Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Company A , dealers on the Metal Exchange , knowingly assisted an employee of the plaintiffs to engage in fraudulent trading , the result of which was that Company A became exposed to liabilities of more than £6.5m . |
| 2 | ‘ Missing Eccentric Scientist found stabbed to death in doorway . ’ |
| 3 | Detectives are urgently appealing for help to track down the murderer of an elderly man found beaten to death in the pet shop where he worked . |
| 4 | Detectives are urgently appealing for help to track down the murderer of an elderly man found beaten to death in the pet shop where he worked . |
| 5 | THE LAST movements of a financial consultant found battered to death with a claw hammer in a quiet village are to be reconstructed today . |
| 6 | Derek Fleming , the father of Linda Fleming found battered to death in West Yorkshire , has been charged with her murder . |
| 7 | In 1925 , on reading The High History of the Holy Grail , she realized that the places mentioned corresponded to sites in the Vale of Avalon , Somerset . |
| 8 | She 'd flown to Corfu in the hope that an English boy might be her lad Ben , who disappeared 14 months ago . |
| 9 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 10 | One minute he was shall we say in Arford , next minute woof , he 'd shot to Johnston through somebody 's window ? |
| 11 | There were other acts by then like Morecambe and Wise and they were doing to us what we 'd done to others in our time . |
| 12 | Now once he got in for his half , half pint in , in the in the passage he 'd have , he 'd have a good swig and , and it was about when he 'd got to bottom of the glass put it down . |
| 13 | Marler , still holding the executive case he 'd refused to hand to José , noted the curtains were drawn the full length of the large room . |
| 14 | He said Oliver was extremely embarrassed , as well he might have been , because he was buying flowers to make his peace with a girl he 'd gone to bed with the night before and been impotent with . |
| 15 | She 'd gone to bed with Rune willingly , with both eyes wide open in a metaphorical sense , knowing his background and aware that , in the natural , uncomplicated atmosphere of Scandinavia , perhaps more than anywhere else in Europe there were fewer taboos regarding physical relationships between couples . |
| 16 | Andrew , 27 , explained : ‘ We 'd gone to bed at about midnight . |
| 17 | Jes paid her on Sunday and instead of telling us how they went round for her wages yesterday and he 'd already paid her , and she 'd gone to school with money in her car ! |
| 18 | And erm he 'd gone to sea at a very early age and had er both steam and sail and you k I 've given you his history , er and he was quite a fellow . |
| 19 | It was up to Moscow to start checking among the émigrés and escapees who 'd gone to Paris after the war ended . |
| 20 | It transpired the reason why I was put on the works was because there was another woman on the works with the same surname who 'd gone to Holloway for her appeal and they thought she 'd come back and had got us mixed up . |
| 21 | When I closed the window , I was thinking specifically of Sydney Burrows , then I heard he 'd gone to Gainsborough after all . |
| 22 | I 'd wanted to mooch round Bristol 's hills and shops , its hidden alleyways and markets , along all those rivers . |
| 23 | As it was cruel to Eileen , who 'd bled to death after the birth of her tiny baby . |
| 24 | In the end , to his own surprise , be had quite successfully smoothed away her early-morning blues , and she 'd returned to sleep without having mentioned once the child she 'd lost . |
| 25 | In the Ordovician and Silurian periods they became adapted to life in most marine environments , but were particularly numerous in shallow water habitats , in some cases forming whole banks , as mussels do today . |
| 26 | Subjectively , Baldwin felt committed to MacDonald for several reasons . |
| 27 | And yet , people were gradually torn from their moorings , grew used to lives in which they saw things their fathers had never done and even they had hardly expected to do . |
| 28 | I frequently heard reference to the " Mad Mullah " , whose forces still occupied half the country ; and I listened enthralled to descriptions by officers in the Somali Camel Corps of fights against his Dervishes . |
| 29 | Since the consul and ambassador had failed to help him , he felt entitled to reparation from the British government . |
| 30 | In a near-chaotic situation the formerly tranquil province — lying at a strategic crossroads for invading armies — became subjected to bands of looting Franks , Vandals , Burgundians and Goths . |