Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | R.A. Hamilton asked that more mature trees be obtained and the chairman agreed to attend to this matter . |
| 2 | Nobody really minded — Mum exchanged 2 recipes and my silly wee sister got invited to 3 parties . |
| 3 | Where the transferor became entitled to his interest on a death in connection with which the settled property bore estate duty , then for the purposes of the latter allowance the four-year period can be regarded as beginning with that death . |
| 4 | At the meeting on the 5 November the BSI Standards Board agreed to recommend to the BSI Main Board , which met on the 28 November , that the new body be permanently established . |
| 5 | I have selected ten routes to represent the varied character and development of the crag divided left to right . |
| 6 | Yussuf 's wife , Fatima , was flattered by Owen 's interest in the state of her marital relationship and after some hard bargaining agreed to return to Yussuf . |
| 7 | ‘ Missing Eccentric Scientist found stabbed to death in doorway . ’ |
| 8 | NOT only did the Kiwis get blown off the park at the Hong Kong Sevens by Fiji , but three gnarled members of their supporters club got taken to the cleaners in a local hostess bar . |
| 9 | Your mind became numbed to everything about human beings except that they pressed close around you all the time , that they slept above or below you , that you could never turn your head without seeing some evidence of their closeness — their clothes or their books or their photographs — that they made it impossible for you ever to be alone . |
| 10 | Social Democratic Party seat at risk to Labour : Plymouth Devonport : Dr David Owen 's old seat expected to revert to Labour after heavy job losses at naval dockyard . |
| 11 | Most extraordinary of these are the Cretaceous rudists ( p. 47 ) a group in which one valve became modified to a long cone , on which the other valve rested like a lid , the whole effect being most un-clammish . |
| 12 | Though its original statute forbad lending to foreign-controlled firms , a 1986 policy statement softened this policy by implying inclusion of local firms with minority shares held by multinationals ( Brazilian Government , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's about time you and Mummy stopped going to that dreary old Richardson in the High Street and switched to Mr Vigo . ’ |
| 14 | One of the most fascinating aspects of the Pathfinders was its attraction for characters , and the very nature of the Force seemed to beckon to the most unusual types . |
| 15 | The anniversary of his coronation seemed destined to be marked by ignominious defeat . |
| 16 | She blushed as the young soldier came to speak to her . |
| 17 | A Protestant churchman came to talk to her . |
| 18 | Ringing the woman 's number again , she found her in , and more than ready to offer her somewhat trenchant views on the House of Commons and the way that seminal institution seemed to cling to the outmoded notion that women were an inferior breed . |
| 19 | It was n't until they were inside the dark hall , and Mark had taken off her coat and carefully hung it up , that shame and humiliation began to return to her numbed consciousness like the blood to her face . |
| 20 | Firemen rescued 30 pigeons after a blaze in a car threatened to spread to their loft in Hutone Place in Hartlepool . |
| 21 | Disappointment began to turn to irritation . |
| 22 | In the meantime , news of the vote needed explaining to a specially convened bondholders ' meeting on May 16th when 19 of their total number of 47 were present to hear the Report explained . |
| 23 | By default Release 2.4 is in graphics mode and the command needed to switch to text mode is : : Display , Mode , Text |
| 24 | For a moment he thought she was going to hit him , and then her face turned crimson , her mouth started to bang to and fro like a door in a gale force wind and a sound came down her nose that suggested she had just swallowed a quart of White ’ s Cream Soda . |
| 25 | No one who reads the speech of the President of the Union at the inaugural meeting of the mission , before Temple opened his mouth , can suppose that that President needed converting to Christianity . |
| 26 | For a while he tried to read , tried to sink back down into the fortunes of young Pao-yu and his beloved cousin , Tai-yu , but it was no good ; his mind kept returning to the question of the Aristotle File and what it might mean for Chung Kuo . |
| 27 | In spite of everything , her mind kept returning to Antoinette — seeing her face as it had been during their last confrontation in Monpazier , twisted with bitterness and hate . |
| 28 | But to Paula 's triumphant delight the suit was snapped up the moment it went back onto its hanger — a solicitor 's wife who had stopped for a coffee had fallen in love with it , even if the skirt did have to be taken up four full inches to make it fit her less-than-willow tall frame . |
| 29 | Following the children 's departure , the Social Work Department did go to Miss McLeman , the Head Teacher of the primary school in St Margaret 's Hope . |
| 30 | ‘ The transfer talk did get to me , I admit , and for a time I did n't know whether I was going or coming . |