Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , when he was invited to visit Bridgnorth ( Shropshire ) in early July , rival crowds made alternative bonfires , " where about one they drank Dr Sacheverell 's health and the other his confusion " , with the inevitable result that the two groups eventually fell to blows . |
| 2 | On the following day the Senate was compelled to " freeze " the legislation after opposition deputies successfully appealed to the Supreme Court to block Senate ratification of the law until a ruling had been made on the constitutional legality of the AP 's parliamentary conduct during the lower house vote . |
| 3 | February 24 , 1977 The solicitors successfully appealed to Kerr J. and the third party notice was restored . |
| 4 | November 2 , 1978 The solicitors successfully appealed to the House of Lords and the third party notice was restored . |
| 5 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to actually damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding , corporate statements can evidence the fact that there have been poor profits during all these years … |
| 6 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess , at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding … morally it did not seem quite so bad as might be inferred by the definition of the activity itself . ’ |
| 7 | All these activities suddenly came to an end when Chiang Kai-shek broke with the Communists after the USSR had tried to take over the KMT . |
| 8 | ( The General Next to God , Collins ) Many of his far-reaching proposals only came to fruition during the social reforms after the Second World War . |
| 9 | And given the extensive fear of denunciation for critical or defeatist comment , it is hardly surprising that negative remarks about the speeches rarely came to light . |
| 10 | As their numbers grew so they spread out from the areas still occupied and the abandoned warrens slowly began to be reoccupied . |
| 11 | But his funds only ran to buying a Modigliani drawing . |
| 12 | From then on , South Metropolitan cars only ran to Penge on odd occasions , usually as football extras on Saturday afternoons , or for track maintenance . |
| 13 | She 'd pointed out that it was stupid to talk about Tupperware parties as a means of raising funds since funds raised at Tupperware parties naturally went to the manufacturers of Tupperware . |
| 14 | Even in the nineteenth century the total revenue raised from parents in industrial schools only amounted to between 2.5 and 5 per cent of expenditure , while in the period 1948–69 the parental share of the costs of children in care amounted only to between 4 per cent and 6.5 per cent . |
| 15 | The conclusion that the speeches largely appealed to long-standing victims of the ‘ Führer myth ’ also seems justified on the basis of an examination of the more nuanced reports from local SD agencies , which , while generally positive , provide a somewhat more varied picture of reactions . |
| 16 | As the eight finalists finally got to their marks , the anticipation was high in the stadium , the tension heavy . |
| 17 | What one British envoy called the ‘ crazy constitution ’ of the United Provinces thus appeared to contemporaries a poor advertisement for any form of government which attempted to escape from the conventional pattern of monarchy . |
| 18 | The branches above murmured to each other and refracted the light from the street lamps into kaleidoscopic shapes on the pavement , shades of concrete grey , forming and reforming , overlapping and separating . |
| 19 | Lower and higher concentrations finally led to increased numbers of blue insertless plaques on the selection plates . |
| 20 | But many more thoughtful pacifists still clung to the hope that the appeasement of Germany 's Versailles grievances would serve to moderate , or even undermine , the Nazi regime . |
| 21 | The incomes of these basic organizations thereafter belonged to the area in which they were located and were lost to the parent organization . |
| 22 | TRAINING Running costs had already been identified in the business plan although funds still had to be released officially from the health authority budget . |
| 23 | Meanwhile individuals and organizations also wrote to my boss complaining . |
| 24 | Whas probably belonged to the Benedictine abbey of Sherborne , for which the Missal was made , and Siferwas may have resided at Sherborne while decorating the manuscript . |
| 25 | And my brothers both went to er , a headmaster from the high school set up on his own and they both went there , and that was at the corner of Avenue on Road . |
| 26 | Yet within two years three parties illegally took to the field in opposition to Tsarism , demonstrating the strength of feeling against the autocracy . |
| 27 | The hens also appeared to be very consistent in their decisions , with individual birds choosing the same nest day after day . |
| 28 | Forty or fifty years ago , Irish traders also came to the fair bringing crates of geese and pullets , and the locals would buy a goose from them to fatten up for Christmas . |
| 29 | Church funds also came to be used in special cases to buy the emancipation of Christian slaves , but the church did not have a general programme for the abolition of slavery . |
| 30 | Opposition Turkish Cypriot parties also objected to the plans on similar grounds . |