Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , the educated élite became exposed to a heady concoction of western romantic , Idealist , and socialist ideas . |
| 2 | Most extraordinary of these are the Cretaceous rudists ( p. 47 ) a group in which one valve became modified to a long cone , on which the other valve rested like a lid , the whole effect being most un-clammish . |
| 3 | But with water shares expected to soar to a 30 per cent premium on the first day of trading , Mrs Ullman 's delay on the Tube could have cost her as much as £150 . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're always undermining me , ’ Avril accused James when he tried to respond to an earlier complaint she had made ( 'You always opt out at the first hint of difficulty' ) , and she reprimanded the children . |
| 5 | The Yek who ruled this world lived according to a complex code of law at the very core of which was a presumption which affected every part of their existence — the belief that technological advancement was to a great extent incompatible with the maintenance of civilisation . |
| 6 | At times he advised reverting to a lower potency if the higher potency aggravated ; at other times he advised giving a few doses of a partially similar remedy if any aggravation should occur ; he also suggested administering the remedy in liquid form , giving a few succussions before repeating ( the plus system ) . |
| 7 | Their on-off relationship , which seemed to come to a sudden end two years ago , was re-kindled earlier this year with a romantic holiday to Mauritius . |
| 8 | The sporadic gunfire , explosions and shouting in the depths of the forest , seemed to belong to a different world . |
| 9 | Even if I 'd agreed to a fifth series , Pemberley would n't have lasted for ever . ’ |
| 10 | Many of the other presentations reduced rationing to an academic exercise which ignored the current impact of decreased resources on the provision of health care . |
| 11 | After Nasser , he says , his themes seemed to refer to a vanished society and for five years Mahfouz wrote no books . |
| 12 | ‘ I would have said what I have if we 'd gone to a fun-fair , ’ said Helen . |
| 13 | Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’ |
| 14 | It was n't shock , exactly ; the world just seemed to withdraw to a vast , echoing distance . |
| 15 | When Lord Leverhulme abandoned Lewis , the crofting villages seemed doomed to a steady decline and eventual extinction . |
| 16 | ‘ A while ago I said I 'd listened to a thousand , but the figure 's probably closer now to 2000 , ’ says Jim . |
| 17 | We arrived at the bottom of a rope ladder which seemed to rise to an enormous height up the ship 's side . |
| 18 | The project never materialised owing to a federal moratorium on housing funds , but the two strands of building preservation and community involvement came together in 1979 with the incorporation of the MCC . |
| 19 | And at the last him happened to come to a fair green way . |
| 20 | His starting point is the fact that we have three classes of receptors in our eyes , each tuned to respond to a different wavelength of light , one to ‘ red ’ , one to ‘ green ’ , and one to ‘ blue ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Is this him ? ’ she asked pointing to a sober gentleman in a bowler hat and pin-stripes coming towards us . |
| 22 | Just as plainly effective were Danny and Wiston ; different though they were in minor detail and execution , they all shared that plain symmetry and order which the Tudor gentry sought to give to a turbulent society . |
| 23 | The PC seemed a trifle unnerved playing to a full house . |
| 24 | Yes , you see he agreed to contribute to a suitable replacement upon terms that we agreed , what happens if terms are n't , ca n't be agreed ? |
| 25 | ‘ I decided to go to a financial adviser , ’ continues Angie , ‘ He advised me to remortgage with a lender with a lower standard rate and for £20,000 more than we had originally borrowed when we bought the house . |
| 26 | This arrangement left Hortense with the responsibility of her younger son 's education , which she decided to entrust to a private tutor . |
| 27 | Once they decided to work to a particular time-scale , they carried on regardless , ’ says Crisp . |
| 28 | EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Miss Ghada Ahmed Musa , a good Muslim girl from Egypt 's poor southern province of El Minya , loved to listen to a lurid radio serial called ‘ Alarm Bells ’ . |
| 29 | Dr Neil decided that McAllister 's education in life needed adding to a little . |
| 30 | Darren started going to a special school , but in ‘ 84 my drinking did start getting out of hand and I was pushing Darren from pillar to post . |