Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This then was the situation when Bruce Mackenzie , after much prompting from Jim and Jean finally proposed to Tina . |
| 2 | Meredith simply continued to eye him steadily , and he chuckled . |
| 3 | Alfonso then returned to Barcelona , leaving Richard to devastate the estates of the Count of Périgord and his friends . |
| 4 | But the family at Shurton evidently warmed to Coleridge in spite of his views , and it was to Henry 's sister Lavinia that he would later address his affectionate short poem ‘ To a Young Lady on her Recovery from a Fever ’ . |
| 5 | Iris Murdoch briefly warmed to Buddhism in her middle years , and more recently adopted a congenially fellow-travelling stance to Christianity much like Larkin 's : ‘ There are advantages , ’ she has remarked in an interview , ‘ in staying with the icons of one 's own people . ’ |
| 6 | " The primary aim of our foreign policy must be to keep the United States firmly committed to Europe . " |
| 7 | Now , looking for guidance in his construction of a monumental figure composition , Picasso too turned to Cézanne , although he approached him , characteristically , not only with veneration ( later in life he was to say ‘ Cézanne was my one and only master ’ ) but also in a spirit of aggression , even of iconoclasm . |
| 8 | Karen finally turned to Whitlock . |
| 9 | The second of the two brothers also died soon after the events I have described , and it is probable that Gunhilda then returned to Wilton , for she was later remembered there with honour . |
| 10 | The six-foot-six-inch England forward returned to America after helping the Mohawks gain a place in the play-offs with a victory at Cardiff in their last league game of the season before also being outstanding in the first game of the play offs when Middlesborugh pulled off the shock of the season by winning at second division league winners Oldham . |
| 11 | Matthew eventually returned to Nanaimo and came home with us , but Ed continued on to Ohio for a longer stay . |
| 12 | It was with his father Paul 's encouragement that Pascal eventually set to work on the project , which has been ‘ something of a labour of love over the last few years ’ . |
| 13 | Ranging from Cubism , represented by Henri Le Fauconnier 's painting ‘ Mountaineers attacked by bears ’ to the revived Expressionism of Karl Friedrich Gotsch , a pupil of Kokoschka once consigned to oblivion . |
| 14 | The answer is that , despite his biographer 's sterling efforts to dig up neat psychoanalytic excuses for even his most venal sins , a Dickens often given to kindness , empathy and geniality but more predominantly disposed to be cruel , self-centred , self-pitying and sententious does not come over as an especially lovable specimen . |
| 15 | A guest of the Errols at Slains , Stoker later retired to Whinnyfold , southwards a little along the coast . |
| 16 | But Lupus shrewdly submitted to Charles , gave up the offending Aquitaine leader , and was granted peace . |
| 17 | The intuitive , Welsh side of Owen always responded to Mahmoud 's Arab inspirationalism ; the pragmatic English side damped it down . |
| 18 | Jarvis always talked to people without reserve . |
| 19 | On the other hand , their absence from many of the wards they had fought in 1986 in places such as Cherwell , Portsmouth , Stevenage and Waveney directly contributed to Labour 's success . |
| 20 | During His ministry the Lord Jesus often referred to events recorded in the Old Testament such as the story of Jonah , the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and like Peter to the flood . |
| 21 | Stimulated and excited by Haydn 's example , Mozart immediately set to work on a similar set , K.168–73 , in which denser textures , use of contrapuntal devices , and a more rigorous approach , as opposed to the sensuous , Italianate tunefulness of the earlier set , all point to Haydn 's influence . |
| 22 | Philip then returned to Paris , while Richard , keeping abreast of him , rode on to Normandy . |
| 23 | Veale J. there referred to Lord Cranworth L.C. in Attorney-General v. Sheffield Gas Consumers Co. ( 1853 ) 3 De G.M. & G. 304 , 339–340 in support of his reliance upon a test of reasonable user . |
| 24 | Mozart was by no means the first freelance composer to die in financial difficulties in the days before copyright law and performance rights afforded the artist some protection : 60 years later the German composer Gustav Lortzing literally starved to death after having to sell his hugely successful operas to publishers for a pitifully inadequate outright fee , which denied him any further revenue . |
| 25 | Warwickshire unsurprisingly lost to Notts in their first four-day game but Smith 's five first-innings wickets kept them in the game until the final day . |
| 26 | Fangio and Moss teamed up again at Maserati in 1957 , but their renewed partnership was only brief as Moss soon moved to Vanwall. the pair of them , however , dominated the championship once more but the final championship read : 1st Fangio , 2nd Moss , for a third successive year . |
| 27 | Liddell later returned to China as a teacher and missionary where he was interned by the Japanese at a camp in Weifang . |
| 28 | Monday 's stories included that of the Annunciation , recalling both Adam 's fall and Christ 's redemption in such a way that sin and redemption appear as simultaneous action constantly re-enacted : Such meditation is closely connected with Julian 's visionary experience of the lord and the servant in which Adam and Christ become one figure , Adam falling and Christ instantly subjected to death as sin precipitates the Incarnation in the work of mercy and love . |
| 29 | Castro later admitted to Herbert Matthews that when he took over the refineries he did not know whether or not Moscow would supply Cuba with oil ( Matthews : 1969 , p. 171 ) . |
| 30 | The MNR reportedly agreed to Malawi as a venue in early June , after which it was suggested that talks would begin imminently . |