Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was common practice , for example , for a brothel-keeper brought before a court to claim that he or she belonged to a privileged nationality . |
| 2 | My father did well in his business and I went to a good school . |
| 3 | I managed to hold the aircraft straight for a short distance , running on the nosewheel which , luckily , had escaped damage , but as the speed came off the aircraft slewed sharply left and I came to a slithering , steaming halt about 200 metres the other side of the dyke , well off the runway . |
| 4 | After a TOPS course I got a full-time job in computing and I moved to a different part of London . |
| 5 | During the course of the nineteenth century , archaeology moved in a quite different direction , becoming , like the earlier diffusionary theories , increasingly obsessed with objects as such , and treating them as having an independent behaviour in a manner which separated them from any social context and which amounted to a genuine fetishism or the artefact . |
| 6 | By using the detachment technique during the course of the regression , it is possible for the hypnotherapist to ensure that you do not suffer in any way — if , for example , you are undergoing past-life regression and you came to a painful and untimely end in an earlier life . |
| 7 | A stitch seared her side and she came to a stumbling halt , pressing her palms to the painful place , waiting until the sharp sting had eased a little . |
| 8 | We went off and we got to a steep hill , we all had to get out |
| 9 | The monster that said ‘ Hee-haw ! ’ carried me on its back and we went to a little river . |
| 10 | The trust provisions in section 61 draw no distinction of consequence between a declaration of trust relating to the whole deposit and one related to a defined part of a deposit . |
| 11 | How kind of you , ’ said Felicity and they agreed to a tentative appointment for the following morning . |
| 12 | She dropped the camera from her face as the lens filled with his anger , and he receded to a safe distance from her ; but he was still bearing down , yelling , ‘ What the fuck is going on ? |
| 13 | His hair curled around his face , and he went to a small basin and swilled water from the tap , rubbing his face and head briskly with a towel . |
| 14 | He was bent in the act of locking the car as Maggie came up and he straightened to a considerable height , dark eyes running over her in astonishment . |
| 15 | He had a good tenor voice and he belonged to a male voice glee party . |
| 16 | ‘ You have an inoperable cancer of the right lung , ’ said the great man , and he pointed to a large X-ray photograph blown up on a screen in front of us . |
| 17 | And he pointed to a thick impasto of raging waves . |
| 18 | And it turned to a great marsh . |
| 19 | But I went to a private school after that , I went to one run by a Mr , Mr E M . |
| 20 | But I looked to a philosophical point of view more comprehensive even than that of the early Collingwood , and I thought I had found the germ of it in the lectures he delivered in my last year on ‘ Nature and Mind ’ . |
| 21 | On the other side of the stream there was a collection of farm buildings but they linked to a different road further down . |
| 22 | But he admitted to a great sense of satisfaction at having been in the job at a time when the world had ‘ seen the most rapid political changes in the past 50 years ’ , from the end of the Cold War to the dismemberment of the Soviet Union , and the appointment of former POCs like Vaclav Havel to become heads of state . |
| 23 | But he came to a dead end with that jeweller . ’ |
| 24 | For a time he believed he had a vocation to be a priest himself but he reverted to a previous plan to save sufficient money to go to university . |
| 25 | This was neither the basic approach of Raistrick to fungal metabolism , nor quite the same concept as that of antibiosis , but it led to a similar outcome , the possible discovery of a microbial agent which could destroy the microbes that caused disease . |