Example sentences of "[art] [det] [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter lived up to their name with gusto by getting helplessly drunk , being in a celebratory mood because they 'd signed their lucrative CBS contract that very afternoon . |
| 2 | The latter came in to the same platform and so two trains were in the same section , in conflict with Rule B. |
| 3 | In 1248 Peter was in Simon 's retinue when the latter went out to Gascony as seneschal and thereafter there are numerous instances of the close connection between the two men . |
| 4 | Its past activities included smuggling , lace-making and quarrying ; the latter dates back to Roman times . |
| 5 | It takes longer to saturate large rods with deuterium than to saturate the smaller ones ; the latter took up to a fortnight and they estimated that the largest rods could take up to a year . |
| 6 | John Kornjaca and Bryn Kerr , restored to the No 8 and scrum-half positions respectively , both had sound games and were well supported in the back row by Edmonds and Bisdee , the latter moving back to his preferred position on the blind side . |
| 7 | They recruit highly-paid expatriates and Mozambicans ; the latter earn up to twenty five times the salary of their colleagues in government service . |
| 8 | In Numbers 11 we find the same looking back to Egypt through rose-coloured spectacles . |
| 9 | She threw down the beads , and a few rolled on to the floor . |
| 10 | Most nest on soda lakes on the Tibetan plateau , but a few travel on to remote high lakes in the Pamirs and Tien Shan . |
| 11 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |