call so that I could catch the 8.30 bus from Lochinver , still nearly three miles further on , to Lairg . |
| 28 | Reactionary trade union officials who had steadfastly declared that they would not stand on a public platform with revolutionary workers , found themselves caught up in the stream and carried forward to participation in great united front unemployed demonstrations . |
| 29 | Looking Glass dismissed his people 's fears and refused even to post scouts when the Nez Perce reached Iskumtselauk , Place of Ground Squirrels , by the Big Hole River , on 7th August . |
| 30 | A ceremonial sword was then taken from a wall and held close to Holiday . |