Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But again there was no reply , and she decided that Bertha was either out in the garden or had gone to town . |
| 2 | The cells were stimulated with peptides that had bound to HLA-B53 in the HLA assembly assay , each at 25μM , pooled as follows : cp6 , cp6.1 , cp6.2 , sh1 , sh6 ; and ls6 , tr15 , tr16 and tr20 . |
| 3 | After that , everything changed and everything that had seemed to Dot to be all right disappeared . |
| 4 | Rogers produced a flask that had belonged to Church , and they circulated this while the appalling display went on. , |
| 5 | But a short fur jacket that had belonged to Faith , one which fitted Kathleen and which she had looked forward to wearing the following winter , that had gone from its polythene bag in Faith 's wardrobe . |
| 6 | He said the words softly , like a breath , letting them mingle with her scent , then turned away , reddening at the thought that had come to mind . |
| 7 | Li Yuan turned angrily , glaring at her , then , biting back the retort that had come to mind , he turned back , looking at Fei Yen . |
| 8 | Anyway , a few of us had a drink in the hotel that night , and apparently there was a fight ; this was after I got drunk and got put to bed . |
| 9 | I at once thought that the poor fellow had had a pretty rough day and had gone to sleep as he had n't made a sound . |
| 10 | I had heard my mother and Robert come in and had gone to sleep much later . |
| 11 | A major road and pipeline already crossed the region and had led to oil spills and the release of contaminated water containing hydrocarbons , heavy metals and bactericides and other chemicals into the soil and water . |
| 12 | Some teachers were aware of this lack and had turned to curriculum publications such as The School Curriculum ( DES , 1981 ) for guidance . |
| 13 | However , by the time the war ended BMK had long since finished with blankets ( after they had produced 2.5 million ) and had turned to engineering . |
| 14 | He had lived in Stepney for most of his life and had come to South London to work for Joe Maitland when the warehouse opened two years ago . |
| 15 | It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition . |
| 16 | Mechanised steam-powered presses , beginning with The Times in 1814 , contributed to the expansion of newspaper printing in the 1820s and 1830s and had spread to book printing by the 1850s . |
| 17 | The conservative Blaize , who died of prostate cancer and had been confined to a wheelchair for the past year , lost his parliamentary majority five months ago but had clung to office despite opposition protests . |