Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators . |
| 2 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 3 | Captaining Jamaica for the second successive season , he not only led them to Red Stripe Cup triumph ( their third in five years ) , but , with the ball , he broke the tournament record with 36 wickets at 11.30 . |
| 4 | In the time I was there she did pencil out a few passages , and got me to red ink a lot more . |
| 5 | Obliquely flattering his readers by introducing them to boys near their own age involved in surprising and exciting events , he also invited them to wishful thinking , if not to identification , by emphasising the youth of his heroes and underplaying the responsibility and enforced maturity belonging to midshipmen in the early and mid-teens in reality . |
| 6 | He trained them to regular confession , and whenever any one of them was dying would prepare them for death , and be thankful when they died in penitence , peace and hope . |
| 7 | Gestures of this kind were part of the vocabulary of politics ; an astute politician like Philip used them to great effect . |
| 8 | In 1877 his father had heard the American evangelist D. L. Moody in London , and had sold his racehorses and devoted himself to personal evangelism . |
| 9 | It was completed a few months after its companion piece ( the G major Quartet Op. 106 and subsequently the composer devoted himself to programmatic tone poems and operas . |
| 10 | In the Commons he devoted himself to Indian affairs with an emphasis on finance and on opening the Indian Civil Service to Indians . |
| 11 | During the Second World War |
| 12 | For the greater part of the 1830s and 1840s Nicholas I dedicated himself to international peace . |
| 13 | Although he had recently been converted , it was Paisley 's conservative attack on unreliable unionist leaders which first drew him to Free Presbyterianism . |
| 14 | Houghton 's wife reported him to naval security for being in possession of large sums of cash . |
| 15 | Mr Brown is parading this tacit Jackson support in an effort to draw blacks away from Mr Bill Clinton , the Democrats ' front-runner whose solid black support helped him to big victories in the South and Mid-West . |
| 16 | I referred him to various people who knew his father , including one or two working in the Eastern European section of MI6 at the time . ’ |
| 17 | James 's increasing financial difficulties impelled him to desperate measures . |
| 18 | Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth . |
| 19 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 20 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 21 | Peter founded the navy out of virtually nothing , recruiting officers and sailors in the same way as for the army , and used it to good effect against the Swedes . |
| 22 | May Roberts Rinehart used it to excellent effect in The Circular Staircase . |
| 23 | But more determined art criminals posing as tourists helped themselves to ornate craftwork from the chapel . |
| 24 | Yet there is also a less determinate area , in which artists devoted themselves to religious art not only , and sometimes not primarily , because this was the willed commission of their Immediate patron , but because they could identify themselves with the religious purpose of which the immediate social organization was the available manifest form . |
| 25 | Both were manned by a gentry proud of its local influence , provincial patriots who devoted themselves to improving roads and preserving historical monuments . |
| 26 | First the then the uniform , then you go and wait for the envelope to come through the door , and it did , reported us to Agricultural College for a month 's training . |
| 27 | If anything the gulf separating them from an outside world which uprooted families and whole villages for labour on distant farms , or worse still in factories and mines , which extracted taxes , recruits and grain , which subjected them to constant brutality and humiliation grew steadily wider . |
| 28 | For all the music 's stylistic instability , I prefer these two early sonatas , before Krenek committed himself to serial techniques so consistently for most of the rest of his life . |
| 29 | The miners refused to accept such changes and the General Council of the TUC committed itself to sympathetic strike action from Friday , 31 July . |
| 30 | They subjected her to verbal abuse . |