Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] to the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , there is a small octagonal chapel in the Beirut coastal suburb of Antelyas dedicated to the 1915 massacres . |
| 2 | Whitlock 's eyes flickered to the two sombre-suited men standing apart from the others , Paul Brett and Jack Rogers . |
| 3 | Frank Card went to the 1991 Conference of the Consumer Credit Association of the UK in October |
| 4 | Corbett pointed to the one stained glass window in the room where the artist had painted a graphic vision of demons , their eyes glaring fiercely , their mouths and nostrils poured forth fetid breath as they tore the flesh of sinners with red hot pincers and pierced their bodies with glowing iron nails , whilst others beat the unfortunates with spikes and scourges . |
| 5 | I commented to Ladislav on the coincidence of eights in Czech history : 1618 when Ferdinand 's deposition led to the Thirty Years War ; 1918 when Czechoslovakia was founded ; 1938 and Munich ; 1968 and Dubček . |
| 6 | Wayne turned to the two men at the bar . |
| 7 | In a result reflecting both the republic 's ethnic diversity and a resounding rejection of the ruling Bosnia-Hercegovina League of Communists , the vast majority of seats went to the three main nationalist parties separately appealing to the Moslem , Serb and Croat populations . |
| 8 | As previously mentioned , these divisions of the day and night led to the twenty-four ‘ seasonal ’ hours of the complete day in Hellenistic and Roman times . |
| 9 | Co-chairmen Robin Wilson and Professor Simon Lee appealed to the two Governments to break the political deadlock and help end the violence by promoting new talks based on the findings of the Opsahl Commission . |
| 10 | The ceiling sloped down tightly to the floor , making dark shadowy edges which were well nigh impossible to clean , and three odd narrow passages ran to the three dormer windows , which cast odd blocks of light into the main spaces of the room . |
| 11 | The mother of the W children in Orkney , whose allegations led to the 1991 dawn raids , has turned down an offer of £100,000 from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board . |
| 12 | Now , a lot of people got to the one month happily , the thirty nine , but only fifteen out of these thirty nine made it to six months . |
| 13 | This restricted freedom revolted Steven Morrissey , and his passion turned to the sixties when the ‘ George Best set ’ particularly liberated the city by proving that escapism is there for all who had eyes enough to avoid entrapment . |
| 14 | Huy turned to the two adjoining tables . |
| 15 | In practice much of the initiation and review of management policy fell to the four full-time members acting with the chief officers . |
| 16 | The two men of faith put the true interpretation on the facts ( Numbers 13:30 ) , but the people listened to the ten prophets of doom , with their tales of giants and grasshoppers , God , and the good land , was forgotten . |
| 17 | During 1907–8 , although a local committee was formed by the ETS to study the " female question " , priority went to the 50 hours campaign , which was finally settled in February 1909 , thus leaving the way clear . |
| 18 | He became increasingly authoritarian and reliant upon the army , which in turn led to the eight years of Amin 's rule , the Tanzanian invasion , Obote 's second government and ultimately the civil war in which Museveni took power . |
| 19 | My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton referred to the 1,000 members of the Prison Service Union , which is seeking recognition from the Home Office . |
| 20 | The mercurial Dean must have later softened his contempt for Duck since both he and Pope subscribed to the 1736 edition of Duck 's poems . |
| 21 | He recalled : ‘ The partner and my uncle went to the six o'clock train for London to try to head me off . |
| 22 | Seventy per cent of coal shipped from Newcastle was London-bound , but half of the residue went to the two East Anglian ports of Yarmouth and King 's Lynn , from which corn formed the return cargo . |
| 23 | However , if you are in a program , the commands queued to the CLI will not be actioned until the program pauses for input , or ends and exits to immediate mode . |
| 24 | Athelstan pointed to the three dangling figures , trying to ignore their empurpled faces , black protruding tongues , popping eyes and stained breeches . |
| 25 | Er , a sharp fall in the interest , tax and dividends line led to the forty five million turnround at what we regard the crucial measure , net funds from operation . |
| 26 | The Ismay Jacob report led to the 1963 reorganization of Defence , which abolished the Admiralty , War Office , Air Ministry , and Ministry of Supply . |
| 27 | The National Executive wrote to the four signatories and supporters who were most closely identified with the Petition campaign , Bevan , Strauss , Cdr Young , and W. Bruce , asking them to discontinue their support for the campaign or face expulsion from the Party . |
| 28 | Mark ran to the one and only cottage with the light and was as surprised as his aunt when she opened the door . |
| 29 | As strengths , Slater pointed to the 88000 's high level of integration , good single-precision performance , multi-processor support and Motorola 's advantage of single-vendor control , while as weaknesses , he listed the expense of building a large cache on the 88100/200 implementations and the slow speed of the floating point in double precision mode . |
| 30 | When a student makes such a transfer , the time devoted to the one degree would normally be counted as time spent towards the other . |