Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DUC found the group it was looking for in the Oxford-based Political Ecology Research Group : ‘ They more or less said to us , ‘ We 'll not take on your issue if we decide that in the upshot our report will be favourable to the mining companies . |
| 2 | You more or less stood to attention . . |
| 3 | He had insisted , so the story went , that he knew — and his knowledge was said to be based on information handed down from Choco ancestors long dead but unforgotten — what no one else in Panama knew ( or apparently wanted to ) , and no one in the world of historical scholarship knew either . |
| 4 | I thought you were here at first , or just nipped to the pub or something . ’ |
| 5 | Indeed , the specification of grades of untitled gentlemen of £40 or more amounted to an admission that the qualification was obsolete , that this level of income was totally inadequate to support the ‘ port and charge ’ of the dignity of knighthood . |
| 6 | The principal precursors of acid precipitation are the anthropogenic and natural emissions of oxides of sulphur and nitrogen which are subsequently catalytically or photochemically oxidized to sulphuric acid ( H 2 SO 4 ) and nitric acid ( HNO 3 ) , respectively , in the atmosphere ( figure 4.10 ) . |
| 7 | The concept of ‘ satisfaction with housework ’ follows the concept of ‘ work ’ or ‘ job ’ satisfaction as used in the sociology of industry and paid work ; it represents an overall assessment of the degree to which housewives are positively or negatively oriented to their work . |
| 8 | ‘ No , nor never intended to , ’ said Winfrid in his usual forthright fashion . |
| 9 | I felt nothing at the time and naïvely smiled to myself when I spotted it later . |
| 10 | He was polishing glasses and he held them up to the light to check them and thereby seemed to be ignoring Maidstone completely . |
| 11 | This opened the issue of how nerve cells might communicate with each other and eventually led to our now-sophisticated understanding of neurotransmitters . |
| 12 | An example is William McDougal 's correspondence with Friendly Societies which revealed their discrimination against deaf people , and eventually led to the acceptance of the deaf and dumb on equal terms with hearing people by the Church Benefit Society . |
| 13 | We drove for miles through dense jungle and eventually came to a big pool which was maybe 150 metres square and 30 metres deep . |
| 14 | They left the marketplace for a maze of streets and eventually came to a large stone two-storeyed house with a timbered roof , its exquisite carved eaves jutting out over a small courtyard beneath . |
| 15 | He followed the widest of the paths northwards and eventually came to a deserted airfield . |
| 16 | He received another , more peremptory , order and eventually came to Addis Ababa with ten thousand men . |
| 17 | So they drove round the outskirts of the Burleigh grounds , and eventually came to Cannonbury Road . |
| 18 | Billy Row Workmens beat Belle Vue WMC in the second semi-final and eventually succumbed to Bishop Auckland in the final . |
| 19 | BL came to rely on large cash hand-outs and subsidies , and eventually had to be cut down into its constituent elements and returned to the private sector . |
| 20 | The tempered steel pins which held the handles in position were rather difficult to fit , and eventually had to be hammered in . |
| 21 | Besides cleaning up the city 's litter , he was determined to cure its chronic pollution problem , and duly went to war on public and private traffic , proposing a total ban from some areas . |
| 22 | As much put out by the ticket inspector 's attitude as his demand for money , he paid and duly wrote to BR to complain saying he ‘ could see no justification in the circumstances for the excess charge . ’ |
| 23 | He stood there slightly bent for a few seconds holding his stomach and then he staggered and slowly fell to the floor . |
| 24 | Michael Banks clutched at his chest and slowly tottered to his knees . |
| 25 | The Ford slowed down in front of them and slowly came to a halt , blocking the entire road . |
| 26 | From being a peripheral aspect of police practice , unrecognized in the courts and rarely adverted to as a ground for arrest , detention followed by interrogation has become a central pivot in the battle against crime . |
| 27 | Encouraged by their neighbour 's cheeriness , Ellie and her brother went round to the back of her house and shyly waited to be let in . |
| 28 | Looking back on that moment now , she felt it tremble before her , round and perfect as an overfull drip , and she caught her breath at the thought of its transitoriness , its shimmering beauty , and suddenly whispered to herself , ‘ I am happy , ’ as if she feared it might not last forever . |
| 29 | This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees . |
| 30 | Certainly Polydore Vergil seems to have fallen victim to his own condensed chronology when he argues that it was the events at Stony Stratford which caused Hastings to mistrust Gloucester and so led to Hastings ' opposition and execution . |