Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb past] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A debenture is a document issued by a company in exchange for money lent to the company . |
| 2 | Eventually the minister of agriculture complained to the president . |
| 3 | A lot of them of course went to the quarries , but then they had a little steamer called the Florence Cook and she plied wherever she went and you probably know where she went . |
| 4 | His pernickety attitude and lack of experience led to the film going almost 100 per cent over-budget . |
| 5 | His instinct of dishonesty came to the fore again and he thought a way to get the money would be to take the car which he was allowed to use but not to sell . ’ |
| 6 | According to Labour 's own figures , in 1987 the Transport and General Workers Union gave more money to the Labour party than the whole of industry gave to the Tory party , and it gets votes for it , even on the leadership of the party . |
| 7 | The cup of tea fell to the carpet . |
| 8 | His period of study lasted to the age of thirty when he became a Doctor of the Law . |
| 9 | The first of these lines of research led to the development of so-called creativity tests in which the subject has a free hand to generate his or her own responses to a given problem . |
| 10 | The heat of humiliation surged to the surface of her skin as she became conscious of where she was and what she was doing , kneeling there still bare-breasted , her attitude one of despair and defeat . |
| 11 | " I frequently pleaded with the federated owners to make peace with Wilson and many were inclined to do so , but the weight of prejudice clung to the Federation as a whole and the Executive Committee refused to recognise him , although we were wasting hundreds of thousands of pounds in fighting him " . |
| 12 | Obviously eventually if people keep on leaking blood their pressure will fall but you could have a situation where there 's not a single drop of blood yet lost to the system and yet the person 's in shock because the blood 's not being circulated properly off the heart , not a drop of blood lost to the system , but insufficient pressure , so shock can be caused by either of those two things , failure of the circulatory system because the pressure of the volume drops dangerously low , okay , you did a lot of work on what the person looks like , yes you as the casu you as the first aider will see this person in front of you , what will they be like ? |
| 13 | The patchwork quilt of administrative decision-making powers reinforced the idea that this was not a new system of law in the making and the formalism of normativism led to the idea that to the extent that we had administrative law , the subject consisted wholly or mainly of delegated legislation and administrative adjudication ; that is , the forms of administrative action classifiable in terms of a conception of a formal separation of powers . |
| 14 | The growth of bureaucracy led to the proliferation of officials with functions as police , tax collectors and customs officers who might have had their offices in such places . |
| 15 | Unions became registered , thereby conferring access to an arbitration tribunal , and once registered they were largely protected from the emergence of new , rival organisations.8 As a result , the system of registration led to the early establishment and subsequent continuation of a large number of small unions and , as a secondary consequence , helped to impede amalgamation and union rationalisation . |
| 16 | The two square yards of broadloom devoted to the open hallway were almost blocked by a large bamboo plant , made of plastic , which waved majestically over a little fountain cascading water over two plastic shell-shaped basins which miraculously never overflowed . |
| 17 | Before long another form of combat came to the attention of the world 's martial arts population . |
| 18 | Pride of place went to the immaculate English Electric Class 40 , D306 ( 40106 ) which has been restored to BR green livery with small yellow warning panels . |
| 19 | League dynamo Robert Irwin masterminded the thriving Greystone table tennis league and ensured that all the players had a feast of competition throughout the season , and pride of place went to the Cookstown team which included a unique father and daughter combination in Joe and Joanne Hutton , as well as the Scott brothers Alistair and Nigel . |
| 20 | In 1721 , when the minister of Inchinnan in Renfrewshire was named to the chair of church history in the University of Edinburgh , thus creating a vacancy for a minister , the right of presentation belonged to the Duke of Montrose . |
| 21 | From a therapeutic aspect , penicillin was marvellous because it cured many dangerous bacterial infections , but it was tiresome because it was inactive by mouth ( it was destroyed by the acidity of the stomach contents ) , it acted for a very short time ( it was rapidly excreted by the kidneys ) and so was of little value unless given by injection at intervals of not longer than 3 hours , and because , after a time , the normal processes of evolution led to the appearance of resistant strains of the microbes which had previously been sensitive to penicillin . |
| 22 | Violently she shook off his outstretched hand , and the English document announcing her father 's change of name fluttered to the ground . |
| 23 | Quinn flexed the fingers of his hand ; the stub of pencil fell to the floor . |
| 24 | All the nineteenth-century conventions of comedy pointed to the need for universality and in any case Chaplin 's own personal inclinations must have pulled him back from being sectionally committed at a time of class warfare . |
| 25 | In September a combination of politically clean hands plus a rising tide of Bonapartism led to the Prince 's being elected yet again , this time in five separate constituencies . |
| 26 | However , the industrial growth which took place throughout France changed the traditional patterns of work in Paris as elsewhere , and the introduction of machinery led to the establishment in the city of sugar refining , dyeing , and — around the railway yards — engineering . |
| 27 | Shortage of timber led to the increased planting of fast growing conifers such as Norway spruce . |
| 28 | A few blades of grass clung to the otherwise barren slope , the gale tugging all the while at their roots . |
| 29 | Here , freely given on God 's Mountain , it spells unimaginable blessings of life lived to the full with God in his Land . |
| 30 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State alluded to the problem when he was giving evidence to the Select Committee . |