Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held : An occupier of premises owed the same duty of care to a fireman attending the premises to extinguish the fire as he or she owed to other visitors under s. 2 of the OLA 1957 . |
| 2 | The death penalty could also be applied to those who refused baptism , failed to conform to ecclesiastical disciplines given out by missionary leaders , or who refused to fast in Lent . |
| 3 | In the later afternoon , Andrew Gregg , deputy co-ordinator of ‘ UUUC Advice and Relief Centres ’ , and I returned to Central Strike Headquarters and collected a portable typewriter and some other items of equipment useful for continuing the strike should we have to go into hiding . |
| 4 | There were inter-party rivalries within the UUUC and inter-factional rivalries within the parties and , although Paisley and I belonged to different parties , the fact that we were both identified with the Black case was not necessarily always helpful . |
| 5 | The bull withdrew a bit , and I said to Merry : |
| 6 | Now , I and I went to other day , I was having quite bad headaches from the back of my eyes , feeling like , you know , I had pressure there , and so , I think it was just headaches but I wanted to go and check it out , and I went to the , cos my dad said oh if you go to the opticians erm , they give you free checks as you 've got glaucoma in the family , and erm , or glaucoma , or whatever you call it . |
| 7 | You and I went to ordinary grammar schools , Bob — but we do n't go round pretending to be classless . |
| 8 | My original career intention was to go into farm management and I went to agricultural college . |
| 9 | Another day we hired bikes and rode through the forests , seeing the Blue Lake and the Green Lake , and William and I went to Buried Village ( where we found a nice cafe with a superb carrot cake , for which I got the recipe ) . |
| 10 | The results formed a report which was out within a month , and which led to far-reaching changes in our company 's approach to the problem . |
| 11 | The so-called " Son of Sam law " , which was passed in 1977 and which led to similar legislation in 34 other US states , was unanimously adjudged to contravene the country 's constitutional guarantee of freedom of free speech . |
| 12 | Coun Shore 's maiden name was Mothersdill and she went to primary school at Corporation Road . |
| 13 | Soon after her husband died and she went to Long Island with six of her children . |
| 14 | And we got to New York . |
| 15 | While the episode revealed the enormous power which the USA could wield in the American hemisphere , such actions provided no permanent solution to the fundamental causes of instability in Latin America — and they led to widespread anti-American feeling . |
| 16 | The ‘ Old Believers ’ , as the schismatics became known , lacked intellectual vigour , but their protest gave expression to more general social discontent and they contributed to popular revolts from that of Stenka Razin ( 1670–71 ) onwards . |
| 17 | Civilian casualty wards were empty , Sister Phillips ' medical ward was free , two old diphtheria wards had been so very thoroughly sterilised , and two more which had housed acute scarlet fever cases were bright with polish and clean sheets and they smelt to high heaven of disinfectant . |
| 18 | So he phoned up and he had to redial two or three times before he started . |
| 19 | And the marvellous thing in Plato of Socrates , when he 'd been told by the Delphic Oracle that he was the wisest of men , he started off like a sort of good poperian scientist trying to falsify this and he went round finding people wiser than himself and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought ‘ Oh , the poets , they 're marvellous people , they know so much ’ , and he went to them and he found that the had n't a clue what they 'd written . |
| 20 | And the marvellous thing in Plato , of Socrates , erm when he 'd been told by the Delphic oracle that he was the wisest of men , he , he started off like a sort of good Popperian scientist trying to falsify this , erm and he went round finding people wiser than himself , and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought , ‘ Oh , the poets ! |
| 21 | But , like Morgan , his main orientation was historical and he contributed to evolutionary theory by introducing the term ‘ survival ’ for those customs or beliefs which , like the human appendix , linger on anachronistically out of context . |
| 22 | It used to be important because it made it more difficult to score with groin kicks , and it led to narrow stances with the leading foot turned inwards . |
| 23 | The remainder of Ireland became known as the Free State of Eire , but disagreement about that partition of Ireland became an inflamed issue within the Free State , and it led to bloody civil war there , after 50,000 British troops were withdrawn , in 1922 . |
| 24 | The policy became known under the slogan ‘ Wandel durch Annäherung ’ ( encouraging change through rapprochement ) and it led to huge financial subsidies to one of the most brutal regimes in Europe , considerably increasing the standard of living in East Germany and thus legitimising the absurd claims of Honecker and Ulbricht to have created ‘ real existing socialism ’ . |
| 25 | Recognition of this new client awareness came fairly late and it served to liven the ‘ flats versus houses ’ debate at the end of the 1930s and into the 1940s . |
| 26 | And it seemed to silly to get on because obviously something was gon na happen . |
| 27 | Lyn was up 7–1 ( ! ) to Brann away and looked to have saved themselves with three minutes to go — but they relaxed to early and got two late , late goals against them and thus won 7–3 , a goal to little and was relegated . |
| 28 | The crows avoided the central green eggs , but they shifted to nearby wheatfields rather than travelling to the white eggs . |
| 29 | The Colonel 's Lady and Judy O'Grady might be sisters under their skins , but they went to different shops . |
| 30 | He never lost his ability to fire others with a passion for great painting of the past , but he began to weary of the College and was often found with his students , not in the studios , but in the nearby pub , the Hoop and Toy . |