Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flames and smoke from nearby chestnut-sellers and the bare-chested fire-eaters flickered and drifted into the dark grey sky , and Meredith just hung on to Lucenzo , lost for words , overwhelmed by the volume of sound , the bustle , the glamour , as they walked along beneath the arched walkway of the Procuratie Nuove . |
| 2 | Richard now pressed on to Salerno , where he wanted to discuss a recurrent ague with the city 's famous doctors . |
| 3 | Ian Clarke , a Bank of England executive , and his wife Jacqueline promptly turned back to Surrey so they would be nearer Heathrow and Gatwick airports — and better placed to take off for Australia . |
| 4 | It was clear then that Noriega only held on to power by two threads — popular apathy and the loyalty of the Panama Defence Force . |
| 5 | Having studied the sunspots and the solar prominences , in a race with the Frenchman P. J. C. Janssen , Lockyer then moved on to claim the existence of a new element in the sun , helium . |
| 6 | Diana soon moved in to rooms at Buckingham Palace where she , her mother and a small team had to organize her wedding and her wardrobe . |
| 7 | He worked at Sotheby 's and , as Louise gushingly pointed out to Constance after their first meeting , ‘ He knows absolutely everybody , darling . |
| 8 | In Canada , Niki narrowly lost out to Nelson Piquet and Prost trailed in third ; on Detroit 's bumpy street circuit , which Niki liked no better than he liked Monaco , Piquet scored a double . |