Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The civil disorders and dynastic feuds between Lancaster and York presumably led to some destruction of wealth , although it is virtually impossible to judge how much .
2 The indisposition of the 8F led to some speculation by passengers on the Cambrian Limited , last Sunday , that the Standard 4 No 75069 would fulfil the Red Rose roster in place of No 8233 .
3 The government 's prolonged sixteen-month silence over the Griffiths Report naturally led to much speculation , rumour and gossip .
4 And it was a fact that William and Preston together led to more trouble than Preston alone , or Preston and any combination of other boys .
5 Mr Callaghan 's famous speech to the 1976 Labour party conference ( subsequently cited in many Conservative party publications ) admitted that governments could not spend their way into full employment ; that way only led to more inflation and eventually more unemployment .
6 The case lasted 100 days , required the attendance of many witnesses from abroad , and the defendant 's legal costs alone amounted to some £400,000 .
7 For example , we apparently only came to some understanding of how the heart worked when we had within our conceptual framework the notion of a pump .
8 I naturally came to this conclusion only with the greatest reluctance ; it was no easy matter for me , the responsible commander , to abandon my dreams of hope and victory !
9 It was a grandiose theme so radical and ridiculous that it naturally appealed to many intelligence officers living in their secret world of fantasies who saw it as a convenient excuse for all their previous problems and disasters .
10 Jampa Ngodrup apparently confessed to all charges .
11 How superior she suddenly felt to that woman in the bed , the woman whom she had so long admired , even idolised , but who knew little of human nature after all .
12 This was a man who perhaps gave to all tube buskers indiscriminately , without even looking at them , for he tossed a 5P piece on to the ground as he strode past .
13 A state religion that included all others obviously conduced to this objective .
14 Whereas they eventually came to some agreement over the various ‘ courses ’ , they argued vehemently over Elisabeth 's insistence that the recital should both begin and close with Strauss 's Morgen .
15 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 .
16 More realistically , though , he conceded that as beautiful as it was as screen art it nevertheless belonged to that category of films ‘ which would not enrich their producers ’ .
17 It thereupon wrote to all institutions offering advanced work asking them to provide detailed information about student numbers and other aspects of planning forward to 1984–5 .
18 AN OBJECT lesson for all those who bemoan the artistic indifference of government , last night 's Omnibus ( BBC 1 ) looked at a political leader who took the closest interest in art , a mediocre and embittered water-colourist who eventually turned to another medium — mass emotion and warfare .
19 Which we still read to this day .
20 ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’
21 A very fine thing , and you know until er until the day I left in nineteen forty two they always referred to these chaps in the forties like say I was , er a as being er , Ooh he 's a man .
22 He always rose to such occasions with confident decisiveness and calm authority .
23 We 'll both get out of your lives and then you can get on with that idyllic existence you shared before we ever came to this island .
24 But not when you put it into context with the vast sums of money spent supporting privatization , or the salaries of over privileged , so called captains of industries , industries that once belonged to this nation .
25 She felt excluded from their world even though she could not have been better informed ; the trouble was Ferdinando still belonged to that world .
26 Prepmaster is a dedicated SFE system designed for analytical and semipreparative extractions which can be used on-line , directly interfaced to any GC or SFC , or off-line with the new Accutrap cryogenic collection module .
27 I felt preternaturally over-sexed , and despite being removed from The Fat Controller 's proximate influence I still stuck to this rule .
28 ‘ He continued to visit his mother until her death , but I do n't think he and Gaston ever spoke to each other again . ’
29 ‘ We hardly spoke to each other , ’ she protested .
30 ‘ You very nearly got to that stage today . ’
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