Example sentences of "[vb past] to its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be a great way to repay them if I made the England side and contributed to its success . ’ |
| 2 | Child labour was stopped before your century drew to its end . |
| 3 | The most marked feature of Lewis 's own emotional and intellectual life as the autumn days grew shorter and the year 1929 drew to its close was the development of his friendship with J. R. R. Tolkien . |
| 4 | The Dark Ages are often considered a time of retrogression , but it was not until the period drew to its close that the cattle of Britain began to deteriorate quite seriously . |
| 5 | Hospice medication was always given in doses adequate to give relief of pain and other symptoms , even at the risk of shortening life , and this could improve , of only temporarily , the quality of life of the patient as it drew to its close . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , like lemmings who have smelt the sea , the noble lords streamed out of their chamber in a body to appear , as if summoned by telepathy , when Dungannon 's speech drew to its close . |
| 7 | And I was there again , briefly , as the war drew to its close . |
| 8 | The historiography of the post-Disraelian Conservative party is strikingly sparse when compared to the volume of work devoted to its opponents . |
| 9 | When a reply arrived which simply said , ‘ The Private Secretary is commanded to express the thanks of The Queen for the kind message of congratulation which you have forwarded to Her Majesty ’ , the assembly rose to its feet and cheered . |
| 10 | Then , as the spotlights shone upon the figure of the leader , head thrown proudly back , the entire audience rose to its feet and the Albert Hall rang to a chant of ‘ Hail , Mosley ! |
| 11 | As the Assembly rose to its feet ‘ amid shouts and tears ’ few of them would have realized that it was sixty years almost to the day since the Assembly of the Third Republic had responded in much the same way to the Tonkin crisis of 1885 . |
| 12 | The torchbearer crossed the square to the woman at the stake , and the crowd rose to its feet and began reciting the Dies Irae . |
| 13 | Behind the boy the stiff figure of the man suddenly rose to its feet . |
| 14 | When she explored the depths of the snipe pudding for a bird she fancied , Aunt Tossie 's pleasure rose to its height . |
| 15 | But his power of decision-making improved , and his gift of calming , persuasive oratory rose to its heights . |
| 16 | Thus there was every incentive for speculation against the weaker currencies , as the UK found to its cost prior to the 1967 devaluation . |
| 17 | It therefore referred to its observations with regard to the nationality requirements . |
| 18 | BT , after falling earlier , firmed to its 421p opening price while Vodafone again continued its downward trend with the stock falling 5p to 486p . |
| 19 | The project , however , was in danger of foundering from lack of money until Luca Baroni of Colnaghi rallied to its assistance . |
| 20 | The general structure of this unitary grant system was well designed to achieve these purposes , but the detailed arrangements incorporated a number of elements which either detracted somewhat from the equity of the system or added to its complexity . |
| 21 | LASMO has acquired a considerable acreage position in this area through licence awards in the 11th and 12th licencing rounds and , in 1992 , added to its position by acquiring an interest in a significant gas discovery in block 44/21a [ LASMO 44.5 per cent ] through an acreage swap . |
| 22 | For instance , the picture to the right of the central tree shows what happens when Gene 5 mutates by having +1 added to its value . |
| 23 | In 1925 , the LNER added to its stock the most powerful steam loco for service in this country , specially for banking trains up Worsborough . |
| 24 | The Sika 's head jerked ; it dropped to its knees and keeled over . |
| 25 | It dropped to its forearms and padded slowly to left and right . |
| 26 | It received the wire services of Reuters and AFP , which it retransmitted to its customers , including the Times and the Mail . |
| 27 | Greece appealed to its partners in the European Communities to reduce or stop aid to Bulgaria . |
| 28 | It pledged to continue the struggle for democratic representation but appealed to its supporters to continue to exercise restraint . |
| 29 | Mr Justice Simon Brown said that shortly before the tribunal came to its decision in this case a tribunal chaired by Professor Jackson took a different approach in a similar case , Syed Jabar Hussain Shah . |
| 30 | I was referred to R.S.C. , Ord. 55 , r. 3 which refers to the appeal being by way of rehearing , but that of course is the same phrase as is used in R.S.C. , Ord. 59 which states that appeals to the Court of Appeal are by way of rehearing and , to put it shortly , without quoting from the note to that rule , it is plain that all that means is that the Court of Appeal has a wide ranging power to consider and deal with the way in which the court below came to its decision but it is not empowered to hear evidence , except in certain exceptional circumstances : see , too , Rayden and Jackson on Divorce and Family Matters , 16th ed. ( 1991 ) , p. 1388 , para. 49.2 . |