Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His swift rise to international acclaim was nevertheless tragically cut short when at only 42 he died of a heart attack just when ‘ poised to take his place alongside Barere , Friedman and Horowitz as the natural successors to Hofmann , Rachmaninov , Rosenthal , Godowsky and Lhevinne , all of whom had contributed to the last golden age of pianism ’ as Bryan Crimp , the dedicated compiler of this anthology of Levitzki 's total surviving electrical recordings for HMV , puts it in the accompany booklet . |
| 2 | During the early 1880s , however , five émigré revolutionaries , three of whom had belonged to the stillborn populist organization ‘ Black Repartition ’ , founded the ‘ Emancipation of Labour ’ group , dedicated to spreading Marxism in Russia . |
| 3 | After their release they said that they had been " kidnapped " by the authorities after two of them had written to the King warning of a plot by Col. Ahmed Dlimi , then one of his key advisers . |
| 4 | And then one of them had rushed to the truck and talked into a machine on a string . |
| 5 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 6 | As they ran , mentally counting down the seconds , both Benny and Ace 's thoughts were of what had happened to the Doctor . |
| 7 | In addition to the memory of what had happened to the established Church during the 1640s and 1650s , the repeated reports of Nonconformist plots ( both alleged and real ) against the government in Church and State from the 1660s onwards encouraged a belief in the need for constant vigilance against a subversive Nonconformist threat . |
| 8 | One night three of us decided to go to the cinema . |
| 9 | For on that Saturday Mr Pozsgay organised a radio interview to tell the world that a party committee working under him had come to the conclusion that 1956 had been a popular uprising , thus ensuring that the terms of reference in Hungarian politics would never be the same again . |
| 10 | But while Francis and Mary fussed about the situation in Edinburgh , setting up an enquiry into what had happened to the burgh council , in February 1560 the Protestant lords did something ideologically much less courageous than their deposition of the regent , but in practical terms infinitely more crucial : they made the Treaty of Berwick with England , and were assured of English help . |
| 11 | She was keen to learn , and his trust in her had grown to the point where they alternated the night watches so both had the opportunity for more rest . |
| 12 | Some parasites of insect eggs , for instance , can stop a small population of pests from increasing , so application of a pesticide has to he timed according to the number of the larvae of the pests rather than the number of their eggs . |
| 13 | It was then that I decided to learn more about what had happened to the ‘ Children of the Mist ’ by the shores of Loch Tummel , and during my research an amazing possibility dawned . |
| 14 | So they sat wrapped in their own morbid silences , each harbouring his own private fear about what had happened to the village and how it could happen to them . |
| 15 | John Kelsey-Fry , counsel for Marsh , said his client was the first of the two men to volunteer to be interviewed about what had happened to the missing money . |
| 16 | Agnes smiled at the old warrior , and then at Husband : by now , her anger at him had distilled to the warming spirit of pure hatred . |
| 17 | It openly evoked the example of the Soviet dissidents , and voiced the despair of liberals of varying shades at what had happened to the fabric of British society since 1979 . |
| 18 | Other houses , real houses , in the neighbourhood were being touched by what had happened to the Pitt family in No. 22 , Church Row . |