Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house which had faded to a ghost with the years , but still lingered there , a lump of fog , on the edge of her mind . |
| 2 | The issue reminded many observers of the Recruit share trading scandal of late 1988 , which had led to the collapse of the government led by Noboru Takeshita [ see pp. 36463-64 ] , and which had led to a range of measures designed to tighten up on this kind of abuse . |
| 3 | It was also claimed that Mr Deans had been responsible for the non-payment of police bills which had led to a threat of police cover being withdrawn for home matches . |
| 4 | Longer-term factors which had led to a decline in the gold price were lack of demand because of the prolonged recession in the USA and the slowdown in activity in other major industrialized countries , a switch by investors from the gold market to financial markets , and a failure to limit production and thus reduce supplies ( particularly in South Africa , the world 's largest producer ) . |
| 5 | There is a story about an old man who was called in by a factory to fix their ancient boiler , which had ground to a halt . |
| 6 | They were not too concerned with what had happened to a couple of whores in Paris over ten years ago , or even the other matter . |
| 7 | This was one of the few liberties taken by the film 's editors , as no B–17 quite arrived that way on December 7 , but the shot was clearly too good not to include and it approximated to what had happened to a number of the actual B–17s which stumbled into the attack . |
| 8 | It no longer aroused feelings of exasperation , as it had done when he failed to link what had amounted to a form of work paralysis with the hopelessness which Dave must have felt about himself both at home and at school . |