Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.

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1 But Mr. de Lacy submits that both it and the previous cases which it applied are clearly distinguishable from the instant case because they all rested upon the critical circumstances that the lender or creditor in each case left it to the principal debtor to obtain , in such a way as he thought fit , the execution of the document .
2 The striking of the half hour alerted me to the incoming tide of darkness .
3 This interchange brought us to the foot of the bad step beneath Crib Goch summit .
4 I smelled a sewage sort of smell during the night and another passenger reported it to the crew .
5 A few seconds brought him to the oak .
6 Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund .
7 These journeys took him to the furthest extent of the colonies , from Lake Ontario to Virginia and into the Carolinas and Florida .
8 The exquisite creation they had made of their own lives blinded them to the aspirations of less fortunate men and women .
9 Alternating euphoria and despair , intense struggle and the depths of apathy are found in Chopin 's piano music , which from exile in Paris celebrated Poland 's folk music and at the same time elevated it to the role of a respectable and specifically bourgeois art form .
10 And you went , you went in that Triumph did you to the
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