Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a series of related allegations eventually led to a High Court libel action involving Docherty and two of Manchester United 's most prominent players , Denis Law and Willie Morgan , who perhaps predictably were both Scots . |
| 2 | He was also charged with forcing the king to bestow the earldom of March upon him in the Salisbury parliament of 1328 and then leading an armed band against the Earl of Lancaster , with procuring the death of the Earl of Rent , fomenting discord between Edward II and Isabella , and other offences which together amounted to a comprehensive indictment of his rule since 1326 , The earls and barons , ‘ the peers of the realm ’ , were asked to give their judgement on these charges and they declared that they were notorious and manifest to all . |
| 3 | It suddenly ground to a skidding halt and they were all thrown forward . |
| 4 | Maxim was about to explain when the lieutenant obviously came to a snap judgment on his military value and slammed out again . |
| 5 | He merely retreated to a defensive , defiant position . |
| 6 | The house they lived in belonged to a German lady , a Miss Wacker , who had been home in her own country when war broke out and was unable to return . |
| 7 | The exertions of the first five miles when he had thought the Dragoons might burst from behind every hedgerow or farmhouse had exhausted both the Major and his horse , so once he felt safe he sensibly slowed to a contemplative and restoring walk . |
| 8 | They left the marketplace for a maze of streets and eventually came to a large stone two-storeyed house with a timbered roof , its exquisite carved eaves jutting out over a small courtyard beneath . |
| 9 | There was a continual potential for conflict between the two cultures , which eventually came to a dramatic crisis in the San Antonio area . |
| 10 | He followed the widest of the paths northwards and eventually came to a deserted airfield . |
| 11 | We drove for miles through dense jungle and eventually came to a big pool which was maybe 150 metres square and 30 metres deep . |
| 12 | Puzzled by the incident , she went on , but less than a dozen paces further on came to a sharp stop . |
| 13 | Keynes might well have disapproved of the ‘ Keynesianism , of the postwar politicians , but runaway inflation nevertheless led to a successful monetarist assault on Keynesian theory . |
| 14 | The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train began to slow down and soon came to a smooth stop . |
| 15 | His arrival was inopportune , and he soon withdrew to a Mediterranean island . |
| 16 | While the sky above darkened to a deep purple , the Marines below looked about , made nervous by the steadily increasing pace and volume of drumming that floated down eerily from the surrounding countryside . |
| 17 | Small areas of rot can be cut out and filled with two-part epoxy resin , which should give a strong permanent bond , with the advantage that several layers can be applied in just a few hours , and then easily sanded to a fine finish . |
| 18 | NEW European flyweight champion Robbie Regan yesterday agreed to a voluntary defence of his title against Danny Porter in Cardiff on January 19 . |
| 19 | I know we have all heard of cases where someone has smoked sixty cigarettes a day and still lived to a ripe old age — but is it really worth taking the chance ? |
| 20 | But these largely managerial changes hardly amounted to a fundamental review ; rather they were concerned to promote competition and value for money . |
| 21 | Many Poles in East Prussia still clung to a Polish identity , but very few of them wanted to become part of a Polish state . |
| 22 | A PEER with a distinguished war record who became a Conservative minister , Warden of Winchester College and businessman , yesterday described to a High Court jury his horror when he realised a pamphlet described him as a war criminal . |
| 23 | I ONCE mentioned to a local farmer that my grandfather had been born in the little fishing village of Staxigoe , to the north of Wick in Caithness , and he quickly warned me not to go about repeating the story , because of the supposedly dubious reputation the natives of Staxigoe have earned themselves down the ages . |
| 24 | Because we , even if we ever came to a final close if |
| 25 | The Surrealist School always appealed to a narrower , more intellectual band of collectors than those who bought the Impressionists . |
| 26 | Will McLewin rolls into town 40 minutes late , parks his battered VW van on double yellow lines in Llanberis High Street and wanders into Pete 's Eats with a mirthful , wondering , combative expression on a face I once compared to a quick and breathing version of Norman Tebbit 's . |
| 27 | They were hollowed-out places , but always came to a dead end . ’ |
| 28 | Even in the initial stages of the movement , when the painters still relied to a large extent on visual models , their paintings are not so much records of the sensory appearance of their subjects , as expressions in pictorial terms of their idea or knowledge of them . |
| 29 | ‘ The house once belonged to a Turkish prince when the Lebanon was still a part of the Ottoman Empire , ’ a man said , tying the belt of his white dressing-gown as he descended the stairs . |
| 30 | you always went to a proper butcher then , you did n't go to the supermarket because you had a good butcher that you used to go |