Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These included not only the psychiatric cases but also those suffering from tuberculosis ( nineteen patients in 1945 ) and others con fined to hospital for long periods . |
| 2 | Because women are largely con fined to jobs with low status and power , they will be relatively less able to engage in serious forms of white-collar and corporate crime . |
| 3 | Such direction can not be given where the proceedings stand referred to arbitration under Ord 19 , r 2(3) ( Ord 20 , r 12A ) . |
| 4 | get promoted to Head of Lower School , or Head of House . |
| 5 | I do n't think you get attached to birds like you do animals . |
| 6 | I do n't think you get attached to birds like dogs . |
| 7 | Eight of the 12 EC governments remain opposed to attempts by the EC Commissioner for competition policy , Sir Leon Brittan , to impose greater competition on national telecoms authorities . |
| 8 | Even so , many officials remain opposed to liberalisation of the regulations : they regard services as culturally corrosive ( as in media ) or politically important for national control ( as in financial services and trans-border data flows ) . |
| 9 | That is not easy for them to do , for so extremely have their bodies become adapted to life in the air that their legs are greatly reduced in size . |
| 10 | Adults with cystic fibrosis become known to ACFA by transfer from the Cystic Fibrosis Research Trust 's mailing list when they reach the age of 18 , or by direct referral . |
| 11 | White working-class and black women 's stories of employment difficulties and success are heard as case histories of psychic tension , and lesbian women 's attempts to redefine relations between women become assimilated to accounts of pre-oedipal intimacy . |
| 12 | It is suggested that men become addicted to alcohol as a result of two quite different situations at work . |
| 13 | I 've been generous in the latitude I 've given to speakers in talking to this proposal , but it is quite specific about the the review of er responsibilities |
| 14 | As I said earlier , I 'm pleased that you 've come to Girton for this symposium , come away from your normal surroundings in the perhaps stuffy office in some district council to the beauty of the wide open spaces here out in the countryside . |
| 15 | The 21-year-old McCracken , who makes his debut in tomorrow 's home game with Wakefield , said : ‘ I 've come to England with a bit of a reputation but I want to put all that behind me and get on with playing rugby and improving my game . |
| 16 | Hello there … this week we 've come to France to the town of Chalon sur Soane for one of the most dramatic one of of the most dangerous of summer sports … that 's powerboating … |
| 17 | ‘ That 's what I 've come to London for . |
| 18 | Paul Mason is also available again and , on a ground where they 've come to grief in the past , Aberdeen have been reminded by Willie Miller that only their best will be good enough against St Johnstone . |
| 19 | I do hope that you 've come to terms with pregnancy now . ’ |
| 20 | I 've come to terms with the blow and I 've a marriage to arrange . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've come to terms with the rule fairly quickly , ’ said Pearson . |
| 22 | However , almost as soon as we 've come to terms with its limitations , the penis decides to create a whole new set of trails and tribulations for its owner . |
| 23 | Luckily , I 've come to terms with my height and now it 's to my advantage , ’ she says . |
| 24 | In the meantime , I 've come to terms with her . |
| 25 | I 've come to terms with it , it does n't bother whether I 've got it or not , but to be honest I 'd rather have more hair than I do now . |
| 26 | it seems like now to tell you at last I 've come to terms with it now , I 've really |
| 27 | feel like I 've accepted it , I 've come to terms with it , there 's nothing I can do about it |
| 28 | Well , rightly or wrongly we 've come to arrangements with the Liberals , not because we like the Liberals , not because we wanted to , but we , we were fed up with be being in opposition to tell you the truth . |
| 29 | This is the first visit that I 've made to Europe since my escape from Germany in 1940 . |
| 30 | The current warm-weather soundtrack of choice for discerning numbskulls is Ugly Kid Joe , a quartet of stoned surfers who 've risen to power on the Young Dumb Fun ticket in a way that critically-defied combos like The Ramones never managed . |