Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years . |
| 2 | When he proposed to her on the last night I think she took him because , having been in her room for seven days , she 'd met nobody else and could n't bear to see her investment wasted . ’ |
| 3 | The lack of attention devoted to it by the British Government and , in particular , by the British press , in terms of the discussions at Maastricht , is symptomatic of our isolationist approach not only to Europe , but to the development of regional policy . |
| 4 | In 1741 Collinson reported to him on the miraculous achievement at Thorndon : |
| 5 | Dependent on relief helicoptered to them by the American armed forces , the mountain refugees are still losing their young and their old to malnutrition , cold and disease . |
| 6 | After all we were all leading aircraftsmen on the course and the officer element were acting pilot officers on probation who generally referred to themselves as the lowest form of animal life within the RAF . |
| 7 | To my mind that clinched the connection with Pegasus Farm , the Winged Pegasus being the emblem of the Parachute Regiment which used to be called the Red Berets ( when Richard Todd was making films ) but nowadays ( since American Football and Rambo ) referred to themselves as the Maroon Machine . |
| 8 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 9 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 10 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 11 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 12 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 13 | He shook his head and clucked to himself like the White Rabbit in Alice . |
| 14 | Essentially , the proofs of the reality of God appealed to him as the only adequate explanation for the existence of the world . |
| 15 | Leon Kennedy slumped in his chair , laughing , and it came to him with the same elegance as movement . |
| 16 | The tiny movements of the wherry and the gentle , muted river sounds which came to him through the warm night air gave him no relief . |
| 17 | It came to him in the small hours . |
| 18 | Conversely , if the accused can show that the material came to him in the normal course of business from a reputable supplier , he may have a defence . |
| 19 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 20 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 21 | Almost always she answered ‘ yes ’ because she had come to prefer lying still , with his soft sleeping body behind her , breathing the night air scented with pine wood and wild thyme as it came to her through the open shutters , and listening to the faraway ululation of the Borzoi dog chained beneath the walls of the Castello Crocetto . |
| 22 | Voices from the breakfast table came to her through the open window . |
| 23 | A picture came to her of the shaggy wanderers huddling together in the bus shelter at the top of the road where she had been born and bred . |
| 24 | A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window . |
| 25 | One such attempt came to nothing during the Second World War , when a military coup mounted under the pro-Nazi Rashid Ali al-Gailani was defeated . |
| 26 | With distant astonishment at her own efficiency , she heard her voice saying very clearly and reasonably : ‘ I do beg your pardon , but I came to you as the nearest house . |
| 27 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
| 28 | Britain , in the mid-1970s , seemed to me like the promised land of progressive education . |
| 29 | As for Mr Berkley , the conversation seemed to him like the macabre chorus of some drama in which he was eventually to appear , by some unexpected twist of the plot , as the despicable villain . |
| 30 | ‘ We are at the bedside of the girl and are now starting to piece together what happened to her in the six hours she was in the hands of this maniac . |