Example sentences of "[vb past] to [noun] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rose to power deep in the Badlands where his tribe , the Ironclaws , held the fortress known as the Iron Rock . |
| 2 | In 1940 he married Rose Paul-Schiff , a Viennese , whose family was connected with the banking firm of Warburg Schiff and came to England just before the Anschluss . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's the way to do it , ’ said Araminta pleased , as all the puppets came to life again for a curtain call . |
| 4 | Mirpuri and Bangladeshi women came to Britain mainly as a result of immigration control . |
| 5 | I was born in what is now Russia , and when I came to Scotland shortly before the war the small Jewish grocery shops in the Gorbals district of Glasgow were my main link with home . |
| 6 | He employed ‘ the Great Brown [ better known as ‘ Capability ’ , who ] … came to Sledmere early in the morning , ’ as the meticulously efficient Sir Christopher recorded on Thursday 18 September 1777 . |
| 7 | As he had expected , the sentry came to attention automatically at the suddenly terse voice . |
| 8 | The Bolsheviks came to power not in the relatively peaceful conditions in which policy had been framed , but in conditions of social collapse . |
| 9 | IRISH international Noel Graham , who came to Dublin yesterday in the hope of winning two Irish National championships , goes home today empty-handed . |
| 10 | Georg Schwafenberger 's book The Legality of Nuclear Weapons ( 1958 , pp. 47–9 ) reached conclusions which came to terms more with the by then widespread possession of nuclear weapons . |
| 11 | This explains why British industry , which had never conceived of employing professional consultants to recruit and select executives and managers , came to terms psychologically with the idea of using headhunters . |
| 12 | Having played so well for the first two rounds and then the first three holes of the third , by which time he was tieing for the lead with Parry at 10 under par , Woosnam came to grief immediately after the Saturday storm . |
| 13 | Never seemed to cotton on to the fact that I do n't like morning mists . |
| 14 | ‘ I felt I did everything right , like the simple things of making the right contact , but I was striking it into the wind and it seemed to tail off at the last minute . ’ |
| 15 | This seemed to Alice thoroughly off the point . |
| 16 | One threatened to bed down on a couple 's settee while they slept on a purchase , while an angry consumer from Redcar had to call police to get rid of another salesman . |
| 17 | Indeed British reservations began to surface only after the Soviet nuclear test in the late summer of 1949 ( this had occurred some years earlier than expected ) , and when the scale of the American build-up in Britain became apparent . |
| 18 | She retired behind the glowing silken curtain of her loose hair as the jet began to taxi away from the small private terminal at London 's second airport , her feelings in a turmoil . |
| 19 | The ungrateful King , however , refused to part with the mares and Hercules returned to Troy later with a body of companions and destroyed the city . |
| 20 | Adrift and in debt , Rolfe was taken in by the Duchess of Sforza-Cesarini , who conferred on him the title of Baron Corvo before he returned to England later in the year . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought I might have to sell my ticket , ’ added Birch , who returned to action yesterday for the first time in six months . |
| 22 | We talked to nutters frequently over a period of two years and some were ‘ interviewed ’ in a more structured manner . |
| 23 | In the North the seasonally adjusted figure fell by more than 3,000 as the region started to gear up for the tourist season . |
| 24 | SDLP leader John Hume flew to Portugal today for a summit of the leaders of Europe 's social democratic and labour parties . |
| 25 | General surface markers ( e.g. lectins or anti-mouse species antibodies ) applied to embryos up to the 8-cell stage will stain all blastomeres homogeneously prior to compaction and in a polarized fashion thereafter . |
| 26 | In the mandatory pre-fight squabbling , ITN 's Stewart Purvis lambasted the swing-ometer as ‘ a two-dimensional 1970s device ’ , and Horrocks chose to home in on the opposition 's choice of untried Jon Snow as their E-night pivot . |
| 27 | You know nothing of me , only that we went to bed together for a while . |
| 28 | Detective-Constable Barnes , large , rustic , intelligent and benign , put down his spade and went to work lovingly with a soft brush on the exposed uprights of the flue , whisking away loose , moist soil that abandoned its hold with revealing readiness . |
| 29 | When it was an old fashion open market and erm I went to work there on the fruit and vegetable stall . |
| 30 | What is striking about it is that he is the first Anglo-Saxon king known to have abdicated to go to Rome and that he went to Rome not as a baptized Christian but to seek baptism . |