Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agency gave assurances that this new evidence had been passed to the relevant prosecuting authorities , and it was this which had led to the prosecutors ' decision to withdraw from their plea bargain arrangement with Drogoul , thereby allowing him to change his plea to innocent . |
| 2 | By 1630 he had come to the notice of William Cavendish , Earl ( later Duke ) of Newcastle [ q.v. ] , who presented him to the living of Tormarton , Gloucestershire , and made him his chaplain at Welbeck , Nottinghamshire , where , in collaboration with Newcastle 's brother , the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish [ q.v. ] , he maintained a correspondence , especially on optics , with mathematicians such as Walter Warner and John Pell [ qq.v. ] , and with Thomas Hobbes [ q.v. ] , whose references to Payne indicate respect for his character and abilities . |
| 3 | The Christian Democratic Party ( DC ) , the largest party in Parliament since 1948 , had experienced internal dissent , including that which had led to the formation of La Rete ( " The Network " ) as a new national political force [ see pp. 38481-82 ] . |
| 4 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
| 5 | The Moldovan leadership had claimed that the Soviet Army in the republic was supplying arms to " extremist elements " in Russian areas , and on Dec. 7 it had appealed to the UN for action . |
| 6 | It had not occurred to Nutty how accustomed they had become to the steamy swimming baths and the seventy-five degree water . |
| 7 | We know that Lethieullier was also interested in anatomy , for in 1734 he had offered to the Royal Society three infants preserved in spirit , ‘ … of which one Elizabeth Baggs , a hard labouring woman in Oxford , was delivered at one birth in 1714 ’ and who lived for but a few hours afterwards . |
| 8 | Among the rich and famous who had come to the salon to have their hair cut , tinted and set , Paula recognised Dusty Springfield , the pop singer , her eyes big and sooty , her lips pearly pink , and was unable to suppress the thrill of excitement which ran through her . |
| 9 | He was pretty sure he had come to the right restaurant . |
| 10 | When he reached the corner of the Whitechapel Road he was n't sure he had come to the right place . |
| 11 | It was probable that he had not , and best in any case not to go near ; soon he would miss her , want her back , and perhaps give his permission for the marriage despite all he had said to the contrary . |
| 12 | For reasons which are both obscure and immaterial , there was considerable delay in this report coming to the attention of the local authority having the care of J. When in January 1992 it did come to the authority 's notice , Dr. I. was asked to provide a further up to date report and in addition the authority obtained a second opinion from Dr. R. , a consultant paediatric neurologist with a London teaching hospital . |
| 13 | Although in 1962 he had appealed to the Government of Ireland Act , in 1963 he described it as a ‘ constitution of bondage ’ . |
| 14 | The dancing stopped , and while those who 'd travelled to the all-dayer on coaches from Brighton , Hereford , Nottingham , Northampton , Leeds and Sheffield looked bemused at the sound of the King , the West Midlands regulars looked straight to Dermot Ryan , one of the three brothers behind promotions company Chuff Chuff . |
| 15 | The ship 's captain , Benjamin Saint Clair , who was among those who managed to swim to the coast , said passengers had apparently panicked during a heavy rainstorm , contributing to the disaster . |
| 16 | In Cornwall , only those who had contributed to the fine made in 1204 were to be allowed to hunt and take the deer within the disafforested districts . |
| 17 | In other words , the objectives of those who had contributed to the developments that culminated in Rome were ambitious and overtly political . |
| 18 | In his opening speech , Ralph Ellis thanked all those who had contributed to the success of the company , emphasising ‘ that it is during the tough times when such experience counts . ’ |
| 19 | The one notable feature in his face were the eyes ; they were brilliant blue , recognised as the colour of gentians by those who had travelled to the Swiss mountains in summer . |
| 20 | Within weeks of their meeting in November 1640 , the MPs of the Long Parliament launched a full-scale attack upon Laud and his Arminian innovations , and throughout the country those who had objected to the physical changes introduced during the previous decade began to destroy altars , rails , and stained glass . |
| 21 | Of those who did go to the 30,000 polling booths , set up in mosques and schools , few expressed enthusiasm about the current leaders . |
| 22 | Among those who remained attached to the land , the result was a new wariness in their attitude towards the government . |
| 23 | Haydon , who painted Wordsworth on Helvellyn in 1842 , noted that ‘ His head is like as if it was carved out of a mossy rock , created before the flood ’ , and those who tried to penetrate to the character beneath the face of the old man used the same ‘ stony ’ vocabulary . |
| 24 | And for those who liked to go to the office every morning by the 8.15 there were class rooms and classes where nobody learnt very much but where everybody thought they were doing something . |
| 25 | The details recalled by Carol during the regression ( and which she continued to remember afterwards ) tallied precisely with those she had given to the police on the night the rape had occurred . |
| 26 | You , you were n't auto sort of automatically allowed out till ten you had to go to the office and say , please may I stay out till ten . |
| 27 | Helen Cam once suggested that parliamentary petitions may have sprung from the already practised art of the clergy in drafting lists of gravamina , or grievances , which at intervals since 1237 they had submitted to the king for redress ; but G. O. Sayles traces the origin more directly to the legal procedure of bills of complaint submitted to the king 's itinerant justices , and certainly the character of the early parliamentary petitions seems to bear this out : clerical gravamina were corporate complaints directed against general practices rather than particular people and they lacked the specific quality which individual parliamentary petitions naturally displayed . |
| 28 | At first they had taken to the Underground because it was warm , later for other reasons . |
| 29 | But first they wanted to see to the drainage at one particularly bad spot , where a stream was running down the path . |
| 30 | ‘ First he asked to go to the toilet . |