Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the evening of March 26 there will be a celebratory dinner at the Campana Restaurant in Marylebone High Street for everyone involved to really let their hair down . |
| 2 | Nor had it taken her long to discover the source of her aunt 's woes , and now the reason for them returned to her mind . |
| 3 | The space between them seemed to be almost solid , you could see it had edges . |
| 4 | They sat for a minute in silence as if what had passed between them needed to be assimilated in peace . |
| 5 | Sidgwick , for example , argued thus that the typical duties recognized by common sense could not be self evident and necessary since the clashes between them needed to be resolved by appeal to a more fundamental principle , that of the principle of utility , and that it was therefore this alone which possessed such a status . |
| 6 | She backed her main topsail and for me hove to . |
| 7 | Well last night I went to bed at about I went to bed early last night , I was in bed at half past eleven and I read |
| 8 | The humid heat of the New Guinea forest had probably proven too much for someone used to the dank climate of south Wales , they reassured Joan . |
| 9 | Apart from the temperature in my suite being a little too high for someone used to Low Birk Hatt , the entire experience was truly a once-in-a-lifetime thing . |
| 10 | ‘ This man Siward : how can he hope to hold Lothian , so far from York and from Durham , with a strength such as yours massed to the north of him ? |
| 11 | Yes , half way through I spoke to the environ environment officer |
| 12 | When they reached home that evening , George said , ‘ After what happened to our Tamar , I do n't like you being here on your own all day . |
| 13 | After what happened to the poor idiot , Donny , at Sallins , just two miles down the road , an Arbuthnot would n't be a trouble to their consciences . |
| 14 | ‘ And after what happened to Bath , I think the whole country must be rejoicing ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ After what happened to Flavia , he would never have risked injecting illegal penicillin into you . |
| 16 | All the fish in the country will have to run for cover after what happened to me this week ! |
| 17 | He could indeed hear breathing , though it was true of course that it might be his own , since everything about himself seemed to be happening so far away for the moment . |
| 18 | The mill was powered then by a steam engine , the coal for which had to be carried from the |
| 19 | They were found in 16% of 98 children who had completed a course of sclerotherapy , all of whom responded to simple dilatation . |
| 20 | Other able practitioners of homoeopathy in America were Allen , Nash , Boenninghausen and Boericke — all of whom added to the homoeopathic literature and whose work is still used today by students of homoeopathy . |
| 21 | They found it hard to understand what he saw in the boys he now surrounded himself with , some of whom seemed to the girls stupid and callow and bad at drawing . |
| 22 | Buzz did not feel like sitting in the small lounge at the Eastbourne hotel , which contained a great many genteel , inquisitive , elderly ladies , all of whom seemed to be knitting . |
| 23 | Even in villages , I known men who 've worked abroad fitting them up in in er Germany and in France and in Italy , one of whom went to night school in Germany to learn the language t to get on better , he was there to receive machines . |
| 24 | The long pallid hospital morning passed with interruptions from the nursing , cleaning , and auxiliary stall , all of whom gravitated to the bed , where they were received by the nice-looking Mr Blake , who was in terrible pain , with grave correctness . |
| 25 | The number of officially registered objectors had by now almost doubled , to over 20,000 , all of whom had to be entered on a database and then sent information . |
| 26 | Not all were as exotic as those with a succession of Miss Worlds , some of whom had to be nursed along ( with a few retakes ) as they struggled for appropriate poise and vocabulary . |
| 27 | Certain of the magistrates were nominated to a special inner group , some of whom had to be present if a session of the magistrates ' court was to be lawful . |
| 28 | At the time of the accident , 135 men were underground , 6 of whom escaped to the surface immediately , and the rest were trapped . |
| 29 | Certainly , when a boy , I had fights with juvenile delinquents , some of whom belonged to ‘ gangs ’ . |
| 30 | This has caused great alarm among the young men in the western half of the city , many of whom moved to Berlin to avoid going insane with boredom in a Bundeswehr barracks . |