Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the mesh , she told Sally the next time she saw her , I 'm sorry I made that mistake about you having a sister she said to Sally , I 've written to tell mother you 've said you have n't one she must of been mistaken what your mother said . |
| 2 | Her sister Clare , eighteen months her junior , described her as quote , a sister who seemed to be able do everything , she had a never ending social life , I was amazed how she managed to fit everything in unquote . |
| 3 | Each pair of houses shared a front door , staircase and a passageway which led to the small rear yard . |
| 4 | Well I worked there and then er quite a bit I had to w they had me working on the main road . |
| 5 | The judge had told the jury of what they had to be satisfied before convicting any of the accused , but the case cried out for a direction which amounted to the reverse side of the coin , namely , that they should not convict any person who was in their charge simply because of his association with others . |
| 6 | ' ’ It was just a decision we came to . |
| 7 | The move follows the party 's constant refusal to let him stand for re-election as a Labour county councillor for Harwich , a decision which led to Mr Knight 's resignation from public life . |
| 8 | It was a struggle which came to a head in the reign of Edward the Confessor , which began in 1042 . |
| 9 | The successful schemes were unsentimental and transcended the apparent dilemma posed by the design brief which asked for a building which related to preformed and powerful sensibilities and beliefs about life and death and which is also required to be effectively energy conscious . |
| 10 | Desiring Vitor was a pitfall which had to be avoided . |
| 11 | ‘ I need hardly tell you , ’ he continued in his dry voice , ‘ what a blow you dealt to she who cared so much for your welfare . |
| 12 | Car and Universal Finance v. Caldwell ( 1965 C.A. ) was another case where a rogue bought a car and by fraud induced the seller to accept a cheque which proved to be worthless . |
| 13 | There was a tiny shop at the Barnard 's Cross — Love Lane corner , again just the front room of a cottage which belonged to Mr. Mont . |
| 14 | Bede 's account of them — the unexpected defeat of Eadwine , the emergence of apostate kings , the ravages of Cadwallon , and the recovery of the northern Angles under Oswald , a Christian who prayed to God on the eve of the battle of ‘ Heavenfield ’ — constitutes one of the most dramatic and best-known parts of the Ecclesiastical History . |
| 15 | He said , ‘ I want to talk about a donation you made to Sinn Fein . |
| 16 | To each soul , be they merchant or prospector , mannered gentlewoman or rough-handed son of toil , Drachenfels told a story which appealed to their own greatest vanity or desire : warmth and shelter , food and drink , society and snobberies , paintings and poets and Elven musicians … |
| 17 | He insisted he had permission to be there — a story he repeated to police . |
| 18 | Dillon and Mann L.JJ. held that he had erred in English domestic law , because he had misunderstood the Hoffmann-La Roche case as extending to local authorities a privilege which belonged to the Crown alone ; and furthermore that he had erred in Community law because , since it is the duty of the national court to ensure the legal protection which persons derive from the direct effect of provisions of Community law , it was necessary to require an undertaking in damages to protect any current right which Wickes might have , by virtue of article 30 , to open their doors for Sunday trading . |
| 19 | He was hard at work on the translation of a play which had to be ready two days later . |
| 20 | The five guerrillas , armed with rifles and dynamite , shot dead a photographer who volunteered to be exchanged for a hostage , the middle-aged wife of the hotel manager . |
| 21 | For years it was in the library of a Spanish noble house , from whence it was acquired by Thomas Thorp ( 1791–1851 ) , a baker who took to bookselling in Bedford Street , Piccadilly and Henrietta Street , Covent Garden . |
| 22 | During the period between the Fascist ascendancy of 1934 and the collapse of Mosley 's hopes in March 1937 , Joyce 's personal life had undergone a change which seemed to be for the better . |
| 23 | Ragusa was seen as a rival which had to be subdued and brought under Venetian control . |
| 24 | INFORMATION required on a rescue attempt by a Walrus which went to the aid of B-17 2102610 Boomerang on Saturday December 30 , 1944 , after it had crashed into the sea approximately 16 miles off Beachy Head . |
| 25 | What really annoyed Daugherty was that critics were applauding The Public Enemy , a movie which seemed to him to be just a very well-cut and scripted melodrama that would serve as good ‘ yokel bait ’ . |
| 26 | But not to have mentioned the subject at all , to leave a void which demanded to be filled — that , it seemed to me , would have been Hamlet without the prince ( or , more accurately , Queen Mother ) . |
| 27 | The couple had little in common , and her children died in infancy , one after another , a loss she attributed to the lead works Wright ran on their premises . |
| 28 | For instance he read every morning newspaper before midnight on the previous day ( in contrast to Harold Macmillan who claimed not to read newspapers ) and as a result he went to bed fully — and very ill-advisedly — informed of the disagreeable things that were being said about him , since almost all the papers had Tory proprietors and Tory-inclined editors . |
| 29 | He was so favourably impressed by the industrial potential of the area that he and some friends raised the necessary capital to revive the works , and as a result he moved to Shropshire . |
| 30 | The monster discovered who his creator was and where he lived when he found some papers as a result he travelled to Geneva . |