Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , he posted the finished text to his publishers from Istanbul about three weeks after he arrived there . |
| 2 | Although Hayman was over-age for recruitment , he was taken into the Diplomatic Service as a first secretary in 1954 and posted the next year to Belgrade . |
| 3 | Mrs Hugh Dalton doubled the Labour majority to 7,072 , remarking at the declaration on the ‘ ever deepening distress ’ of the South Durham people . |
| 4 | She flung the inside door to one side , was about to slam it but changed her mind and closed it behind her in a quiet and controlled manner . |
| 5 | Then , his smile broadening , he passed the second file to Ellis . |
| 6 | She passed the joint back to Joey and lay back . |
| 7 | Attfield and Duck ( 1982 ) found that they could reject the rational expectations theory of the term structure of interest rates when they applied the above model to three-monthly , five-yearly and ten-yearly rates of interest in the UK . |
| 8 | He applied the same principle to the Germans , who had participated through the Prussians in the dismemberment of Poland . |
| 9 | Unfortunately he applied the same stricture to himself and some of his works are rather limited . |
| 10 | It is time we applied the same reasoning to all . |
| 11 | I suppose I was defending a monarchy that had in the past seen some unsuitable sovereigns , while he somewhat deftly applied the same argument to unsatisfactory prime ministers . |
| 12 | A point of interest to myself is that our driver , Howard Bounds , shared the next bed to me during my last stay in hospital . |
| 13 | Classes did not exist since all members of society shared the same relationship to the means of production . |
| 14 | He hugged the old tailor to him , kissing his cheek while the tears rolled from his eyes . |
| 15 | But Milosh reversed his lance and flung it so hard that it pinned the Venetian champion to the gate of the city ; he struck off the champion 's head and threw it in Koulash 's nosebag . |
| 16 | He had expended himself so much for the people Eva made the long journey to his funeral as a mark of respect . |
| 17 | Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team . |
| 18 | In the following year the Poles of 300 and 301 Squadrons bombed Berlin , as did the Russians , but it was not until 1942 that the first of the four-engined ‘ heavies ’ made the long flight to this target . |
| 19 | After five years in Yorkshire he was transferred to Manchester City for £56,000 and a year later made the fateful move to Torino . |
| 20 | Born the son of a bank official , he was 23 when he made the five-week voyage to Britain aboard the Northern Star armed with an Auckland University degree to take up his scholarship place at Balliol College , Oxford , in the early 1960s . |
| 21 | He became so identified with us that he was the perfect penitent and made the perfect confession to the Father for us . |
| 22 | DARLINGTON couple Andrea and Martin Stevens made the perfect start to their new life with a Valentine 's Day treat . |
| 23 | She drove past the great Celtic cross , so ancient that its age was only speculation , down the main street , past the gates of the Marquis of Headfort 's magnificent estate , now sold to foreigners with money , made the final turn to Cloncarrig . |
| 24 | Next door , in the mirror of the basement cloakroom of Canon Wheeler 's house , Julia made the final adjustments to a maid 's uniform . |
| 25 | Before this , the judges themselves , and especially the Master of the Rolls , whose responsibility it was seen to be , considered and made the necessary recommendations to the Department on the staffing and other administrative arrangements of the courts . |
| 26 | In those early days , its isolation on the distant north-west coast seemed to make it unattainable by anyone who had only feet to get him there and whose opportunities were restricted by a busy working life south of the Border , although later I was to discover that a MacBrayne 's bus made the forty-six-mile journey to and from Lairg every weekday . |
| 27 | The steering committee which made the late changes to the report consisted of representatives from the European Commission , the lead additives companies Associated octel , Ethyl and SIAC , the International Lead and Zinc Research organisation , Agip Petrol and the United States ' Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 28 | Centenary-class car 641 was provided for a ride to the Tower , where the Princess made the famous ascent to the top , on the recommendation of her son The Duke of Gloucester . |
| 29 | It was an attitude like this which made the individual transfer to community relations in the first place , as all those in Easton 's Community Relations Unit did , one even from the Traffic Branch . |
| 30 | The General Assembly made the following commitment to the Treaty of Waitangi : ‘ We renew the covenant to be keepers of one another , to honour the Treaty , its obligations and promises , that justice and peace may cover our land that our life together may grow in new forms of partnership . ’ |