Example sentences of "[vb past] to the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he moved to the exclusive St James Club as restaurant manager , serving the likes of Lionel Ritchie , Duran Duran , Elizabeth Taylor , Robert Wagner and Jean-Claude van Damme , of Kickboxer film fame . |
| 2 | After graduating he moved to the Royal Holloway College to research a Ph.D . |
| 3 | William de Casingham fled to the denser Weald with a thousand men , emerging to harry the French until the Earl Marshal could muster enough support to drive the invaders out in 1217 . |
| 4 | We referred to the 1992 NOP survey which indicated that 13,000,000 people wished to relocate to a rural area , and that this created a powerful demand which would be difficult to satisfy even if the provision of housing was completely unconstrained . |
| 5 | ‘ The Dallae ’ referred to the identical Dallas twins who were consulted as the oracles of the Decoding Room School . |
| 6 | This referred to the cartridge-belt Leslie was having specially made at Andersons of Edinburgh . |
| 7 | The Bosnian Serbs objected to the original Vance-Owen plan for four reasons . |
| 8 | IN HIS preview of England 's tour of New Zealand ( WCM Jan ) , Steven Lynch alluded to the first England tour of New Zealand in 1929–30 as being the only time a country has been engaged in two Test series simultaneously . |
| 9 | CNN appealed to the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta , on Nov. 9 , but the court upheld Hoeveler 's injunction on the following day . |
| 10 | No idea why he appealed to the lovely Sara . |
| 11 | By the time they came to the 16th Chris was flagging , after pulling the heavy trolley for fifteen holes through the wind and rain . |
| 12 | An increase in the noise level and glimpses of exotic vegetables told her that they were in a market street , and it seemed to the over-sensitive Meredith that Lucenzo was almost continually returning greetings and brushing off sympathetic offers of help . |
| 13 | The £50 offered daily to the first AE to get a bike back with a client 's cheque , seemed to the world-weary AEs worth more than three times the equivalent , as paid at the end of the month . |
| 14 | The dancers all showed a great joy in their work as they danced to the rousing Tchaikovsky score and special mention must go to lead dancers Victoria Westall and Antony Harith . |
| 15 | ‘ What happened to the real Louise Müller ? ’ |
| 16 | What happened to the ugliest Strat of all time , Fender 's Alex Gregory model ? |
| 17 | Corbett turned to the silent Thomas . |
| 18 | In the 1960's the date was changed to a Sunday to make it easier for people , but there was such an outcry that it soon reverted to the traditional Friday . |
| 19 | And so Inchbad sat down and beamed at Fenella and said they would be interested to hear her stories and , at the same time , nodded to the waiting Fiachra Broadcrown to get the Fidchell squares ready for the Gnomes . |
| 20 | If victory was eked out at the back , the inspiration belonged to the evergreen Charlie Nicholas . |
| 21 | If victory was eked out at the back , the inspiration belonged to the evergreen Charlie Nicholas . |
| 22 | The Pontormo , a Mannerist masterpiece painted in 1537 , belonged to the late Chauncey Stillman and had long been on loan to the Frick collection in New York . |
| 23 | The collection belonged to the late George Reynolds , who lived at Chalford Mill . |
| 24 | That was when Sharpe bothered to show himself at the Prince 's headquarters at all ; he evidently preferred to spend his days riding the French frontier which was a job that properly belonged to the pompous General Dornberg , which thought reminded the Prince that Dornberg 's noon report should have arrived . |
| 25 | One man who would sacrifice all his prize money for the year just to win the Wimbledon Singles Crown that has eluded him is Ivan Lendl , and the tension clearly showed when he lost to the Canadian Grant Connell in windy , dark , and damp conditions in the Stella Artois Championship at Queen 's Club . |
| 26 | The territorial waters claim also applied to the disputed Tungsha ( Pratas ) and Nansha ( Spratly ) Islands in the South China Sea and the Tiaoyutai Islands north-east of Taiwan . |
| 27 | Daisy Mules told the rally how she had been on a Dublin student contingent at the march which led to the Bloody Sunday massacre . |
| 28 | The results of Edward 's Gascon inquiry of 1273–5 were not entirely dissimilar to those of his subsequent inquest in England which led to the Hundred Rolls and the statute of Gloucester ( 1280 ) . |
| 29 | An important phase in this was achieved in the diplomatic efforts initiated by the Red Cross Resolution of 1965 which eventually led to the 1977 Geneva Protocols , discussed in the previous section . |
| 30 | He sank into the waiting limo unshaven , crumpled , white-faced , nervous , shattered and by the time he got to the posh Beverly Hills Hotel , in need of the complimentary bottle of Scotch a thoughtful management had left in his room . |