Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant that while from our side they appeared cautious and reactionary , for the Board they provided a cheerful dawn chorus to which it could always confidently wake up . |
| 2 | It proposed a long term strategy to " release the energies of ordinary people by enabling them to take charge of their lives " , noting that agriculture remained the " primary foundation for growth " and emphasizing food security rather than food self-sufficiency . |
| 3 | She found a used tram ticket to Holborn in one and a little hanky scrumpled up in the bottom of the other . |
| 4 | The Court of Appeal dismissed an Inland Revenue challenge to a High Court ruling that £75,000 paid to England and Derby County goalkeeper Peter Shilton by Nottingham Forest when they sold him to Southampton in 1982 should be treated as a ‘ golden handshake ’ . |
| 5 | That the rich did not escape the scourge is evident at Crich in Derbyshire when , in October 1349 , William de Wakebridge added a small chantry chapel to the parish church in memory of his wife , his father , his two sisters and three brothers , all of whom had died of the plague in the summer of that year . |
| 6 | The funniest turn of them all took her one evening when , bent on success at all costs , she added a frothing soap powder to her immortal cheese souffle . |
| 7 | ALLAN McNISH received a late night boost to his Formula One hopes last night when he was summoned by Benetton-Ford team owner , Tom Walkinshaw , to test-drive the team 's new Grand Prix car at Silverstone today . |
| 8 | Hazlitt relished a long summer walk to the Valley of the Rocks , undertaken with Coleridge and John Chester , a farmer 's son from Dodington . |
| 9 | His father secured a civil service transfer to a post in Scotland and at the beginning of September moved to a house about three miles from where Derek and his wife had settled . |
| 10 | Mowbray was frustrated over Achilles tendon and ankle injuries , and was suspended for the last game when Celtic suffered an embarrassing home defeat to Hibs . |
| 11 | We received an encouraging 50% response to the questionnaire , with 63 of the 129 initial pilot centres sending us their replies . |
| 12 | On April 17 , 1989 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) approved a three-year arrangement equivalent to 179,280,000 special drawing rights ( SDRs ; SDR1=US$1.30060 as at April 10 , 1989 ) under an enhanced structural adjustment facility ( ESAF ) . |
| 13 | Users sampled through networking showed a similar polydrug profile to those in the known sector , with two important exceptions . |
| 14 | The third tribe showed a complete role reversal to the Western model of sex stereotyping which had nothing to do with biological or genetic factors . |
| 15 | The IS902-PCR positive cultures showed a different distribution profile to the IS900-PCR positives , being more equally spread among the Crohn 's disease , ulcerative colitis , and non-inflammatory bowel disease control cultures . |
| 16 | The census showed a continuing population drift to the west and south of the country , which , as the census was used as the basis for determining the relative representation of individual states within the House of Representatives , had important political implications . |
| 17 | ‘ After the man involved died we paid a large lump sum to his — ’ |
| 18 | So it is perhaps not surprising , though it was n't made public at the time , that IBM last year paid a seven figure sum to what was then Interactive Systems Corp for the substantial body of Unix development work that Interactive provided to IBM 's Advanced Interactive Executive , AIX , effort . |
| 19 | Accordingly , in September 1854 Britain dispatched an expeditionary field force to the Persian port of Bushire , with Rigby as interpreter and , later , superintendent of police — with himself the only policeman in the town . |
| 20 | President Kaysone Phomvihane of Laos paid an official goodwill visit to China from April 26 to May 3 . |
| 21 | President Koivisto paid an official state visit to West Germany on Oct. 2-5 , 1989 . |
| 22 | King Juan Carlos of Spain paid an official state visit to Finland on July 3-5 , 1989 , the first by a Spanish monarch . |
| 23 | Jaruzelski paid an official state visit to Spain on June 11-12 at the invitation of King Juan Carlos ( who had made an official visit to Poland in October 1989 — see p. 37589 ) . |
| 24 | In Clode v. Barnes ( 1974 D.C. ) one partner in selling a car applied a false trade description to it . |
| 25 | In the sample year ( 1985 ) , Malcolm Fairley , known as ‘ The Fox ’ , was sentenced at the end of February and immediately became a legendary sex beast to whom several subsequent reports explicitly referred . |
| 26 | Outgoing governor Lord ( formerly Sir David ) Wilson of Tillyorn made a six-day farewell visit to China on June 7-12 . |
| 27 | THE Sun newspaper today made a front page apology to the Queen for ‘ unintentionally ’ causing personal offence by publishing the text of her Christmas message early . |
| 28 | This man Boy lived with went swimming every other day , kept the greying hair on his body clipped shod with an electric razor , made a long phone call to a lover in another city every weekend , and kept a photograph of this lover visible in every room of the flat , even the bathroom , so that he was never out of his sight . |
| 29 | While she was away , she made a quick phone call to the British Intelligence number she 'd been given . |
| 30 | One of a group of women who were seen in their own lifetimes as emblems of Pre-Raphaelitism , she made a considerable executive contribution to this important British art movement , and was recognized at her death as the last surviving link with it . |