Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a series of related allegations eventually led to a High Court libel action involving Docherty and two of Manchester United 's most prominent players , Denis Law and Willie Morgan , who perhaps predictably were both Scots . |
| 2 | The danger and the extra effort needed to shoe a colt for the first time was recognized by a custom called in some districts of East Anglia by the term First Nail which presumably referred to the violent shock the first nail would give to the colt . |
| 3 | Martin O'Neill only got to the eighth frame in his match against Mark Rowing . |
| 4 | The decline of Woodstock relative to Oxford merely led to the increasing importance of the present main road . |
| 5 | He was also charged with forcing the king to bestow the earldom of March upon him in the Salisbury parliament of 1328 and then leading an armed band against the Earl of Lancaster , with procuring the death of the Earl of Rent , fomenting discord between Edward II and Isabella , and other offences which together amounted to a comprehensive indictment of his rule since 1326 , The earls and barons , ‘ the peers of the realm ’ , were asked to give their judgement on these charges and they declared that they were notorious and manifest to all . |
| 6 | It suddenly ground to a skidding halt and they were all thrown forward . |
| 7 | He very much objected to the inevitable contraction of Nicandra to Nico , which seemed to him common . |
| 8 | Maxim was about to explain when the lieutenant obviously came to a snap judgment on his military value and slammed out again . |
| 9 | The house they lived in belonged to a German lady , a Miss Wacker , who had been home in her own country when war broke out and was unable to return . |
| 10 | This time she did n't wait to see if anyone would come , but swiftly glanced to the small instrument tray . |
| 11 | Wolf was awake , instantly , and instantly into a fighting stance ; but Fox only collapsed to the other mattress , and lay there , still . |
| 12 | This led to confusion over concentration with the term minimum inhibitory concentration ( MIC ) being used as and mistaken for dosage rate when it merely related to the bacteriostatic performance against certain bacteria under artificial conditions and at specific concentrations . |
| 13 | I not only listened to the hon. Gentleman 's arguments tonight , but I have read the other speeches that he has made throughout the passage of the Bill . |
| 14 | They left the marketplace for a maze of streets and eventually came to a large stone two-storeyed house with a timbered roof , its exquisite carved eaves jutting out over a small courtyard beneath . |
| 15 | There was a continual potential for conflict between the two cultures , which eventually came to a dramatic crisis in the San Antonio area . |
| 16 | He followed the widest of the paths northwards and eventually came to a deserted airfield . |
| 17 | We drove for miles through dense jungle and eventually came to a big pool which was maybe 150 metres square and 30 metres deep . |
| 18 | Puzzled by the incident , she went on , but less than a dozen paces further on came to a sharp stop . |
| 19 | On the following day the Senate was compelled to " freeze " the legislation after opposition deputies successfully appealed to the Supreme Court to block Senate ratification of the law until a ruling had been made on the constitutional legality of the AP 's parliamentary conduct during the lower house vote . |
| 20 | But Cherwell council successfully appealed to the High Court in November . |
| 21 | Keynes might well have disapproved of the ‘ Keynesianism , of the postwar politicians , but runaway inflation nevertheless led to a successful monetarist assault on Keynesian theory . |
| 22 | He just moved to the other side of the bed , and lay on his back . |
| 23 | So his foot went down two steps , and sure enough down came the wardrobe onto his toe and did n't do any damage and then just bounced to the next step down . |
| 24 | The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train began to slow down and soon came to a smooth stop . |
| 25 | We soon came to the same decision , which was that having promised the boys we would help them , we could n't now let them down . |
| 26 | All this soon came to an abrupt end . |
| 27 | Predictably , the ‘ night of fun ’ presented by the British Music Hall Company to open the Festival of Comedy generally appealed to the older age group . |
| 28 | His arrival was inopportune , and he soon withdrew to a Mediterranean island . |
| 29 | It was surely part of her duty to find out what finally happened to the seductive female spread out on the front cover . |
| 30 | Winchester 's next posting was to Cyprus to build defences , but he soon returned to the Western Desert , where , between May and September , he was involved in desperate rearguard actions — the battle of Gazala , followed by Alamein in July , when Auchinleck checked Rommel , who was then within striking distance of Alexandria . |