Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [vb pp] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flounder has become adapted to bottom-living to a quite extraordinary degree . |
| 2 | The family appear to have come to England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth when several glassmakers from Lorraine were invited to practise their skills in this country . |
| 3 | Elizabeth Maxwell was reported to have moved to France after her husband 's death , leaving behind the family mansion , Oxford 's Headington Hill Hall . |
| 4 | Sporadic trouble , marked by strikes and demonstrations , continued in the coal industry throughout August , although a number of mines were reported to have returned to work by the end of the month following case-by-case wage settlements . |
| 5 | Sporadic trouble , marked by strikes and demonstrations , continued in the coal industry throughout August , although a number of mines were reported to have returned to work by the end of the month following case-by-case wage settlements . |
| 6 | Faced with revolt in the north by anti-government guerrillas of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) , the Djibouti government was reported to have appealed to France for military support , on the basis of the 1977 defence treaty between the two countries , and for the intervention of French forces stationed in Djibouti . |
| 7 | A few moments ago she had been burning up in his arms , caught up in the fever of his lovemaking , but now the blood seemed to have turned to ice in her veins , frozen by his uncaring tones . |
| 8 | He seemed to have come to terms with the end of his career but the fact he never spoke about his feelings was always a worry . ’ |
| 9 | The latter is said to have come to Karaman in order to study under Cemaleddin Aksarayi , although he almost abandoned the journey on reading that scholar 's in which he was very much disappointed . |
| 10 | Everyone knows the story of the ass which was said to have starved to death between two exactly equal bundles of hay because it could not decide ( choose ) which one to approach . |
| 11 | Now , the idea for the curtained cab appears to have come to Flaubert as a result of his own eccentric conduct in Paris when anxious to avoid running into Louise Colet . |
| 12 | Thin veils of smoke , detected by satellite as far away as southeastern Pakistan , 2000 km east of Kuwait , were found to have risen to heights of between 6 and 7 km . |
| 13 | Generally speaking the sin-offering seems to have referred to offences against God , and the guilt-offering to social offences . |
| 14 | From Karaman Molla Fenari seems to have gone to Egypt for further study , especially under Shaykh Akmal al-Din ( d. 786/1384–5 ) . |
| 15 | We calculate that on an estimate of what we think has happened to employment in the quarter erm and that calculation tells us , and it seems to be re reasonably right in the sense that it 's got a , a good tr a good record of tracking erm the official numbers when they eventually come out . |
| 16 | The motor manufacturer is not going to be best pleased to discover that the aircraft he though he had retained has hopped to Ibiza with a load of spotty would-be tourists from Kettering . |
| 17 | Only periodically does Mr Tebbit seem to have looked to Powell as a politician who could express some of his gnawing doubts about the Heath government . |
| 18 | By now the disapproving looks Diana Lanchester had been earning had turned to ones of open curiosity as those around became intrigued by the confrontation . |
| 19 | Secondly , since 1975 , people who conduct their own litigation have become entitled to costs in respect of their own time and effort spent preparing and presenting the case . |