Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hebbert joined him and moved left to the obvious beetling crack and groove line he had spotted from below — omitting to pause and wonder why this particular line soared up straight as an arrow , on a route called Curving Crack ! . |
| 2 | The right of the painter to move around an object and combine various views of it into a single image , first stated in writing by Metzinger in 1910 and elaborated a few months later by Allard , was quickly adopted by most critics as a central feature of the style , and became related to the conceptual or intellectual aspect . |
| 3 | I smiled , nodding my head , not unhappy that he 'd jumped to the wrong conclusions , but surprised that he did n't know the secret of paying by instalments . |
| 4 | After all , she now knew beyond reasonable doubt who her father had been , and she 'd warmed to the little she 'd been told about him . |
| 5 | But he did n't want to go to the bloody thing , not after what they 'd done to the poor old man . |
| 6 | I did not think of following him , my feet seemed rooted to the sandy path and I saw him through a mist of tears as he appeared to melt through the door , which closed behind him . |
| 7 | As a child it had been embarrassing and as both teachers and playmates had looked askance at the familiarity she 'd reverted to the ubiquitous ‘ Mum ’ in their presence , but woe betide her if she had lapsed into this form of address in Margaret 's presence ! |
| 8 | You know when we came back the next Saturday as we 've gone through the front door , he 'd gone to the Little Chef for breakfast because there were n't any crocks left to u , to use |
| 9 | The last time she and Arnie had eaten out they 'd gone to the local curry house where they went about four times a year . |
| 10 | She laughed happily , remembering the pains she 'd gone to the previous evening . |
| 11 | At what moment had she surrendered the tactics she 'd planned to the charismatic persuasion of Luke 's personality ? |
| 12 | Being an intellectual or bourgeois did n't help that much in itself but those of their own journalists and professors they 'd sent to the remote prison island of their archipelago , Guru , had n't been systematically tortured ; just neatly excised from society for twenty years or the stay of their natural existences . |
| 13 | ‘ If only I 'd listened to the old folk telling their stories . ’ |
| 14 | Then they 'd returned to the stable and George had got back to the House about midnight . |
| 15 | Compensation for the cost of rebuilding damaged and destroyed property is only released when work begins , which explains the relatively small amounts paid compared to the estimated cost of damage . |
| 16 | Presumably the synthetic oligonucleotide was taken up by the cells and became bound to the complementary sequence on the viral RNA . |
| 17 | Her anxiety about the visit disappeared once she became acclimatized to the appaling conditions confronting her . |
| 18 | Some of the poems were written down and became known to the outside world before the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 19 | Those troubles — referred to as the ‘ Irish Rebellion ’ — were overcome only by violent methods used by the ‘ Black and Tans ’ , plus some restless ex-soldiers , known as the ‘ Auxiliaries ’ , and when the facts of those violent methods became known to the British public , they were declared unacceptable — despite the outrages which Sinn Fein had instituted in London and the bombings in Belfast . |
| 20 | Freud suggested that work was man 's link to reality because it was through work that the individual became linked to the human community . |
| 21 | Thus the old tradition of pilgrimage , peregrinatio , spawned or became united to the new kind of military adventure we call the crusade ; and the resources of the roads and waterways of Europe and the Near East were strained to the uttermost to meet the insatiable demands of these adventurous travellers . |
| 22 | With the success of the muscarinic experiment , I felt committed to the passive avoidance model , to the exclusion of almost everything else . |
| 23 | They grew used to the good life during the oil boom in the 1970s , an era they fondly recall as Venezuela Saudita . |
| 24 | Lexandro felt cut to the quick , and wished he could kill this impertinent — if perceptive — Sergeant . |
| 25 | Broken litter , discarded utensils , a large worn-out rubber tyre lay weighted to the smooth bank , layers of debris accumulating from the rubbish of an abandoned generation . |
| 26 | Next the unrealized plan for a full-length novel , Confession , which got switched to the shod Notes from Underground . |
| 27 | Factors which emerged related to the dependent relationship between the father and his elderly mother , and to the long-standing unsatisfactory state of the couple 's marriage . |
| 28 | Dave , Lancashire region , on three nine seven , Chair , when I got elected to the Labour Council in Rochdale , I took a whip that I had , did what the policy was of the Rochdale D L P . |
| 29 | ‘ It makes me sound like a parcel that got sent to the wrong address . ’ |
| 30 | We hurtled at speed back to our ship , and Posi got us away about two nanoseconds after the Manport had withdrawn to the Fraxillian liner . |