Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd considered going to the police , but agreed that , after the embarrassing débâcle of the inquest , further accusations from Jacqui against Nigel Steen would sound more like the ramblings of a paranoid than anything else . |
| 2 | He 'd got chilled to the marrow last night and he needed a drop of something to keep out the cold . ’ |
| 3 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 4 | She 'd gone and found the children and they 'd refused to come to the telephone , which had surprised her . |
| 5 | And for the last 3 days , they 've been living on the food they 'd planned to give to the children . |
| 6 | In 1960 , though , he felt compelled to return to the painting . |
| 7 | This drew a little laughter from one or two shoppers who had gathered to listen to the exchange between the fishmonger and this well dressed and clearly foreign lady . |
| 8 | Among the issues raised by this case were how the court was to go about deciding exactly what powers Parliament had intended to give to the GLC in relation to London Transport ; whether the GLC owed a duty to its ratepayers not to spend the rates on large subsidies for travellers ; whether the GLC was entitled to implement its cheap fares policy just because it had been a major issue in the recent GLC elections ; the extent to which central government ought to control local authority spending ; whether and to what extent public transport ought to be treated as a public service or , on the other hand , as a business which has to break even or make a profit . |
| 9 | I decided to apply for some help , so my daughter Lilya ( Aliki ) and I wrote a letter to Andropov and Brezhnev , and I explained in these letters that what had been stolen was a large number of works from the collection that I had intended to give to the Tretyakov Gallery . |
| 10 | Although Peter Handford had intended to return to the Bath side of the tunnel at night to make recordings of the several trains which at that time ran from the north towards Bournemouth in the early hours of Saturday morning , he did not do so , partly because he was reluctant to visit the place in darkness and also because each time he visited Winsor Hill tunnel to make recordings he experienced problems and misfortunes of one sort or another . |
| 11 | She had intended to return to the cottage in late evening , eleven at the least , but by seven o'clock she was so thoroughly depressed that she drove home . |
| 12 | If , whatever a man 's real intention may be , he so conducts himself that a reasonable man would believe that he was assenting to the terms proposed by the other party , and that other party upon that belief enters into a contract with him , the man thus conducting himself would be equally bound as if he had intended to agree to the other party 's terms . |
| 13 | Some months later his wife told me he had intended to contribute to the cost of my expedition and she insisted on my receiving from his estate the amount he had meant to give me . |
| 14 | This crisis was not so much averted as won by the progressives , but only after Pope Paul had taken a hand and , on the issues that Suenens had wished to put to the vote , the progressives won a clear majority on 30 October . |
| 15 | It took Quiss longer than he had expected to get to the castle kitchens ; they 'd changed some of the corridors and stairways en route from the games room to the lower levels , and Quiss , taking what he thought was the usual way , had found himself making an unexpected left turn and coming to a windy , deserted , echoing chamber which looked out over the white landscape to the tall wooden towers of the slate mines . |
| 16 | Kenneth , Mary and the boys had come holidaying to the Hebrides , as they did most years . |
| 17 | fit for the purpose in the general sense , it also means fit for the purpose in any particular sense you had made known to the shop . |
| 18 | The vote was also influenced by references which he had made relating to the " double nationality " of the Secretary of State for Planning , Lionel Stoléru , who was of Jewish origin , as well as by allegations referring to a " Jewish internationale " and its role in the " creation " of an " anti-national spirit " . |
| 19 | The gunmen of Lebanon had grown used to the sahafa , the press . |
| 20 | Willie had grown used to the changes in his room so that he was pleasantly surprised at Zach 's excitement over it . |
| 21 | They were never welcome wherever they went and they had grown used to the Moor . |
| 22 | She had grown used to the tiny sounds that were so much a part of Seawitch , just as she had grown used to the boat 's continually changing motion . |
| 23 | She had grown used to the tiny sounds that were so much a part of Seawitch , just as she had grown used to the boat 's continually changing motion . |
| 24 | I climbed over the dead bodies and looked around the washroom ; my eyes had grown used to the dim red emergency lights by now . |
| 25 | Now that we had decided to refer to the team leader ( who would be the care manager ) we devised a simple referral form and agreed that all communications with and from social services would be made in writing and filed in our patients ' notes . |
| 26 | On inquiring about the matter , I was told that the health common services authority had decided to move to the bay because it had been told by an independent property consultancy that it was a much better choice of location than anywhere else . |
| 27 | Somewhat more plausible is the possibility that Gloucester had decided to proceed to the execution of the captured Woodvilles ( as his letter to York perhaps implies ) and that Hastings , while willing to see Woodville power limited , was not prepared to countenance their execution . |
| 28 | Somewhat more plausible is the possibility that Gloucester had decided to proceed to the execution of the captured Woodvilles ( as his letter to York perhaps implies ) and that Hastings , while willing to see Woodville power limited , was not prepared to countenance their execution . |
| 29 | She remembered , but also that Oliver had decided to go to the wine bar before the meeting was fixed . |
| 30 | It is as if everyone had decided to follow to the letter the advice sent out to UDF candidates by Jean-Pierre Raffarin , the centre-right party 's expert on political marketing . |