Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Football was never an entirely respectable sport and from the outset crowds swore and shouted , occasionally threw things or charged on to the pitch . |
| 2 | Use it at 1½–2 ounces ( 43–57g ) per square yard ( square metre ) in spring and summer , hoed or dug in to the soil . |
| 3 | Ministers are told any gifts worth more than £125 must be refused or handed over to the department . |
| 4 | A presidential decree , reported in full in Rossiskaya gazeta of June 18 , allowed state enterprises which failed to pay their debts to the state and to private creditors within three months to be declared bankrupt and either liquidated or auctioned off to the highest bidder for a limited period of time for independent management ( the new managers to be treated as owners , but debarred from dismissing more than 30 per cent of the work force ) . |
| 5 | When this happens , the shot is either pushed or sliced out to the right with no distance . |
| 6 | On the death of a bishop , while his spiritual jurisdiction and income were administered by the dean , or prior , and chapter of the cathedral church , the temporalities of the see — as with any tenant-in-chief during a minority-reverted to the crown for the duration of the vacancy ; they were usually farmed or leased out to the profit of the crown and of the farmers who were naturally inclined to extract as much as they could from the windfall . |
| 7 | At T/Sgt John E Smith wrote : ‘ You would n't have known these ladies served as mechanics and armourers in the Women 's Royal Air Force beginning 52 years ago by the way they climbed up and the down the stairs at the control tower or scrambled up to the cockpit of an F-16 ’ . |
| 8 | Right , we , we , we did actually draw , or we not draw , we , we adopted a constitution during the year and the officers that are erm elected are the Chair , the Secretary and the Treasurer , erm and other , together with other such officers , yeah to determine by general meeting , erm , so it 's really only those three , er and we have sometimes had Advice Chair if there 's only been one Chairman have n't we , one Chair person erm so I think people need to say if they do n't wish to carry on the jobs they 're doing and if anybody wishes to nominate anyone in a particular post then slip at the bottom of the minutes could be filled in and either brought to meeting or sent back to the Secretary . |
| 9 | Pilots have complained that airlines force them to work long hours , new jets are being grounded or sent back to the manufacturers for modification , and the government has been attacked for a series of embarrassing lapses at major airports . |
| 10 | It seemed to Preston that if you avoided being stabbed to death by terror gangs , you stood an even chance of being burned to death by sudden conflagration , or pushed on to the live line by a psychopath lurking among the rush-hour crowds , or struck down by a heart attack brought on by the extreme rage and frustration of trying to understand a platform announcement . |
| 11 | I became increasingly interested in gay men 's specific ways of seeing the world — what one might call , to use a now unfashionable phrase of Raymond Williams , male homosexual structures of feeling — but to qualify for inclusion in this framework , texts had to pass an ‘ authorship test ’ ( ‘ is/was he gay ? ’ ) that harked back to the bad old days of crudely biographical criticism . |
| 12 | He turned his back to her and walked off into the open-plan living-room , with its huge glass patio doors that led on to the front garden . |
| 13 | Jessamy walked through the wilder part of the garden and then sat on a fallen tree-trunk , rapidly sketching the shadow-filled path that led round to the pond , the twisted shapes of the tree boughs , and the dark clumps of rushes . |
| 14 | A thick hedge of cypresses hid the pool from the lawns that led up to the house . |
| 15 | Every Scot knows at least part of the story of the massacre , but many are not aware of the background that led up to the atrocity and too little is known about the heinous wickedness of some of the characters involved . |
| 16 | Casually , keeping a light touch on Haminh 's mind , she wandered over to the metal ramp that led up to the residential walkway , encouraging Haminh with light touches to turn into the gangpath instead of walking straight past to her own doorway . |
| 17 | Hosanna padded down from the steps that led up to the patio door and sat beside her , lifting his right paw and placing it on her thigh . |
| 18 | And there was Gabriel , sitting on the stairs that led up to the bedrooms . |
| 19 | But his secretiveness extended to not even telling them that , and they had to be content to accompany him as he turned left at the foot of the steps that led up to the station entrance and headed for the quays . |
| 20 | The car drew up at one of the big houses on the prosperous shore road , facing the grassy slope that led up to the promenade . |
| 21 | Ben stood before the shallow flight of steps that led up to the main entrance , his head tilted back as he studied the frontage . |
| 22 | He brushed dust from his sleeve and headed towards the flight of stone steps that led up to the embankment . |
| 23 | She paid the taxi-driver and walked briskly towards the main entrance of the building , slowing her pace as she reached the flight of broad stone steps that led up to the doors . |
| 24 | When they stopped , in blackness and silence , before the steps that led up to the kitchen door , the only door anyone ever used at Trelorne , Murphy wanted to accompany her inside . |
| 25 | It was rapping in my back as I was pushed past Roger Beeding and Roger de Mornay and closer and closer to the eight steps that led up to the low wooden platform on which was the gigantic cross and the large black-and-white photograph of Rose Fox . |
| 26 | They drove slowly back down the mountain road until they came to the track that led up to the Zimmermann farmhouse . |
| 27 | So she was relieved , but at the same time a little chagrined when he did n't stop the car at all but drove her to the bottom of the footpath that led up to the Hoflin farm . |
| 28 | They had visited the fifteenth-century pavilion , which had taken them back to the world of 1492 and immersed them in an era that led up to the discovery of America . |
| 29 | The path ended at the wide stone steps that led up to the main entrance of the lodge . |
| 30 | From her seat she could see the winding road that led up to the elegant gateway of Casa Madrid , and she could even see the sprinklers sending blessed water swirling over the melon and pineapple fields . |