Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 When the final Sunday dawned , John , Nora , and Sarah went to the early service at St. Martin 's Church in Trafalgar Square and walked down Whitehall to the site , arriving just after eleven .
2 Richard and Frances escaped to the religious freedom on Pennsylvania , where they are credited with founding the city of Huntington .
3 Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels .
4 This effort had obviously failed by early April and the attention of both Labour and Likud switched to the five-member " Liberal " faction which had defected from Likud in late February [ see p. 37303 ] .
5 It is in this general perspective , aimed at demonstrating the link between the relations of production and the nature of the systems in which they were located , that Marx and Engels turned to the available anthropological information on pre-literate people .
6 Des O'Grady had the honour when he and Kyle came to the 6th .
7 In the autumn , however , the Japanese recaptured the airstrips , and an argument between Stilwell and Chiang led to the former being relieved of his command .
8 They were hungry for each other and Maggie surrendered to the fierce possession of his mouth .
9 Then the Oxford prop Jones was warned for stamping , another penalty was awarded and Cambridge swept to the other end to seal the match with an opportunist try by Adrian Davies .
10 Neighbouring towns such as Hungerford , Lambourn and Wantage conformed to the usual run of little market centres , with populations of 500 — 600 .
11 Then he and Billie climbed to the next floor and walked down the corridor to Room 416 .
12 Laidlaw was spun round and the Arab checked his rope then he was pushed aside and Graham subjected to the same treatment .
13 On Sept. 15 Vance and Owen wrote to the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic deploring the bombing of the Bosnian towns of Bihac , Cazin , Sokolac and Dobronica .
14 In fact , the opportunity for Edberg to play ( up to the final ) one of the 7 other players entered with a top fifty ranking , was denied him when first , Lendl slumped to defeat against Grant Connell in three sets , then Chang and Jarryd lost to Wheaton , while , in the Swede 's half of the draw , Rotsagno lost to John Fitzgerald and Woodbridge fell to the unseeded Pat Cash .
15 She and Daak looked to the left , and then to the right , along the plateau .
16 Then , Boswell and Johnson returned to the New Inn and sat quietly all evening , and ( it being Sunday presumably ) discussed Christ and Christianity .
17 The mercurial Dean must have later softened his contempt for Duck since both he and Pope subscribed to the 1736 edition of Duck 's poems .
18 On the day of his first marriage , his wife went off to perform in a matinée and Burton listened to the International match .
19 The gross domestic product rose between July and September compared to the previous three months .
20 Darwin and Wallace came to the same conclusion about archipelago birds .
21 They had lived in London for many years and Ilsa drifted to the Polish cafes and Hungarian tea-rooms where she could talk with other emigres and drink Viennese coffee in fluted glasses .
22 Both Mehta and Harrison referred to the historical example of Soviet troop withdrawals from Finland ( the Porkkala base ) , and to the security pledges that Finland gave the Soviet Union .
23 Cells in both Vl and MT responded to the double grating stimuli but with one important difference .
24 When we returned to Rangoon , you and Margaret went to the Diocesan School where Miss Hardy was headmistress .
25 Usually , I suppose , but Candida and Marchbanks belonged to the commercial theatre — a straight West End run .
26 The transfer fell through and Charlie returned to the Scottish Premier League to play for Aberdeen .
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