Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Convinced of the rightness of his policies and fearful of the consequences of economic decline , Mosley became attracted to the forms of activist mass politics in an attempt to rejuvenate society . |
| 2 | I used to be a spooler , worked a machine , but I got moved to the samples about six years ago . |
| 3 | He 'd attended to the brakes on the Saturday , but then , feeling unhappy with the alignment of the wheels , had started work on them . |
| 4 | These bacterial factors seemed related to the conditions of epithelial damage . |
| 5 | That night I watched television and did some paperwork , amending the maps to include the newly named Black Destroyer Hill , writing a brief description of what I 'd done to the rabbits and logging both the effects of the bombs that I 'd used and the manufacture of the latest batch . |
| 6 | The numbers of seats secured approximated to the quotas of first preference votes expressed and the only exception to this was the special case of North Down ( see below ) . |
| 7 | I 'd stuck to the rules arid nothing had happened . |
| 8 | ‘ If she 'd stuck to the patterns , ’ said my mother , ‘ there 'd have been no need , but Cynthia had to fiddle with them . ’ |
| 9 | Penry Vaughan 's irritation at being saddled with an unwelcome guest was understandable enough , but surely he could have let her know he 'd spoken to the police ! |
| 10 | And er one of the men that was helping the old man to do something , to repair the the these tools you know , and he he 'd gone to the stores to get something and leaning over the counter to get something er er to sort of talk as one goes on a on a counter lean he was leaning a on the counter , and he erm the the the storeman he was a tough little beggar , and he said , I 've got a I 've got a I 've got a toothache . |
| 11 | If they 'd listened to the warnings years ago perhaps Gemma would be alive today . ’ |
| 12 | The men 's eyes automatically swivelled left to the women 's section at a tasteful thirty yards ' distance . |
| 13 | Farming became geared to the demands of regional and national markets and harvest crises eventually became a thing of the past . |
| 14 | He hung left to the rails and by the time Willie Carson was able to switch him , Declassified was beyond recall . |
| 15 | Stirling and MacDermott were trapped in a cave and rounded up , thus ending the wartime career of the man who became known to the Germans as the ‘ Phantom Major ’ . |
| 16 | It was intended to represent the concept of a tram in 2937 , but its unfortunate shape resembled more closely a cottage-loaf , by which it became known to the crews . |
| 17 | As a universal god , Re became linked to the cults of other gods , particularly those who were connected with the creative process . |
| 18 | Sand was a writer with a popular following ; Flaubert , who never grew used to the lashings he got from the critics , struggled to follow her instructions to rise above their hostility . |
| 19 | NOT only did the Kiwis get blown off the park at the Hong Kong Sevens by Fiji , but three gnarled members of their supporters club got taken to the cleaners in a local hostess bar . |
| 20 | In the field of satellites , Hughes , RCA and Ford still reign supreme ; but , thanks to French government backing of CNES R&D and technology in launcher rockets , the Ariane launcher proved adapted to the needs of potential customers at a time when emphasis on the space shuttle led to US neglect of the market for conventional launchers . |
| 21 | Surrey , set a target of 241 to win in 47 overs , slumped to 69 for three before the weather put paid to the visitors ' hopes . |
| 22 | poets had referred to the riches of the east for many years , but in the early seventeenth century ‘ My America , my new-found-land ’ seemed a more effective phrase to represent emotional force and involvement . |
| 23 | ln that time , the sixty men had adjusted to the soldiers ' normal routine of work at night and lie-up during the day . |
| 24 | She was n't Our Lady , Madeleine had explained to the children years ago : she was La France , also La République . |
| 25 | The fifth matter of complaint , which goes partly to the intention of the appellants and to the difficulty they found themselves in before the judge was that their solicitor never explained these matters to the judge , that is to say the technical nature of the breach , the details of the two charges that had been made , and the advice that their solicitor himself had given to the appellants when they came to consult him . |
| 26 | The children gave the same simple obedience as they had given to the men with the megaphones . ’ |
| 27 | Thus , Barker ( 1984 ) , in her study of the Moonies , gave a questionnaire similar to that which she had given to the Moonies to a group of people who were matched with the Moonies with respect to sex , age , and background . |
| 28 | The details recalled by Carol during the regression ( and which she continued to remember afterwards ) tallied precisely with those she had given to the police on the night the rape had occurred . |
| 29 | Minutes later they heard that Sokolnitz had fallen to the Russians , and the whole of the enemy right was threatened with collapse . |
| 30 | Bristol had been dominated by the Whigs since 1695 , and had fallen to the Tories only in 1710 in the Sacheverellite backlash , so Daines had good reason to believe that a careful cultivation of the electorate could pay dividends . |