Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking down the basement steps which led to a paved area from which a door led straight into that kitchen which had secretly housed Bill Egan , he thought he could see that the door was ajar . |
| 2 | Thus the Sino-Indian border disputes which led to a localized war in 1962 brought some joint Anglo-American action to try to deter China from further military action , and especially from air attacks on Indian cities . |
| 3 | Apart from the agitation over conditions and pay in the mid-1960s which led to a new contract and the " renaissance of general practice " the profession was virtually untouched by governments of either party , although the escalating demands on the hospital service which successive governments tried to grapple with were largely GP-induced . |
| 4 | He made two calls to contacts who sold to a private collector in New York . |
| 5 | After three years he moved to a supervisory grade , and in 1960 to barley drying in the ‘ new maltings ’ , known as No. 1 Maltings . |
| 6 | After scooping the majority of prizes at the event the 24-man-troupe found themselves being booked for other carnivals which led to a whole summer 's bookings in 1990 . |
| 7 | At one stage writers who subscribed to a cost-push position were in danger of having their economists ' union cards taken away from them . |
| 8 | These natural gifts she submitted to a vigorous discipline . |
| 9 | After council meetings they adjourned to a local pub for a refreshing drink paid for out of their own pockets . |
| 10 | Edinburgh was totally different from London ; a royal burgh , it was built according to some sort of plan : long narrow streets with timbered and stone houses on either side , some joined together , others separated by narrow runnels or alleyways which led to a small garden or croft behind each tenement . |
| 11 | Three people were reported killed during a shoot-out in Lomé on Nov. 27 between police and demonstrators who responded to a general strike call launched on Nov. 16 by the Collectif des syndicats indépendants and the Collective of the Democratic Opposition-2 ( COD-2 ) [ for May general strike see p. 38901 ] . |
| 12 | The expansion of American medical research , much of the finest quality , attracted European doctors who aspired to a scientific career , and they did well to spend a year or two in an American laboratory , or even to emigrate there altogether . |
| 13 | Trouble from racists who objected to a white woman going out with a black man . |
| 14 | VOLUNTEERS who sang to a sick dolphin for 36 hours to calm it returned the mammal to the sea at Gwithian , Cornwall , yesterday . |
| 15 | There was a Lot of chanting , and after , wards we went to a posh hotel and I got a free hat . |
| 16 | Relations between Becker and the rest of the German team would appear to have deteriorated after the incident in Melbourne when , within minutes of learning that Stich and Udo Riglewski had been nominated to represent Germany in the doubles , in Barcelona , he set in motion a chain of events which led to a quick re-think . |
| 17 | Later the trade unions Turk-Is and the Genel Maden-Is challenged the version of events which referred to a sudden surge in the level of methane gas and said that human negligence was probably responsible . |