Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even that great opponent of the industrial system of the nineteenth century Thomas Carlyle ( 1795–1881 ) failed to relate his criticisms to the Christian doctrine that he had abandoned as a young man . |
| 2 | IN his last letter to Ashcroft Noble , Edward tried to express his thanks to the dying man for the new direction he had given to his life : |
| 3 | In the third and fourth he promised to submit his books to the Pope and to the next General Council . |
| 4 | Claudia sank down on to her bed and tried to shut her ears to the sound of him in the next room . |
| 5 | Avoiding their curious glances , she walked round to the hardware section and tried to shut her ears to the whispered conversations that suddenly broke out as soon as she was out of sight . |
| 6 | Rincewind tried to shut his ears to the grating voice beside him . |
| 7 | Beryl 's ordeal began when she phoned the police , who promised to fax her details to the motoring organisation . |
| 8 | Fear sliced through her and she tried to close her ears to the sound , but as if to mock her it was joined by another and another until the air was filled with a shaking roar . |
| 9 | It was after I thought about that that I began moving my things to the cave . |
| 10 | Willi plunged his hand back into the blooms and began to retrace his steps to the station car park . |
| 11 | Geoffrey supported his wife 's cause with vigour , but with two sets of lands to administer , Geoffrey attended to the French territories while Matilda went to uphold her claims to the queenship of England . |
| 12 | Sometimes she even managed to shut her ears to the arguments going on around her . |
| 13 | If the verderers ( or their heirs , if the verderers had died in the mean time ) failed to present their rolls to the judges on the first day of the Forest Eyre , or if their rolls were deficient in any material particular , they were liable to amercement . |
| 14 | A presidential decree , reported in full in Rossiskaya gazeta of June 18 , allowed state enterprises which failed to pay their debts to the state and to private creditors within three months to be declared bankrupt and either liquidated or auctioned off to the highest bidder for a limited period of time for independent management ( the new managers to be treated as owners , but debarred from dismissing more than 30 per cent of the work force ) . |
| 15 | Kersey liked to discharge his obligations to the hierarchy early in the day ; after that he felt free to speak his mind man-to-man . |
| 16 | In the face of mounting political tensions , it was reported on April 9 that President Mobutu Sese Seko had withdrawn his objections to the holding of a national conference . |
| 17 | What is certain is that the Egyptian goldsmiths had developed their skills to the point at which they were able to mount amethyst , lapis lazuli and turquoise in the gold bracelets buried with King Zer of the first dynasty in his tomb at Abydos . |
| 18 | After Becky had bade her farewells to the rest of the party , Guy drove her back to Chelsea and having said , ‘ Goodnight , Miss Salmon , ’ shook her by the hand . |
| 19 | Discussing the case of a headmaster who had reported his pupils to the police for criminal behaviour , the Philosopher , who was female , expressed the opinion that , since the headmaster is in loco parentis , he should have tried to avoid resort to law ; he should have dealt with his pupils himself , privately and without publicity — as would , she suggested , a loving parent . |
| 20 | He had been looking down into her face , lit by the candle he carried , but some sound had turned his eyes to the back of the hall . |
| 21 | The irony was that , by dismissing as irrelevant all talk of the Tyrrell Society , he had closed his eyes to the vital clue Rex Cunningham could have given him : the identity of the man whose photograph Clare Mallender had carried about with her . |
| 22 | Today — the Saturday of the Whitsun weekend — the shop had opened its doors to the public for the first time ; and they had got off to an encouraging start . |
| 23 | Even if it 's even if people had sold their houses to the local council . |
| 24 | He also says that the committee had raised their concerns to the council about recruitment practice as far back as the late 1970s . |
| 25 | Soon the bodies began to pile up here , too , and yet again the Collector and his men had to put their shoulders to the carnal barricade to prevent it from being ejected into the hall ; and yet again , as if in a dream , the Collector found his face an inch from that of an amused sepoy and thought : " It surely ca n't be the same man ! " for from this corpse 's moustache there was also a scent of patchouli . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the king had to send his justices to the clergy 's deliberations and threatened to take the names of opposers , and it took all Winchelsey 's good will and best arts to elicit from them a grant of one tenth for the current year and another , should it be necessary , in the following year . |
| 27 | After the audience had accustomed their eyes to the flash , they beheld a subtle and beautiful sight . |
| 28 | The Building News and The Architects ' Journal and ‘ gentlemen who had devoted their lives to the study of architecture ’ favoured Scott 's design . |
| 29 | At the cry of ‘ stewards ’ , forty leathery men of uncertain age , who , as agents , had devoted their lives to the Party , frogmarched the YCs out of the hall to loud applause . |
| 30 | Sweden and Norway had linked their currencies to the ECU in May 1991 and October 1990 respectively [ see pp. 38202 ; 37782 ] . |