Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Brown is parading this tacit Jackson support in an effort to draw blacks away from Mr Bill Clinton , the Democrats ' front-runner whose solid black support helped him to big victories in the South and Mid-West . |
| 2 | I do n't know why my search drew me to that part of the house , except that Curtis was the only soul in it other than myself and Leon . |
| 3 | On that one day he notched up five kills although Fighter Command downrated them to four ‘ probables ’ . |
| 4 | But Christine , 37 , insisted on going home for a snack before an ambulance took her to Royal Hallamshire hospital . |
| 5 | A mile 's drive south in the car took us to all that remains of Clare 's beloved heath land . |
| 6 | Their search took them to six countries , with the contract finally going to Toronto-based Lovat . |
| 7 | Bennett , the original owner of a Jaguar car entrusted it to one Searle for some repairs to be carried out . |
| 8 | Great Britain , for their part , will be looking to recapture the many admirable qualities which brought them that improbable victory after Steve Hampson 's early dismissal reduced them to 12 men . |
| 9 | A 49 after a safety exchange took him to 4–4 , but Hendry reeled off three successive breaks of the highest quality to put daylight between them . |
| 10 | I 've imagined myself in situations like this , made up speeches in my head , speeches about truth and freedom and protection of sources , speeches I imagined delivering from the witness box just before the judge sentenced me to ninety days or six months or whatever for contempt of court , but I was kidding myself . |
| 11 | Failure led him to mass manipulation and an attempt to revolutionize British politics from outside the system . |
| 12 | His wrathful imagination led him to grotesque ideas … |
| 13 | Gandhi dissociated himself from this development and withdrew from politics until 1939 , when the outbreak of the Second World War stirred him to political action again . |
| 14 | Rain reduced it to 37 overs a side and the home team were soon rattling along . |
| 15 | The Flack team restored her to pristine condition as G–FURY , and she made her first flight at Elstree in June 1980 . |
| 16 | Blair 's job took him to troutless Humberside , but after two years , good fortune posted him back to Aberdeenshire . |
| 17 | Last year , before I decided to settle here for keeps , my business took me to one of the great northern cities , chief among those of the prosperous world . |
| 18 | The captain of the escort led him to one side , explaining . |
| 19 | Above a miniature bergschrund , a slabby groove sporting a teasing overlap led us to another intriguingly smooth corner . |
| 20 | Houghton 's wife reported him to naval security for being in possession of large sums of cash . |
| 21 | This assignment introduced you to various sequences of notes played ascending and descending , within all five pentatonic scale shapes . |
| 22 | The Royal Oak introduced you to some of the complexities of co-ordinating financial and statistical data with details of the premises and the personal particulars of the key staff . |
| 23 | In March 1988 the Jerusalem District Court sentenced him to 18 years ' imprisonment , upheld in May 1989 by the Supreme Court . |
| 24 | Whereas the Formalist concept was related to the literary devices within a text , the Prague School theory applied it to all forms of language . |
| 25 | This charge could not be proved but the military tribunal condemned him to 10 years absence from public life . |
| 26 | Prost 's victory lifted him to 47 points at the head of the drivers ' championship while Brazilian Ayrton Senna , the McLaren driver who was forced to retire after running second until the closing laps , remains second in the title race with 42 points . |
| 27 | After leaving the prairies in 1937 my working career took me to many lands around the world for 37 years , and I must confess that during all that time I scarcely thought of my old friend Edna Jacques until January of 1974 , when we were living in Anguilla . |
| 28 | In the years that followed , his career took him to many different locations and a wide variety of posts within our Department . |
| 29 | Robson played 44 of Coventry 's 50 games and none of his rare absences was connected with the pelvic injury which at one stage of his Hammers ' career restricted him to 13 games in three years . |
| 30 | They also argued that their place in the world economy entitled them to special and separate treatment from the continental states . |