Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Captaining Jamaica for the second successive season , he not only led them to Red Stripe Cup triumph ( their third in five years ) , but , with the ball , he broke the tournament record with 36 wickets at 11.30 . |
| 2 | Luke watched her as she gingerly helped herself to some of the food . |
| 3 | But I swear , I only mentioned it to one person , and he 's the most trustworthy person I 've ever met . |
| 4 | In the Nicaraguan setting all motivations became elemental , and their very primitiveness — together with their drama — perhaps commended them to dramatic and imperfectly democratic Americans . |
| 5 | I was dead happy there and then , all of a sudden , they came one day and just moved me to another home . |
| 6 | The Vicar then took the text for his sermon from the second lesson , ‘ God loveth a cheerful giver ’ , and was so carried away by his own rhetoric that he absent-mindedly helped himself to most of the grapes hanging down from the top of the pulpit . |
| 7 | Used in conjunction with the other clues given in the text and the illustrations , this information soon guided me to some very productive search areas . |
| 8 | Still , I could n't help responding , at least in spirit , to the orgy of general joy as we docked at Lisbon ; and even John stiffly lent himself to various aromatic embraces . |
| 9 | I think she felt awkward , because she quickly helped me to more raspberry-fool . |
| 10 | Since the STJ always confined itself to veiled hints of this kind rather than anything more explicit , and since there is little or no literature available on the women 's suffrage movement in Edinburgh , it is impossible to say whether there was indeed any personal connection between the Master Printers and the " West End suffragettes . " |
| 11 | We decided that Shakespeare 's plays were mere patterns of imagery , without human beings in them , and by a strange act of critical abnegation , deliberately blinded ourselves to all sorts of psychological insights , which the Victorians had been able to see and are now being seen again . |
| 12 | We decided that Shakespeare 's plays were mere patterns of imagery without human beings in them , and , by a strange act of critical abnegation , deliberately blinded ourselves to all sorts of psychological insights , which the Victorians had been able to see , and are now being seen again . |
| 13 | Mr. Whitaker also referred me to some passages in the speeches of Viscount Finlay and Lord Dunedin in Weld-Blundell v. Stephens [ 1920 ] A.C. 956 , 966–968 , 976 . |
| 14 | His familiarity with every stick and stone of it probably helped him to this preference . |
| 15 | Obliquely flattering his readers by introducing them to boys near their own age involved in surprising and exciting events , he also invited them to wishful thinking , if not to identification , by emphasising the youth of his heroes and underplaying the responsibility and enforced maturity belonging to midshipmen in the early and mid-teens in reality . |
| 16 | An X-ray later condemned me to six months away from this crazy pastime . |
| 17 | This not only brought it into harmony with the existing regime , but also enabled it to further dissociate itself from its Judaic origins . |
| 18 | He probably did it to countless women all the time . |
| 19 | peters also introduced him to small-boat cruising and they made many cruises between Marblehead and the Canadian border . |
| 20 | When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting . |
| 21 | ‘ What really attracted me to this hat was its shape — it reminded me of the ones American tourists wear . ’ |
| 22 | With her formidable industry , Mrs Thatcher , over more than a decade , acquired a grasp of EC detail which left her own experts trailing and , more important , often enabled her to wrong-foot hostile EC officials . |
| 23 | Yet he would have spent far less money if he had bought the first house and completely refurnished the kitchen or even changed it to another room . |
| 24 | On 2 October 1991 Jordanian security forces arrested Muhammad al-Fasi , a Saudi Arabian businessman , and reportedly handed him to Saudi Arabian authorities at the al-Haditha crossing point on the Saudi/Jordanian frontier . |
| 25 | He scored the only goal of the game and immediately endeared himself to half the city 's fans . |
| 26 | This initially led him to ceremonial magick and London 's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ( 1898 ) , members of which included W. B. Yeats , Arthur Machen [ qq.v. ] , and its leader , S. L. Mathers ; and to yoga with the former Golden Dawn member Allan Bennett , later Bhikku Anada Metteya , who brought Theravada ( Hinayana ) Buddhism to Great Britain . |
| 27 | Acads ' back play could have been more direct , but at least they contributed two cracking tries in the first half , the first by Simon Burns , with help from Ford Swanson , who then helped himself to five points as he finished of a Rowen Shepherd break . |
| 28 | I put them first in one pocket , then moved them to all my other pockets , except two which I kept secret . |
| 29 | I loathe the plots hatched by the Spanish government to slip ‘ Guernica ’ surreptitiously into Spain with the promise that it would be put on show at the whorehouse they call the Prado and then moved it to that pigsty , the Reina Sofia . |
| 30 | The collector then donated them to three American museums : the Museum of Modern Art had first choice , and took forty-three ; the Art Institute of Chicago then selected thirty-eight ; and the rest went to the Denver Art Museum . |