Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [noun prp] during the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had come to England during the eighteenth century through the southwestern ports and an English breed society was formed in 1884 . |
| 2 | The family appear to have come to England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth when several glassmakers from Lorraine were invited to practise their skills in this country . |
| 3 | Once the amazing facts had been revealed to Kirsty during the course of her regression , she only needed to come and see me one more time . |
| 4 | ‘ Nothing , ’ said Comfort , who had been unable either to forget or justify some of the things she had said to Julia during the war . |
| 5 | The memorandum represented a culmination of protracted negotiations over the status of Koreans , many of whom were descended from those who had been transported to Japan during the Pacific War for the purposes of forced labour . |
| 6 | Military equipment which had belonged to the East German army had been supplied to Turkey during the Gulf war in 1991 on condition that it was only used to defend the borders of Turkey or other NATO member-states . |
| 7 | It was exported to England during the 1880s and an English herdbook was opened in 1900 . |
| 8 | Based on the true story of an Inuit girl who was brought to Britain during the 19th century , the opera contrasts the spiritual culture of the Inuit people with the rigid conventions of Victorian Britain . |
| 9 | In late August Iraqi and Iranian officials had held talks in Teheran in an effort to resolve outstanding issues relating to the return of Iranian prisoners of war [ see pp. 37727 ; 37873 ] , officially estimated by Iran to total some 5,000 , and the return of between 50 and 150 Iraqi aircraft flown to Iran during the Gulf War [ see p. 37942 ] . |
| 10 | The United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , Douglas Hurd , had flown to Maputo during the Commonwealth summit in Harare on Oct. 16-22 and , according to some sources , put strong pressure on President Joachim Chissano to come to an agreement . |
| 11 | The United States ambassador was recalled to Washington during the campaign to discuss the allegations of intimidation , and the teams of Western observers recorded many irregularities in the conduct of the poll . |
| 12 | Unfortunately many of the millions of tonnes of maize pledged to Mozambique during the drought are only just arriving . |
| 13 | Trained by Roberto Longhi , he took part in the 1950s , together with Longhi and Argan , in the legation for the restitution of works of art removed to Germany during the war . |
| 14 | According to a joint communiqué issued on Sept. 18 , a number of confidence-building measures were agreed including the release of detained Thai and Vietnamese fishermen and the granting of Thai citizenship to Vietnamese nationals who had fled to Thailand during the first Indo-China war . |
| 15 | Poppy-growing started early in Anatolia and certainly spread to Crete during the Minoan period . |
| 16 | This knowledge — which included expert cider-making — was taken to Britain during the Norman Conquest in 1066 , along with new varieties of cider and dessert apples . |
| 17 | The Chinese even suggested to Kissinger during the years of backdoor diplomacy before Nixon 's visit to Peking in 1971 that his channel to Peking via Bucharest was far from secure : Ceauşescu kept Brezhnev informed . |
| 18 | It was n't as sophisticated as the one she had worn whilst attached to IMC during the Dalek Wars , three hundred years in the future , but it brought back memories of belonging , of finally being accepted on her own terms by a group of her peers . |