Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] in [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I once fled in tears to the hospital Steward , but to no avail . |
| 2 | Harriet pushed back the cuff of her ski jacket and glanced at her watch — the clear faced leather-strapped Patek Philippe man 's watch that she always wore in preference to the elegant Cartier her father had given her , unless of course circumstances forced her into an evening gown . |
| 3 | Negotiations on the treaty regulating the unification process [ see below ] also led in July to disagreements between the CDU and the SPD . |
| 4 | He also talked in Morocco to Barbara Walters of ABC news , Walters was among those Western journalists with whom the Shah was on good terms and who could expect exclusive interviews when they came to Teheran , as well as personal attention from the Iranian ambassador in their won countries . |
| 5 | Throughout his tour , which also took in visits to Denmark and Ireland before returning to London on April 26 for further talks with business leaders en route for Johannesburg , de Klerk stressed that foreign investment was needed to underpin his political reforms . |
| 6 | This new naturalism also stood in contradistinction to the straightforward narrative of classic realism ; for example , Eisenstein 's first film Strike was ‘ a montage of shocks , of images … ’ whose design was to turn disparate items into an artistic whole ( Willett 1978 , pp. 107–8 ) . |
| 7 | The law reportedly came in response to recommendations by the United States authorities that controls on cash transactions similar to those in force in the USA should be adopted by other industrialized countries . |
| 8 | Violent clashes between these white residents and the police reportedly resulted in injuries to nearly 100 people , including 16 police . |
| 9 | I hope you will do your duty ’ , and then collapsed in tears to be led weeping back to the palace and to her new role as Regent . |