Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Venetians got up to some tricks trying to extract as much money from the organisation as possible . |
| 2 | The drifters came in to both piers and on a Saturday night , the village was a busy place . |
| 3 | But try sitting on them and they will end up flattened with four feet splayed out to all points of the compass . |
| 4 | When the universities reacted unfavourably to this aspect of the paper , accusing its authors of philistinism , the then Secretary of State , Sir Keith Joseph , was quick to reply that he was not against the arts subjects : far from it . |
| 5 | The ‘ scratch ’ was the line drawn across the centre of the ring in prize-fighting , and a match would begin when the two contestants stepped up to this line . |
| 6 | Neil Kinnock made a very good , warm , amusing and emotional speech whose merits applied exactly to this venue . |
| 7 | Suppose a subject is listening to different sequences of sounds played independently to each ear through a pair of headphones in order to pick out and respond to a particular target sound . |
| 8 | I watched as my veiled friends chatted busily to each other or rose to greet some relative , touching burgah to burgah , then fluttered down again like so many birds of paradise . |
| 9 | All the mothers raced for their Volvos as the players struggled over to another part of the field . |
| 10 | Always both groups reacted positively to any change in the test group conditions in whatever direction . |
| 11 | Many parents feel that the speed of education reform and curriculum change has caused their children to suffer because their usual classroom or subject teachers are often taken out of the classroom to undergo courses related specifically to those changes . |
| 12 | The two men ran off to another car , but it just was n't their day . |
| 13 | Also at this stage , candidates with the fewest first preference votes are eliminated and their ballot papers shared out to those candidates who appear as second preferences on those papers . |
| 14 | ‘ His acts and his omissions contributed significantly to that lady 's death , ’ Mr Barker claimed . |
| 15 | The only two who wore soutanes talked only to each other . |
| 16 | The two women spoke rapidly to each other in German , their conversation punctuated with laughter . |
| 17 | These immediate effects were observable only near the stations , but as the railways extended rapidly to all parts of the country their effects on local building and building materials grew correspondingly wide . |