Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | WILLOWFIELD ace Paul Rowan cruised to a comfortable win in the Conlig Six-mile Road Race organised by Pyramid AC . |
| 2 | Tip-offs by former Stasi officers who had fled to West Germany led to a spate of arrests during 1990 . |
| 3 | Such extraordinary conditions as prevailed , for example , in the lead works at Whitechapel amounted to a virtual death sentence . |
| 4 | In January 1952 Acheson resorted to a vivid analogy as he tried to open Churchill 's mind to the need for new policies . |
| 5 | Thus last year , the council of ministers of the EEC agreed to a £20 million research programme in materials , parts of which should boost recycling techniques and produce substitutes for the strategically important metals . |
| 6 | Marcella poin'ted to a rather lean , severe-looking woman with deep-set eyes . |
| 7 | Mait drew to a halt , Henri , Carrefour and Richmann pulling up beside him . |
| 8 | The MCC reported to a council of resident representatives . |
| 9 | At a conference organized in June 1950 by the Liturgical Institute of Trier , a lecture by Romano Guardini led to a resolution calling upon the German bishops to request Rome to move the long Holy Saturday service from the early morning to the late evening , thus again making it the vigil service it once had been . |
| 10 | Conversation with Zaccheus led to a radical change of heart and consequently of direction . |
| 11 | The assassination of Kashmir 's leading Moslem cleric in mid-May led to a serious deterioration in the security situation in the Kashmir Valley after weeks of relative calm . |
| 12 | Elling clung to a cliff face that lent its dwellings protection from the wind and provided the inhabitants with an uninterrupted view over the sound . |
| 13 | The period of glasnost and perestroika under Gorbachev led to a great burgeoning of group activity throughout the republics . |
| 14 | Molly moved to a high window someone had left open , fearing that the baby , to escape its pursuing sisters , might leap out . |
| 15 | When in 1861 Louisa Twining proposed to a government Select Committee that women should be allowed to stand for election as Poor Law Guardians , she agreed that they should not interfere in the male province of finance and administration , and should not have any say over the treatment of male paupers . |
| 16 | In his last letter , Tristram referred to a document he was sending — or intending to send — to Beatrix . |
| 17 | As Hatch moved to a small drinks trolley , well stocked with spirits , Cowley took a last , lingering look at the photograph of Patrick Weaver , father of the dead bride . |
| 18 | It was no accident that Baldwin VII of Flanders moved to a new repressive interpretation of comital justice at just the same time as he claimed the superior advocacy over all ecclesiastical houses in Flanders . |
| 19 | He and Auntie Lucy moved to a small cottage nearby , but he continued to keep sheep in the fields surrounding our home . |
| 20 | Joan and Michael Ramsey moved to a house in Newnham , not far from where he lodged when he was vicar of St Benet 's eleven years before : 3 Wordsworth Grove . |
| 21 | Meredith came to a halt by the florists and stared mistrustfully into the window . |
| 22 | In fact , Lance Percival came to a conclusion as long ago as when the One Over The Eight show was still running that Ken would n't have minded if his comedy days had been over , too . |
| 23 | ADAM RUCKWOOD raced to a British 200 metres backstroke record in Sheffield yesterday . |
| 24 | But it is only in the second half of 1908 that Picasso turned to a more concentrated study of Cézanne . |
| 25 | ‘ If a painter asked me what was the first step necessary for painting a table ’ Picasso remarked to a friend at this time , ‘ I should say , measure it . ’ |
| 26 | What Aristotle had seen as the vice of the pharaohs , Cardinal Richelieu raised to a maxim of policy for Louis XIII , whom he advised ‘ all politicians agree that when the people are too comfortable , it is impossible to keep them within the bounds of their duty … |
| 27 | Corbett returned to a grinning Ranulf , who was holding the heads of the horses . |
| 28 | James Halden returned to a tall , red-brick house in Clerkenwell , a private asylum where he was employed as permanent physician . |
| 29 | The refined X-ray structure of CypA bound to a tetrapeptide which was used in molecular replacement has an r.m.s.d. of 1.1 ( all atoms ) from the pentamer protomers . |
| 30 | It is already known that Strauss worked to a system of keys associated with particular characters and situations , but Professor Gilliam identifies his primary concern in Elektra as ‘ establishing a sense of motivic continuity in the orchestral line ’ , thus lending extra point to Strauss 's description of Salome as ‘ a symphony in the medium of drama ’ . |