Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Well , I only got to page 8 … ) . |
| 2 | The assault only came to light four days later , when he went to hospital for treatment . |
| 3 | Police were not informed and the matter only came to light last year during a police investigation into the running of children 's homes in North Wales . |
| 4 | Perhaps he only aimed to chivvy those civilians in another direction , but was inexpert in the settings of the weapon . |
| 5 | 2 weeks ago it finally came to trial 2 weeks ago and today was the day of judgement , but she 's still waiting . |
| 6 | A transcript of the tape-recording made in the restaurant was a central plank in the prosecution case when it finally came to court eighteen months later . |
| 7 | Lee Marvin 's song ‘ Wand'rin' Star ’ would be unacceptable to most bullfrogs but it still got to number one . |
| 8 | Herodotus ' History can be seen as a sermon on the text that Spartans and Persians , even in their great period of conflict , gradually came to value each other 's qualities:2 at first ( Hdt. i.153 ) Cyrus the Great scoffs at the Greeks who come together in a market-place to cheat each other ; by the end , the exiled Spartan king Demaratos is shown ( vii.104 ) lecturing a clearly impressed Xerxes on the subject of Spartan deference to law . |
| 9 | Previously , a bondholder could swap his old paper for new bonds with the same face value but , say , different rights and terms , without closing his options if the firm later went to chapter 11 . |
| 10 | The 1967 Act ( in Section 65 ) also brought to finality one of the most contentious chapters in English penal history . |
| 11 | The remnants of Doe 's forces — also thought to number 1,000 — nominated Nimley as head of state . |
| 12 | And it also managed to chip some of the woodwork , curious to think that I was offered as war damage compensation five pounds to re-case the piano , you could n't of had it repolished for five pounds , but thinking was working class people should n't have pianos , I 'm certain that was at the back of , of the gentleman whose job it was to evaluate war damage , he certainly raised his eyebrows every time we told him , what either a piece of furniture or crockery or cutlery which had been destroyed had cost and he was so foolish after er the house had been almost flattened as de demand bills as proof of evidence that your figures were correct |
| 13 | In figure 5.1 this implies that output would rise to Y 1 if aggregate demand unexpectedly rose to AD 1 . |
| 14 | Er resumed on er we actually got to number eight this morning did n't we ? |
| 15 | His housekeepers certainly seemed to rate more consideration than his bed-partners . |
| 16 | That 's how it was , I never went to school proper . |