Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [noun pl] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sensibly , but with some sensitivity , her boss made the same points to Muriel as he had made in his reference , asking her at the same time if these conflicts had ever arisen out of the office with family friends or neighbours . |
| 2 | Thus laden , I rode the 20 miles to Picton and caught the ferry ; stayed overnight in Wellington and then took the train to Auckland — no problems in putting the bike aboard ; and this journey lived up to expectations and surpassed them ; the scenery through the ‘ King Country ’ in autumn is quite unrivalled , and again looks like a superb area for a cycle tour . |
| 3 | King , therefore , sold the Southern shares to D C Thomson of Dundee — about as far removed from a ‘ regional ’ interest as could be imagined . |
| 4 | Not to psychoanalyse her in any way , but we all became the Big Sisters to Debbi . |
| 5 | Hans Waldman , another great Zurich burgomaster , led the Swiss forces to victory at Morat during the Burgundian war in 1476 , defeating the formerly all-conquering Charles the Bold . |
| 6 | Their campaign reflected the uncertainties and weakness that led the Financial Times to back Labour . |
| 7 | In the case of Peru , initially the departments that contributed the most migrants to Lima were Ancash , Junín , Ica , La Libertad and Arequipa . |
| 8 | Peacock-Edwards and myself , all on tiptoe , moved the three Hurricanes to safety . |
| 9 | As I changed the mandatory dollars to cordobas before going through passport control , I could hear a pop song with a distinct Wham ! -like tune blasting through the airport — ‘ Esta Daniel — Daniel Ortega , Daniel , Daniel … ’ |
| 10 | Old friends of her father had sometimes stayed there , and invited the two girls to dinner . |
| 11 | In Section One we surveyed the major approaches to discourse analysis . |
| 12 | At three o'clock he drove the four miles to Rose Brady 's house . |
| 13 | This is because he broke his watch in the process and handed the busted bits to photographer Pennie Smith . |
| 14 | Then he turned the few feet to Creggan 's cage and stared up to where Creggan had taken stance on the bare branch of wood that hung across his cage . |
| 15 | The delightful chapel had no other callers ; the afternoon light turned the stained-glass windows to kaleidoscopes , and outside , the westering sun gilded the tiles and eyebrows of the roofs and high old buildings . |
| 16 | She had a friend who kept them caseless in huge straw baskets and crunched the loose cases to bits , muttering ‘ Oh , shit ’ as he wandered through to a five-by-eight foot kitchen where nine wires ran from the central lightbulb . |
| 17 | Fascinated to find that the floor , ceiling , and walls all sloped at crazy angles , Luce climbed the rickety stairs to Signor Candiano 's office . |
| 18 | He had once , fearfully , climbed the three steps to Mrs Curdle 's caravan and had gazed , fascinated , at the glory within , the half-door had been shut , but by standing on tiptoe he had seen the shelves , the tiny drawers , the cupboards , the gleaming brass and copper and the rows of vividly painted plates as breathtakingly lovely to the child as the bright birds which he had seen the week before at the Zoo , sitting motionless upon their perches , in a splendour of tropical plumage . |
| 19 | I had most of the morning to myself and made a few calls to clients , to a financial journalist whose opinion I valued and finally to Andrew Buccleuth . |
| 20 | Two of them , disguised as Spanish workers , walked the seventeen kilometres to Parma where they caught a train to Milan , and were arrested on the way . |
| 21 | American Airlines , which began the daily flights to Chicago less than a year ago , and an airport spokesman accused the Government of being partly to blame for the decision . |
| 22 | So despite a good campaign by the Moderate Party and some dissatisfaction with the Social Democrats , the emotional factor still returned the Social Democrats to power . |
| 23 | Once they found their bearings some of them even discovered a few side-benefits to internment : |
| 24 | Both Ginna Niland and Siobhan Nicholson lost the crucial singles to Anna Snashnova and Yael Segal respectively . |
| 25 | Teesside led after the foursomes 31/2 , 21/2 and the match was squared when Ian Liddle lost the top singles to Bradford 's match play champion Mark Cook . |
| 26 | The Sandinistas lost the 1990 elections to UNO , a loose coalition of opposition groups of both right and left . |
| 27 | The man now charged with being the supremo of rebuilding , Peter Ueberroth , is the unattractive entrepreneur who delivered the Olympic Games to commerce in Los Angeles in 1984 and who introduced the timeclock into baseball , the better to convenience advertisers . |
| 28 | In stark contrast to much early thinking that assigned the formal systems to management and informal systems to employees , often in adversarial roles ( e.g. Dalton , 1950 ; Gouldner , 1954 ; Homans , 1950 ; Roethlisberger and Dickson , 1939 ; Roy , 1952 , 1954 ; Selznick , 1943 ) , here we see formal systems working closely with informal systems , relying on local knowledge . |
| 29 | The charge brought the two commanders to blows . |
| 30 | There is a disproved theory that the Romans brought the white cattle to Britain ; however , the white Italian breeds differ fundamentally from the White Park type in several decisive respects . |