Example sentences of "[vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The line screamed out as Trent beat to windward off the reef . |
| 2 | A hot-tempered individual , he early on fought a duel and beat to death an Indian accused of murder . |
| 3 | From Stop Your Fussin , with a subtle reggae beat to the haunting Where 's The Ocean and finally the memorable Let The Rain Come Down , insinuating animation and acquiescence from a failed relationship , the album is tremendously good and truely ambitious . |
| 4 | ‘ I like rock music ; something with a good thumping beat to it . ’ |
| 5 | The Insured considered the safety of the property and took precautions even though they transpired to be inadequate . |
| 6 | From being a peripheral aspect of police practice , unrecognized in the courts and rarely adverted to as a ground for arrest , detention followed by interrogation has become a central pivot in the battle against crime . |
| 7 | ( 4 ) The matters adverted to in question ( 4 ) do not affect the answers given to questions ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) . |
| 8 | The Government adverted to this problem in its White Paper , recognising that ‘ it is not easy to define in a manner which conforms with the normally precise definitions of the criminal law , but which at the same time is sufficiently general to catch the variety of conduct aimed at . |
| 9 | Of the other offences adverted to in this chapter , the crime of threatening to kill is extended to threats to cause serious personal harm ( cl. 65 ) ; administering a substance without consent ( cl. 73 ) and assault to resist arrest ( cl. 77 ) are redrafted . |
| 10 | Such conditions led to areas of swamp which were a natural trap for unwary animals which ventured to the river to drink . |
| 11 | In 1863 he led a tour to Paris and Switzerland ; in 1864 he ventured to Italy with parties of tourists . |
| 12 | He ventured to the Blighted Isle in search of his father 's armour . |
| 13 | After Gainsborough closed , Muriel and Sydney moved to Pinewood , part of the Rank Organisation , and eventually ( in spite of Michael Balcon 's pronouncement that women were unsuited to be film directors ) Muriel was directing features . |
| 14 | They moved to relative privacy . |
| 15 | She moved to the neighbours ' wall and sprayed ‘ fornicator ’ and ‘ debauchee ’ . |
| 16 | Catherine moved to Sheila and Bob 's , and Duncan was left alone . |
| 17 | When she was 13 , she moved to Saddlebrook , where the United States Tennis Association operates one of its Player Development Centres . |
| 18 | Bob , a keen home brewer , took over from his parents when the plant moved to the farm in 1989 . |
| 19 | Four months later , Andrew , Wendy and Pete moved to Middlesborough to live . |
| 20 | Moreover Pound had reached Williams 's conclusion about literary London , and in 1920 left for Paris , whence in 1924 he moved to Rapallo . |
| 21 | The leader 's chair was occupied by the familiar and welcome figure of Bradley Creswick , who recently moved to the Philharmonia from the Newcastle-based Northern Sinfonia . |
| 22 | Tullow Oil slipped 0.5p to 17.5p as it moved to the USM . |
| 23 | When we moved to Scotland I discovered the greatest delicacy of all — the smoked herring , or kipper . |
| 24 | ‘ They awarded me a seat behind a pillar for this French farce , but foolishly I moved to a place where I had a full view of the stage . |
| 25 | Mr Turner his wife and three daughters aged eight , six and four moved to France in April and his auberge opened in July . |
| 26 | The Telegraph 's management believes that when it moved to Docklands , more than two years ago , it failed to modernise fully journalistic work practices , and did not realise how new technology could be used to reduce the number of editing jobs . |
| 27 | Harris was born at Henley-upon-Avon , but the family soon moved to Birmingham , where he was later to become associated with the Shakespeare Institute . |
| 28 | In the early 1960s Anderson moved to East Africa as Staff Development Advise to President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania ( 1961-64 ) . |
| 29 | I moved to the back of my trench as Taff stood up to man the gun . |
| 30 | The Corporal glanced sympathetically at the two figures on the floor and then he moved to the other end of the barn . |