Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Networks operating on this principle perform an operation that is likely to be extremely important for the neocortex , and it was actually the search for a mechanism that would do this that led us to the suggested modification rule : the modifiable interconnections tend to make the representative elements become uncorrelated , and thus to signal independently of each other . |
| 2 | A useful outcome is the third ingredient , for what would be the point of skills that led you to a useless outcome ? |
| 3 | the most important time aspect of a planation surface is from the latest possible time of initiation of the cycle that produced it to the earliest possible time that it ceased being shaped ( i.e. its terminal date ) because of either burial or uplift ; |
| 4 | Heat flared along her veins , ripple after ripple of heady sensation that shook her to the very depths . |
| 5 | Surely this love-struck lothario was not The Doc that bullied them to a successful FA Cup Final . |
| 6 | That is a talent that followed him to the Foreign Office and to the Department of Health , where he helped Ken Clarke take on hospital doctors attacking their tales of long hours as ‘ fishermen 's stories ’ . |
| 7 | about the other on be the pony , that took him to the wrong house . |
| 8 | She thanked the driver , lifted the latch of the low iron gate and took four steps that brought her to the front door . |
| 9 | I refer , of course , to unsupported mothers , women who have neither shirked their obligation to have children , nor left them to seek jobs , nor abandoned them to the tender mercies of the social services — , |
| 10 | Salt shook her shoulder and when that made no difference , dragged her to her feet and propelled her to the small book-lined room known as the study . |
| 11 | When the boy gave no answer , the old man took him by the arm and propelled him to the far end of the room , down the narrow stairway , through the tiny door and back to the safety of his own bedroom . |
| 12 | Allen took her by the arm and led her to the nearest stone shelter . |
| 13 | He took her hand and led her to the open-air dance-floor just as the band slipped into the first of their slow numbers . |
| 14 | At the top of the staircase various Chamberlains , dressed in gold embroidered jackets , welcomed the guests and led them to the Grand Master of Ceremonies . |
| 15 | Someone grabbed his arm , and led him to a waiting horse on which he galloped away leaving behind his winnings . |
| 16 | And her white Reeboks screeched at the marble as she turned and led me to the waiting forms . |
| 17 | He suddenly swung her into his arms , his tortured breathing the only sound in the darkened barn , and instead of carrying her down the stairs he turned and lowered her to the soft hay that was spread thickly on the floor behind them . |
| 18 | It was sent by the museum to Skinner 's where it slipped through and was bought by a dealer who also failed to recognise its quality and sold it to a young couple for $550 . |
| 19 | They seem to have bullied him and made him er , make concessions , and the question that Freud and Bullett constantly ask is , why did Wilson make these concessions , especially since his position was already defined before he came to Europe , you know he already laid down the fourteen points , and sold it to the American people . |
| 20 | Troopers lifted the throne from its staging and passed it to the waiting hands below . |
| 21 | During pre-trial interrogation Talb told Swedish police that between October and December 1988 he had retrieved a bomb from one of the PFLP-GC 's West German safe houses and passed it to an unnamed person , causing speculation that it could have been identical to the Lockerbie device . |
| 22 | Here , he introduced into New Testament criticism the idea of ‘ myth ’ , and applied it to the supernatural elements in the gospels . |
| 23 | President Arpad Göncz , himself imprisoned for six years for joining the 1956 uprising , had refused to sign the bill and referred it to the Constitutional Court , whose unanimous ruling described the law as " vague , ambiguous and unreliable " . |
| 24 | Mitchell 's pass found Wright , who slipped but regained possession of the ball and squared it to the far post , where McGinlay was lying in wait to beat Nelson from inside the six-yard box . |
| 25 | They insisted that Derek enter their car and drove him to a quiet layby a short distance away . |
| 26 | R … stole a cow and drove it to a distant market for sale . |
| 27 | Indeed , to do so would mean the reversal of a process that has , since the sixteenth century , relentlessly parted the commoner from his freehold and common rights , and reduced him to a landless labourer . |
| 28 | Big-punching Wharton is also free of the agony in his right hand that plagued him for months and reduced him to a one-armed fighter when he was held to a draw by Londoner Lou Gent in November . |
| 29 | First , ‘ payment by results ’ demeaned education and reduced it to a mere cramming exercise in which all that is expected of pupils is a capacity for recall . |
| 30 | He folded his arms across his chest , and subjected her to a heavy-lidded , far from flattering appraisal . |