Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the stroke of a pen they removed hundreds of thousands of needy youngsters from the benefit system and condemned many of them to a life of mendicant poverty , many also slipped into prostitution . |
| 2 | I adjusted one of them to the reclining position , lay back in it and closed my eyes . |
| 3 | First he returned one of them to the brass container . |
| 4 | We used , father , after he got motorized , he sold one of them to a man named at Fordham . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's remarkable that , in addition to playing 11 cities around the country , the educational programme played to over 5,000 kids and brought many of them to the main theatre in their local cities for the first time in their lives , on subsidised tickets . |
| 6 | He was rehearsing Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and the lines had fled ; what he hung on to was the physical business , and when he did some of it to the mirror it seemed poor stuff for the old Living Boomerang . |
| 7 | I fetched more glasses and dealt some of them to the Lorrimores who were an oasis of silence in the chattering mob and paid me absolutely no attention : and from then on I felt I had indeed chosen the right role and could sustain it indefinitely . |
| 8 | But she gave most of it to a charity promoting adult literacy , living instead on the £115,000 presidential salary . |