Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will my right hon. Friend find time today to tell the House of the decision made yesterday to restore to Latvia , Lithuania and Estonia the gold deposited for safe keeping in the Bank of England but misappropriated by the then Labour Government with the support in the Division Lobby of the leader and Chief Whip of the Liberal party at that time ? |
| 2 | But this also means that as the morphology of species matured over great periods of historic time , other forms became more adapted to life on land , while yet others returned to the water to escape the increasing competition . |
| 3 | Inevitably the early history of anthropology became closely allied to the history of Darwinian evolutionary theory and many controversies which now seem obscure relate to the burning debates surrounding the concept of natural selection . |
| 4 | The results of the special analysis of the After Redundancy study reported here add to previous research by showing that early retirement must be seen , not only as an alternative to secure employment , but as economic insecurity as well . |
| 5 | Among those who had received medical advice , knowledge of postcoital contraceptive methods differed significantly according to the source of that advice ( table ) . |
| 6 | Kruger grinned then moved to the railing where he watched two female joggers passing beneath him , their bronzed legs moving in rhythmic unison . |
| 7 | Voices raised angrily floated to Cheryl 's ears . |
| 8 | The ethnic and religious composition of the force varied greatly according to rank . |
| 9 | As her eyes grew more accustomed to the hellish gloom , Tallis could see how many of these forlorn corpses were gathering on the north bank of the river . |
| 10 | The review went largely according to Murrie 's specifications , with Armstrong and , from November , his successor , David Hubback , pruning the committees and Bridges and Brook handling the procedural aspects . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the general contraction of the industry did further damage to its already shrivelled morale . |
| 12 | Greek artists always preferred to combine vigour with fine finish , and red figure proved better adapted to that ideal . |
| 13 | Labour voters who observed the anti-Labour virulence of the SNP campaigns are puzzled as to why a few Labour MPs and trade union luminaries have made it their mission to resuscitate a force that the electorate had efficiently reduced to three seats . |
| 14 | This was the closest Neil had ever come to Wembley and on the way home that night he came to the conclusion that this was the closest he would ever come in his entire life . |
| 15 | She managed to control herself and fortunately Dr Neil was as quiet as she was , and when they reached Vetch Street Matey had already gone to bed . |
| 16 | Certainly , the United States administration had vastly over-reacted to Nkrumah 's book Neo-Colonialism : The last stage of imperialism ( 1965 ) , though the views he advanced were becoming the commonplace of Third World writing . |
| 17 | What was it Adams had once said to him apropos talking to Edna : it 's a gamble . |
| 18 | A few weeks earlier , at his party 's conference , Mr Adams had studiously referred to Ulster Protestants as ‘ our people ’ . |
| 19 | Hari had already got to his feet and little by little was becoming animated again . |
| 20 | But out of sight at the other end of the course , Mr Hill had also come to grief . |
| 21 | The Blues suspected the Georgians would be carpeted for their haphazard arranging of the first leg tie ; the Windsor Park club had already complained to UEFA about this . |
| 22 | The Blues suspected the Georgians would be carpeted for their haphazard arranging of the first leg tie ; the Windsor Park club had already complained to UEFA about this . |
| 23 | By the summer of 1419 all Normandy was his : the major walled towns of the duchy , Caen , Falaise , Cherbourg , and Rouen had all fallen to the English besiegers . |
| 24 | My mind had suddenly switched to my dinner date with the French family . |
| 25 | The devaluation of the pound and the Swedish krone had also contributed to the fall . |
| 26 | Ms Nadia Comaneci was still performing on the long bar for Romania , but her gymnastic trainers had already defected to the US . |
| 27 | When one thinks about it , when one remembers the way Miss Kenton had repeatedly spoken to me of my father during those early days of her time at Darlington Hall , it is little wonder that the memory of that evening should have stayed with her all of these years . |
| 28 | Even in the early days of her marriage to Julius , Eleanor had always seemed to be there in the background . |
| 29 | But suppose that nearly all the entries had just happened to be nasty . |
| 30 | What what I did say that Halam had already objected to them going down Station Lane at Edingley which we did . |