Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] to an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anderson captained Ireland on their short tour of France , led them to an unexpected victory over a French XV and keeps the job now but age and waning powers put a question-mark over his selection for the team at all . |
| 2 | Typically then they operate to defeat the title of the unpaid seller ( let us call him C ) who has entrusted his goods to a buyer who , without paying C , has in turn sold them to an innocent purchaser . |
| 3 | Lucy spent just three days in intensive care before doctors moved her to an ordinary ward at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital . |
| 4 | His sudden smile transformed him to an astonishing degree , revealing the man behind the remote consultant . |
| 5 | On appeal by the taxpayers , the Appellate Committee having heard the appeal but before judgment referred it to an enlarged Appellate Committee to determine the question whether the existing exclusionary rule relating to the construction of statutes should be relaxed so as to enable Hansard to be consulted as an aid to construction : — |
| 6 | In Sybil he had rejoined his past but he transplanted it to an artistic suburb of London which had been the haunt of legendary highwaymen , was now the roost of exiles and writers and only fifteen minutes from the West End theatre . |
| 7 | Despite this , on the marshy peat fens , even limited traffic reduced them to an impassable morass for long periods of the year . |
| 8 | The rapist approached the 17-year-old waitress in a bus station at Holmfirth , West Yorks , and subjected her to an hour-long ordeal . |
| 9 | He was a file-grinder by trade , sitting astride a roaring belt-driven stone wheel , breathing in dust for eight hours a day until chronic bronchitis and pneumoconiosis drove him to an early retirement . |
| 10 | Simmons signalled her to an empty chair on the fringe of the disputatious group , and walked round the back of the table to take a chair opposite . |
| 11 | The Liberal set-back in 1895 cost him his seat , and his chronic hay fever directed him to an urban constituency . |
| 12 | He likened it to an intermediate era between the collapse of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D. and the re-birth of classicism in the Renaissance ideals of the fifteenth century . |
| 13 | There were no roads direct from the station to where the world began , but the carriage drivers , squatting over their breakfasts , directed us to an abandoned railway line which cut across country . |
| 14 | The Bishop took off his mitre and handed it to an adjacent altar-boy . |
| 15 | They coughed their way through All Things Bright and Beautiful , and when they came to the bit about ‘ God made them high and lowly , and ordered their estate , ’ he waved them to an unceremonious halt and plunged into his sermon : |
| 16 | Somewhere on another plane of existence she knew that he was pacing himself , tuning himself to her slower needs : that his tiny muted cries of painful frustration were evidence of his consideration as he aroused her to an aching , trembling plateau of desire . |
| 17 | Dieter guided her to an empty chair ; she was trembling violently and he called for brandy . |
| 18 | The honeybees have taken this basic arrangement and elaborated it to an extreme degree so that they live in colonies of many thousands . |
| 19 | Whether or not her swingometer led her to an appropriate purchasing decision , he has n't heard ; in fact , she was dowsing only the organic wines , so it was n't a completely random process . |
| 20 | Placing a hand on her shoulder , he led her to an ornate , gilded mirror hanging above the carved stone fireplace . |
| 21 | Many aspects of his analysis were similar to those advanced by Blauner , but they led him to an opposite conclusion . |
| 22 | Dolly 's voice brought them to an abrupt halt . |
| 23 | They took me to an enormous wall built of Pelasgian blocks . |
| 24 | The whole family dreaded going to court , so Theresa took them to an empty courtroom , showed them where everyone sat and explained what would happen . |
| 25 | Sheffield Crown Court heard that the man , who ca n't be named for legal reasons , kidnapped his twenty seven year old wife and took her to an isolated spot on the moors above the city and raped and sexually assaulted her . |
| 26 | It brought her to an abrupt halt on legs that felt suddenly weak , and several small gasps of dismay escaped her . |
| 27 | Abu piloted us with all the aplomb of a sailor surging through dangerous surf , and finally brought us to an entire circular village of some sixty three-storey houses , all shaped like space-arcs . |
| 28 | During pre-trial interrogation Talb told Swedish police that between October and December 1988 he had retrieved a bomb from one of the PFLP-GC 's West German safe houses and passed it to an unnamed person , causing speculation that it could have been identical to the Lockerbie device . |
| 29 | This is apparent from Helby v. Matthews ( see Chapter 17 ) , where someone who was hiring a piano on hire purchase terms , sold it to an innocent purchaser . |
| 30 | After this but before the rogue was traced , the rogue took the car along to a market in Warren Street ( where dealers commonly sold cars ) and he sold it to an innocent purchaser . |