Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Idly I turned to a 1975 profile of Dr Arabella Melville . |
| 2 | So I dashed to a central London hotel and sat with both Scotty and his longtime friend , drummer DJ Fontana . |
| 3 | There was something faintly sinister about these speechless nuns ; but perhaps they belonged to a silent order . |
| 4 | And so they came to a negotiated settlement by which the Soviets agreed to withdraw the missiles and the United States promised that they would not interfere with Castro again , although from that day to this they have maintained of course their economic embargo . |
| 5 | And so they came to a negotiated settlement by which the Soviets agreed to withdraw the missiles and the United States promised that they would not interfere with Castro again , although from that day to this they have maintained of course their economic embargo . |
| 6 | I think that he , who could have had as many friends as he wished , never realized how much it meant to a lonely and friendless person to have a friend , to be seen walking with him in the rose-red streets of Salamanca , to be able to go to a concert or an art museum with him , to have him opposite me at dinner in even the meanest , cheapest restaurant . |
| 7 | In doing so he conceded to a key opposition demand and thereby appeared to have ended an opposition boycott of the legislature which had been called to protest against the government 's decision in early 1992 to postpone local elections . |
| 8 | Open pastureland succeeded the neglected wood as I walked on , and soon I came to a rough circle of boulders on a mound — Lisheen , the little fort , home of fairies . |
| 9 | Soon I came to a strange place where the river divided , one part of it compressed as a hurling white torrent between steep artificial banks , the other part let into a tranquil canal that entered Galway from the countryside . |
| 10 | It was difficult to believe that she was only a few years younger than his mother ; both mentally and physically she belonged to a different generation . |
| 11 | Finally we came to a high plastic wall . |
| 12 | Soon they came to a stout fence of raw , new , wooden palisades with a door in it that said ‘ Private ’ above a grim-toothed lock . |
| 13 | Soon it thickened to a great blanket , wrapping itself round the windows so that every candle in the place had to be lit . |
| 14 | Soon he came to a bright restaurant on Broadway . |
| 15 | Eventually she wrote to a social worker and , under the new Children 's Act , is seeking to divorce her parents . |
| 16 | Wendy Vaughan began cooking professionally six years ago at the Old Rectory in Llansanfraid , North Wales — the family home she converted to a small hotel with her husband Michael when he sold his motor parts company . |
| 17 | ‘ Eventually we came to a mutual understanding whereby I would fill out five forms to cover each £50 cheque and I actually ended up signing 25 forms and five cheques to obtain my fuel . |
| 18 | Later she moved to a proper — and vast — gallery on West Broadway . |
| 19 | His voice had roughened , growing harsher with every word , but now it dropped to a flat monotone . |
| 20 | Today we went to a fair in the morning and Loz from Kingmaker won a goldfish in a plastic bag and Bobby Gillespie got thrown off the bumper cars for saying he was Marc Bolan in a Mini and Polly Harvey was a tree . |
| 21 | Presently they came to a great waterfall . |
| 22 | A couple of weeks ago he spoke to a seething crowd in Harare township , which included hundreds of his young African militants . |
| 23 | Well then I went to a private school on Road , two maiden ladies kept that , and we were taught to er walk properly , sit properly , dance , music , learnt the piano there , and embroider , and erm chiefly the educational side of schooling was almost non-existent . |
| 24 | Then I moved to a different teacher to get some more , you know , experience . |
| 25 | And then she came to a small rise in the land and there was a man , his head under his arm . |
| 26 | Then we listened to a nice concert on the radio , did n't we ? ’ |
| 27 | And then we went to a few Western shops to get our costumes for the Urban Cowboy premier . |
| 28 | And the first was a twelve volt but then we came to a hundred and ten so I just strung it down along the two top wires of the fence and they were live and oh there were about six or nine hen houses attached to the fence with those wires for electricity . |
| 29 | Then we came to a smashed yellow stone façade and a doorway that led down into a cellar . |
| 30 | Okay , so they got the base line measurement , thirty five percent people use them , then they went to a variable ratio er token economy system . |