Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under ordinary circumstances , Nurse Goodman would probably not have given permission but ‘ the Major ’ , as he had become known , was such a mystery that she was glad to feel that at least somebody knew of his fate and cared enough to come to the hospital to see how he was getting on . |
| 2 | The urban poor tried valiantly to give to their dead a dignity they had scarcely known in life ; but the attempt often proved unavailing . |
| 3 | Disappointed by her dull response , he moved away to talk to Muriella . |
| 4 | She moved away to talk to Eustace Tolby who had come with his wife , an elegant Asian woman . |
| 5 | When the dance ended , he released her without a word and moved away to talk to his mother and sister , who had been crying passionately in the church as they watched Damian become Rachel 's husband . |
| 6 | Lorne tried feebly to stick to his final defence . |
| 7 | I remember the boy rose once to go to the bathroom , his thin , adolescent frame weaving in pain . |
| 8 | Again he tried unsuccessfully to struggle to his feet , but failed . |
| 9 | This was one aspect of his life that Charles found hard to come to terms with , especially during this period when he was evaluating and reassessing his role in life . |
| 10 | He got in alongside her , slammed the door , and moved forward to speak to the driver . |
| 11 | At first he tried halfheartedly to appeal to me not to send the story to England for ‘ the sake of the side ’ . |
| 12 | On arms control , China agreed conditionally to accede to the 18-country Missile Technology Control Regime , which would limit its arms sales to Pakistan and Syria , in return for the lifting of US sanctions , imposed in June , on exports from two Chinese arms companies , high-technology computer sales and joint satellite launches . |
| 13 | Derek Jeffries was bought for Crystal Palace for £100,000 in September 1973 by Manager Malcolm Allison , who h , ad also been his boss at Manchester City , to help boost Palace 's struggling midfield as we sought desperately to come to terms with life after relegation to Division Two . |
| 14 | He was staring and trembling and his great-size seemed only to add to his air of stricken misery . |
| 15 | The affair seemed only to add to his status as folk hero . |
| 16 | The long skeletal head and ghostly hands seemed now to belong to a bad dream . |
| 17 | DIPLOMATIC niceties have been exploited to the utmost during the continuing occupation by would-be East German emigrants of the West German embassy in Prague , where a West German diplomat yesterday intervened dramatically to add to the number of new arrivals inside . |
| 18 | She came across to speak to him . |
| 19 | The man stepped back into the centre of the circle , and seemed almost to go to sleep . |
| 20 | It seemed almost to speak to her . |
| 21 | As with many later European voyagers , travel in this part of the world , far from broadening the mind , seemed instead to lead to a blanket distrust of anyone of a different creed , colour or class . |
| 22 | Traditionally looked upon as the capital of the former Visigothic kingdom of Aquitaine it seemed therefore to belong to Aquitaine . |
| 23 | ARAB foreign ministers agreed yesterday to relay to the United Nations new proposals from Libya to break its deadlock with the West over the Lockerbie bombing . |
| 24 | Will my right hon. Friend find time today to tell the House of the decision made yesterday to restore to Latvia , Lithuania and Estonia the gold deposited for safe keeping in the Bank of England but misappropriated by the then Labour Government with the support in the Division Lobby of the leader and Chief Whip of the Liberal party at that time ? |
| 25 | The 57-year-old was first taken ill in 1988 after coaching England at the European Championship finals , but recovered quickly to return to coaching . |
| 26 | Matthew turned shyly to speak to the child . |
| 27 | It was the question she had been screwing up her courage to ask him for some time , but Duro pretended he had n't heard , and turned away to talk to Dom Alfonso . |
| 28 | Father Reynard turned away to speak to one of his villagers as Dame Agatha and Ranulf came through the church door . |
| 29 | She turned away to shout to the android . |
| 30 | As a way of alleviating shortages in the money market in the mid 1980s the central government borrowed heavily to on-lend to the local authorities . |