Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , suddenly , those who clung to these notions were thrown on to the defensive and soon outnumbered . |
| 2 | Even before this time , the cost of war was beginning to sap enthusiasm for it : loans on wool and in wool , accompanied by embargoes and dubious credit arrangements , were testing the patience and loyalty of more than the merchants who assented to these measures ; purveyances , now being collected with a frequency and ruthlessness to match the 1290s , were provoking deep unrest in wide sections of the community , lay and clerical ; efforts to muster arrays for defence against the Scots and French antagonized the clergy when the requests for support were directed to diocesan , instead of provincial , synods . |
| 3 | I enjoyed this day , felt I had done something worthwhile and was grateful for the generosity of my sponsors who contributed to such worthy cause . |
| 4 | Finally many thanks are due to everyone who contributed to this edition . |
| 5 | Finally very many thanks are again due to everyone who contributed to this edition . |
| 6 | I 'm trying to trace a member of our family who moved to this part of London during the war , looking for work . |
| 7 | It was a very scared bunch of men , announcing the death of the Dear Father of the Soviet People , who appealed to those people to avoid ‘ panic and disarray ’ . |
| 8 | I wanted to ensure that foreign visitors who came to this country were also covered by insurance . |
| 9 | We know very little about how the experience of ageing will vary between those who came to this country a-s economic migrants and the indigenous population . |
| 10 | During the recent troubles in India , many of the people who came to this country and who said that they were refugees from oppression by the Indian Government were proposing various forms of armed or violent protest against that Government . |
| 11 | In a combative pre-election speech Gorbachev delivered a blistering attack on conservative thinking and " those who came to this congress hoping to take the party back to the old condition of commands and orders " . |
| 12 | Waldendale means the dale of the Welshman , Welsh being a word once used to describe any foreigner , though in this case it probably refers to the last remnants of the Celtic peoples who retreated to this dale in the face of Norse and Anglo-Saxon expansion . |
| 13 | — Enthusiasts will delight in seeing over 100 species of rhododendron , many planted by H R H the Princess Royal who subscribed to several expeditions to collect exotic specimens from the Himalayas . |
| 14 | The grievance was taken to the union , the union just say er told the steward who belonged to that particular pit there , right , just call the men out , that 's it . |
| 15 | It was interesting to talk with a family who belonged to this high priest 's group and hear their side of the story . |
| 16 | But in 1869 Uncle Elias , who belonged to this secret group , suddenly left America with all their papers , and so the group could not go on . |
| 17 | Reduced sentences could also be given to those who confessed to any subsequent crimes . |
| 18 | My aunt was the one who went to all the trouble of trying to get me out of the Soviet Union . ’ |
| 19 | And just as everybody who looked to that serpent on the pole was healed , so I am gon na be lifted up on a cross and everybody who looks in faith to me , and in obedience receives my gift of forgiveness , they will be saved ! |
| 20 | Sometimes I thought that what was so outstanding was how he taught rather than what he taught , but then one realised that the two were inseparable in their effect , that this was the quality of the medium who spoke to each one of us who was present but who did not selfishly intervene . |
| 21 | 12 of the 13 Colleges who responded to this question had 6 or more staff for this purpose , and most of the Polytechnics made similar returns . |
| 22 | The following points were all made individually — of the seven who responded to this section , no two people had the same view on what was least useful . |
| 23 | Mrs McTavish used to wonder why she had produced two children who ran to such opposite extremes , but had never come up with an answer . |