Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not once had any man ever made her so mad … or roused her to such passion , a tiny treacherous voice whispered inside her head . |
| 2 | I scrambled up to find a rather nervous photographer who had not enjoyed the path that led him to that spot . |
| 3 | I want to take you through the thinking that led me to that conclusion , and then to concentrate on one of the keys to securing that future — the whole question of advancing the cause of children 's books . |
| 4 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 5 | In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators . |
| 6 | What was it about Luke Hunter that reduced her to such gibbering incoherence ? |
| 7 | Steve Raper ( Punyettas ) had a 4 lb bream in the first ten minutes opposite the bungalows and continued on the feeder with caster for roach that lifted him to 11–10–0 . |
| 8 | Building on the TV success that rocketed her to overnight fame , she is set to make TWO movies and is launching a promising pop career . |
| 9 | So far as Pitt was concerned , America came first , but he was as delighted as anyone when the English force protecting Hanover won a distinct success against France at Minden , which might have been decisive if Lord George Sackville had not disobeyed an order to charge in a way that exposed him to conspicuous , though not permanent , disgrace . |
| 10 | For now she was torn between two places and it was not the thought of her father that bound her to this place . |
| 11 | A week after the operation that took us to Southern Ireland , I was told to take Venturous up the east coast to Hull and from there , after a crew change , we were to carry out extended patrols northwards which would eventually involve us in a complete circumnavigation of the British Isles . |
| 12 | His round was made around a run of five 3s from the second to the sixth holes — that brought him to two under for the championship . |
| 13 | Greeting him on his return from battle , she hands him over to his wife with palpable reluctance ; seeking to calm him before his confrontation with the people , she shackles him in an iron grip ; and , in the great plea with him not to sack Rome , she pinpoints the lines about him treading on his mother 's womb ‘ that brought thee to this world ’ . |
| 14 | Some of the stimulus for this came from a survey of senior medical students , yet when 30 current house officers were consulted all but two said that , though they would be happy to have the opportunity to apply for both jobs at one hospital , they would not have applied for a one year block contract that restricted them to one hospital . |
| 15 | But there was another deeper factor that endeared me to that little derelict church at Knowlton and slotted it into my spiritual pattern even tighter than my fictional one . |
| 16 | Mervyn Wilson gives a good service to his cricket clients and it is hoped that he was able to put his money where his mouth is and lay this price to all that wanted it to reasonable limits . |
| 17 | The island is savage , blackened , proudly ruined , as if a god had a colossal tantrum and laid it to magnificent , careless waste . |
| 18 | They took their toys to The Priory Church of England School and sold them to each other to help the starving in Somalia . |
| 19 | In the time I was there she did pencil out a few passages , and got me to red ink a lot more . |
| 20 | Lord Hailsham , however , used twentieth century reasoning and applied it to nineteenth century cases . |
| 21 | A friend in Joan 's office was active in the Womens ' Loyalist Action Association and invited her to one of its meetings . |
| 22 | Peter founded the navy out of virtually nothing , recruiting officers and sailors in the same way as for the army , and used it to good effect against the Swedes . |
| 23 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 24 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 25 | Hollins , a cotton broker who was ignorant of the fraud , bought it from B and resold it to another person , receiving only broker 's commission . |
| 26 | Two men appeared in front of him , and he caught her wrist and jerked her to one side , raising his sword . |
| 27 | Elizabeth Woodville turned and drew him to one side . |
| 28 | The ball bounced near Scott and he trapped it with his left foot , then swivelled and hooked it to one of the young boys with his right , smiling to himself . |
| 29 | Whereas previously each local authority had access to its own business rate revenue , now the central government collected all this revenue and redistributed it to local authorities in proportion to the local population . |
| 30 | These entities are placed on Earth to manage coincidences in such a way as to inch us gradually along the evolutionary path and , while on Ketamine , Lilly was able to communicate with these extraterrestrials , who informed him that they had removed DNA samples from Earth and transported them to another planet . |