Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April 1990 , as the downturn deepened , they sold LET to Swedish life insurance giant SSP for £550 million , pocketing £40 million each and staying on to run the company . |
| 2 | In the USSR itself , art flourished at first in experiments after the 1917 Revolution , but became confined to social utility after 1922 . |
| 3 | ‘ He told me he 'd got in touch again the moment he 'd heard that you 'd decided to soft pedal a bit on work and so could be open to having a boyfriend . ’ |
| 4 | Police charged Lashley after he 'd confessed to fellow inmates in prison while he was serving 18 years for rape . |
| 5 | When she 'd been doing her research for this article she 'd talked to various other people in the City regarding Laura Wyndham 's expertise in her job , and they had all agreed on one thing — she was at the very top of her profession . |
| 6 | Once or twice he 'd gone to great lengths to deceive me but , more often , he 'd taken little trouble to cover his tracks . |
| 7 | Actually , I had fun inventing my own diet because I had gone on diets before , I 'd gone to fat farms , too , but it had never lasted . |
| 8 | The revolutionary intelligentsia seemed doomed to doctrinaire squabbles over increasingly irrelevant issues . |
| 9 | ‘ That was why I wanted to speak to you — to find out , if during your time together , she 'd managed to corrupt you . ’ |
| 10 | He 'd returned to flying duties gradually , working as an instructor , not directly involved in any action . |
| 11 | It is clear from the contributions to the Review discussed below , that within English as in the established professions , perceptions of individual worth became tied to professional stances , practices , and subjectivities . |
| 12 | Paul Bedworth , 19 , allegedly found a way to pay for the thousands of hours he spent connected to transatlantic computer networks . |
| 13 | This may well have been produced in Venice , and it demonstrates how the idiom of Leonardo most probably became known to Venetian collectors and artists . |
| 14 | Consider , for instance , how Rupert Croft-Cooke , out to discredit Gide 's account of Wilde 's seduction of him ( Gide ) into a confirmed homosexuality ( above , Chapter 1 ) , writes of Gide that he ‘ picked up ( among others ) the Algerian boy prostitute Athman , who became known to other visiting Europeans , including Eugène Rouart and Francis Jammes and was brought to Paris by Henri Ghéon ’ . |
| 15 | We bought our 1920s terraced house two years ago because of the size and character it offered compared to new houses of a similar price . |
| 16 | And so he 's the one who started doing this — I do n't know if you remember Rolling Stone during that period he started getting slight , not really new wave , but we used some of the constructivist thing of breaking pages somewhat and pushing things on angles or erm My favourite was his Bob Dylan spread which actually I did , but it was based on what he was trying to get me to do , where everything read left to right and everything was , you know , point sizes lined up and everything was on a column grid , but it was , when you looked at it you had to , you know , like focus on it . |
| 17 | So instead of a slap on the wrist I got promoted to high-flying executive symptoms . |
| 18 | Winners pictured left to right Mr M. Mullalley , Cheltenham ; Mrs M. Clist , Bournemouth ; Ms J. Riordan , Plymouth and Mr D. Fisher of Liversedge West Yorks . |
| 19 | The growth of competition put paid to repeated attempts by the railways and the political authorities to establish a financially viable railway . |
| 20 | This put paid to British hopes that Burma would stay in the Commonwealth as a Dominion owing allegiance to the Crown . |
| 21 | More importantly , it put paid to public faith in the League . |
| 22 | I had n't seen her since when we were on remand , and then we both got sentenced and got sent to different prisons , so I had n't seen her for nearly a year . |
| 23 | Of those companies surveyed , 56 per cent had no formal environmental policy , and only 29 per cent had referred to environmental concerns in their annual reports . |
| 24 | The evening tide had been a modest eighteen footer and had ebbed to low water an hour ago . |
| 25 | The committee calculated , for each university , the unemployment rate expected if the fate of graduates in each subject had conformed to national averages . |
| 26 | Noting that despite the evidence of academic and government reports , which had pointed to widespread discrimination against young blacks , very little had been done to remedy the position , Scarman concluded that : ( a ) many young blacks believed that violence was an effective means of protest against their conditions ; and ( b ) far from the riots being a meaningless event , they were ‘ essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police ’ ( Scarman , 1981 , paras . |
| 27 | Condemned to death in 1987 , his sentence had commuted to hard labour for life in 1988 [ see p. 36266 ] . |
| 28 | When an army investigator went to interview Ronald Haeberle , the army photographer who had been with Charlie Company , Haeberle produced some horrific colour slides of the killings and said that he had included some of them in an illustrated talk about the war he had given to various clubs , teachers ' associations and youth groups . |
| 29 | The Communist Party wrote to the National Executive of the Labour Party on 25 November applying for affiliation ; they based their claim on the federal nature of the labour movement and the help which Communists had given to Labour candidates . |
| 30 | But whatever else was lost , the impetus that Winckelmann had given to Greek scholarship in Germany survived ; and if we wish to understand its subsequent history and the remarkable growth of German classical scholarship as a whole , we should not forget his formative contribution , even though much of the impending development can hardly be traced directly back to him . |