Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the following the the last meeting of the committee , erm the matter was er raised by your Chairman and er he asked me to send to all of you er a copy of an extract from the erm Commissions Report relating to Derbyshire and a copy of a Department of the Environment press release of the twenty second of October which refers to one or two things that er David Curry had said about strategic planning and that was sent out to all members of the committee on the twenty second of November and erm n not expecting you to have brought back with you or to have remembered exactly what it said , perhaps I can just erm refer to the , the options for erm strategic planning that were outlined by Mr Curry in that press release and i the er erm er paper that he had delivered . |
| 2 | Er and then he got me he er he got me interested in politics and he got me going to this N C L C evening evening classes . |
| 3 | ‘ You made me rise to that bait , did n't you ? ’ |
| 4 | After this , Cuckney again found himself drawn to public service . |
| 5 | He found himself responding to some of the ideas that the Tunisians gently explored in their tents . |
| 6 | These phrases do , however , have the ring of truth in an aesthetic sense — or rather there was an aesthetic process involved which had to some extent its own story . |
| 7 | It was the speed at which the decline occurred which led to wild suggestions that Britain was on the verge of a race suicide . |
| 8 | The Green votes were discarded , the seats recalculated , and the SPD found itself entitled to one extra seat . |
| 9 | On this view industry found itself subordinated to older sections of the upper class both economically and culturally . |
| 10 | By the end of the evening Laura had shaken everybody 's hand and found something to say to each one . |
| 11 | ‘ The whole idea very quickly snowballed , ’ says Ann Checkley , who soon found herself travelling to other organisations with CPR 's ideas . |
| 12 | Why was it that she always found herself attracted to older men ? |
| 13 | Geschichte as Kähler used it refers to past history as such ; Historie to history as studied by the means and methods of historical study . |
| 14 | Labour candidates found themselves pledged to unilateral disarmament , withdrawal from the European Community and an economic policy that would have brought the country to bankruptcy within weeks . |
| 15 | Soviet allies sometimes found themselves opposed to each other ( such as the Ba'athist governments of Syria and Iraq , or Ethiopia and Somalia ) , and others entered into agreements with Soviet adversaries ( both Angola and Mozambique , for instance , signed non-aggression agreements with South Africa in 1984 , and Soviet clients generally found it difficult to resist the powerful influence of Western governments and corporations , or in the case of Ethiopia , relief agencies ) . |
| 16 | Apart from the paperwork and delays incurred on both sides of the bridge , exporters found themselves exposed to political pressures and a declining market , as Jordan developed its own agricultural potential on the east side of the Jordan valley . |
| 17 | Japanese drift-net vessels , frequent visitors to New Zealand ports during the previous year , now found themselves subjected to lengthy searches by fisheries officers hunting for dolphin and whale remains . |
| 18 | Koreans who had formerly looked to Japan for help against a conservative , autocratic government and for encouragement to ‘ modernize ’ now found themselves subordinated to those self same Japanese , deprived of an independent voice . |
| 19 | It may look easy from the safety of the burn 's heathery banks , but you would be wringing out your underpants if you found yourself clinging to near-vertical rock at the crest of the ridge by pursuing such a daft route . |
| 20 | Look how much it cost us to go to that bloody restaurant with Chris and Keith |
| 21 | He finally got himself transferred to one of the best university hospitals . |
| 22 | There seemed nothing to say to this . |
| 23 | But Koresh believed himself entitled to all the Davidian women . |
| 24 | The Bill deals with evidence in criminal matters only to the extent of preserving provisions of the Acts now to be repealed and re-enacted which apply to criminal evidence as well . |
| 25 | I assumed she subscribed to that of her kin . |
| 26 | The reason given by the king was the disturbed state of the kingdom which prevented his attending to ecclesiastical business . |
| 27 | But he also had a genuine vocation for healing — a vocation which he was unable to satisfy because his poor background prevented his going to medical college . ’ |
| 28 | Now tell me : who asked you to go to this disco ? ’ |
| 29 | As her father had so often complained , to engage with this task was to enter a labyrinth , and it seemed that whichever way she turned she came to this impasse . |
| 30 | But if you hammered you had to careful to miss the joints : the felloes were dowelled together and if you hit one of the joints the wrong way , the dowel was certain to break . |