Example sentences of "[vb past] to in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the other offences adverted to in this chapter , the crime of threatening to kill is extended to threats to cause serious personal harm ( cl. 65 ) ; administering a substance without consent ( cl. 73 ) and assault to resist arrest ( cl. 77 ) are redrafted . |
| 2 | I am sure he would have considered that both technical accomplishment and , though not perhaps in the modern sense , introspection , were valuable for the poet , but the labour and intense study which you 'll have noticed he referred to in that passage I 've read , consisted of course of learning large numbers of languages , which he clearly did with great fluency , and reading inordinately the whole of human literature . |
| 3 | The ‘ Large Penguins ’ referred to in English accounts should really be the Great Auk ( Alca impennis ) . |
| 4 | What Lorentz objected to in American actors both in Hollywood and on the stage was summed up by a director friend of his who spoke of how ‘ they have no humility ’ . |
| 5 | The local school was established in 1824 , rebuilt in 1844 , added to in 1873 and enlarged in 1906 . |
| 6 | Here , the railway developed its headquarters when there was little money to spare and the buildings inherited in 1960 have been adapted and added to in piecemeal fashion . |
| 7 | Monaghan , a prospect they returned to in 1983 . |
| 8 | There were about twenty passengers ( this was no passenger ship ) and we slept in the mess , on benches and deckchairs , much resented by the crew , each of us with his possessions , or his secret , crushed like a lover in his arms and whispered to in all the languages of Europe … |
| 9 | ‘ But none of the hospitals we went to in this country did a single thing to help us . |
| 10 | She believes that his speeches will still be read and listened to in 100 years . |
| 11 | Still , no-one I spoke to in any organisation could name any cases where environmental opposition alone has stopped a course being built . |
| 12 | I had to in that ! |
| 13 | You , you had to in those days you had to sort of er use your common sense because if you had a big healthy baby it 's a long while to go right through ten o'clock at night till six o'clock the next morning . |