Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which made it all the harder to understand why Wilkinson had not begun with Cantona in the side on a summery day that seemed ideally suited to his ball-playing skills . |
| 2 | The manic international campaign to prevent publication of Peter Wright 's Spycatcher advertised to the world an obsession with secrecy that seemed better suited to the other side of the Iron Curtain . |
| 3 | It was the attempt by the men to boycott these employers , energetically undertaken , that had eventually led to the collapse , through debt , of the Northern District Board ( the predecessor of the STA ) in 1847. " - In later years several of the STA 's " forward movements " , that is claims for higher pay or shorter hours , began in Edinburgh . |
| 4 | If the disaffiliated Party were to prosper it would have to attract those that had previously turned to the Communist Party . |
| 5 | These divisions were based around the old tribal territories to some extent , but absorbed many of the smaller tribes and lands that had previously belonged to tribes hostile to the Unberogens . |
| 6 | Swallowing hard the consultant patiently suggested that he contact hotel reception for help ; an idea that had n't occurred to the businessman . |
| 7 | Martha replied , and left her twin sister blinking in astonishment at a possibility that had n't occurred to her before , but which was now enticingly attractive . |
| 8 | The indications for TIPSS were bleeding from gastric varices ( six patients ) or recurrent bleeding from oesophageal varices that had not responded to repeated injection sclerotherapy ( 10 patients , number of bleeds two to more than 10 before TIPSS ) . |
| 9 | To obtain a correct view of the ulcer and stigmata of recent bleeding , the lesions were gently washed to remove blood that had not adhered to the lesions . |
| 10 | A distinguished backing band , including Dave Edmunds and Presley 's one-time guitarist , James Burton , knocked out a few appropriate standards while a video crew wandered about on the stage shining lights at an audience that had not paid to be treated as studio extras . |
| 11 | The idea of touching people in the crowd or letting people in the crowd touch him was something that had not occurred to him , but to be beautiful and that remote — you 've got to get a crowd to touch him because that was what really got them wild . |
| 12 | ‘ That is an aspect that had not occurred to me , ’ Briant said , and the angry color that had blotched his narrow cheeks receded . |
| 13 | This was something that had not occurred to him . |
| 14 | Drunk one day , driving her on his Harley , he slammed into a house that had once belonged to Jack London . |
| 15 | Thus emboldened , Sotheby 's issued their 1 April catalogue to a chorus of disapproval , the most jolting being a letter from Toronto doctor Morton Shulman , who was something of an authority on Schlossmuseum Gotha , having acquired a seventeenth-century clock that had once belonged to the museum . |
| 16 | Twenty-odd years ago Michael Stewart owned a Facel Vega that had once belonged to Ringo Starr . |
| 17 | Now , however , almost a decade later , it did not seem nearly so large and he found himself remembering the good things — the warm , cosy atmosphere of Mrs Appleby 's kitchen ; the wonderful view across the garden and pastures from all the south-facing windows ; the pungent smell of the horses , so well loved by Uncle Cosmo , in the well-kept stables ; the fascinating portrait of his handsome father in the gallery ; the stamp collection and lead soldiers that had once belonged to his father in the shabby old nursery , where he , a homesick boy , had secretly penned so many letters to Alice . |
| 18 | They sat at a corner table , a slab of mahogany on an iron base that had once belonged to a Singer sewing machine . |
| 19 | the unzipped valise that had once belonged to her sister Christine . |
| 20 | After that she took out the contents of the red velvet box Marc had pressed into her hand that morning and put on the pearl earrings that had once belonged to her beloved 's grandmother , knowing that now she had a right to them . |
| 21 | All those things that had once appealed to every instinct inside her for excitement failed to arouse anything but a nagging desire to look at her watch and wonder what time she could reasonably convince André that it was time to leave . |
| 22 | That round , soft face with its clear blue eyes and straight nose , those small , pretty hands , the plump frame swathed in shawls , all that had actually gone to Afghanistan 60 years ago , had taken part in the adventure that had provided the myth and the burden of Alexandra 's childhood . |
| 23 | It had taken only a moment of time ; and in a certain sense everything else that had ever happened to me was insignificant in comparison . |
| 24 | The little horse was the most extraordinary thing that had ever happened to him in all his life , appearing like that in the torchlight and looking at him even before it was wholly born , as if to say , ‘ Hi , mate . ’ |
| 25 | Between exercises he tried to keep his mind occupied in a number of ways : reciting every poem he could ever remember , pretending to dictate his autobiography to an invisible stenographer so that he could go over everything that had ever happened to him in his twenty-one years . |
| 26 | This was the strangest thing that had ever happened to her ; he had hurt her at the beginning , but now that was gone . |
| 27 | Best thing that had ever happened to him , Penny . |
| 28 | That kiss had been so bewildering , so utterly unlike anything that had ever happened to her in all her twenty-four years . |
| 29 | Her purchase by the B. J. Norsk Forsking of Larvik for seismographical work in the Bellingshausen Sea almost due south of the Horn was , as Ward put it , ‘ just about the very first good thin' that had ever happened to her , ’ even if it was a slightly clandestine operation . |
| 30 | It was not something that had ever occurred to them as possible , likely , or even , desirable . |