Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bank agreed to increase this to £135,000 , reducing to £120,000 after three weeks , but it required the security of a second charge on the shareholder 's matrimonial home , which was jointly owned by himself and his wife . |
| 2 | Marcus became gentler , moved to sit nearer to Patrick , ceased his exertions and , after gazing at Pat for some time , began to caress one of his hands , turning it about in his own hands and pressing it . |
| 3 | Prometheus tried to rival a God called Zeus by stealing fire from heaven then giving it to Earth which is similar to Frankenstein 's actions because he stole the secret of life and proposed to give this to humans until it went disastrously wrong . |
| 4 | Since everything seemed out of my reach I was reduced to making friends with the pigeons who were everywhere , and whose gentle murmurings I 'd grown accustomed to hearing . |
| 5 | He 'd handed those to Miss Guttner , as the obstetrician involved , and she had confused them considerably with talk about the obstetric details , which pleased Briant a good deal . |
| 6 | Stones Lane , I 'd got used to Manners Lane , they call it something quite |
| 7 | They probably seemed as ridiculous to the boy as they 'd seemed boring to Nevil , who had been right to say they had harmed him with their indulgence and from whom they would willingly now have asked forgiveness . |
| 8 | The laughter which this caused proved irritating to Johnson , but usefully stimulated a response which gives a good insight . |
| 9 | at the manor ground United lost 2-0 to Queens Park Rangers … |
| 10 | at the manor ground United lost 2-0 to Queens Park Rangers … |
| 11 | Like Walt Whitman , who became a wound dresser in the American Civil War in order to draw closer to the simple young soldiers he adored and whom he wished to tend , Vincent sought to draw nearer to Christ . |
| 12 | He sold it in 1989 to John Kluge , the richest man in the US , whose wife fancied living next to Balmoral . |
| 13 | But BZW remains more pessimistic , believing the FT-SE index would have to fall to 2,200 before it started to look attractive to investors . |
| 14 | It was impossible to catch her , but as time went on , she started to venture nearer to houses and populated areas . |
| 15 | The amount breaks down as follows : * a criminal fine of $100 million , the highest ever levied against a polluter , set after Exxon agreed to plead guilty to charges of criminal misdemeanour ; * a total of $900 million in civil damages , to be administered by a board of Alaska state and US federal officials , and used for cleaning up operations along the Alaska shoreline over the next decade ; * if further damage from the slick emerges between the years 2002 and 2006 , Exxon will be liable for up to $100 million more . |
| 16 | He chose to remain close to Marxism , but my impression is that he was shifting his ground … |
| 17 | She chose to remain close to friends she had made as a teenager and moved in the pop and art worlds which the prince saw as ‘ frivolous ’ . |
| 18 | I have blasphemed … and did exceeding wrong to King Henry VIII and especially to his wife , Queen Catherine . ’ |
| 19 | After Goose Bay , where she had controlled the plane as it climbed through thick ice-laden cloud to eleven thousand feet , they had flown direct to Narsarssuaq on the southern tip of Greenland . |
| 20 | I had explained this to Aunt Louise , who enjoyed her bath and filled it almost to the top ; but she took no notice , becoming affronted and resentful if I reminded her . |
| 21 | Thiam , 58 , a former banker , named a 27-member power-sharing government the following day , bringing in opposition figures including the controversial Abdoulayé Wade , leader of the Democratic Party of Senegal ( PDS ) who had come second to Diouf in the presidential elections in both 1983 and 1988 . |
| 22 | The Workers ' Party ( PT ) , whose leader Luís Inácio da Silva ( " Lula " ) had come second to Collor in the December 1989 run-off presidential elections [ see pp. 37117-18 ] , made significant gains , but lost control of the local government of Sao Paulo and failed to win the mayoralty in Rio de Janeiro . |
| 23 | Twice he had come second to Martin Potter , once at Lacanau and again at Biarritz . |
| 24 | For the first time in history the Japanese people were enjoying real freedom rather than the autocracy and totalitarianism which they had suffered prior to August 1945 . |
| 25 | Not that she had said that to Dr. Saxby . |
| 26 | Rachaela 's mother had said this to Rachaela over more trivial offences . |
| 27 | In Coco v A N Clark ( Engineers ) Ltd [ 1969 ] RPC 41 , the company had made available to 43% of its shareholders information concerning a takeover proposal . |
| 28 | In particular , as a first step towards clearing the area , he was suggesting that , as Macmillan had advised , the Cossacks should be handed over to the Soviet authorities , although , as he had made clear to Tolbukhin 's HQ , he could not do this without Gen McCreery 's authorization . |
| 29 | At least , she thought , she had made clear to Stephen the fact that she was not happy living in his mother 's shadow . |
| 30 | During those early years of the colony 's existence we received very few of the homeless children who had grown accustomed to street wandering . |