Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Shadshit 's voice suddenly rose to rehearsal pitch and he walked out of the toilet and into the dressing room . |
| 32 | A hot food trader in the market square , who only moved to North Ormesby two days ago , said : ‘ People told me not to move here . |
| 33 | We have become so habituated to market relations that it can seem merely banal to observe that types of work which make a loss will , within market production , be reduced or discontinued , while types which make a profit will be expanded . |
| 34 | They had almost passed the Royale , when a thought suddenly occurred to Benny , and she stamped the driver 's foot to the brake pedal . |
| 35 | There was a little parapet going round the arcade and it suddenly occurred to Owen that it might provide a vantage-point from which he could more pleasantly monitor proceedings . |
| 36 | It suddenly occurred to Hazel that these desperate interruptions seemed to follow any question beginning " Where ? " |
| 37 | It suddenly occurred to Cissie that Beth had never spoken about her own parents . |
| 38 | ‘ The helicopter I 'd been watching suddenly veered to port and its rotor blades did n't look the same . |
| 39 | The prospect of any trouble at all that did n't involve demoralisation at Willesden suddenly seemed to Charles a welcome change . |
| 40 | He only came to life when she began unbuttoning his trousers , for as she touched his fly buttons , so he grabbed at his belt . |
| 41 | ( The General Next to God , Collins ) Many of his far-reaching proposals only came to fruition during the social reforms after the Second World War . |
| 42 | Part of the scandal only came to light when an eagle-eyed bank clerk spotted changes made to the bank destination information on an authorised cheque from Craven Grain . |
| 43 | The crimes only came to light in 1990 when one of Oldfield 's victims , then an adult , was himself charged with indecency to children . |
| 44 | This new evidence was held by the defence and only came to light during the trial . |
| 45 | Parts of the contents of the manual only came to light as a result of criminal trials following an incident at Orgreave during the strike , at which some of the techniques were implemented for the first time . |
| 46 | The spraying of the pesticide , Galecron , took place in 1976 , but only came to light during a recent Swiss TV programme . |
| 47 | ( Details only came to light in 1972 , when London Transport received a compulsory purchase order , in connection with a further rebuilding of the bridge . ) |
| 48 | The offences only came to light because of an attempt to inflate profits at Alexander Howden , which was discovered by the American company Alexander and Alexander after it bought the company . |
| 49 | It only came to light today . ’ |
| 50 | News of the car smuggling scandal only came to light when Col. Luis Catalino González Rojas , commander of the fourth infantry division , defied orders and leaked evidence of the affair to the press . |
| 51 | ‘ But , unfortunately , this undesirable side to your brother 's character only came to light after I 'd hired you . |
| 52 | The assault only came to light four days later , when he went to hospital for treatment . |
| 53 | Her case only came to light because the Health Authority meeting were mistakenly sent to the media . |
| 54 | The matter only came to light when police , conducting an inquiry into the running of children 's homes in North Wales , interviewed the boy last year . |
| 55 | The matter only came to light when police , conducting an inquiry into the running of children 's homes in North Continued on Page 5 Continued from Page 1 Wales , interviewed the boy last year . |
| 56 | Police were not informed and the matter only came to light last year during a police investigation into the running of children 's homes in North Wales . |
| 57 | I put on the dress and it suddenly came to life . |
| 58 | A thought suddenly came to mind . |
| 59 | He was potentially a useful ally and one with whom Edward needed to keep on good terms , if only because of his claim to the French throne ; but he proved unreliable and the expedition to Normandy was aborted when he suddenly came to terms with John II . |
| 60 | He was , it seems , interested in the prolongation of life ; but the picture of the sheer gloom of human existence expressed in " De Contemptu " — which apparently so appealed to contemporaries — does little to enthral the modern reader . |