Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found himself making imploring promises to God then retreated into hating himself and Maxim of course . |
| 2 | Instead for many , many years there has been in Channel 4 a culture , which allowed you to expect these matters to be dealt with properly , without being made to feel that you were being perverse in raising the issue yet again or that you were making a point or a special case . |
| 3 | Neither the religious nor the sexual anxiety in Eliot 's poems came simply from his reading , but that reading allowed him to give supra-individual expression to his personal pain ; he clothed his own cry in the language and mythology of great traditions and their interpretations , making it ‘ impersonal ’ . |
| 4 | In his libel action seeking aggravated damages , Donovan claimed he suffered serious injury to his professional and personal reputation , considerable distress and embarrassment and that the article implied he was guilty of gross hypocrisy and deceit by denying that he was homosexual . |
| 5 | ROCK drummer Mitch Mitchell won substantial libel damages in the High Court yesterday after a book claimed he made racist comments to Jimi Hendrix when he played in his band , the Experience . |
| 6 | Though it was when I heard her using bad language to my housekeeper and being unwarrantedly rude to Ivo that I decided I 'd had enough of the woman . ’ |
| 7 | While working class women increasingly went out to work , usually out of economic necessity , philanthropists and policy makers increasingly urged them to pay more attention to their duties as wives and mothers , which only tended to exacerbate the difficulties they experienced . |
| 8 | Mr Fallon angered local GPs with an article in the Darlington Advertiser newspaper which they claimed implied they ran inferior surgeries to fundholding practices who manage their own budgets . |
| 9 | Indeed one 's own reason for looking to this community was presumably that , as a Christian , one needed oneself to make some reference to Christ . |
| 10 | To date , the Black Crowes ' track record includes album sales of over five million for their ‘ Shake Your Money Maker ’ debut , a Grammy nomination and two MTV Awards , while their first tour saw them performing 350 dates to a total audience of over five million people . |
| 11 | I once saw someone turn this situation to his advantage . |
| 12 | ‘ That I would have enough money to get started in anything I really wanted to do ; that he thought I had enough guts to be a success if I put my mind to it . |
| 13 | She felt herself flush deep red to her hair . |
| 14 | As they went they noticed several places to right and left of the path where he had broken off into the wilderness . |
| 15 | That enabled it to boost pre-tax profits to March 31 to £101.4m from £65.7m in the previous 12 months . |
| 16 | We loved it and he knew it gave great pleasure to the audience . |
| 17 | Sorry , he 's just someone I went out with who thought he had exclusive rights to my body . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Did you give those keys to Madge — the keys to the kiosk ? |
| 19 | ‘ Why did you send that man to my office ? |
| 20 | Did you see this happening to other people ? |
| 21 | After your training did you come straight back to Anglesey ? |
| 22 | ‘ Why did you write that tailpiece to the article , by the way ? |
| 23 | Now , did you write that letter to him ? ’ |
| 24 | Only in the third game did she give free rein to her flair and Jackman was thrown off her stride by the abrupt increase in pace . |
| 25 | This life-principle was very important to the early alchemists : they saw it as so real that , not only did they consider all entities to be made up of differing proportions of dead matter and life force ( spirit ) , they tried to use the spirit as , in essence , just one more chemical . |
| 26 | " Did it make any difference to your light ? " |
| 27 | Did he have some objection to such bantering ? |
| 28 | Did he issue urgent warnings to his little band … |
| 29 | ‘ And added that you hoped I had enough intelligence to actually find Dublin ! ’ she finished for him . |
| 30 | Had I heard any rumours to that effect ? |