Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That afternoon I moved to a quiet little hotel on Fifth Avenue . |
| 2 | Emily guided Mungo through a gate at the side which led to a long , overgrown garden with a large , unsteady-looking wooden shed at the bottom . |
| 3 | Beauty was a draught horse who belonged to a suburban dairy . |
| 4 | And perhaps the best-known of them all ; the apparently harmless street musician who came to a little township called Hamelin , and agreed to rid the town of rats by means of his music … |
| 5 | The English embassy in France has a mansion in the Rue des Medeans , but in early spring they moved to a small castle outside Paris , the Chateau de Maubisson . |
| 6 | For all his thinking he came to a sole conclusion . |
| 7 | In the last interview he gave to a French journalist before the war began , Ho , in envisaging the way in which ‘ at all costs war must be averted ’ , seemed to accept independence within the French Union ; although unless this was based on a total misunderstanding of the nature of the French Union , which also seems unlikely , this was probably more of a smoke-screen than a smoke-signal . |
| 8 | In the early years of the euro-dollar market 's growth , the USA incurred an increasing external deficit which led to a considerable accumulation of dollar claims ( deposits ) by non-US residents . |
| 9 | When I was a boy I belonged to a small Christian sect that was my whole world . |
| 10 | Mesic , who reiterated on Sept. 12 his intention to resign after the expiry on Oct. 7 of the EC moratorium , accused the army of staging what amounted to a military coup by ignoring his orders , saying that he would ask for foreign intervention and bring charges against army commanders unless the JNA halted its attacks on Croatian towns and withdrew . |
| 11 | When she walked into the kitchen she came to a shocked halt . |
| 12 | The Pier Head incident proved to be the turning point which led to a new period of industrial peace within the giant Vehicle Division , unfortunately too late to avoid the massive investment switch to the Continent which was already under way with the newly approved corporate plan . |
| 13 | In reaction it turned to a whole gamut of strategies advocated by advisory committees and penal reform groups in an attempt to counter and check the rising tide of custodial sentences . |
| 14 | The following evening he went to a different wine bar and bought drinks for two different young women . |
| 15 | Of course we went to a little market and naturally we bought a couple of plaited strings of garlic which will go mouldy before we 've finished them . |
| 16 | He found a fossilised head which belonged to a 10 feet long scorpion . |
| 17 | In 1892 , with the appointment of McFadyean as dean ( he became Principal in 1894 ) there began , on the foundations laid by his predecessors , a second century showing a remarkable transformation which led to a marked expansion of the numbers of teaching staff , to a greater development of the staff 's research activities , and to the full incorporation of the College into the country 's university system . |
| 18 | Leonora emerged from the house into a bright spring day which belonged to a different world from the gales and rain of before . |
| 19 | She began to walk through the wood , and after a while she came to a little house . |
| 20 | Once in a while she went to a social club for air pilots who 'd been in hospital . |
| 21 | On the fourteenth day we moved to a different section of the training building . |
| 22 | Last night they went to a back-street sauna , chatted politely , stripped , had sex with complete stranger , got dressed , went home , and did n't even trade phone numbers . |
| 23 | Before the wooden boat sank , however , her crew were taken off and treated with the utmost courtesy by Kapitän Leutnant F.K. Paul , who accepted the ML 's surrender : a tribute he paid to a gallant foe , and evidence if this is needed that chivalry is the prerogative of individuals , not nations . |
| 24 | First , in his evidence he referred to a better solution as being quotes , seeks a small residential setting with some other people , unquote and went on to refer to the possibility of the plaintiff entering one of the Cheshire Homes . |
| 25 | The special niche Bankers Books has established was enhanced by the publication of its catalogue which led to a significant increase in sales late in the year and a year end profit of £79,000 . |
| 26 | This is not to say that the emergence of more popularly-orientated styles of activity expressed a displacement of sectarian religious feeling but antislavery none the less did become an important channel for religious feeling which looked to a broader moral enhancement of English society and in turn that had to involve the full-hearted commitment of a myriad of individuals and groups . |
| 27 | When I moved in to my flat she had to a certain extent taken me over , and treated me like an erring and somewhat unintelligent son who obviously needed the care and attention of a responsible adult . |
| 28 | A WOMAN who went to a Turkish base camp is to talk of her experiences to a Darlington audience next week . |
| 29 | ‘ Part-way along the gorge we came to a smooth cavity that had been ground into the rock by swift flowing water . |
| 30 | I need not refer to his history in any more detail up to June 1990 , but in that month he went to a residential school where his mother continued to visit him and in October 1990 he absconded from that school . |