Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Banks clutched at his chest and slowly tottered to his knees . |
| 2 | But then , encouraged by her parents , she slowly got to grips with her studies . |
| 3 | He remained there for a few seconds then slowly got to his feet and moved to the door leading into the hallway . |
| 4 | She slowly got to her feet , her eyes wide with fear . |
| 5 | Then I slowly got to my feet and they all started laughing happily as if I was n't dead after all . |
| 6 | Peter glowered back at his brother , then slowly got to his feet . |
| 7 | He thought back over the last few hours , the acknowledged relief of talking to Alice , the knowledge that nothing shocked her , nothing surprised her , that everything he did , if not right in her eyes , was judged by a different standard from the one she rigorously applied to the rest of her life . |
| 8 | With the exception of some early state papers in private collections and most notably , the very extensive India Office records , which effectively ceased to be produced in 1948 , the Special Collections of the British Library are for the most part private in their origin and unpredictable in the manner and timing of their acquisition . |
| 9 | We now know that during the Saturday daylight raids on London , a chiefs-of-staff meeting took urgent action on deciding that invasion was likely within a few hours ; they had the code word ‘ Cromwell ’ flashed from the War Room to military units at 20.07 hours that evening ( which presumably led to the flap at my unit ; the station commander was away that weekend , and the acting CO in charge ) . |
| 10 | Near him was a door which presumably led to a room beyond . |
| 11 | Several doors opened off the landing and there were ladder-like stairs which presumably led to the attics . |
| 12 | This gate presumably led to a quay , or docks , and there are references to it in some Saxon charters . |
| 13 | The civil disorders and dynastic feuds between Lancaster and York presumably led to some destruction of wealth , although it is virtually impossible to judge how much . |
| 14 | Somerset 's arrest in 1549 did not , as many expected , return the conservatives to power , but rather led to the primacy of John Dudley , Duke of Northumberland , who in alliance with Archbishop Cranmer eliminated the remaining conservatives from the council . |
| 15 | WHYTE Crucial clearances but rarely got to grips with Hateley or McCoist 6 |
| 16 | He slowly straightened to his full height and she realised he had been sitting on the bed leaning over her . |
| 17 | Burton was in a hit — and a classy hit — and in the tonnage of reviews he rarely failed to be mentioned , often praised . |
| 18 | The notable successes of the women 's branch under Anderson 's leadership , particularly women inspectors ' ‘ substitution ’ for men inspectors during World War I , paradoxically led to the demise of the women 's branch in 1921 , when women and men inspectors were ‘ fused ’ into an integrated inspectorate . |
| 19 | His success in winning the confidence of the people in one of Bristol 's poorest areas paradoxically led to his dismissal . |
| 20 | After the horse was bedded down it was time for Sirrell to celebrate properly , and most of Nantgaredig turned up to assist : he eventually got to bed at 3 a.m . |
| 21 | When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover . |
| 22 | Rentaf Rentafone or whoever do it , and erm eventually got to spoke to so get to speak to somebody . |
| 23 | The tow rope snapped twice on the way and was getting shorter and shorter before we eventually got to Darlington . |
| 24 | There they eventually led to coalition governments . |
| 25 | He described it as the ‘ best news since 1948 ’ when the National Party came to power on the policy of apartheid , which eventually led to South Africa 's ban from the international rugby arena until this year . |
| 26 | This eventually led to the initiation of the annual ‘ Puritan ’ Conference in 1950 ( since re-named the ‘ Westminster ’ Conference ) and which continues to this day . |
| 27 | In late 1959 Goleniewski had given MI5 enough information to identify Harry Houghton , who worked at the Admiralty 's underwater research laboratory at Portland , which eventually led to the exposure of the Portland spy ring . |
| 28 | The Witcombe reservoirs ( where the Horsebere originates ) opened around 1860 and were responsible for depleting the water supply to the mill , which eventually led to its downfall . |
| 29 | However , a series of related allegations eventually led to a High Court libel action involving Docherty and two of Manchester United 's most prominent players , Denis Law and Willie Morgan , who perhaps predictably were both Scots . |
| 30 | In the team 's acclimatisation tour of Latin America , he kicked his way into the public 's imagination and sowed the seeds of notoriety which eventually led to his life ban . |