Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the old tradition of pilgrimage , peregrinatio , spawned or became united to the new kind of military adventure we call the crusade ; and the resources of the roads and waterways of Europe and the Near East were strained to the uttermost to meet the insatiable demands of these adventurous travellers . |
| 2 | More than half of the children were ignored whatever they did — whether they cried , played or tried to talk to the adult . |
| 3 | Some would say her hair is her finest feature , though Robyn herself secretly hankers after something more muted and malleable , hair that could be groomed and styled according to mood — drawn back in a severe bun like Simone de Beauvoir 's , or allowed to fall to the shoulders in a Pre-Raphaelite cloud . |
| 4 | Points are awarded or deducted according to the impact of the crime on the victim , for example , and whether the offender is genuinely remorseful . |
| 5 | Many , it has emerged , will be uninsured or under-insured adding to the misery already suffered . |
| 6 | Whether or not those controlling the company consented or purported to consent to the abstraction of the company 's property by the accused , he will have appropriated the property of the company . |
| 7 | A mechanical wound to the cotyledon ( lines 4–6 ) led to a systemic accumulation of pin activity and levels of this activity were identical whether the cotyledon was excised five minutes after wounding or left attached to the plant for 48 hours . |
| 8 | Steady-state levels of pin 2 mRNA were identical whether the cotyledon was excised 5min after wounding ( Fig. 3 D ) or left attached to the plant for 4 hours ( Fig. 3 E ) and are comparable to those observed in other studies of wound-inducible pin mRNA levels . |
| 9 | Equivalent and high levels of pin activity and pin transcripts were found in the systemically responding leaf 1 , whether the wounded cotyledon was excised rapidly or left attached to the plant . |
| 10 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |
| 11 | Scientists in the academic community achieve recognition , advancement , and success in attracting funding by publication , whereas some of those working in industry or defence are neither encouraged nor expected to contribute to the publicly available literature ( Gilbert 1978 74 ) . |
| 12 | Scientists in the academic community achieve recognition , advancement , and success in attracting funding by publication , whereas some of those working in industry or defence are neither encouraged nor expected to contribute to the publicly available literature ( Gilbert 1978 ) . |
| 13 | In 1167 his army had been decimated before Rome by an outbreak of malaria ; and he had been chased over the Alps in humiliating disaster ; but still he plotted and planned to return to the task . |
| 14 | At last a long despairing cry rose from the back of his throat and screamed shatteringly across the churchyard as he threw the baton away and clung sobbing to the angel . |
| 15 | Constituency parties had to be wound up and re-formed to conform to the new boundaries . |
| 16 | I chose a time when I knew the Trunchbull was out of the way teaching the sixth-formers , and I put up my hand and asked to go to the bogs . |
| 17 | In the Commons , Opposition leader John Smith provoked Tory shouts of fury when he asked : ‘ Is n't it inappropriate for the inquiry to be set up and asked to report to the very regional health authority whose own actions may be the subject of the inquiry ? |
| 18 | I was put off at Smith field and asked to get to the Strand as best I could for another bus . |
| 19 | On returning to the ward somewhat shaken myself I made the patient as comfortable as I could and asked to speak to the ward sister , who was fortunately very experienced and prepared to believe what I told her . |
| 20 | Later that evening Heathcliff 's servant Joseph arrived and asked to speak to the master . |
| 21 | Presumably the synthetic oligonucleotide was taken up by the cells and became bound to the complementary sequence on the viral RNA . |
| 22 | The right of the painter to move around an object and combine various views of it into a single image , first stated in writing by Metzinger in 1910 and elaborated a few months later by Allard , was quickly adopted by most critics as a central feature of the style , and became related to the conceptual or intellectual aspect . |
| 23 | All biological life thus adapted its metabolism to the level of solar warmth , and became adjusted to the strength of solar radiation prevailing at the time . |
| 24 | Some of the poems were written down and became known to the outside world before the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 25 | As machines were introduced to record activity , these support data were printed out onto paper , were signed , dated and cross referenced by the scientist and became attached to the book 's pages . |
| 26 | Besides , hearing of cases brought by the state against thieves who passed their finds to dealers on the black market and failed to report to the Commission on Antiquities ended his youthful enthusiasm for archaeology : Davide was law-abiding by temperament . |
| 27 | The plaintiffs were dealers in second hand lorries and agreed to transfer to the defendants two lorries for £475 and take in exchange two other lorries valued at £225 , provided they were delivered within one month . |
| 28 | This movement ‘ down ’ from God to man expresses and reveals the character and nature of God himself ; for his being is not separate from his action ; and in the answering movement ‘ up ’ from man to God , we see that human existence itself is grounded upon and made to answer to the divine initiative . |
| 29 | Well when you collected the dues er it meant taking it up to the office every Monday and when you got up to the office and got talking to the officials and such like the interest became greater and er it developed from there that er the workers of thought they should have er should have a representative on the committee . |
| 30 | She neither sobbed nor wept aloud as Dr Neil sighed , closed Effie 's eyes , pulled up the sheet , and rose to walk to the window , to look out of it , at nothing , McAllister suspected . |