Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is reported that , while out riding in Wychwood Forest , he suddenly came face to face with the shade of Amy Robsart . |
| 2 | I was lucky , bought the books , took the treasure home and found they only covered A to M. Nevertheless I found them interesting and still thought they were a bargain . |
| 3 | Before the archbishop left England for Rome , he apparently denounced Calandrini to James I as a dangerous Puritan . |
| 4 | The builder 's shares withstood the pressure and only fell 4p to 142p . |
| 5 | Li also pointedly gave support to leftist agricultural policies reportedly opposed by Deng , endorsing collective service networks and ideological education campaigns in rural areas . |
| 6 | Given a choice , he much preferred knives to guns . |
| 7 | Greek civilization not only gave rise to philosophy but it also produced , in the fifth century BC , the first real historians . |
| 8 | Essentially , therefore , the provisions only had application to income falling within the first limb . |
| 9 | as he wearily trudged door to door . |
| 10 | Faith has to return to work ; she had been away for almost two and a half months , but Continental Airlines generously sent Tim to Kupang to see if he could help . |
| 11 | Steam power finally gave way to electricity by the mid-1950s and in 1977 , the mill was completely gutted and re-equipped with modern machinery , much of it made locally by Simon-Barron of Gloucester . |
| 12 | THE ROYAL Mail chose Harwich as a launch pad for its new range of scientific achievement stamps and , as part of the celebrations , generously donated £500 to Harwich lifeboat . |
| 13 | Schlick made contact with Wittgenstein and then soon introduced Waismann to Wittgenstein , assigning him the task of gathering and expounding Wittgenstein 's ideas . |
| 14 | I no longer dared talk to trees . |
| 15 | Although filling such conventional offices as JP and DL in Kent , he generally preferred profits to power . |
| 16 | Coetzee , describing the leagues as part of a Conservative effort to get to grips with mass politics and the ‘ new religion ’ of socialism , explains the timing of their appearance on the grounds that prior to the 1890s ‘ the Conservatives had no need of recourse to such pressure groups because they already possessed access to institutions adequate for the defence of their interests within the existing sociopolitical framework ’ . |
| 17 | Sarah 's demand that Hagar and Ishmael should be sent away ran counter to custom . |
| 18 | Inner London authorities normally had access to funds via Central Personnel/Management Budgets , for example : |
| 19 | As we have seen , Constantinople gave refuge to Prince Adelchis ( son of Charles ' first father-in-law , Desiderius ) , who still maintained opposition to Charles in Italy , albeit from afar . |
| 20 | Another undated scrap about Ivy must date from about this time , when she still invited people to luncheon : |
| 21 | NEW US PGA champion Nick Price yesterday paid tribute to Nick Faldo for inspiring him to victory here at Bellerive . |
| 22 | RACING yesterday paid tribute to Arthur Stephenson , one of the all-time great trainers , who died on Thursday night , aged 72 . |
| 23 | His honour would not permit him to attack his sovereign , yet he still owed allegiance to Motamid . |
| 24 | In addition he once observed self-masturbation to ejaculation and the manual masturbation of companions . |
| 25 | HSBC , which is expected to release good profits on Monday , still fell 38p to 603p , reflecting the 200-point drop in the Hang Seng index after the Hong Kong governor 's decision to proceed with plans for partial democracy in the colony in the teeth of Chinese hostility . |
| 26 | ‘ It was an extremely popular programme and we always saw eye to eye about it . |
| 27 | For reasons to be explained , the original legislation was found to be defective , and was amended in 1976 ( and placed into the legislative context of the Public Order Act 1936 ) , but even after amendment it still gave rise to complaints that it fell short of the aspirations of its promoters in its effects . |
| 28 | If Godard 's post-1968 films deliberately gave primacy to sounds over images , his earlier , less didactic films were themselves critiques of an image-centred politics , and in particular of the very political use of images in advertising . |
| 29 | Older associationist models gradually gave way to interpretations based on concepts of language learning . |
| 30 | Relief at having succeeded without being seen , quickly gave way to uneasiness . |