Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you remember when as a child you would stand transfixed , gazing up at the grandfather clock , with your little heart beating faster and faster as the minute hand slowly crept up to the hour when suddenly , with magical ringing chimes it burst into life . |
| 2 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 3 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 4 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
| 5 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
| 6 | An hour later she was still happily chatting to the woman , finding out about the terrible Harry who had ‘ torn the heart ’ right out of her daughter and gone off with a woman from Cork , which naturally led on to the dreadful and often incomprehensible ways of men and the stupid way women always put up with it . |
| 7 | But he above is a representative of the general tone of the interview which constantly referred back to the suspiciously ‘ instant ’ political aspects of the band . |
| 8 | Others hated and ignored them , saying they only came down to the city to steal . |
| 9 | He carried on flying , looking for a place to land and so flew back to the wireless station and decided to land in a field next to it . |
| 10 | Jessamy shakily got to her feet , took a couple of very deep breaths , then stubbornly went over to the door . |
| 11 | I really only went along to the interviews for a lark , as company for a friend . |
| 12 | From that point on he only went down to the hospitals ‘ as and when required ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ But the lift buttons only went down to the ground floor . ’ |
| 14 | He stayed there , watching it taxi away , and only went out to the cab rank when the plane had actually taken off . |
| 15 | At first he refused to answer , then realised that no assassin would make such a noise so went down to the door and called out : ‘ Who 's there ? ’ |
| 16 | She merely went off to the nursery for a brief inspection , came back and pronounced him gorgeous . |
| 17 | So , as the other person already occupied part of the left hand bench , he quite naturally went over to the right hand bench and promptly sat down . |
| 18 | And this ‘ vague altruism ’ apparently permeated up to the highest levels in government : for example , Neville Chamberlain , who had been a leading figure in the pre-war National Government 's denial of the problem of child malnutrition , was so shocked by the stories of the children 's condition that he commented to his sister , ‘ I never knew that such conditions existed , and I feel ashamed of having been so ignorant of my neighbours . |
| 19 | And since there did n't seem anything she could do , and there was n't anything else she dared to say , she turned round and slowly trudged back to the house . |
| 20 | In the same year he became the chairman of the radical Green Ribbon Club , but he briefly and secretly came over to the court interest . |
| 21 | Well he supposed to give up smoking , it had caused clotting in one of his legs and then it just whipped over to the other one , he 's had to have it cut off |
| 22 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
| 23 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 24 | Despite this , Junius soon got down to the business of casting aspersions against the King 's character . |
| 25 | The irony that Charlton finally got back to the First Division in 1986 , the year their exile from The Valley began , is n't lost on Ufton . |
| 26 | Mr Hamilton-Renwick soon moved on to the Dobermann 's smaller relative , the Miniature Pinscher . |
| 27 | McCallen meanwhile came back to the starting area but then failed to take part and was escorted back to his pit by his team manager Neill Tuxwsorth . |
| 28 | Entering the competition was entirely Barbara 's idea and when the phone call came through to say they 'd won , Betty was quite shocked to discover that she , too , was going to London to have a makeover — but she soon came round to the idea ! |
| 29 | His dilemma would have been similar , in some ways , to that which faced the coachman Jean Hornn when the latter finally came up to the town in the berline dormeuse and attempted to skirt it to avoid the encumbrances with which the road was choked ( see Part 1 ) . |
| 30 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |