Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the age of twenty-two he returned to Ireland and on his father 's advice sought admission to the National Deaf Mute College in America for a degree course . |
| 2 | He became Clerk to the Governors after Ellis 's death in 1957 , a Governor in 1962 when Gilchrist was appointed Bursar and Clerk , Vice Chairman in 1973 , and Chairman on the retirement of Lt. Col. Christie-Miller in 1975 . |
| 3 | In addition Hickey served for some years as deputy to the sheriff of Calcutta and became clerk to Sir Henry Russell [ q.v. ] , ultimately chief justice of the Supreme Court . |
| 4 | They had three sons : one became clerk to the Goldsmiths ’ Company , one an entomologist , and the third was killed in the war of 1914–18 . |
| 5 | The view of parents lent support to this verdict . |
| 6 | Special designs , trial runs and samples were all part of winning the order as the production unit and design studio lent support to the sales effort . |
| 7 | He left home at the age of ten and went to London , then to Stamford , where he became apprentice to a draper and educated himself in his spare time . |
| 8 | Experience showed , he said , that the proportion which debts recovered bore to the cost of the court proceedings was less than one in twenty , and so a burden on trade and business . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the fact that he sought re-election to the legislature was widely interpreted as indicative of a desire to use his influence — he was thought to have maintained an overall majority in the new House — to secure the presidency for his friend and colleague , Vice-President Teatao Teannaki , the elected member for Abiang . |
| 10 | Henry became successor to the Burghley estate and in return the ninth Earl settled his younger brother 's debts . |
| 11 | The bank lent money to a speculator charged with extortion . |
| 12 | This lent money to banks , insurance companies , agricultural credit institutions and railroads . |
| 13 | One could say the same sort of thing about Captain Maxwell and the 26 banks that lent money to his enterprises . |
| 14 | He lent money to both Yorkist kings , repayment generally being made from the customs due on goods shipped by him . |
| 15 | So low was King Henry 's credit fallen with those who lent money to him . |
| 16 | Hopes that the LDP election victory would stabilize the markets proved unfounded , and in March the Bank of Japan ( BoJ ) raised the Official Discount Rate ( ODR — the rate at which the BoJ lent money to commercial banks ) by 1 percentage point to 5.25 per cent , the fourth rise since May 1989 . |
| 17 | For decades , those who lent money to them assumed not . |
| 18 | In the case of Wachtel v IRC ( 1970 ) 46 TC 543 , the settlor deposited money with a bank interest-free and the bank lent money to the trust at 1 per cent . |
| 19 | It is this evidence that led West to the cautious conclusion that ‘ it is reasonable to assume that in the nineteenth century education played some part in economic growth . ’ |
| 20 | wife of a London goldsmith who became mistress to King Edward IV about 1470 . |
| 21 | It was probably the affairs of the East India trade that propelled him into politics ; with the ‘ old ’ East India company still in existence , many members of the ‘ new ’ company sought election to Parliament to protect the company 's interests . |
| 22 | Government forces then laid seige to the building and , after a standoff of several hours , there was a four-hour gun-battle which culminated in the storming of the hotel . |
| 23 | Reports of the importation of 2,000 Israeli Uzi submachine guns and Galil assault rifles three weeks before the coup , and which were widely used by rebel soldiers , lent credence to this view . |
| 24 | The resignation in March of two senior economic ministers [ see p. 37316 ] following a visit by the President of the World Bank , Barber Conable , lent credence to reports that almost US$500,000,000 in credits were being withheld by the Bank and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) because of dissatisfaction with the government 's short-term economic policies . |
| 25 | In 1854 Holford married Mary Anne , daughter of General James Lindsay , MP , of Balcarres , Fife , and thus became brother-in-law to three collectors , Alexander Crawford ( twenty-fifth Earl of Crawford ) , Robert Lindsay ( Baron Wantage ) [ qq.v. ] , and Sir Coutts Lindsay . |
| 26 | PETER SCUDAMORE , who breaks records as easily as a psychotic disc jockey , was at it again yesterday , shattering his own mark for the fastest 50 winners by a National Hunt jockey when he rode In-Keeping to an easy victory at Wincanton . |
| 27 | The last ACE Executive Committee meeting in September recommended circulation to Age Concern organisations of the ‘ Statement of Recommended Procedure on Charity Accounting ’ . |
| 28 | Within the Conservative Party the Gulf crisis lent weight to the argument that a leadership challenge would be inappropriate . |
| 29 | The adoption of an overlord in heaven lent weight to Raymond 's doubtful title in Toulouse , while infringing not at all on his earthly independence . |
| 30 | I lent weight to his side of the story |