Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next door , in the mirror of the basement cloakroom of Canon Wheeler 's house , Julia made the final adjustments to a maid 's uniform . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He only made the two trips to the house . ’ |
| 5 | On March 23 she made the first appointments to a new government . |
| 6 | Sensibly , but with some sensitivity , her boss made the same points to Muriel as he had made in his reference , asking her at the same time if these conflicts had ever arisen out of the office with family friends or neighbours . |
| 7 | As we rode the four miles to Wuthering Heights , he kept asking me questions about his new home , and the father he had never seen . |
| 8 | Thus laden , I rode the 20 miles to Picton and caught the ferry ; stayed overnight in Wellington and then took the train to Auckland — no problems in putting the bike aboard ; and this journey lived up to expectations and surpassed them ; the scenery through the ‘ King Country ’ in autumn is quite unrivalled , and again looks like a superb area for a cycle tour . |
| 9 | King , therefore , sold the Southern shares to D C Thomson of Dundee — about as far removed from a ‘ regional ’ interest as could be imagined . |
| 10 | Two generals and 19 other officers became the first soldiers to be brought to trial in connection with the December 1989 coup attempt , when they appeared before a seven-member military court on May 8 on charges of mutiny and murder . |
| 11 | In 386 , Priscillian and at least five of his disciples became the first heretics to be executed . |
| 12 | Not to psychoanalyse her in any way , but we all became the Big Sisters to Debbi . |
| 13 | As he scanned the laden shelves to left and right , there was suddenly a sound like a hundred ball-bearings being dropped from a height on to the bare floorboards . |
| 14 | Hans Waldman , another great Zurich burgomaster , led the Swiss forces to victory at Morat during the Burgundian war in 1476 , defeating the formerly all-conquering Charles the Bold . |
| 15 | Their campaign reflected the uncertainties and weakness that led the Financial Times to back Labour . |
| 16 | In some cases customers would demand more Champagne than woollens which led the sharpest businessmen to quickly diversify into this lucrative new commerce . |
| 17 | A resolution of the 20th international conference of the Red Cross at Vienna in 1965 affirmed the minimum principles to which states must conform : |
| 18 | He resisted the temptation to kick the radio in after the fish then sprinted the forty yards to the cabin where he made a telephone call to acknowledge the bleeper . |
| 19 | The teenager from the Isle of Wight beat the visiting defenders to a centre from Paul Raynor and sent a glancing header into the top left-hand corner . |
| 20 | In the case of Peru , initially the departments that contributed the most migrants to Lima were Ancash , Junín , Ica , La Libertad and Arequipa . |
| 21 | All the fighting in the campaign in North Africa by the main armies involved took place along the narrow strip between the sea and the escarpment that bordered the trackless wastes to the south . |
| 22 | The letter from the Commission that drew the 1992 regulations to the attention of chief executives highlighted one area where they were incomplete as soon as they were published . |
| 23 | As North later described the first approaches to the Iran idea , Israeli officials talking to Americans in the spring and summer of 1985 , it was a ‘ philosophy ’ rather than an operation . |
| 24 | Higher education reinforced the cultural barriers to economic growth . |
| 25 | In the extensive research undertaken for the book it became clear that a number of particular issues posed the greatest challenges to potential returners and to prospective employers . |
| 26 | There was no chance of them spawning while the tyrant Fire continued his reign of terror so I took a chance and moved the five Fires to another community . |
| 27 | Peacock-Edwards and myself , all on tiptoe , moved the three Hurricanes to safety . |
| 28 | Russia , it was widely argued , subsidised the other republics to the extent of 70 billion rubles a year . |
| 29 | January of 1824 found the two cross-cuts to the Bonsor Vein being driven in very hard ground . |
| 30 | In order to resolve that dispute the High Court of Justice , Queen 's Bench Division , referred the following questions to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling : |