Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So instead of a slap on the wrist I got promoted to high-flying executive symptoms . |
| 2 | Actually , I had fun inventing my own diet because I had gone on diets before , I 'd gone to fat farms , too , but it had never lasted . |
| 3 | Here , someone had gone to considerable lengths to get the cushions toning in nicely with the curtains . |
| 4 | Somebody had gone to considerable trouble and expense to acquire the books and have them hollowed out , then delivered to the car hire people just before our plane arrived . |
| 5 | Noting that despite the evidence of academic and government reports , which had pointed to widespread discrimination against young blacks , very little had been done to remedy the position , Scarman concluded that : ( a ) many young blacks believed that violence was an effective means of protest against their conditions ; and ( b ) far from the riots being a meaningless event , they were ‘ essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police ’ ( Scarman , 1981 , paras . |
| 6 | It was machinery which had led to increased efficiency and output . |
| 7 | The US , by far the world 's wealthiest and most powerful state , also hoped for a stable , expanding world economy where freer trade would prevent a return to the depression and unemployment which had led to militant nationalism in the 1930s . |
| 8 | However , a light but bitterly cold breeze was a strong reminder of the horrors which had occurred to previous travellers , in far worse conditions . |
| 9 | Previously active in the southern department of Cauca , it became the fourth guerrilla group to give up the armed struggle following the example of the M-19 [ see p. 37311 ] , the People 's Liberation Army ( EPL ) and the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) [ see p. 38094 ] , each of which had returned to mainstream politics . |
| 10 | ‘ He told me he 'd got in touch again the moment he 'd heard that you 'd decided to soft pedal a bit on work and so could be open to having a boyfriend . ’ |
| 11 | She had been brought up in the sophistication of inner Moscow , and she had travelled to European Germany . |
| 12 | The wife stated that she had succumbed to undue pressure from her husband to sign the documents and that he had misrepresented their effect , in that she had believed that the security was limited to £60,000 and would last for only three weeks . |
| 13 | Since the marks on Mary 's body were not necessarily inconsistent with Thornton 's claim that she had consented to sexual intercourse , and since the times on the morning in question when Thornton was seen walking home to Bromwich suggested he could not have been with her when she met her death , the jury found him not guilty . |
| 14 | The shape of the parcel she put on Michael 's make-up table showed that , for him at least , she had graduated to full-size bottles of champagne . |
| 15 | Bonham Carter said she had resorted to legal action as a last resort . |
| 16 | Often in the past she had listened to other women talking about their young men and she had tried not to dwell on what they said . |
| 17 | He was a much-decorated officer who had risen to high rank before an honourable retirement . |
| 18 | At this time , the Christian factions within the Caliphates ( ex-slaves and captives who had risen to high office under Al-Mansur ) requested help from the Court of Castile . |
| 19 | However , a spokeswoman for the RIR said these figures included some who had transferred to full-time duties . |
| 20 | It was in this region that James Wilson writing in 1967 , found evidence of a new conservative political culture amongst the children of those who had emigrated to southern California from small mainly midwestern towns . |
| 21 | Since , in 1849 , the British had encouraged Constantinople to reject Russian requests for the surrender of the Polish and Hungarian refugees who had fled to Ottoman territory after the failure of the Hungarian revolution , the Turks believed that Britain , as well as France , had their interests at heart . |
| 22 | Former Harrogate player David Casado , who had switched to full back to accommodate Johnson , was Northern 's most dangerous player , while Boro had the most effective forwards in prop Phil Wright and No 8 Tom McGrath . |
| 23 | It acknowledged the difficulties of the police in a terrorist campaign : complimented the RUC on its restraint and professional integrity and pointed out that the number of detectives who had resorted to physical violence appeared to be small in relation to the total force . |
| 24 | Oleg Kalugin , a former major-general in the KGB who had come to public prominence recently for alleging continuing KGB abuses of power , was elected to the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies in a by-election in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar on Sept. 2 . |
| 25 | The secretary of the new NILP branch was Ivan Cooper , who had come to public attention the previous year when he resigned from the Bond 's Glen and Claudy Young Unionist Association and had stood as an Independent candidate for the Londonderry Rural District Council . |
| 26 | It is Protestant perceptions which explain their actions and those perceptions were amplifying the fundamental divisions between those unionists who remained committed to pragmatic reform , either because they believed in liberal unionism or because they believed that satisfying the Westminster government 's demands for reform was the only way to maintain Stormont , and the right-wingers who wanted to preserve traditional unionism . |
| 27 | Vicky , however ( for in that long night 's talking we had moved to Christian names ) , was not daunted . |
| 28 | In April 1990 , as the downturn deepened , they sold LET to Swedish life insurance giant SSP for £550 million , pocketing £40 million each and staying on to run the company . |
| 29 | The history , culture and knowledge of these people were denigrated and the contributions they had made to European thought forgotten . |
| 30 | ‘ I want to know what tax concessions the Government believed they had made to British Aerospace . |