Example sentences of "[vb past] to [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 2 | During the next few weeks Bourke and Blake moved to several different apartments in London owned by friends who Bourke claimed were members of CND and named as Michael Reynolds and Pat Porter . |
| 3 | But a great man , a potens , in Charles 's kingdom could quit the scene as completely as he had momentarily seemed to dominate it : if he died leaving only young sons , or no sons at all , or if he moved to another Carolingian kingdom , Charles might redistribute his honores as he put it , voluntarie — " in accordance with my will " . |
| 4 | He pulled up his roots a second time and moved to another new land , Germany , where during the twelve years that were left to him he accomplished a ‘ ballet miracle ’ , building not merely a repertory and a company in Stuttgart , but a whole new public attitude that affected other theatres throughout the country . |
| 5 | During late January and early February the Bf110s of III/ZG 26 , Ju87s of I/St.G 1 and Ju88s of II and III/LG 1 and 1(F)/121 , moved to this new area . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf owed its new electric lighting and heating system to his generosity , and he contributed to many deaf charities . |
| 8 | One can perhaps understand why John Keats , ’ writing his first mature work of poetry , managed to confuse Balboa with Cortez ; a young and sensitive man , Keats may well have balked at including a figure capable of such wanton cruelty in a sonnet devoted to such tender sentiments . |
| 9 | On other occasions , a model or theory may emerge in an act of discovery ; but that is the result of deliberate endeavour , perhaps over several years , devoted to some particular inquiry . |
| 10 | In advance of the Belgrade conference of the Non-Aligned group in 1961 Soviet officials dwelt on the threat the existence of CENTO and SEATO posed to all neutralist states . |
| 11 | As the table shows , detached , or almost detached , boards were the most common specific defect , affecting more than half ( 59% ) of all items in need of repair , while loose , or almost loose , pages ( 27% ) , heavy soiling ( 20% ) , and apparently acidic paper ( 18% ) were the only other specific defects which occurred to any significant extent . |
| 12 | He added to many existing houses and castles , but his finest design is probably Stracathro House of 1828 with its noble Corinthian portico . |
| 13 | Discussing the painting of Picasso and Braque , he added to some general remarks about the return to a more formal and intellectual art his view that a painting by Picasso was ‘ the tangible equivalent of an idea , the image in its totality … |
| 14 | The Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) added to this general outlook a racial antagonism towards everything Spanish and an abomination of the social , economic and cultural changes affecting the Basque country in the early twentieth century . |
| 15 | And added to this scientific accuracy , of course , is a wholly imaginary event . |
| 16 | LEITRIM Cup-winner Eavan Higgins sailed to another confident win today in the Irish Ladies Golf Championship . |
| 17 | The later term that Freud adopted to this super ego has become synonymous in people 's minds with conscience the idea of the super ego as the the role of conscience and presum presumably that 's another aspect of the same thing and er Serg Moskovicy in his excellent book Age of the Crowd erm which is on the reading list which I can thoroughly recommend in discussing this point of how Freud sees the leader as the kind of super ego of the followers quotes one of the Nuremberg war criminals , I forget which it was now erm Goering or Goebbels or one of these er people who when asked of the Nuremberg war tribunals why did you do the things you did , replied Adolf Hitler was my conscience and that 's er that 's a very erm good example of this idea of er how the the role of conscience can be transferred from the individual to the , to the leader of the group and I suppose Dean you would say erm illustrates one of the greatest dangers of group , group membership because er obviously if if that happens in a group , then erm individuals are to some extent erm surrendering their moral self-responsibility and of course if Freud 's insight is correct , then there was an element of truth in in this in this excuse Adolf Hitler was my conscience . |
| 18 | My Lords , the code which first made it a criminal offence to drive a motor vehicle with an amount of alcohol in the body exceeding a fixed statutory limit ( introduced by the Road Safety Act 1967 and re-enacted in the consolidating Road Traffic Act 1972 ) was found in course of judicial construction to have been drafted in a way which afforded to many drunken drivers a variety of wholly unmeritorious avenues of escape from conviction . |
| 19 | This teaching appealed to many ordinary people because it was simple to understand and made Christian obedience appear much easier than it really was . |
| 20 | This message had clearly coded racial overtones and appealed to many working-class whites , particularly in rural areas of the recession-hit state . |
| 21 | You know , it is only when he came to that final page that he realized where the theme came from , so absorbed was he in the process of composition . |
| 22 | However , even if the L.G.U. was left wondering if it should n't have kept the public better informed , it must have been greatly heartened by the number of spectators who not only came to this out-of-the-way championship but made it abundantly clear that they were greatly taken with the high standard of play . |
| 23 | ‘ My dear , since we first came to this terrible place you are the only person to show me true consideration . ’ |
| 24 | That 's why I came to this veterinary congress . |
| 25 | Anyway , I came to this old cemetery and against one wall was this kind of beehive grave affair and someone had broken into one of the graves and pulled out this baby 's coffin and smashed it open . |
| 26 | She came to some definite conclusions about the importance of this post and the requirements of a Depute Head Teacher . |
| 27 | The meeting came to some useful conclusions and a resolution to the EC 's Environment Ministers is being drawn up . |
| 28 | Then he came to some characteristic conclusions . |
| 29 | According to Taheri , Britain regarded the hostage-takers as criminals and saw the problem largely in terms of policing , rather than negotiating , which was why British hostages were a low priority and would be bottom of the list when it came to any subsequent releases . |
| 30 | Came to these stormy parts : |