Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and then he got me he er he got me interested in politics and he got me going to this N C L C evening evening classes . |
| 2 | ‘ You made me rise to that bait , did n't you ? ’ |
| 3 | After this , Cuckney again found himself drawn to public service . |
| 4 | These phrases do , however , have the ring of truth in an aesthetic sense — or rather there was an aesthetic process involved which had to some extent its own story . |
| 5 | It was the speed at which the decline occurred which led to wild suggestions that Britain was on the verge of a race suicide . |
| 6 | On this view industry found itself subordinated to older sections of the upper class both economically and culturally . |
| 7 | ‘ The whole idea very quickly snowballed , ’ says Ann Checkley , who soon found herself travelling to other organisations with CPR 's ideas . |
| 8 | Why was it that she always found herself attracted to older men ? |
| 9 | Geschichte as Kähler used it refers to past history as such ; Historie to history as studied by the means and methods of historical study . |
| 10 | Labour candidates found themselves pledged to unilateral disarmament , withdrawal from the European Community and an economic policy that would have brought the country to bankruptcy within weeks . |
| 11 | Soviet allies sometimes found themselves opposed to each other ( such as the Ba'athist governments of Syria and Iraq , or Ethiopia and Somalia ) , and others entered into agreements with Soviet adversaries ( both Angola and Mozambique , for instance , signed non-aggression agreements with South Africa in 1984 , and Soviet clients generally found it difficult to resist the powerful influence of Western governments and corporations , or in the case of Ethiopia , relief agencies ) . |
| 12 | Apart from the paperwork and delays incurred on both sides of the bridge , exporters found themselves exposed to political pressures and a declining market , as Jordan developed its own agricultural potential on the east side of the Jordan valley . |
| 13 | Japanese drift-net vessels , frequent visitors to New Zealand ports during the previous year , now found themselves subjected to lengthy searches by fisheries officers hunting for dolphin and whale remains . |
| 14 | It may look easy from the safety of the burn 's heathery banks , but you would be wringing out your underpants if you found yourself clinging to near-vertical rock at the crest of the ridge by pursuing such a daft route . |
| 15 | The Bill deals with evidence in criminal matters only to the extent of preserving provisions of the Acts now to be repealed and re-enacted which apply to criminal evidence as well . |
| 16 | The reason given by the king was the disturbed state of the kingdom which prevented his attending to ecclesiastical business . |
| 17 | But he also had a genuine vocation for healing — a vocation which he was unable to satisfy because his poor background prevented his going to medical college . ’ |
| 18 | Now tell me : who asked you to go to this disco ? ’ |
| 19 | As her father had so often complained , to engage with this task was to enter a labyrinth , and it seemed that whichever way she turned she came to this impasse . |
| 20 | The publisher Grant Richards encouraged her to turn to novel writing , and between 1907 and 1916 she produced six books which are the perfect expression of her personality : frivolous and witty , but with an underlying sense of melancholy . |
| 21 | But the final reconciliation came with Grant 's next promotion which required them to move to another county . |
| 22 | A sudden shout made her look to one side . |
| 23 | The story is , that in bygone days before the advent of the white man , there was a young Siwash Indian whose ardent love of nature made him come to that point of land on the inlet every day to watch the sunset . |
| 24 | If they were stopped by the police and her basket was searched , he was to say that he knew nothing about the newspapers — she made him agree to this arrangement if he wanted to accompany her on her clandestine journeys . |
| 25 | Maybe I mentioned about the fillings coming out on this side of my mouth and at the back , so I ca They took it out in my living room and hypnotized me to forget , hypnotized walking about in my sleep with it , to sleep , got me in the chair and done it , got out of the house , programmed me to go to that dentist in , which I did do instead of going to Mr at . |
| 26 | I said to her : ‘ I saw you talking to that fellow , and I 'd warned you . ’ |
| 27 | The duke himself , meanwhile , wanted to establish himself in the north as quickly and as fully as possible , and control of the Neville affinity offered one means to that end . |
| 28 | The duke himself , meanwhile , wanted to establish himself in the north as quickly and as fully as possible , and control of the Neville affinity offered one means to that end . |
| 29 | She was a fine person and he knew they related to each other , shared the same sense of humour . |
| 30 | ‘ And no matter what hurt it gives to other people , I presume . ’ |