Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [vb past] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When such a man came down from Olympus and applied himself to the problems of Africa , his voice was heard . |
| 2 | Mr Kendall , you came through the hole , found Mr Goodhaven and brought him to the surface . |
| 3 | One day his inquisitors would take Master Learmouth and put him to the question . |
| 4 | That was a mythical representation of Scotland that owed everything to the prejudices of people who lived in the past and knew nothing of the realities of the Scotland that then existed . |
| 5 | The American occupation misunderstood the nature of the unrest in south Korea and attributed it to the machinations of the communists . |
| 6 | He summoned all the archbishops and bishops who were with him in Sicily and flung himself to the ground at their feet . |
| 7 | Graziano , 68 , won the world title in 1947 with a sixth-round knock-out of Tony Zale but lost it to the same fighter less than a year later . |
| 8 | Schwarz rammed a magazine into the butt of a Walther PPK and handed it to the Irishman . |
| 9 | The next day he reported its receipt to the House of Commons and forwarded it to the Treasury with some papers explaining the background to the competition . |
| 10 | When in May , six months later , he came to Paris and took me to the Tour d'Argent for lunch , he passed me an envelope . |
| 11 | On the morning of 9 November , Sydney sighted Emden and pinned her to the shore of Keeling Island , one of the Cocos group , on which a German party had been landed to destroy essential cable and wireless installations connecting Australian , African and Indian telegraph systems . |
| 12 | When Knox became a fellow of King 's in 1909 he inherited the then deceased Headlam 's work on Herodas and applied himself to the fragmentary texts of the Herodas papyri in the British Museum . |
| 13 | He survived Auschwitz and made it to the US , but died the year after I was born |
| 14 | At Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire the remarkable follies are now vested in the Fitzwilliam Amenity Trust which has restored the spectacular mausoleum built by John Carr and opened it to the public . |
| 15 | Unix International members such as Sony Corp and Fujitsu developed sample implementations of XIMP and provided them to the X Consortium as contribution software for X11.5 . |
| 16 | ‘ The exhibition , ’ she went on will probably revive interest in the period so we grabbed some of the stuff from our theatrical costumes shop up in Clifton and added it to the mixture of period we have here . |
| 17 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |