Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pos pn] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rubbish tip has been part of the scene since we moved to our market street seven years ago . |
| 2 | John Ruscoe : an ICL consultant who moved to his Orkney telefarm six years ago |
| 3 | BERTIE CAMERON and JIM DAVIDSON of Transport Section wish to thank all friends and colleagues who contributed to their departure gifts and wish Dounreay all the best for the future . |
| 4 | It was a basic tenet of a free society that people themselves must be the judge of what contributed to their material welfare . |
| 5 | May I through the Journal , say thank you to all my friends and colleagues who contributed to my retirement present [ camcorder ] — a gift that 's much appreciated and will always remind me of my 32+ years at JS . |
| 6 | It directly contributed to our election defeat . |
| 7 | It is very comfortable , tastefully furnished , and set in its own garden , in which Winston Churchill 's father Randolph proposed to his mother Jennie . |
| 8 | The assassination momentarily stunned the government , and the new Tsar , Alexander III ( 1881–94 ) , fled to his country palace . |
| 9 | When she became engaged to Prince Charles Diana referred to her cleaning job in her reply to Lucinda 's letter of congratulation . |
| 10 | She referred to his cartridge belts . |
| 11 | We studied 16 unselected patients with PSS ( mean age 47 years , range 26–62 , 15 women , one man ) referred to our gastroenterology unit in the period from September 1991 to April 1992 for the assessing of oesophageal involvement . |
| 12 | And one night during our news programme , I referred to our studio director as " Her Upstairs " . |
| 13 | BT , after falling earlier , firmed to its 421p opening price while Vodafone again continued its downward trend with the stock falling 5p to 486p . |
| 14 | Attending Sunday Mass each week , he began motioning to receive the eucharist by reaching toward the alter and pointing to the picture of Jesus adhered to his communication board . |
| 15 | He added to his first-half penalty with two second-half drop goals and landed a further penalty . |
| 16 | He stood up and sauntered to his coffee pot . |
| 17 | Even in victory , however , Britomart does not immediately regain composure she : ‘ Stayd not , till she came to her selfe againe ’ ( V , VII , 34 ) but for a mixture of motives — revenge , anger , pain from her wounds — she decapitates Radigund . |
| 18 | But when it came to their sex life , Antonia was boss of the futon frolics . |
| 19 | The neighbours came to their kitchen windows better to see the antics of this strange lady , and I managed to yell , ‘ Get Trudie , quick ! ’ |
| 20 | He had fallen in soft , lush ground , still waterlogged after the flood had somewhat subsided , and he came to his feet whole and angry . |
| 21 | For all his appreciation of art in its many forms , John Ruskin was a complete wreck when it came to his sex life . |
| 22 | In the 1920s , when von Frisch was carrying out similar experiments on honeybees to those he had done with fish , he noticed that although initially a lone bee came to his food dish , soon afterwards many bees came . |
| 23 | since he came to our Lordships House with some very and has had to sit this thing ever since then with one exception er to speeches deeply and seriously critical er of the proposals er coming from Members of your Lordships House mostly with vast experience of the subject matter former Secretary 's er er former Chief Constable er and er so many others and I arise only to put one point to you if my Noble Friend decides to resist these amendments , it seems to me I may be wrong but it seems to me overwhelmingly clear that they will be carrying against him and they will be put into the Bill which will be very considerably altered and amended , some of your Lordships may think improved , but certainly drastically altered and I wonder whether er my Noble Friend thinks that really would be helpful from the point of view either of the pr future progress of the Bill , or the position of the Government . |
| 24 | The GHI/Panasonic Roadshow travelled from Glasgow to Southampton , and a large number of you came to our GHI/Liberty Sewing Day . |
| 25 | I 'll tell you the reason why I like to record what we say , somebody came to our house Thursday , did I mention it to you on the phone ? |
| 26 | To me , the wind in the tree tops really carried stories on its back ; the red bird that came to our cherry tree told me things ; the fat , velvety flowers in the forest laughed and I answered ; the little calf in the field held long conversations with me . |
| 27 | There were sketches about parties , about dating , about jilting , and what youngsters told to their tape recorders , a novelty indeed in 1957 . |
| 28 | They were shaped — they were the shells of cottages , each one reduced to its ground plan , one course of massive stones , roughly masoned , with rounded ones at the four corners . |
| 29 | In a similar manner Edward I in August 1289 granted to his Queen Eleanor the custody of the royal manor and forest of Feckenham . |
| 30 | At four o'clock he cycled to his piano lesson with Mr Gordon . |