Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Smith 's tacit acquiescence with the notion that the method adopted by these researchers amounted to deception and that such deception needs to be justified ( by pointing out the importance of the question being asked ) should not go unchallenged . |
| 2 | The detailed notes appended to Ord 15 or amendments should be referred to . |
| 3 | Poor control over shipments led to theft and other misdemeanours . |
| 4 | An integral part of the ‘ new frontier ’ activities — and therefore of the diversification of higher education — was the widespread development of academic and professional networks , not only through the validation machinery , but also through conferences and meetings devoted to curriculum and subject development . |
| 5 | Luigi pretended to cuff him across the ear . |
| 6 | I had no interest in charitable works , or in clubs devoted to flower-arranging , debating futile motions or even poetry-reading , seeing such activities as being designed to fill out the time of future ladies of leisure . |
| 7 | Harsh words led to action , and Haston despatched him down the public lavatory stairs . |
| 8 | Growing prosperity , growing population , encouraged trade and colonisation , and consequent closer contact with foreigners led to emulation and borrowing . |
| 9 | The imperative to act upon the promptings of benevolence was crucial to some notable opponents of the slave trade ; its frustration by the traders amounted to disruption of providential means to harmony . |
| 10 | His rounded shoulders collapsed further and his timid eyes quested to right and left to avoid her gaze . |
| 11 | So that er his former chauffeur joined the force , P C , he was in , he drove of course our first police car , well which he shared with P C , then when our cars got to number two , three and so on , he eventually came up , so that he retired as inspector , traffic inspector . |
| 12 | Robert 's loyalty to Margaret of Anjou and the Lancastrians led to attainder and forfeiture , which in turn compelled his mother to sell two manors of her own to meet the demands of creditors from whom the ransom money had been borrowed ( 88 , pp.29–32 , 126–7 ) . |
| 13 | The Ferranti family 's demands came to light as a result of an approach by representatives of Hill Samuel and Murray Johnstone , who are canvassing support among shareholders for a plan to make Ferranti hive off its core UK defence interests and merge them with the defence activities of Thorn EMI . |
| 14 | The words seemed to trip over each other in her enthusiasm . |
| 15 | The words seemed to flesh her out again . |
| 16 | Maggie 's legs came to life , although shakily , and she sprang away . |
| 17 | Details of the former government 's involvement with terrorist organizations came to light in June 1990 . |
| 18 | Where socialist parties came to power — in France , Spain or , in coalition , in Italy — they quickly realised they had to be modernising parties ready to put market economics ahead of old ideology . |
| 19 | Several other methods came to light and died through being impractical until a major step was taken by a Dublin photographer John Joly in 1893 . |
| 20 | Several other methods came to light and died through being impractical until a manor step was taken by a Dublin photographer John Joly in 1893 . |
| 21 | This was " a misrepresentation of the true Doctrine of Obedience taught in our Church ; which was oppos 'd to Faction and Sedition , not to a Legal Government : For Obedience is a Duty owing to setled Governments , administered by Legal Methods … but does not extend , nor was ever so intended , to the subversion of Laws , and our civil and religious Rights , at the Will of the Prince " . |
| 22 | Thus , the District gained little direct financial benefit from increased enrolments as the capitation fee which branches paid to District funds was calculated not on student enrolment but on WEA membership . |
| 23 | His black curly hair was blown flat across his skull and his ice blue eyes began to water with the force of the wind He was enjoying himself . |
| 24 | As the dawn slowly broke and the cocks began to crow in unison outside the cottages scattered over the heath , a sensation of rapt stillness cast its spell on him . |
| 25 | She felt his smile whisper over the creamy swell of her breasts and then his lips began to feather along the lacy edge of her bra . |
| 26 | and and my eyes started to water |
| 27 | when she makes her pictures went to doctor today |
| 28 | New York was long known as the imperial city — the place that drilled tunnels and threw majestic bridges across the East and Hudson rivers , whose railway stations celebrated beaux-arts architecture , and where rich visionaries went to town with such mighty groups of buildings as the Rockefeller Centre . |
| 29 | EGG production could not have been better in the new EC-regulation , stress-free perchery barn of Mr Tony Wilson-Brown on his Lincolnshire farm , when his 2,700 brown hens listened to Radio 4 for 13 hours a day . |
| 30 | In that half-dream , of which he was less than half-aware , regiments of rubbery words marched to war with one another . |