Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is uncertain whether he composed this song himself or adapted an existing poem to the mocking , sentimental tone that was his and was already regarded as typical of Dublin . |
| 2 | I sniffed it and whispered an obscene word to it , then I put on my coat and overshoes and walked out of the hotel . |
| 3 | The Law Commission , in their Report No 160 on Sale and Supply of Goods ( 1987 ) , recognised many of the weaknesses in the present law on merchantable quality ( paras 3.4 – 6 ) and recommended a new definition to be adopted in all contracts involving supply of goods . |
| 4 | Today Roads and Traffic Minister , Christopher Chope opened the building and announced a major change to the driving test . |
| 5 | Although she was asleep , I whispered , I forgive you , and made a mental note to be more professional in the future . |
| 6 | But there were trees on the islands which filled with sunlight in the morning and made a pleasant contrast to the concrete and bars of so much of the Zoo . |
| 7 | He travelled a little as papal legate , and made a private visit to the United States and Latin America , but his experience of countries other than Germany' ( which he loved ) and Italy was practically non-existent . |
| 8 | I slid away , another shadow in my dark costume , and made a wide half-circle to an unoccupied area being prepared for new landing patches . |
| 9 | In New York , UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali informed Alatas that the UN was studying the report of his special envoy , Kenyan Attorney General Amos Wako , who arrived on an official visit to Indonesia on Feb. 8 and made a two-day visit to East Timor on Feb. 13-14 . |
| 10 | He defaced the typewriter keys with a file and made a special trip to Hertfordshire to drop it in a reservoir . |
| 11 | She celebrated with other sick children and made a special plea to Santa to keep the closure-threatened hospital open . |
| 12 | I had most of the morning to myself and made a few calls to clients , to a financial journalist whose opinion I valued and finally to Andrew Buccleuth . |
| 13 | She has achieved a great deal , and made a valuable contribution to our company 's efficiency over these last seven years . |
| 14 | The SD report for the first quarter of 1939 mentioned the speech only in the context of factors influencing the German press to fix attention firmly on foreign policy developments , and made a brief reference to Hitler 's remarks on the ‘ Church problem ’ . |
| 15 | A radical minority of the intelligentsia took their criticism beyond intellectual dissent , broke their ties with conventional society and made a conscious commitment to the revolutionary overthrow of the tsarist order . |
| 16 | His speech also emphasized the " new covenant " concept and made an unabashed appeal to the middle class which , he promised , under his administration would " be forgotten no more " . |
| 17 | You went for rides with her in her VW , and made an extended trip to Lisbon - to Madrid also , I believe . |
| 18 | Clio accounted for 2.1 % of all new car registrations in Britain during 1992 and made an important contribution to the success of Renault UK , whose sales in 1992 grew by 15.14% . |
| 19 | She wandered all over the stave and produced a curious counterpoint to the tune . |
| 20 | Paramedics treated the driver of the second car for shock and applied a surgical collar to the policeman . |
| 21 | He conscientiously pinched the opposite fold of her sweet vulva , and fastened a second peg to her . |
| 22 | The British government adopted the report as official policy , and pursued a diplomatic approach to the problem over the next two years . |
| 23 | When Barbosa tripped up during the pursuit on the penultimate lap , McKean opened daylight over the rest of his rivals and maintained a three-stride advantage to the line , winning in 1min 47.29secs , ahead of Burundi runner Charles Nkazamyampi ( 1:47.62 ) . |
| 24 | At this point , the men , fancying their prowess in an emergency , insisted on taking over the action and promised a speedy end to the conflagration by pinning an old piece of carpet across the fireplace . |
| 25 | Much of the rhetoric used by both sides was couched in the language of no-popery , and bore a striking similarity to the arguments used during the Exclusion Crisis . |
| 26 | schoolgirlish look , and bore a close resemblance to an officeful of typists at a hen party . |
| 27 | There is little room for poetry — a product of the despised Fancy — in all this ; yet Wordsworth was in the Locke tradition when he rejected the ‘ gaudy and inane phraseology ’ of the Fancy and devoted a long poem to the description of how Nature ( in Locke 's sense of the whole external world rather than simply mountains and lakes ) formed his mental character . |
| 28 | Greatly outnumbered , the ducks would abandon their foraging mission and beat a hasty retreat to their island stronghold at the slightest sign of trouble . |
| 29 | The examination syllabus set new standards in the teaching of drama to young people and provided a spectacular contrast to the out-of-date , circumscribed speech and drama examinations of the Royal Academy , Guildhall and Trinity Colleges . |
| 30 | It is a pity that she could not have elaborated on several points , and provided a fuller answer to the question she herself raises on p. 101 : " When is it … perfectly appropriate to tell jokes and play with words ? " |