Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv prt] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must have told Gloria off too , for the very next day , Gloria said , ‘ You got to go off to the country , ducks , health visitor says . |
| 2 | The company has promised much in the past but to date failed to perform up to the market 's expectations . |
| 3 | The Algiers agreement failed to work out to the satisfaction of either side . |
| 4 | Three of the men agreed to come back to the captain , and we put the others in my cave . |
| 5 | But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law . |
| 6 | A distributor or seller who was not the manufacturer ( e.g. a retailer ) could also be liable under the same principle if he was negligent , e.g. if he negligently failed to pass on to the customer a warning label ( ‘ Not to be taken internally ’ ) which he had received with a bottle of medicine . |
| 7 | On the following Monday she proposed to go back to the job she had taken to make it financially possible for Peter and her to buy their little home . |
| 8 | ‘ You must excuse me — I promised to go along to the tennis courts . |
| 9 | While we were on the beach below another tourist tried to climb up to the ruin ; but a flock of dive-bombing gulls , screaming histrionically , drove him off . |
| 10 | I tried to climb down to the nest once . |
| 11 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 12 | In football , there was an early shock for Liverpool at Anfield as the champions tried to get back to the top of the table with Arsenal playing Leeds United at Highbury tomorrow . |
| 13 | The jeep was bouncing them about mercilessly as the Brigadier tried to get back to the village in time for the Captain and the Substitute to go back to Florence and eat . |
| 14 | He tried to get back to the drawing room unheard , but she was waiting . |
| 15 | I talked to Mum , and she tried to think back to the day she met Elaine , and she remembered I was born in a nursing home in Birkleigh . |
| 16 | the train had made its imperceptible departure and was rolling along again past the uninhabited infinity of rocks and lakes and conifers that seemed to march on to the end of the world . |
| 17 | The country was smaller than Wales , only one fortieth the size of California ; the ridge-line of mountain peaks provided Lebanon 's epic dimensions , plateaus of snow that seemed to reach up to the moon on winter nights . |
| 18 | These icy cold droplets seemed to cut through to the bone as if to punish him for the way he was . |
| 19 | She unlocked her eyes from his and turned to pass through to the apartment . |
| 20 | They laboured inside , trailing their horses by the reins , half of them fighting a ferocious rearguard battle whilst the grypesh massed within the gate and strove to win through to the courtyard beyond . |
| 21 | Patrick shook his head and turned to walk back to the foyer . |
| 22 | And so , feeling faintly and inexplicably troubled , he turned to head back to the yard . |
| 23 | They were surprised to see leather helmets and the glitter of ranked steel among the rock-throwing denizens of the north bank and to receive several arrows , harmless in the teeth of the wind , as they began to swing round to the south shore to accomplish their landing . |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't you dare presume to tell me what I need ! ’ she spat , trembling as she began to clamber on to the quayside . |
| 25 | We had both had quite a happy day ; but as the sun began to creep round to the west and to decline , I had a feeling of unease . |
| 26 | Owen never repeated this claim in the pre-Darwinian era , but liberal theologians such as the Oxford mathematician and philosopher Baden Powell began to come around to the idea of ‘ designed evolution ’ during the 1850s . |
| 27 | At the congress Carlsson declared that the emergence of a new security system in Europe based on the 1975 Helsinki accords meant that Sweden 's neutrality no longer " bore the same heavy burden " , and the party began to come round to the view of both industry and the two major opposition parties ( M and Fp ) that Sweden should apply for membership of the European Communities ( EC , which it did in July 1991 — see p. 38353 ) . |
| 28 | With such dignity as I could manage I began to walk back to the village . |
| 29 | when Sir Henry left the house and began to walk back to the Hall |
| 30 | The brave man turned his back on Silver and began to walk back to the beach . |