Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While McEnroe , who appeared far from visibly insecure , enjoyed watching the following match between compatriots Andre Agassi and Michael Chang , a clearly embarrassed Babcock was left to confirm that if he failed to come to a press conference after his next match — against Goran Ivanisevic tonight — he would be fined up to $10,000 . |
| 2 | If people expected to come to a meeting to make a decision , they will feel let down if the meeting does not reach one . |
| 3 | Erm , members who are also members of the Business Grants Panel will recall that at the December meeting we agreed to grant to a company so he may relocate into the area creating twenty seven jobs , and Friday we learnt that relocation 's to go ahead to Telford . |
| 4 | He paused at a street corner and tried to come to a decision . |
| 5 | Her bright tone brought a reluctant smile to Faye 's lips , then she dabbed her swollen eyes with the tissues Belinda gave her and tried to struggle to a sitting position . |
| 6 | You stopped to talk to a friend and that was when I photographed you . ’ |
| 7 | Making matters worse there were slip ups too when she tried miming to a backing tape . |
| 8 | As he passed through a small piazza there was a shout and a boy appeared at a window holding a bulging plastic shopping bag which he let drop to a friend in the street who stood , arms raised to catch it . |
| 9 | ( No doubt , a future feminist biographer will revise our verdict on Elena Ceauşescu 's contributions to macro-molecular chemistry and maintain that far from plagiarizing Murgulescu and his colleagues , they tried to deny to a peasant woman the credit for her discoveries . ) |
| 10 | Here she is with Noddy , a white German Shepherd crossbreed , found tied to a park bench , Lenny the lurcher and Porky the mongrel ( now with a new owner ) . |
| 11 | It was stolen in November and found burnt to a shell in Middlesbrough . |
| 12 | Better than that , the Power Launcher itself has a timed event facility , which means that you can set it to open an application at a given time — so that file you promised to send to a colleague via modem by ten o'clock on Thursday can be sent automatically , even if you 've taken the day off sick ( assuming the cleaner has n't switched your PC off , of course ! ) |
| 13 | The two claimed they were engaged , since an lranian woman caught talking to a man not related to her by blood or marriage is considered a prostitute . |
| 14 | Rodomonte came crashing to a halt as withdrawal pains shot through his arms and legs . |
| 15 | As the great surge of modernism finally seemed to grind to a halt , artists and public were apparently offered two choices : either to celebrate postmodern confusion , or to turn back to older and more insular traditions . |
| 16 | For after another second or two of awkward silence , his lordship seemed to come to a decision . |
| 17 | He seemed to come to a decision and stared hard at Jack Stone . |
| 18 | But here there was no statutory authority , and although there were several paths that seemed to lead to a solution , none of them went the whole way . |
| 19 | No I think they 'd got to a point where , you know , if you , if you were about erm , they made sure they were the first ones there like the and they , I think they more or less recognized by the merchants they , they were the boatmen . |
| 20 | I think there were some people there who did n't really know , but they maybe went because they 'd got to a funeral . |
| 21 | Belief in evolution , as a cosmic guarantee of progress , was a part of this scientism ; but the physical sciences were just as important , because of the support they seemed to give to a reductionist philosophy . |
| 22 | Labour 's apparent shift towards PR to woo the Liberals , Ashdown 's insistence that he would allow a government to function only if it gave way to PR , all seemed to point to a deal being hatched up behind the backs of the voters to secure power for the opposition parties . |
| 23 | His parents thought he 'd gone to a friend 's house in the next street . |
| 24 | His wife Margaret had n't been there ; she 'd gone to a meeting of her rock garden club . |
| 25 | The robber at Bath Road had grabbed £45,000 after shooting the two guards and made his initial getaway on a moped , found , say the prosecution , at the point at which he 'd switched to a getaway car driven by the second man . |
| 26 | It could n't be that I was right , and while I yearned to return to a certainty I already knew , I heard only my mother 's voice , insisting , on one dead note , that she knew of what life should consist . |
| 27 | True scholars that came to speak to a man before noon . |
| 28 | He left school at fourteen and after several jobs became apprenticed to a toolmaker and joined the Amalgamated Society of Toolmakers in March 1916 . |
| 29 | While he was wrestling with this problem , he happened to go to a lecture by Einstein , and was struck by Einstein 's remark that his theory of relativity would fall to the ground if any of several tests failed . |
| 30 | My brother was like that once , he , he used to hate he used to hate he used to hate peas thank you , and once he got invited to a friend of his and there was peas , and he put just of four peas on his plate and said |