Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a clock on the cooker ; another on the video ; another on the dashboard of the car ; another built in to the pocket-calculator ; yet another on the end of the pen she uses ; another on the device that switches the boiler on and off ; yet another on the outside of the tall building Steven passes in his car on the flyover . |
| 2 | Some played up to the queue even more than I did , and at times it was quite a pantomime as they expressed themselves in their broken English with much arm waving and competitive claims . |
| 3 | This went back to the development of working-class antipathy to Thomas Malthus , who was seen as giving scientific justification to ruling-class opposition to reform , for after all the aim of his famous moral restraint was to convince the working class to postpone marriage as long as possible . |
| 4 | This went off to the Edinburgh dailies and weeklies , and the local ( suburban ) monthly News . |
| 5 | From their Edwardian dominance of golf and tennis , the British slipped back to the second rank . |
| 6 | He would he 'd been identified as a character that was at least stirring up trouble , but gradually this filtered through to the authorities . |
| 7 | Their enterprising approach brought them profits ; the Hudson 's Bay Company got 10 beaverskins for a gun at its posts on the Bay , but to the Indians this was the final stage in a complicated pattern of inland trade , so that when the French travelled out to the central hunting areas they were able to save the Indians all the transport and trading costs and could get 30 beaverskins for a gun . |
| 8 | Eleven came through to the jump off , over a highly technical track that caught out both Milton and Werra . |
| 9 | A welcoming party of six walked down to the shore as the boating party disembarked not without difficulty ; Johnson , after his six or seven hours on the Atlantic , found the rocks ‘ irregularly broken , and a false step would have been very mischievous ’ . |
| 10 | Biting her lip , Sabine walked over to the wardrobe , and flung open its door . |
| 11 | You had a bath , and some time around ten-thirty went down to the kitchen wearing your dressing-gown and slippers to make yourself a mug of Ovaltine . |
| 12 | The first three teams from each of these went through to the final at East Sussex . |
| 13 | All three ran back to the trough prepared to swim for it as the boys had done several times before . |
| 14 | But he said figures showed that international traffickers were targeting this country as never before , and ‘ it 's simply a question of time ’ before that fed through to the streets . |
| 15 | Many experiments were done to decide who should have responsibility for controlling the sound ; but eventually it all came down to the engineers , assisted by meters and ( most important of all ) a keen musical sense . |
| 16 | It all came down to the last throw the lady who came second had three houses on Park Lane and Mayfair but I threw an 11 and sailed right past ! ’ |
| 17 | The King , the Queen and their lords and ladies all came down to the beach to wave goodbye . |
| 18 | With the new Conservative Government in 1979 , Ken Stowe moved from Downing Street to become Permanent Secretary in the Northern Ireland Office — not exactly a rest cure — and in 1981 came back to the DHSS . |
| 19 | According to Health Ministry figures , four people had been killed and 93 injured up to the time of the miners ' arrival on the scene . |
| 20 | The latter came in to the same platform and so two trains were in the same section , in conflict with Rule B. |
| 21 | They all climbed on to the top of the fence . |
| 22 | We all raced back to the camp , another three miles over tough terrain . |
| 23 | They all walked around to the back of the coach and waited for the driver to open the boot for them . |
| 24 | The couple were deluged with rice and we all walked back to the bride 's parental home afterwards . |
| 25 | We all trooped up to the altar , behind which your Berlin friends discovered a mysterious opening . |
| 26 | We all trooped back to the living room . |
| 27 | After the furriers we all trooped off to the same dentist who X-rayed our teeth which was unusual in Britain then . |
| 28 | Some then went off to the latrines behind the back of the hall , which Charlie thought smelled worse than the middle of Whitechapel Road on a steaming summer 's day . |
| 29 | In the end , we took a taxi and all went up to the mountainous part — a good way into the interior — to a little village called something like Kaloxilos , where Maria 's grandmother lived and had a garden . |
| 30 | We all went up to the top floor , and entered the room where Mason had been attacked . |