Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] to [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Her husband Reggie was not a strong believer , and it was only at his persistent insistence that Joyce sought medical advice on the eye cancer which eventually led to her death . |
| 32 | The Witcombe reservoirs ( where the Horsebere originates ) opened around 1860 and were responsible for depleting the water supply to the mill , which eventually led to its downfall . |
| 33 | In the team 's acclimatisation tour of Latin America , he kicked his way into the public 's imagination and sowed the seeds of notoriety which eventually led to his life ban . |
| 34 | Accusations of corruption made against Alfonso Guerra which eventually led to his resignation as Deputy Prime Minister in January 1991 [ see pp. 37263 ; 37968 ] . |
| 35 | ‘ I think it 's sad , especially here , to see the fields which once belonged to my ancestors . ’ |
| 36 | You may be able to claim constructive dismissal even if the incident which directly leads to your departure is minor , if it can be regarded as the last straw . |
| 37 | Nobody openly pointed to my lesbianism , over the film or subsequently , as the feature causing them problems . |
| 38 | Manchester United were convinced he was finished four years ago and were happy to let Villa take him — along with the personal problems which also contributed to his departure from Old Trafford . |
| 39 | Eustace had played a significant part in the struggle between Angevin and Capetian royal houses , but , as with the case of his contemporary , Fulk Fitzwarine [ q.v. ] , it was his exploits as a fugitive on the run from authority which really appealed to his biographer . |
| 40 | The long-established Manx cat is certainly as abnormal as any of them , with its strangely abbreviated backbone and the problems this causes , but its presence at cat shows was accepted so long ago that nobody now objects to its inclusion . |
| 41 | Lifting the cup of wine which symbolically pointed to His blood which would be shed on the cross He said ‘ This is my blood of the new testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins . ’ |
| 42 | And as Wolff ( 1983a , p. 37 ) points out , ‘ despite important constitutional , social and medical disadvantages which often contribute to their genesis , the disorders themselves are most helpfully explained on the basis of psychological mechanisms . ’ |
| 43 | Recently seen opposite Warren Beatty in the title role of the re-released Lilith as a mentally ill girl suffering from ‘ nymphomania ’ , Seberg was hounded by an FBI dirty tricks campaign after her vocal support for the Black Panthers movement , which reportedly led to her suicide in 1979 . |
| 44 | Knuth ( 1973 , p483 ) explains that we ‘ can save memory space at the expense of running time if we use a linked list for each node vector , since most of the entries tend to be empty ’ , which certainly applies to our lists of words . |
| 45 | The replacement of national currencies with a single European currency would deprive these countries ' respective monetary authorities of the right to issue money and with it the revenues which currently accrue to their governments through monetary creation while they would not be able to offset this loss through the use of other taxes . |
| 46 | Sheldon himself never lied to his friends about the mummy and we have to be grateful to Faujas Saint-Fond for the following account written shortly after a visit he had made on Sheldon : ‘ It is [ said Sheldon ] a mistress whom I tenderly loved . |
| 47 | He carefully put me in his pocket and took me home to show to his wife . |
| 48 | She slowly got to her feet , her eyes wide with fear . |
| 49 | Staggering slightly , she eventually lurched to her feet . |
| 50 | ‘ I know what you mean , doctor , and no ; no , he has n't , but- ’ She suddenly sprang to her feet and was standing rigid . |
| 51 | She suddenly rose to her feet , pushing her chair back and reaching for her bag . |
| 52 | It was important for Oreste 's sake to keep good relations and so with a good deal of lip-biting and general effort of control she finally wrote to her sister in most moderate terms expressing surprise , confessing intense distress , but apportioning no blame . |
| 53 | ‘ You do get the believers and the buffs , the little sects who just stick to their beliefs and wo n't listen to anything else . |
| 54 | ‘ And you knew nothing about his family when you finally succumbed to his persuasion ? ’ |
| 55 | Donna said nothing ; she just dropped to her knees , the .38 still gripped in her fist , face bruised , her lip bleeding . |
| 56 | She quickly dropped to her knees , and popped it into her mouth before he could run away . |
| 57 | And then , as her dazed mind finally absorbed the fact that it really was Ross , and not a figment of her overheated imagination , she quickly jumped to her feet and ran swiftly across the floor towards him . |
| 58 | He 's a literate man now , a ferociously eager autodidact who got through Proust , Joyce and Stanislavsky in his twenties , who still retreats to his trailer between takes to write poetry that nobody is allowed to see . |
| 59 | Yet she always came to his rescue when he was in difficulties . ’ |
| 60 | Finally she made her choice and gave the reasons for it with the confidence she always brought to her work . |