Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Lucy had moved to an easy chair and sat , chin cupped by an exquisite palm . |
| 2 | It was as close as Jane dared go to a direct suggestion of murder , though she could not resist one more enticement . |
| 3 | In April he and Constanze had moved to a smaller , less fashionable apartment on the Landstrasse , and Constanze was once again pregnant . |
| 4 | Ireland had crashed to a 145-90 defeat at the hands of the English losing out on all six rinks , and looked to have little chance when they took on the Scots , who had beaten defending champions Wales 130-100 in their opener . |
| 5 | On 12 June 1990 , the morning after Scotland had lost to an unfancied Costa Rica side in their critical opening match in the Italia '90 World Cup , the Daily Record led with an agonising front-page story which wallowed in alliteration and dredged the dire , dismal and deplorable depths of defeat . |
| 6 | Once , when they had gone on a nature walk , Eve had pointed to a small cottage and said that it was her house . |
| 7 | But in 1795 and 1796 , after seeking the answers to his problems from Godwin 's book and finding none , Wordsworth had come to a full stop : he had become ‘ Sick , wearied out with contrarieties ’ ( Prelude 1805 , x , 900–1 ) and finally ‘ yielded up moral questions in despair ’ . |
| 8 | The outbreak of war in January had led to a sharp reduction in oil supplies from Iraq . |
| 9 | The report further claimed that the deteriorating security situation in Sind had led to a large flow of capital and industry out of Karachi , Pakistan 's largest city and a major port , during January and February . |
| 10 | By 1960 Sartre had progressed to a radical " post-communist " phase in his thinking , a phase which coincided exactly with Nizan 's " pre-communist " phase in Aden . |
| 11 | On August 28 , 1990 , he and Miss Jeannette had driven to a secluded spot where they had begun to make love but Nichol was unable . |
| 12 | Foinavon had reduced to a canter and he jumped the fence off his hocks like a show jumper . |
| 13 | On the issue of financial compensation for countries unable to sustain the economic costs of applying sanctions , it was reported on Aug. 22 that Jordan faced direct costs of $1,500 million and indirect costs of $500 million in 1990 , and that the UN had agreed to a special compensation package ( thought to amount to some $240 million ) . |
| 14 | Darren started going to a special school , but in ‘ 84 my drinking did start getting out of hand and I was pushing Darren from pillar to post . |
| 15 | Souness added that he accepted Liverpool had lost to a better team , but still wondered how the Russians would have reacted had the Reds accepted one of their early half chances . |
| 16 | Harry had adjourned to a small low-ceilinged pub in Broad Street to pass the interval , installed himself by the window , supped beer and watched the customers come and go : down-at-heel old soaks somewhat beyond his own position on the scale of decline ; and garrulous little knots of students with faces as downily naïve as their opinions were falsely wise . |
| 17 | Whilst at the Slade the Moynihans had belonged to a high-spirited group which included Nicolette Macnamara and who describes Hinor in Two Flamboyant Fathers as a ‘ vivid , witty personality ’ , with red cheeks , black hair and ‘ a Mona Lisa smile ’ in which an ‘ uplift of humour ’ replaced mystery . |
| 18 | But in the final analysis , things had not changed since Wellington had pointed to a British infantryman before Waterloo with the words ‘ It all depends on that article ’ . |
| 19 | ( Similar moves in Lithuania in March had led to a Soviet military clampdown against draft dodgers — see pp. 37360-61. ) relationship " with Soviet Union |
| 20 | Her voice trailed away as she saw that Laura had come to an abrupt halt beside her . |
| 21 | Ashley had swung to a middle-aged woman beside her to demand if she knew when the camera shot changed . |
| 22 | Authority in South Ossetia had passed to a joint control commission and the united military command , with local leaders represented by the Chair of the Council of Ministers , Oleg Teziyev , and Supreme Soviet Chair Torez Kulumbegov . |
| 23 | And just because Miguel O'Brien had switched to a new , ludicrously expensive , lightweight saddle , why did all Drew 's ponies need one too ? |
| 24 | In Russia , on the other hand , commanders such as Rumyantsev and Suvorov had developed to a high pitch of effectiveness by the end of this period the more aggressive method of attack in column with the bayonet ( though the contrast between Russian and West European tactics has been greatly exaggerated by some Soviet historians ) . |
| 25 | He seems to have been told that , though Turkey remained opposed to an independent state in northern Iraq , it supported some restoration of Kurdish rights . |
| 26 | It seemed that nobody at RD wanted to talk to a lucky winner . |
| 27 | Peattie and some others were converted to the view that they should build more 120MW sets in 1952 , but Shakeshaft and Pask remained attached to a conservative mix of 30MW and 60MW units , with only a cautious experimentation with larger sets . |
| 28 | It also meant that Leo had gone to an awful lot of trouble on her behalf . |
| 29 | By writing his tracts in German , Luther had appealed to an unlearned audience as well as to sympathetic scholars . |