Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 2 | However , the Council of Guardians re-submitted it to the Majlis on Jan. 24 , calling for revisions to be made to it . |
| 3 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |
| 4 | Even if a band that I liked did this , I 'm sure that it would not make me gay ( And even if the power of rock introduced you to the delights of homosexuality , who cares , eh ? |
| 5 | Some hours later — no one counted , but it was a long time — eight soaking , snow-covered individuals just — but only just — on the right side of hypothermia made it to the main Teesdale road , which snow ploughs had kept open . |
| 6 | Cross and Bevan 's interest in the chemistry of cellulose led them to the study of the viscose solutions produced by treating cellulose with a strong solution of caustic soda and then carbon disulphide vapour . |
| 7 | A quick left turn in the direction of America took us to the Longships lighthouse , followed by a turn back towards England and St Just airfield . |
| 8 | Dimly making out figures , he leant forward on his mount , and a volley of fire tore him to the ground . |
| 9 | Contact with Warhol introduced him to the Velvet Underground . |
| 10 | Sotheby 's , determined to protect Irises ’ ‘ most expensive ’ tag , repossessed it , and in March sold it to the Getty museum , probably for $40 to $45 million . |
| 11 | A contemporary writer from Lika compared it to the Mongol invasions and the depredations of the Goths and Attila the Hun . |
| 12 | This hatred and distrust was fuelled when Arthur Kitson of Kitson Empire Lighting Company in Stamford introduced him to the famous anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion , which claimed that the Jews were about to take over the world ( an example of modern mythologising for political purposes ) . |
| 13 | ‘ The William S. Paley Collection ’ ( 28 February-16 May ) consists of eighty-four mainly intimate-scaled early modern works acquired by the late founder of CBS , and bequeathed to a foundation that in turn conveyed them to the Museum of Modern Art in New York , where Paley was chairman emeritus at the time of his death in 1990 . |
| 14 | They held on to this fortress until 1264 , when it passed to the Habsburgs , who in turn lost it to the canton of Zurich in 1452 . |
| 15 | A man in uniform directed them to the hall booked by Templeton 's . |
| 16 | The two prisoners , in their yellow raincoats , tried to get to the door , but the men in white knocked them to the floor and handcuffed their hands behind their backs . |
| 17 | What happened next in Hollywood shocked it to the core and brought Nicholson and Hopper to the heart of one of the great tragedies of this drug-infested era … |
| 18 | This divine artificer was , in effect , the principle of reason , which by imposing order on chaos reduced it to the rule of law . |
| 19 | One moment of astonishing creativity in the dying seconds on Saturday transported him to the centre of Arsenal 's universe . |
| 20 | Some of his own priests at Canterbury denounced him to the King for heresy . |