Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was convinced I had done badly and was very depressed when during the practical exam university lecturers came around to talk to other people but not to me . |
| 2 | At the trial R submitted that the converting of hydrochloride into free base cocaine did not amount to producing a Class A drug because all that was involved was changing one form of cocaine into another . |
| 3 | The Blues suspected the Georgians would be carpeted for their haphazard arranging of the first leg tie ; the Windsor Park club had already complained to UEFA about this . |
| 4 | The Blues suspected the Georgians would be carpeted for their haphazard arranging of the first leg tie ; the Windsor Park club had already complained to UEFA about this . |
| 5 | After Bosworth Brampton did not return to the English court . |
| 6 | Lessons started again at nine o'clock and finished at twelve , when Miss Temple stood up to speak to the whole school . |
| 7 | BOBBY Goulding did n't deserve to be judged by TV says Alex Murphy . |
| 8 | That impatient man did not have so long to wait as he had feared , for the very next evening a young townsman arrived at Hoddom from Annan , ten miles distant , with the news that Edward Balliol had indeed returned to his army . |
| 9 | When one thinks about it , when one remembers the way Miss Kenton had repeatedly spoken to me of my father during those early days of her time at Darlington Hall , it is little wonder that the memory of that evening should have stayed with her all of these years . |
| 10 | Certainly , the United States administration had vastly over-reacted to Nkrumah 's book Neo-Colonialism : The last stage of imperialism ( 1965 ) , though the views he advanced were becoming the commonplace of Third World writing . |
| 11 | Now , this morning , Edward Crumwallis had finally spoken to Hilary 's father , and the doctor 's words rang in his ears : |
| 12 | Mrs. Jarrett had also contributed to the Le Court admissions policy document which was written in 1978 and is used as a guideline to ensure that the ethos of the home is retained . |
| 13 | The doctors told them to talk to him as much as possible and to play tapes of his favourite music , but Ken Lomax did not respond to their long , rambling , one-way conversations or the endless repetitions of his favourite country and western music . |
| 14 | Edward Carrington had never talked to a woman like this before . |
| 15 | Kermit Weeks and Linda Meyers had just returned to Florida from France where Kermit had flown the Week 's Solution ( an aerobatic type which he had designed ) in a competition . |
| 16 | On Feb. 13 a group of 78 boat people had voluntarily returned to Hanoi , bringing to 1,225 the total number of voluntary returnees since the scheme was introduced in March 1989 . |
| 17 | During the period March 1989-March 1990 , 1,582 boat people had voluntarily returned to Vietnam . |
| 18 | ( The fountain did not play : Esther was not a magician , and college rooms did not rise to running water for people , let alone fountains . ) |
| 19 | One wonders why Richard Baxter felt so attached to the established church after all that he , as well as the majority of true believers in the land , had suffered at its hands . |
| 20 | He scored a further success with Colonel Nathaniel Montgomery Moore who , on the visit which he , his wife and Miss D'Arcy had just taken to Dumfries , had encountered none other than Major General Gerard Lake , ‘ who told me about your great gallantry at Guelder — Gueld — ‘ |
| 21 | La Tour Monchauzet did n't belong to him , after all , but to the Baron . |
| 22 | Since the Koons works did n't conform to the definition of parody that the work parodied has to be either known to the viewer or acknowledged by the parodist the court concluded that Koons simply made the sculptures to make money : ‘ … |
| 23 | The numbers claiming rent allowances had marginally increased to 1.2 million ( Hansard , 13 July 1987 , col. 373 ) . |
| 24 | Lucy Baldwin did not return to England until 12 October . |
| 25 | The statement made by the timber firm to the dock company had not come to the attention of the innocent purchaser ; it therefore could not have misled him . |
| 26 | Although this fragment size could conceivably represent an internal exon splice indicating the presence of one and a half type III repeats being spliced , sequence analysis of the cloned 650bp fragment from the different cell types did not correspond to any of the known tenascin type III repeats . |
| 27 | The earlier transfer to local authorities of responsibilities previously exercised by the Poor Law Guardians had not led to any rapid improvement in the services ( Wilson 1948:76 — 7 ) . |
| 28 | Aikin notes that the cotton industry had just come to the town . |
| 29 | Simon Wright did n't expect to be back from the High Court for at least another week . |
| 30 | Giles Aplin did not return to Burford from London until a week after the wedding . |