Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb past] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1629 Hobbes returned to the Continent on a second tour , as tutor to the son of Sir Gervase Clinton . |
| 2 | Perfusion of the stomach with 25% ethanol for 30 minutes led to the formation of grossly visible injury , which covered 8.6 ( 1.9 ) % ( n=6 ) of the area of the glandular mucosa , as had been previously reported . |
| 3 | In September 1972 Kalb applied to the Forge Foundation for funds , and in his application described the geology of the Hadar region of Ethiopia . |
| 4 | On 27 November 1609 Bowyer succeeded to the office of clerk of the parliaments and shortly afterwards brought Elsynge to assist him in the House of Lords . |
| 5 | In Ramallah , more than 300 women took to the streets . |
| 6 | The Articles of Government made under the 1986 Act gave to the governors of county and controlled schools the duty of devising arrangements for the appointment of staff , excluding head teachers and , in some authorities , deputy head teachers . |
| 7 | It has to do with Italy 's terrifying national public deficit , estimated at L 34,000 billion , which on 26 May led to the money voted by Parliament at the end of January being frozen until October ; this means , for example , that Venice , Italy 's most fragile urban and artistic organism , which was to have had L450 billion spent on its infrastructure this year , is once again unable , for example , to dredge its canals , essential if the city is to avoid being flooded next time there is a high tide . |
| 8 | In the 1060s and 1070s Sicily fell to the Normans , and it was they who eventually captured Palermo in 1072 . |
| 9 | From 1987 to 1991 Allitt went to the casualty department of Grantham Hospital 24 times , complaining of illnesses which staff suspected were self-inflicted . |
| 10 | During 1975–9 Zuwaya applied to the courts , and used court verdicts , as well as pursuing offenders through shaikhs and the confrontation of lineages . |
| 11 | Our attempts to characterize additional components involved in the expression of classical pol III genes led to the detection of an activity in the flowthrough fraction of phosphocellulose , which significantly stimulated the expression of t-RNA , VA-RNA , 5S-RNA and U6-RNA and which was finally identified as TFIIA on the basis of the following experimental evidence : |
| 12 | A procession of 30,000 demonstrators marched to the Parliament building , where they presented a petition calling for action against unemployment and the increasing cost of living , and a halt to the privatization programme . |
| 13 | Towards the end of 1849 Gurney wrote to the Goldsmiths to request £200 " to enable him to clear off his debts and leave some money for general purposes " ; he was granted £300 . |
| 14 | With limbs beginning to tire only eight boats took to the water for the final two-lap race . |
| 15 | ROCKSTAR Elton John certainly made sure that the sun did n't go down on Earls Court recently , as over 16,000 fans flocked to the arena on both nights of his sell out charity concerts . |
| 16 | Early in 1307 Bruce returned to the mainland near his estate and possible birthplace at Turnberry . |
| 17 | On Jan 4 Swamy apologized to the House , while Chandra Shekhar tried to defuse the crisis for his government by assuring MPs that Parliament was supreme and that the Speaker 's rights would be protected . |
| 18 | Two thousand supporters marched to the Belfast Magistrates ' Court with the accused who were all found guilty . |
| 19 | Twenty thousand people took to the streets of the Lithuanian capital , Vilnius , to mourn a man who became a martyr for the Republic 's bid for independence from Moscow . |
| 20 | The inaugural meeting overflowed the Central Hall , Westminster , where 5,000 people listened to the historian A. J. P. Taylor listing the effects of an H-Bomb explosion . |
| 21 | On Saturday , January 26 , 3,000 people took to the streets of London in the annual Bloody Sunday commemoration demonstration . |
| 22 | In Kwangju itself , more than 100,000 people took to the streets where they fought running battles with riot police late into the night . |
| 23 | Early in 1957 Macmillan agreed to the stationing in Britain of 60 American Thor rockets . |
| 24 | The opening ceremony was managed for us by Cosmo PR in Tokyo and a specially selected audience of 120 people came to the event including around 70 customers from the four business areas represented at KITEC . |
| 25 | On Dec. 3 Kuwait protested to the UN Security Council over Iraq 's refusal to participate in the work of the UN Border Demarkation Committee 's reconnaissance team , which had visited the demilitarized zone between Kuwait and Iraq at the end of November . |
| 26 | It expanded from 47,000 people in 1841 to 102,000 in 1901 and in 1860 nearly 150,000 people came to the town by excursion train in two successive days . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , an estimated 10,000 people took to the streets of Baku on Jan. 4 to demonstrate solidarity with those attacking the border . |
| 28 | Over 520 members replied to the survey questionnaire which represented a response from 200 out of the 250 boards . |
| 29 | ‘ Eight or ten men came to the training ground as we finished at about 12am and they wanted statements from all of us . |
| 30 | Nearly 800 crew members with 74 craft took to the Wye at Hay on Saturday for the start of the longest raft race in the world . |