Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whatever I 've done or have n't done to Julius , it 's really none of your business , is it ? |
| 2 | Is it not by now abundantly obvious to everyone that those organisations that remain implacably opposed to Sunday trading will never agree to any compromise solution to the problem that could be laid before the House and command widespread support ? |
| 3 | But this is the most flattering thing that has ever happened to Howard ! |
| 4 | Drunk one day , driving her on his Harley , he slammed into a house that had once belonged to Jack London . |
| 5 | Twenty-odd years ago Michael Stewart owned a Facel Vega that had once belonged to Ringo Starr . |
| 6 | That round , soft face with its clear blue eyes and straight nose , those small , pretty hands , the plump frame swathed in shawls , all that had actually gone to Afghanistan 60 years ago , had taken part in the adventure that had provided the myth and the burden of Alexandra 's childhood . |
| 7 | Do not fall , either , for the argument that America must have the oil underneath the refuge to reduce its dependence on foreign oil — at a time when , despite the greenhouse effect , the American government has all but abandoned incentives for energy efficiency and has repeatedly bowed to Detroit 's absurd demand that it relax its drive for fuel-efficient car engines . |
| 8 | The Freshman Consultancy opened in January 1991 in offices near London 's Euston station and has since moved to Chamber Street in E1 near Tower Hill . |
| 9 | the pair were spending a season in New Zealand at the invitation of McIntosh 's elder brother , Shane , who had himself played for Pontypridd and has recently returned to Britain to play for West of Scotland . |
| 10 | On that occasion the site was taken over by the Vickers-Armstrong aircraft factory but it was never suitably repaired and racing never returned to Brooklands . |
| 11 | The Left , like most people in Britain , had been brought up to regard Britain as a world power and had not adjusted to Britain 's real weakness . |
| 12 | Before the War , he had visited Europe , worked in the kitchen of a London hotel , and had then gone to Moscow . |
| 13 | Mrs Knelle 's boy had attended a similar boarding school to the Cistercian college , and had then gone to Maynooth , a prestigious Dublin seminary for priests . |
| 14 | She had embraced Simon , patting his face and exclaiming over his bruised eye , and had then flown to Isabel , taking her in her arms and weeping over her enough , so her husband had said , to raise the level of the lake . |
| 15 | The only clue so far discovered of any value to a possible dating of his return is the fact that , according to Bursali Mehmed Tahir , there exists a copy of one of his most famous works , the written in his own hand , presented to Mehmed II , and dated 878/1473–4 it would not thus be unreasonable to suppose that Molla Husrev wrote the copy especially for Mehmed II , this in turn suggesting that by 878 Molla Husrev had made up his quarrel with the sultan and had perhaps returned to Istanbul . |
| 16 | But Premier League champions Manchester United and double cup-winners Arsenal are also in the hunt and have both spoken to Keane , even though he has already agreed personal terms on a lucrative four-year contract offered by Blackburn manager Kenny Dalglish . |
| 17 | She praised Nigel and Becky Hobday , who were treasurer and membership secretary respectively , and have now moved to Romsey , for their contribution to the association . |
| 18 | We pledged ( and have now paid to RSNC ) £5,000 . |
| 19 | 603 went to Philadelphia for the American Bi-Centennial celebrations in 1976 , but has since returned to San Francisco . |
| 20 | But having politely listened to Mrs Thatcher 's remarks and having promised to pay due attention to Whitehall 's alternative strategy , the summit made it clear that their strategy for monetary union would broadly follow the blueprint laid down . |