Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |
| 2 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 3 | Two quick steps took her to the vacated table where she seized the bottle of aquavit , neatly topping up both glasses . |
| 4 | Even following the assassination in February of the leading Nazi functionary in Switzerland , Wilhelm Gustloff , by a young Jew , the proximity of the Winter Olympics and foreign policy considerations confined him to a single and , in his terms , relatively ‘ moderate ’ , speech at the funeral , attacking Jewry in generalized terms as the stimulus behind practically every political ‘ martyr ’ of the Right since the Revolution of 1918 . |
| 5 | His dazzling skills lifted them to a four-goal victory as he scored one and set up two of his striking partner Kevin Campbell 's three goals . |
| 6 | Occasional cairns led us to a challenging rocky descent into another forest , full of rhododendron blossom , pine scents and birdsong . |
| 7 | Despairing of ever finding any use for her , her parents sold her to the military , a callous practice common in the commercially minded years of the mid-twenty-fourth century . |
| 8 | An unexpected gap in the mountains beckoned us to a silent lake fed by waterfalls and surrounded by woods with banks of moss , lichens and fungi alive with lemmings scurrying among holes and tree roots . |
| 9 | A Cornish miner later recalled of his late-eighteenth-century childhood : When I was eight years old my parents sent me to a raiding school kept by a poor owld man called Stephen Martin . |
| 10 | One day both parents accompanied me to a fund-raising luncheon at the Savoy , an afternoon rehearsal , tea at the house of an old friend in Twickenham by the river , the recording of a TV show in which I appeared in front of a live audience , and supper in a lovely restaurant with the cast . |
| 11 | I felt strange , almost disembodied , but my feet carried me to the green door and I pushed it open . |
| 12 | We had chosen our visit to coincide with the full moon , but it also coincided with a period of maximum solar flare activity , and on every clear night the Lights treated us to a spectacular show in green and red . |
| 13 | Ellen had gone to her one-room apartment in town while Thessy was reading his Bible in the main-cabin , so I heated myself some baked beans in Wavebreaker 's microwave , spread them on buttered toast , soaked them in brown sauce , then ate a morose supper on deck until the bugs drove me to the screened sanctuary of the staterooms below . |
| 14 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 15 | Lucy spent just three days in intensive care before doctors moved her to an ordinary ward at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital . |
| 16 | Blood tests revealed Louise 's haemoglobin level was down and doctors referred her to the local hospital . |
| 17 | So now Maggie was not afraid of the dark , even though the great windows exposed her to the full moon and turned her own skin white and pearly — a reflection of reflected light . |
| 18 | In fact the members took it to a European court and spent a lot of their own money — twenty five thousand pounds — to try and get a discrimination judgement out of the European court , which failed at the last hurdle really , we think on political grounds really . |
| 19 | He took out the pliers settled the pilchard key firmly in their jaws pushed it to a precise distance into the keyhole and turned . |
| 20 | A steep climb through bracken and bilberries brought us to a wide rocky plateau . |
| 21 | Eventually , his wanderings led him to the ornate frontage of a steam-house . |
| 22 | Two half-run strides took her to the only way out : the lift . |
| 23 | A short walk along the coastline past the few prettily painted small hotels brought us to the gorgeous bay lined with palm trees which we shared with the numerous shy crabs which intermittently popped out of the holes in the white sand . |