Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the time I was there she did pencil out a few passages , and got me to red ink a lot more . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Gestures of this kind were part of the vocabulary of politics ; an astute politician like Philip used them to great effect . |
| 7 | Although he had recently been converted , it was Paisley 's conservative attack on unreliable unionist leaders which first drew him to Free Presbyterianism . |
| 8 | Houghton 's wife reported him to naval security for being in possession of large sums of cash . |
| 9 | Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth . |
| 10 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | May Roberts Rinehart used it to excellent effect in The Circular Staircase . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They subjected her to verbal abuse . |
| 17 | Gandhi dissociated himself from this development and withdrew from politics until 1939 , when the outbreak of the Second World War stirred him to political action again . |
| 18 | Elsa departed because she could n't take Fagg 's oft-repeated loud muttering of ‘ Swiss maybe , but Swiss-Kraut certainly ’ ; two male Chinese took umbrage when he denounced them as Nips ; an observing Hindu became revolted when Mauleverer , an occasional resident , subjected him to intense cross-questioning about whether the liver was from a Dutch calf and was being served sufficiently rare ; and a delicious-looking Filipino , who strayed too close to Fishbane at breakfast , received a pinch which made her hysterical . |
| 19 | He was a weak , cowardly man , she reflected , who wanted to be popular with everyone , yet whose deep insecurity drove him to self-righteous pomposity and chill cruelty . |
| 20 | It provoked him to impotent fury , but there was nothing he could do . |
| 21 | Building on the TV success that rocketed her to overnight fame , she is set to make TWO movies and is launching a promising pop career . |
| 22 | There was no indication whether individuals within the subgroups had travelled to either their country of origin , if appropriate , or — if born in one geographical location — had travelled to other areas where the incidence of environmental toxoplasma exposed them to increased risk of this infection . |
| 23 | The unpopularity of the planned change , however , led Kim Young Sam to reverse his position and exposed him to subsequent attack by DJP supporters within the ruling party , who leaked his role in the memorandum agreement to the press . |
| 24 | Walkden & berry ( 1984 ) correlated CL zones in overgrowth cements from the Upper Dinantian of northern Britain , and ascribed them to cyclic replenishment of vadose and shallow meteoric water tables in calcretized marine limestones . |
| 25 | Intrigued by the idea the RAC drew up some rules and submitted them to other car manufacturers . |
| 26 | John has also become quite adept at treating fish and he has bought several with faults and restored them to full health . |
| 27 | Stewart , who managed England 's Test side for six years and steered them to successive World Cup finals , said : ‘ When I was brought up during the war , serving Queen and country meant a lot to my generation . |
| 28 | The Flack team restored her to pristine condition as G–FURY , and she made her first flight at Elstree in June 1980 . |
| 29 | and the legislation which anchored it to statutory process , had secured a firmer foothold and had begun to flirt uncertainly with wider issues . |
| 30 | Failure led him to mass manipulation and an attempt to revolutionize British politics from outside the system . |