Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meredith simply continued to eye him steadily , and he chuckled . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As the summer wore on and Dubah 's name kept cropping up in raw intelligence data from DEA/NARCOG informants , Coleman eventually reported to Donleavy that , without ever leaving the country , the Syrian spymaster seemed to have his hand in the pockets of everybody engaged in the Bekaa 's drug traffic , from Damascus to Dearborn . |
| 11 | His ball to brother Gary McDowell was touched on to Neil Sibble who 's first tie shot was cannoned off the bar , that was the nearest that Banbury really got to scoring . |
| 12 | His delegates in France immediately set to work to nominate these regional administrators . |
| 13 | As Coleman subsequently reported to Control , this pretty well summed up the relationship between Hurley and the spooks in Nicosia . |
| 14 | Jo Garcia sportingly agreed to flesh out the survey 's findings by revealing exactly what she found attractive about her lovers — Chris , Erick , ex-husband Steve , and current partner Geoff — and giving them marks out of ten for looks , manners , eligibility , personality , kissing ability and sexiness . |
| 15 | Millicent Fawcett vehemently objected to family allowances becoming a feminist plank and clung to the typically nineteenth-century belief that allowances ‘ would destroy the fabric of family life by wiping out the responsibility of parents for the maintenance of their children ’ . |
| 16 | Mrs Oram 's three-year-old son Charles almost choked to death in thick fumes after the £30 Safe and Sound monitor ‘ spontaneously ignited ’ . |
| 17 | The Caesars eventually turned to Christianity and became Popes . |
| 18 | A sleepy old town is Devizes Not given to chaos and crisis The major event 's A canoe race in Lent With stiff backs and sore bums as prizes ! |
| 19 | With Laura still opposed to advertising , ( ‘ too commercial ’ ) their options were few . |
| 20 | Later , Crawford generously conceded to Sherrin that the decision was right and it was a lesson in not using substandard material . |
| 21 | Needless to say , he was soon talking to God on the big white telephone but that did n't stop his band-mates from trying to drink seven pints of water in 30 minutes , followed by a dry Weetabix race upon which the Kinkies nearly choked to death , thus depriving the world of a hot new item . |
| 22 | Given this power , it is possible that Gloucester simply yielded to temptation in 1483 , first to dominate the minority and then , when that proved easy , to make himself king . |
| 23 | Given this power , it is possible that Gloucester simply yielded to temptation in 1483 , first to dominate the minority and then , when that proved easy , to make himself king . |
| 24 | The SLORC frequently resorted to violence and terror to subdue its opponents . |
| 25 | Thus , for example , the existence of the acid rain problem in Scandinavia initially pointed to emission sources in the United Kingdom as the cause . |