Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just then , a customer got up suddenly and hurried to the door . |
| 2 | I looked at it afresh and came to the same conclusion . ’ |
| 3 | Then he shifted impatiently and gestured to the drawing-room . |
| 4 | I rolled out of bed at eight o'clock and went to the bathroom where I turned on the taps for a hot bath . |
| 5 | She rose swiftly and went to the cubicle , where a nurse was straightening the bed and she asked , ‘ Where are they taking him ? ’ |
| 6 | They took the same tube into work but walked apart on the final stretch to the office in case anyone saw them together and jumped to the right conclusion . |
| 7 | In effect it was a return to the conditions of mid-Silurian times , with a corresponding decrease in provincialism , but it lasted longer and led to the fantastic flowering of the Frasnian reefs . |
| 8 | But as she seized it in her hand , before her horrified eyes the dried petals fell away and fluttered to the floor , scattering like confetti at her feet . |
| 9 | She parked on a verge some distance away and ran to the roundabout . |
| 10 | Myeloski turned away and walked to the river-wall , leant against it . |
| 11 | Madge had offered to carry her bag but she drew away and clung to the bannister rail . |
| 12 | Then , realising she was still clinging to his arm , she snatched her hand away and moved to the other side of the path . |
| 13 | Jack walked downstairs and went to the kitchen . |
| 14 | She hurried indoors and went to the telephone . |
| 15 | The Lynx rose high enough to clear the grey walls , swung eastward and accelerated to a speed of 120 knots . |
| 16 | I put on a spacesuit , went outside and moved to the big round door . |
| 17 | They rose steeply and led to a fair-sized landing with a bedroom at each end , with a wash basin in each — bliss ! |
| 18 | Culley reeled the tape back a little and listened to the question again . |
| 19 | The grounds for relief were , inter alia , that Lautro failed to comply with the rules of natural justice and to act fairly in that it failed before the service of the notice to inform the applicant or Winchester of the allegations being made therein , failed to allow Winchester or its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised company representatives the opportunity of answering or responding to the allegations made against them , failed to take into account the interest of Winchester , its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised representatives when deciding to exercise the notice ; that Lautro acted unreasonably and came to a decision such that no person or body properly directing itself on the relevant law and acting reasonably could have reached in that it acted with bias against Winchester and its officials , issued the notice at a time its investigations were incomplete and on the basis of findings which were erroneous and provisional , and failed to conclude its investigations before serving the notice ; and that Lautro acted ultra vires and in error of law in that the rights of appeal applied to any person subject to the rules of Lautro whether or not members . |
| 20 | This time all the recipients responded promptly and agreed to the DC . |
| 21 | He turned round , then turned back , looked once more round the room , then shook his head quickly and went to the door , taking his stick from the corner by the washing machine on his way out . |
| 22 | Coffin laid the papers aside and went to the window to look out . |
| 23 | When the Black Prince announced measures against him , Armagnac first appealed to Edward III ; on receiving an unfavourable response , he took the matter further and appealed to the king of France , Charles V. In this he was joined by his nephew , the lord of Albret , who lodged a similar grievance against the Black Prince . |
| 24 | Some commentators have gone further and pointed to the relatively high proportion of UK production which has been exported and to the high ratio of exports of GDP in international terms . |
| 25 | Spurred on again by a stream of oaths , it staggered a few paces further and sank to the ground , defeated . |
| 26 | At this stage I gave up , went back home and retired to a half-darkened room to read the paper . |
| 27 | Both entered politics early and came to the height of their power in their late 40s . |
| 28 | One day in August , three weeks after my adventure with the machine-gunner , I finished work early and went to the Taro for a swim . |
| 29 | So I got up early and went to the judge 's house and told him about the monster . |
| 30 | He passed into the saloon , found the companionway at once and descended to a central passage . |