Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then after that I went to a public school but er to those years er I just followed the pattern . |
| 2 | This we traced to a cylindrical metal box ( about 2′ long and about 8″ in diameter ) located under the nearside front wheelarch . |
| 3 | In one scheme , " practical work " meant the use of surveying instruments , in another it referred to a narrow range of conventional geometrical constructions using compasses and set squares . |
| 4 | At the beginning of his reign in the parliament of 1307 they assented to a fifteenth , but seven more years passed before the clergy again conceded any more : York province offered a small sum to ward off the Scots in 1314 , and Canterbury reluctantly , and upon certain conditions , granted a tenth in January 1315 . |
| 5 | Winsor & and ; Newton will be creating six ‘ mini studios ’ , each one dedicated to a different medium , where you will be able to sit down for 20 minutes and try out the materials whilst getting expert tuition in a small group . |
| 6 | Winsor & and ; Newton will be creating six ‘ mini studios ’ , each one dedicated to a different medium , where you will be able to sit down for 20 minutes and try out the materials whilst getting expert tuition in a small group . |
| 7 | At the forward end of that we came to a glass-panelled door , which needed no key , and suddenly we were in the comparative quietness of the drivers ' cab , right at the front of the train . |
| 8 | At fourteen he went to a Roman Catholic seminary to study for the priesthood . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , provided that its artificiality is kept in mind , it has its uses , since it enables us to treat separately the revenues over which the monarch had more or less independent control and those which depended to a great extent upon the consent of others . |
| 10 | Those returning to a discordant family environment were much more likely to become pregnant than those who returned to a harmonious family or remained in the institution until achieving independence . |
| 11 | These migrants differed in some important respects from the 46% of applicants who were non–enrollers , ( those who applied to a particular institution but did not go on to enrol anywhere ) . |
| 12 | When war was declared in 1914 he replied to a Royal Naval Air Service advertisement for engineers . |
| 13 | His greatest reward was the gift of a mortuary temple , the only one granted to a non-royal person , which was built near to that of the king and which raised the deceased Amenhotep to divine status , placing him amongst the cults of kings . |
| 14 | Lou continued to be the nearest he had to a first and real love and she still went to all the broadcasts and visited Pinewood for every film , sitting on her own canvas chair , sometimes by herself , frequently with her sister Daisy , of whom Ken himself was still very fond . |
| 15 | In 1953 he wrote to a Jesuit friend : |
| 16 | So in 1959 we moved to a large , ark-like Victorian farmhouse in Hampshire which I share today with our vast collection of children 's toys . |
| 17 | So , when at last I came to a small village with a large church , I decided that perhaps the priest might be the best person to tell me where these prehistoric pagans buried their dead . |
| 18 | But at last she came to a painful decision . |
| 19 | During 1990 they rose to a sizeable four million . |