Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the old tradition of pilgrimage , peregrinatio , spawned or became united to the new kind of military adventure we call the crusade ; and the resources of the roads and waterways of Europe and the Near East were strained to the uttermost to meet the insatiable demands of these adventurous travellers . |
| 2 | ‘ It makes me sound like a parcel that got sent to the wrong address . ’ |
| 3 | And that meant going to the local airfield . |
| 4 | But on the North American mainland , colonies had been affected very little by the earlier wars among European countries ; except for the brief clash that had led to the Dutch loss of New Amsterdam the colonies had fought only with ill-armed Indians and had won their little wars without help from England . |
| 5 | The permanently curved backbone of the American buffalo is similar to that of the duckbill species of dinosaur , confirming that they were a browsing animal that had adapted to the changing growth pattern of vegetation . |
| 6 | Constituency parties had to be wound up and re-formed to conform to the new boundaries . |
| 7 | Presumably the synthetic oligonucleotide was taken up by the cells and became bound to the complementary sequence on the viral RNA . |
| 8 | The right of the painter to move around an object and combine various views of it into a single image , first stated in writing by Metzinger in 1910 and elaborated a few months later by Allard , was quickly adopted by most critics as a central feature of the style , and became related to the conceptual or intellectual aspect . |
| 9 | Some of the poems were written down and became known to the outside world before the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | This movement ‘ down ’ from God to man expresses and reveals the character and nature of God himself ; for his being is not separate from his action ; and in the answering movement ‘ up ’ from man to God , we see that human existence itself is grounded upon and made to answer to the divine initiative . |
| 11 | Hebbert joined him and moved left to the obvious beetling crack and groove line he had spotted from below — omitting to pause and wonder why this particular line soared up straight as an arrow , on a route called Curving Crack ! . |
| 12 | Although he never grew much above 5′5″ , Bremner was always in the thick of disputes and played according to the old motto , when the going gets tough , the tough get going . |
| 13 | The pass came , I had plenty of time and shaped to kick to the near touch-line . |
| 14 | He just rolled neatly over on his side and commenced talking to the Big Man . |
| 15 | The bones are first modified and altered to conform to the skeletal dimensions of the body , which is then built up from the inside outwards using organic substitute flesh . |
| 16 | The court heard that her husband had become suspicious early last year and had gone to the National Westminster bank asking them not to release any further cheque books . |
| 17 | It had happened at the rampart by Dr Dunstaple 's house where Cutter had just shot a sepoy the moment before and seen him fall ; at the same instant he had caught sight of another sepoy levelling his musket and had said to the Sikh beside him : " See that man aiming at me , take him down . " |
| 18 | All that was in essence known to HQ 5 Corps was that the greater number of these people were " Cossacks " or " Russians " making up various units who had found themselves in Austria because to a greater or lesser extent they had been associated with the Germans , and had surrendered to the British in the hope that they might thus avoid falling into the hands of the Communists . |
| 19 | She had seen pictures in books and on television of gaudily painted narrow boats and had warmed to the romantic life they portrayed . |
| 20 | These benefits had been a source of rising discontent and had contributed to the electoral success of the Republicans [ see above ] . |
| 21 | I had seen the island where time begins , and had come to the sorry realization that the Pacific , the vastest of all oceans , is a far more complicated entity — if indeed it could ever be regarded as such — than it was possible to imagine . |
| 22 | Mr McLevy said that the company had moved its position over the lay-offs and had agreed to the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service 's being called in if negotiations could not be satisfactorily concluded . |
| 23 | Fred Hoyle , in 1961 , also suggested that the protosun had originally contracted by shedding more of its outer web , but managed to spread to the outermost periphery of the Sun , carrying with it the Sun 's angular momentum . |
| 24 | Gervais Sindakira was injured but managed to run to the main seminary buildings and was sheltered between two priests in the pupils ' refectory . |