Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] to [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Village communities anywhere are notoriously conservative , so when two young cyclists wandered in to the Gasthof Löwen with shoulder-length hair and matching headbands , they received some doubtful glances from the table where five farm-workers sat steadily drinking their way through the evening . |
| 2 | This action led directly to the Suez Crisis of that year ( CORE , pp. 141–3 ) . |
| 3 | In these 21 chapters , emphasis is given to the eusocial Hymenoptera , with only one chapter devoted entirely to the Isoptera , one to the presocial Arachnida and one to the presocial insects . |
| 4 | Edward turned back to the Lodge . |
| 5 | On we went past the grandeur of Mount Edith Cavell and Castle Mountain , through Banff and Lake Louise to Kicking Horse Pass and the Great Divide , where rivers on one side flowed back to the Atlantic , and those on the other side ran west to the Pacific Ocean . |
| 6 | Among the known examples there is a marked variation in size , which ranges from the large many-roomed complex located close to the River Rib at Braughing , down to the partly excavated building discovered at the rear of one of the frontage plots at Neatham . |
| 7 | Kylie wrote regularly to the Riddifords and also her great aunt , Dilys Evans , a sprightly 80-year-old who still worked as a waitress in the town of Maesteg . |
| 8 | The fiery Scot was first to react when two supporters ran on to The Dell to stage an injury-time protest . |
| 9 | Flat marsh spread down to the Thames , |
| 10 | Doyle drove straight to the Isle of Wight , arriving in time for the eleven-thirty ferry . |
| 11 | ‘ The twenty-five ships from Denmark got up to the Orkney ships , ’ the signalman said , ‘ and surrounded them . |
| 12 | De Michelis said that Italy ( which was to assume the EC presidency for six months at the end of June 1990 ) would work to accelerate the process whereby the three countries drew closer to the EC . |
| 13 | Ken Corduroy drove round to the Harrisons ' with an ingenious pool-cleaning device , a mechanical object that swam round scrubbing at the walls , he had ordered for them from England . |
| 14 | Federalist countries such as Belgium and Italy recoil from this idea , as they want interior-ministry work turned over to the EC . |
| 15 | The volume of support for Sakharov broke through to the Moscow centre where power is wielded over the world from lofty isolation , where ‘ they ’ make their decisions . |
| 16 | IRISH-Americans on a fact-finding trip to Ireland flew back to the United States today with more DUP criticism ringing in their ears . |
| 17 | From a corner , Shearer reacted brilliantly to a Colin Hendrie head down , lashing a superb volley into the roof of the net for his 20th goal of the season . |
| 18 | During the first week of December 1986 , Donleavy came down to the Windfrey hotel at River Chase , Alabama , just south of Birmingham , for the first of several briefing sessions . |
| 19 | Daisy hung about until Drew and the team came back to the Land-Rover . |
| 20 | On Jan. 11 Cambodian officials turned over to the USA remains thought to be those of two US servicemen killed during the Vietnam war . |
| 21 | He emerged two minutes later with a bulky small man , and the Land Rover turned on to the Cambridge road , making for the headquarters of the regional crime squad . |
| 22 | ( 4 ) Their factories looked naturally to the United States for resources , especially spare parts and at times the shortage of these resources made things very critical . |
| 23 | At midday Sergeant Briggs and P C Garfield went back to the Riverside Hotel to talk to Mr Sandy . |
| 24 | The Junkers tolerated the troublesome middle classes only because they guaranteed the Junkers their place in German society ; the middle classes looked up to the Junker traditional leadership , and regarded them as the German image of itself . |
| 25 | Earlier , Nottingham Forest went down to a Fritz Walter penalty in the third placed play-off against Stuttgart . |
| 26 | While Louis the German went eastwards to the Rhineland , after agreeing to another meeting at Langres in September , Charles 's first move after Fontenoy was westwards into Aquitaine . |
| 27 | In Jacques 's view , without the considerable talents and skills which Hampden Jackson gave unsparingly to the WEA , the District would not have flourished during the war nor in the twenty-five year period of change and innovation following it and in which Hampden Jackson actively participated in partnership with Frank Jacques . |
| 28 | At that time Croatia extended southward to the Neretva and covered most of Bosnia . |
| 29 | He glanced over at Wayne , and Wayne pointed helpfully to the Dixie horn . |
| 30 | The Russians stuck firmly to the Moscow terminology of December 1945 , including the reference to trusteeship , the reason being that they wished to prevent the Americans from going back on their past support for trusteeship . |