Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But because this ruled out all danger or adventure , Eternity became destructive to the spirit , and the bureaucrats had themselves to be destroyed . |
| 2 | It included a house in the tiny seaside village of Cramer , which clung low to the land in an attempt to avoid the rough seas and wild winds that buffeted the coast for what seemed to Nora most of the year . |
| 3 | Towards the end of the era , in fact , the attendants in the salons of homage became alert to the fact that among their few Western visitors , the majority were not as in awe of the Conducator as they might be and photographing the exhibits or taking notes of the sycophantic citations attached to the awards by their Western donors was discouraged . |
| 4 | Ace pressed the remote-control button and the room became alive to the sound of highly tuned engines revving up . |
| 5 | When their eyes became used to the gloom they could see the hut was tidily arranged with all manner of traps and tools . |
| 6 | Her main work was centred at a refuge for prostitutes and the women under her charge became used to the sight of her arriving with the latest member of her growing family in her arms . |
| 7 | There were few opportunities for attending concerts but passers-by became used to the familiar sound of Mozart 's " Jupiter " symphony or Handel 's water music floating from Eva 's house in the lunchtime break . |
| 8 | The pair became used to the waves and hoots from passing motorists , trucks and even train drivers as they journeyed to the Mediterranean coast . |
| 9 | Second attempt to lay an Atlantic cable also failed due to the cable stretching during the operation |
| 10 | Gradually my eyes got used to the glare and I was able to make sense of my surroundings . |
| 11 | Instead of him being a mate , I loathed him after that until I got used to the idea . |
| 12 | Of course they got used to it , just as they got used to the closing of the railway , the death of the last squire , the demolition of the hall , the theft of the common land . |
| 13 | He got used to the station staff coming on to his land to check radiation monitors they had installed and to take away milk samples . |
| 14 | We got used to the lovely coffee and rolls for breakfast . |
| 15 | ‘ Gradually she got used to the idea . ’ |
| 16 | Even later on , when he understood the geese nomes better , he never quite got used to the way they cheerfully parted from one another . |
| 17 | Once I got used to the screen , I found that it was OK to use , but I suspect that it would n't suit everybody . |
| 18 | When I got used to the light I could see two men sitting grinning at me . |
| 19 | As her eyes got used to the darkness she began to see a tunnel-the interior of a tunnel . |
| 20 | A few TV companies came and went ; it seemed very dark when their harsh lights had gone , but gradually my eyes got used to the gloom and I knew if I looked round I would see comforting , familiar faces , as people took their seats in the rows of chairs in front of the altar . |
| 21 | ‘ The discussions have been taking place for such a long time that I rather got used to the idea that I should be leaving . |
| 22 | After you got used to the conventions of his speech , he became readily comprehensible : shah-al-arhee was the mali 's rendering of salary . ) |
| 23 | But he got used to the noise , and soon he forgot everything except his work . |
| 24 | But we soon got used to the place . |
| 25 | About quarter to eleven we got to bed , but they were going on I fell asleep during the middle of it cos I just got used to the noise |
| 26 | With the field applied normal to the inversion layer , we thus have two quantisations to contend with : ‘ spatial ’ ( due to the thinness of the inversion layer ) along the field 's direction . |
| 27 | Feeling themselves isolated from Ramsay MacDonald , who had been helped into Labour leadership by the " Clydesiders " , the ILP became receptive to the radical socialism of the Scottish MPs . |
| 28 | Vergennes next toyed with the idea of an attack on Ireland , but the Spaniards proved unenthusiastic about anything short of an invasion as the Spanish minister , the Count of Florida Blanca , made clear to the French ambassador in February 1779 : |
| 29 | The Soviets , as shown by declining equipment orders since 1976 , have themselves become more careful in weighing the balance , and have lost much of their earlier enthusiasm , as Brezhnev made clear to the Twenty-Sixth Party Congress of 1981 : |
| 30 | And if it be thought that Mr Hunte retains a soft spot for Pakistan ever since he and Garry Sobers had a stand of 446 against them at Sabina Park 34 years ago , we have ascertained that he made clear to the 1992 management that any further offence would be met with punishment noticeably more severe . |