Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 2 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 3 | She must have told Gloria off too , for the very next day , Gloria said , ‘ You got to go off to the country , ducks , health visitor says . |
| 4 | Next summer mum was told she would have to go back into hospital for a long time , and because I already knew the place , I agreed to go back to the Cheshire Home for this period . |
| 5 | The company has promised much in the past but to date failed to perform up to the market 's expectations . |
| 6 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 7 | Britain prefers absolute standards , which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level . |
| 8 | That was just about the only redeeming feature of that winter because it formed a kind of bridge which made walking up to the road a lot easier . |
| 9 | The Algiers agreement failed to work out to the satisfaction of either side . |
| 10 | Three of the men agreed to come back to the captain , and we put the others in my cave . |
| 11 | But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law . |
| 12 | A distributor or seller who was not the manufacturer ( e.g. a retailer ) could also be liable under the same principle if he was negligent , e.g. if he negligently failed to pass on to the customer a warning label ( ‘ Not to be taken internally ’ ) which he had received with a bottle of medicine . |
| 13 | He even tried sneaking back to the library at night , thinking the Bookman might appear after dark , but had to stop this when he backed into Mr Crangle , who was up to the same thing . |
| 14 | The researcher stopped hanging on to the doorframe and stepped into the room . |
| 15 | On the following Monday she proposed to go back to the job she had taken to make it financially possible for Peter and her to buy their little home . |
| 16 | ‘ You must excuse me — I promised to go along to the tennis courts . |
| 17 | Then I realised this was unusual for an owl , because in the wild they tend to swallow their prey whole , so I simply stopped holding on to the chick and soon she was gobbling it up in one . |
| 18 | While we were on the beach below another tourist tried to climb up to the ruin ; but a flock of dive-bombing gulls , screaming histrionically , drove him off . |
| 19 | I tried to climb down to the nest once . |
| 20 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 21 | When that happened , the others , those whose canoes sank , tried to hold on to the canoes that were still afloat . |
| 22 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 23 | Though Lowe tried to hang on to the original concept , RSGB 's figures finally killed off the ‘ Sunday Guardian ’ approach . |
| 24 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 25 | The jeep was bouncing them about mercilessly as the Brigadier tried to get back to the village in time for the Captain and the Substitute to go back to Florence and eat . |
| 26 | He tried to get back to the drawing room unheard , but she was waiting . |
| 27 | In football , there was an early shock for Liverpool at Anfield as the champions tried to get back to the top of the table with Arsenal playing Leeds United at Highbury tomorrow . |
| 28 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 29 | I talked to Mum , and she tried to think back to the day she met Elaine , and she remembered I was born in a nursing home in Birkleigh . |
| 30 | Rachel sank shaking on to the white sofa and buried her hot face in her hands . |