Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [adj] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor would it have been possible to ask , nor even to rely on any information which might have been forthcoming , since Amabel , who always retired to bed for the duration of her own " monthly curse " had said nothing more to the point than , " Darling , I must beg of you never to speak of this to anyone , when Gemma at the age of fourteen had first seen evidence of hers . |
| 2 | The youngest son came to the totem , to Tallis , and straightened her after the blizzard had made her lean to the left . |
| 3 | Susan could n't think of a film where he had made it alive to the end credits . |
| 4 | Whose age had made it sacred to the view , |
| 5 | The accountants had made it clear to the Committee that they did not accept the findings of the DTI reports ( which formed the basis for the inquiry ) , and that documents they would need to deal further with the matter were no longer available . |
| 6 | He added that he had made it clear to the IoT that the Faculty would be willing to explore co-operation over exams , but the IoT was not interested . |
| 7 | She had made it clear to the woman that she had strong Nazi sympathies , and often attempted to talk about the war in the desert , but to no avail . |
| 8 | And to compound the problem , the local planning authority had shown themselves unsympathetic to the owner 's over-ambitious plans for rebuilding . |
| 9 | Everyone who took part in this charitable challenge thoroughly enjoyed the day , and we all felt we had contributed something worthwhile to the local community . |
| 10 | The journey from Philadelphia was a fraught one , Boyd says , principally because Johnson — an uncompromisingly direct ladies ' man whose prolonged career as a plongeur had left him unused to the excitements of the open road — offered robust salutations to every woman pedestrian they passed en route . |
| 11 | The tension and frustration that had built up in the claustrophobic atmosphere of their life in Northumberland had finally spilt over when Louise had taken them both to the West End to buy the birthday dress . |