Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a different route , New Zealand and Newfoundland were similarly placed and , as we have seen , in 1922 the Irish Free State became added to this list . |
| 2 | We got transferred to another old council house , it was very damp , but it was a new start , and I decided that if he wanted some responsibility , OK the tenancy could be in his name . |
| 3 | Mrs Aboud — she and her husband were both Israeli citizens — seemed resigned to this gradual destruction of the little mixed society around their home . |
| 4 | He seemed resigned to this twist of fate that the first calf to be born into his stable for two years had been brought to life before it was ready , before the winter was even through . |
| 5 | She realised she was revolving everything they 'd said to each other round and round in her mind . |
| 6 | A woman once wrote to me , desperately upset , because , while going through her dead husband 's effects , she 'd found love letters he 'd written to another woman . |
| 7 | Which was crazy , she reflected as she sat there , after all the things they 'd done to each other with their bodies , and the things yet to be done . |
| 8 | and what he 'd done to this pillow was no one 's business . |
| 9 | If members would accept the additional resolution which stands in my name erm which reads this is what we 'd copied to all district councils and they would be made aware of the county council 's views on the matter . |
| 10 | I can understand er I mean we had some calls off er last week mainly because erm we we took we 'd spoken to those people before Christmas and we do expect people to drop out . |
| 11 | I thought I 'd gone to all that trouble to lure you into my net , sort out the money , only to send you back into his arms . |
| 12 | Once again she felt a rush of warmth for Josh ; clearly he 'd gone to some lengths to cover up for her , and for that she 'd be eternally grateful . |
| 13 | I do n't know what happened to the front entrance , but there was a basement underneath there and my first wife was dancing in Harvey Martin 's dance hall underneath , her pal and herself she , they 'd gone to this dance it was a dancing lesson on a Saturday night it was famous in those days Harvey Martin 's dance class er yes I |
| 14 | Indeed , all parties except ours seemed reconciled to this collapse of the public finances , though some had proposals for making it worse . |
| 15 | The best years of his mind he 'd sacrificed to this godforsaken place and precious little did he have to show for it . |
| 16 | The same people who 'd listened to those jokes were laughing in earnest now ; were calling him ridiculous . |
| 17 | It was the first time we 'd returned to any location and I thought it must be a good sign . |
| 18 | The first meeting place was a small room in Fetter Lane in 1840 which became known to some interested people who took a house in Red Lion Square where some destitute deaf men and women were lodged and taught trades . |
| 19 | Only thirty-nine of the schemes they examined conformed to all the conditions . |
| 20 | Others realized that it was only a matter of patience to wait for the guaranteed escape which would be provided by the end of the war , and as the war dragged on more and more people became converted to this view . |
| 21 | The minute we got settled down in the bottom of our Kalamachka , rocking as if we were inside a boat and ‘ talking about Baghdad ’ , we felt transported to another country . |
| 22 | Because there are no expressions of regret afterwards , I assume I felt entitled to some sort of reward . |
| 23 | Although he remained as chairman of the Council of Ministers his influence waned compared to that of Brezhnev , who eventually became formal head of state in addition to party secretary . |
| 24 | But the October 1987 crash put paid to many ambitions . |
| 25 | A former Lieutenant-Colonel in the Queen 's Dragoon Guards , Mr. Mates had been tipped as a future defence secretary but his ill-fated decision to campaign for Mr. Heseltine put paid to that . |
| 26 | Up to the time of her deafness , she had ambitions to be a music composer but her deafness put paid to that . |
| 27 | In The Desert Rats as the young English captain who put paid to that upstart Rommel by turning him back at a crucial moment in the whole North African Campaign ( set in Palm Springs ) , he was fine . |
| 28 | The Yom Kippur War , and the oil crisis put paid to that as western governments tried to buy their way out of recession by borrowing heavily . |
| 29 | There was a plan once to supply our place and the Fawcetts ' at West Birk Hatt from a source within the boundaries of High Birk Hatt , but the Fawcetts had to leave when their farm disappeared under the waters of Balderhead Reservoir which , ironically , put paid to that enterprise . |
| 30 | The miners ' strike put paid to that stage of the project and Peter returned to the Operations Support Group in London to prepare operating procedures and training manuals for the Ula platform . |