Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun sg] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expanded my exploration to still lifes with lamps or lanterns in them . |
| 2 | I expanded my exploration to still lifes with lamps or lanterns in them . |
| 3 | In fact , in the middle of one night they came and moved my bed to another part of the hospital without saying a word to me . |
| 4 | It changed my approach to global issues , to politics , to feminism , to psychology , to psychotherapy , to personal relationships — everything was turned upside down . |
| 5 | Laura , who had a horror of pubs , dedicated her life to improving home comforts . |
| 6 | But as they made their way towards the camp he had spoken only to point out signs of bird and animal life that he thought might interest her ; in the mud at the riverside , he showed her the pug mark of a tiger that had drunk there the previous evening and at another point on the trail he drew her attention to torn-up grasses and leafless trees that marked the passing of a herd of elephant . |
| 7 | Rain narrowed her choice to three pieces . |
| 8 | I 've been meaning to say this for a long time , ’ said Susan , with an assumption of severity which moved her sister to ribald mirth . |
| 9 | They eventually narrowed their focus to three subjects : submerged aquatic vegetation , such toxic substances as chemicals and herbicides , and the bay 's ever-fluctuating supply of nutrients , nitrogen and phosphorus in particular . |
| 10 | It used to be called Austin-Morris but changed its name to British Leyland and then Rover . |
| 11 | It is hardly surprising , therefore , that substantial vestiges of Nazarean thought found their way to this coast . |
| 12 | From then on , she devoted her life to human rights . |
| 13 | The new government under Amato demonstrated its commitment to economic reform by pushing through , before parliament 's summer break , an emergency budget that was presented as a Cabinet decree on July 10 . |
| 14 | After independence the bureaucracy used its access to political power to acquire some of the characteristics of a social class . |
| 15 | Wull jerked his head to one side and looked menacing . |
| 16 | World War I , which the BSP opposed , and the Bolshevik revolution in Russia reinforced his commitment to militant activity as part of the shop stewards ' movement in the engineering trades . |
| 17 | Ministers can merely attack the Labour Party : the only passage in Mr Lawson 's speech on Thursday which moved his audience to genuine enthusiasm was his attack on Neil Kinnock . |
| 18 | On the strength of this extra income , Mozart moved his family to another apartment , Unten den Tuchlauben , where on 27 December 1787 Constanze gave birth to a daughter , Theresia . |
| 19 | His dark hair brushing her skin , he bent his mouth to each breast in turn , paying such delicately agonising attention to each one that Leonora gasped and thrust her hips hard against him . |
| 20 | A two-acre garden surrounded the house , and here he devoted his time to horticultural experiments , among them the one that produced the apple bearing his name , Cox 's Orange Pippin . |
| 21 | That left seven , easily outnumbered by Boscawen 's 15 , plus frigates , and he used his superiority to crushing effect in an action which began around 1.30 pm and continued next day , when the last four French ships were driven into Lagos Bay , about 19 miles [ 30 km ] east of Cape St Vincent , on the coast of Portugal , where Boscawen pursued them into Portuguese waters . |
| 22 | She recognised him at once from the blunt-nosed profile and pepper-and-salt hair en brosse and the large tinted lenses of his glasses , and the way he hooked his head to one side and forward like a boxer butting . |
| 23 | He drew our attention to two passages in the judgments in the Court of Appeal in Ex parte Datafin Plc. |
| 24 | Because , about a week before John drew our attention to that matter of concern , I had prayerfully chosen a theme for tonight , based on the set gospel — the passage that has just been read to us from the first chapter of John . |
| 25 | The paper which first drew our attention to this possibility was that of Fitzpatrick in nineteen eighty six . |
| 26 | After Christmas Eve , though , we limited our exploring to familiar roads . |
| 27 | In some instances these products were grown by peasants who sold their produce to local traders who in turn supplied urban merchants and exporters . |
| 28 | Lulu Ulrika Johnson , Tessa Sanderson , Debby McGee and Linda Bellingham all lent their support to this year 's Cadbury 's strollathon and we look forward to their continued support in our birthday year . |
| 29 | There in 796 the Avars , nomad warriors who roamed the Pannonian plain before the Magyars came , made their submission to Frankish arms . |
| 30 | Their commitment to the nationalisation programme of Let us Face the Future was fully demonstrated when they revealed their opposition to any attempts to ‘ water down ’ the principle of public ownership , as over civil aviation in 1945–46 and over iron and steel in 1947 . |