Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | My branch submitted a motion to the Apex conference two years ago that sought to draw attention to unemployment amongst the white collar workers . |
| 2 | I was numb , but it was a numbness that promised to give way to an agonizing pain quite soon . |
| 3 | The buying of a teapot was part of the Burton ritual that helped to give variety to the East Anglian 's stay in the Midlands . |
| 4 | It was only the last and biggest headline-grabber — Sir James Goldsmith 's failed bid in 1989 for B.A.T Industries — that threatened to bring junk to London . |
| 5 | At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather . |
| 6 | Doyle had known Jack Stone before the bank job that had sent Stone to earth , and it was Ray Doyle , not Bodie , who Stone ‘ trusted ’ , as much as he could ever trust anyone . |
| 7 | And then she remembered why she was there , because the Mahon virus had been joined with humanity , had been introduced into the genes as the same batch of fluid that had given life to Piphros . |
| 8 | A third notion is that organic life — carbon-based life — was preceded by ‘ living ’ clays , based on silicon , as described by Professor Cairn-Smith that some of these clays gathered organic molecules around them , which increased their chemical versatility , and that the organic components eventually abandoned the silicon-based templates that had given rise to them . |
| 9 | This increased the ease with which the police could prosecute prostitutes , as they no longer required the assistance of an ‘ offended ’ member of the public , despite the fact that it was the supposed ‘ public nuisance ’ of street prostitution that had given rise to the need for legislation . |
| 10 | The distinctive characteristic of these writers was their belief in progress : the belief , in particular , that the system of international relations that had given rise to the First World War was capable of being transformed into a fundamentally more peaceful and just world order ; that under the impact of the awakening of democracy , the growth of the ‘ international mind ’ , the development of the League of Nations , the good works of men of peace or the enlightenment spread by their own teachings , it was in fact being transformed ; and that their responsibility as students of international relations was to assist this march of progress to overcome the ignorance , the prejudices , the ill-will , and the sinister interests that stood in its way . |
| 11 | To remove the distinction completely would seem to undermine the insights that had given force to Bakhtin 's earlier criticism . |
| 12 | That in turn has worried the commercial banks that had lent money to the finance houses . |
| 13 | After the Second World War , the street had changed , and she knew that had brought sadness to her late father . |
| 14 | Any visual aid should be carefully selected and planned to add clarity to the presentation . |
| 15 | Charles the Younger wasted the region of the Upper Elbe so thoroughly that the Czechs submitted , and agreed to pay tribute to the Franks . |
| 16 | Profile was set up by Heather Burke , Phonelink 's current client service director , and sold planning information to 3,500 UK companies in the building industry . |
| 17 | It was held that they could be convicted a second time and made to pay compensation to a second victim who had read a copy of the same brochure . |
| 18 | They cut , and the actress scrambled up and examined her knees ; a woman from Wardrobe ran up and gave her a change of mack , and bent to apply panstick to her hands where they had been dirtied by the wrecker's-yard floor ; she checked her hose and brushed her hair and the actress shook her head slowly from side to side so that it fluffed . |
| 19 | Then he watched a video and tried to set fire to the house before going back to Bath . |
| 20 | After the object ( a toy car ) had been put at B , the boxes were locked ; with the result that most of the infants went straight to B , could not get in , and returned to A and tried to gain entry to a box which they could see ( whatever ‘ see ’ means here exactly ) was empty . |
| 21 | The performance , broadcast on Radio 3 , was by Ernst Kovacic with the BBC Philharmonic , conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk , and seemed to do justice to a score so full of beautiful music that it will need several hearings before one begins to identify all its jewels . |
| 22 | In fact he was subjected to a very stiff , puritanical and doctrinal regime , only mitigated by the fact that he was educated by a long sequence of tutors , and seemed to have access to a lot of books . |
| 23 | This is an undesirable state of affairs so women must once again be taught , persuaded and encouraged to give priority to their families , and in future social policies should be developed , or indeed not developed , with this aim in mind . |
| 24 | The virus travelled into the neural net during a regular systems update and began to transmit information to IMC . |
| 25 | I would have questioned her further , except that she finally grew solicitous and began paying attention to my injuries . |
| 26 | She left the two boys and went to say good-bye to Hepzibah . |
| 27 | Well I got trapped under er under one of the er rocks that f fell down and then managed to get that off me leg and went to give assistance to er the machine-man , the man on the machine which er trapped as well and er realized then that me leg had me leg was broken so took me down the end of the road and managed to get the stone off the lad and the machine and you got carried in to hospital . |
| 28 | She too had brought an illegitimate daughter to the union , and died giving birth to Godwin 's own daughter Mary . |
| 29 | It featured strong condemnation of the radical party faction known as the " Democratic Platform " , and appeared to give notice to faction members to leave the party or face expulsion . |
| 30 | The negotiations , which had reached their seventh round and had given rise to considerable optimism , centred on the creation of internationally managed reception centres in Vietnam . |