Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] to a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | and it had to appeal to a broader group . |
| 4 | The largest faction in the civil war , the Somali National Alliance ( SNA ) of Gen. Mohammed Farah Aydid which claimed control of two-thirds of Mogadishu and of most of southern Somalia , continued to object to a larger UN presence , arguing that this would undermine Somali sovereignty . |
| 5 | He felt a sharp twinge of guilt now for not taking the trouble to visit , but William 's family had moved to a better neighbourhood when William 's mum had made her first million , and Preston had gradually lost touch . |
| 6 | In April he and Constanze had moved to a smaller , less fashionable apartment on the Landstrasse , and Constanze was once again pregnant . |
| 7 | It is perhaps as well to remember at the outset that the main injury in this particular case was a hip injury which , if it had occurred to a younger man , would have produced an arthrodesis operation . |
| 8 | Foinavon had reduced to a canter and he jumped the fence off his hocks like a show jumper . |
| 9 | The reduction in numbers was still startlingly small — for example , even after the convertibility crisis of 1947 had led to a further downward revision of the targets for 31 March 1948 , there were still 937,000 in uniform , supported by 350,000 in supplying industries . |
| 10 | It appeared that the expedient solution proposed by the District in 1930 for the Bedfordshire scheme had led to a further concession in Cambridgeshire in 1932 and by 1937 had been developed into a strategy for the development of adult education in rural areas for which the Board ‘ … visualised the Rural Areas Scheme as an eight counties one ’ . |
| 11 | By the second century AD such refined tastes had spread to a wider public . |
| 12 | Souness added that he accepted Liverpool had lost to a better team , but still wondered how the Russians would have reacted had the Reds accepted one of their early half chances . |
| 13 | Reserve Marine Myles Morley , 37 , from Greystoke , Cumbria , developed eyesight problems and had to move to a lower altitude . |
| 14 | Andrée 's voice had changed to a lower key , that air of persiflage was gone . |