Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike Simon , however , ( who withdrew to France ) Peter accepted the king 's recovery of power in 1261 , and next year served the king and Edward as custodian of Abergavenny , which he tried in vain to protect from the attacks of Llywelyn ab Gruffydd [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | Then Modigliani 's old friend , Blaise Cendrars , came to Nice to work on a film script and was shocked to see Modigliani looking so ill . |
| 3 | She dressed in clean jeans and a shirt , and drove to Villereal to shop for the following day . |
| 4 | NATO strategists talked of the need for a ‘ flexible response ’ and of the possibility of a ‘ limited ’ nuclear war ; translated into the ordinary language of British voters , this seemed to many to amount to a willingness to contemplate nuclear war restricted to European soil . |
| 5 | On 19 February 1804 Brigadier Engineer Reynaldo Oudinot , a Frenchman who had taken Portuguese nationality , arrived in Funchal to look into the problems of flooding in the city . |
| 6 | Citizen involvement began in 1972 to coincide with the approval of a large urban renewal project . |
| 7 | ‘ We could find no evidence that these risks had been explicitly recognised by the department when they decided in 1988 to proceed with the system . |
| 8 | Mala looked about ready to climb up the side of the ship towards him , if she had to , so that I felt necessary to grasp her by her arm . |
| 9 | Amarabout , a Zaidani , turned up and toured the streets in his Mercedes ; Sulaiman Musbah and his brother and some other Zuwaya went to Benghazi to protest about the irresponsible withdrawal of the police . |
| 10 | Following six years as a broadcaster with the major networks , he left in 1988 to work with the communities in one of the most disadvantaged areas of Buenos Aires — ‘ Villa Miseria ’ . |
| 11 | Dupea did not want to be tied down by anything or anyone — which seemed Nicholson 's own philosophy — and he wanted above all to keep on the move . |
| 12 | When the West Country clothiers ' advocate William Temple wanted in 1739 to point to the advantages of the weavers , he stressed that it was their family earnings which lifted them above the condition of the farm worker . |
| 13 | He was educated at the Liceo Dante and the Instituto Technico , Florence , and studied portrait painting in Paris , which he abandoned in 1888 to travel round the world . |
| 14 | When a frottola is through-composed under textual pressure , and aerated and enlivened by polyphonic passages , it is indistinguishable in musical style from the earlier madrigal , particularly as the madrigal tended at first to cling to the note against-note style with a melodically more important highest part . |