Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no brakes , and if I had stumbled , then the bar that ran between the shafts behind me would have caught me in the back and either dragged me along or knocked me to the ground . |
| 2 | Did you start doing a passenger service when you got the mail contract or did you to the mail just on its own first or did you |
| 3 | Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart . |
| 4 | I did n't want her to give herself over to the view of life that underlay all this , the philosophy that pinned her to the shadow-corners of the world . |
| 5 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 6 | It was precisely their erudition , their cultivation , their financial security , their disdain for the mediocre that led them to the gas chambers . |
| 7 | Networks operating on this principle perform an operation that is likely to be extremely important for the neocortex , and it was actually the search for a mechanism that would do this that led us to the suggested modification rule : the modifiable interconnections tend to make the representative elements become uncorrelated , and thus to signal independently of each other . |
| 8 | The United States , faced with an allocation problem , began a review of its defensive commitments that led it to the conclusion that in the event of a military confrontation with the Soviet Union in Europe , the resources it could commit to the fledgling NATO alliance would be insufficient . |
| 9 | the most important time aspect of a planation surface is from the latest possible time of initiation of the cycle that produced it to the earliest possible time that it ceased being shaped ( i.e. its terminal date ) because of either burial or uplift ; |
| 10 | It was Mr Hurd 's first paragraph that drew me to the rest of the review . |
| 11 | When I first started to explore Scotland by train , there were long spacious carriages , first and second class , with a restaurant and buffet , a guard 's van where bikes could be carried free of charge , and a service that transported you to the Highlands through snow drifts that would bury a car . |
| 12 | Heat flared along her veins , ripple after ripple of heady sensation that shook her to the very depths . |
| 13 | Connors left the Brazilian shaking his head in disbelief as he hit winners at will and showed the kind of form that rocketed him to the semi-finals last year . |
| 14 | Not only has Mellor lost the cherished Cabinet post that thrust him to the forefront of British politics , but he has also waved goodbye to the Heritage Secretary 's salary of £63,047 . |
| 15 | That is a talent that followed him to the Foreign Office and to the Department of Health , where he helped Ken Clarke take on hospital doctors attacking their tales of long hours as ‘ fishermen 's stories ’ . |
| 16 | Ariel , watching , wished that she too could defy the bonds that tied her to the earth , and her blood leapt with Dulé 's ascent . |
| 17 | His threat reflected anger at the results of an internal party election that relegated him to the number four spot in the party leadership and his supporters to inferior slots on the party ticket . |
| 18 | But it made me think of the voice that sent us to the bar ; he whispered then . |
| 19 | We had a system of telephone boxes that connected you to the bridewell . |
| 20 | The war drums throbbed , a muffled , far-carrying , never-ceasing sound that thrilled me to the core ; the five-foot trumpets brayed . |
| 21 | Sir Edmund Hillary has spent much of his life , and a great deal of the determination that took him to the top of Everest , raising funds to help the Sherpa People of the Nepalese Himalaya . |
| 22 | about the other on be the pony , that took him to the wrong house . |
| 23 | Their strength is team work and a club-like atmosphere that took them to the finals in Spain and Mexico in the 1980s . |
| 24 | Helen watched him until he rounded the corner , then walked Nicola the ten or so yards along the street that took them to the entrance to her building . |
| 25 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 26 | THE gritty determination that took her to the top as Coronation Street 's Ivy has always been there . |
| 27 | ‘ It was brilliant to hit the goals that took us to the top , and it 's got to be the best 90 minutes of my career . ’ |
| 28 | On leaving school he went as a labourer to Hunts Farm ( visible from the 6th green ) and it was this work that brought him to the course . |
| 29 | She thanked the driver , lifted the latch of the low iron gate and took four steps that brought her to the front door . |
| 30 | The village rector asked the mourners to try to show the same love that brought them to the service … |