Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like she was high , not on booze or pills but some of that good mellow shit that used to go the rounds at the first dinner parties I ever went to , at Liza 's place , when the world was young and lovable . |
| 2 | Subsequently , and very shortly after having written that letter , the father sought legal advice in Australia and then took the steps which eventually led to the issue of this originating summons . |
| 3 | During his relatively short time with us , Paul was seconded to Wood Group Industrial Controls [ WGIC ] for an initial period of two months which ultimately stretched to five months . |
| 4 | The China Inland Mission 's early years inland were hazardous with riots , some internal dissension , and opposition from established missionaries who especially objected to the use of Chinese dress . |
| 5 | But most poignant of all was the deserted Ministry of Culture , Slovak Republic stand staffed by a collective of solemnly seated , moustached , chain-smoking , dark suited gentlemen who clearly wanted to be somewhere else . |
| 6 | Walesa argued , however , that such a system would politicize the union , and that it would undermine the rights of the thousands of non-government supporters who currently belonged to Solidarity . |
| 7 | The first day of each survey was crucial in sorting out minor problems for the interviewers which only came to be recognized once the fieldwork was under way . |
| 8 | The thesis of revolution was a pyre for the bourgeois values which clearly belonged to ‘ the establishment ’ . |
| 9 | The people , or " the masses " , had usurped powers and functions which properly belonged to government and the state . |
| 10 | experience of trying to , trying to put through land reform in erm areas which then led to just incredibly bad |
| 11 | This would mean that follow-on credit transactions which individually amounted to less than £30 but together amounted to more would become regulated agreements , under the Consumer Credit Act . |
| 12 | He was also charged with forcing the king to bestow the earldom of March upon him in the Salisbury parliament of 1328 and then leading an armed band against the Earl of Lancaster , with procuring the death of the Earl of Rent , fomenting discord between Edward II and Isabella , and other offences which together amounted to a comprehensive indictment of his rule since 1326 , The earls and barons , ‘ the peers of the realm ’ , were asked to give their judgement on these charges and they declared that they were notorious and manifest to all . |
| 13 | Such clues would add to the embarrassing riches of intelligence which had recently flooded in to Napoleon 's headquarters from Belgians who desperately wanted to be part of France again . |
| 14 | This continuity existed among both employers and employees in many cases so that there are many farmers ' sons who also had to ‘ serve their time ’ alongside the hired labour force before taking over the farm and many elderly farm workers who can remember instructing their current employer in the ways of the farm when he was a small boy . |
| 15 | Last year 's , th the f the first stockings I ever went to was brilliant , they had Right Said Fred live |
| 16 | Henceforth each successive royal election provoked party conflicts and personal intrigues which often led to civil war , as well as pressure and even forcible intervention from abroad on behalf of competing candidates . |
| 17 | This results from a kind of double vision which blurs the difference between the historical interpretation of contemporary economic advice and the evaluation of ideas which subsequently proved to be significant in the evolution of economic theory . |
| 18 | CORNERSHOP , the Leicester-based Asian buzz-pop polemicists who recently signed to Wiiija Records , play two London dates at . |
| 19 | Apart from the contributions they both made to raising the general temperature along the international border in the months leading up to the Iraqi onslaught in September 1980 , the first blow appears to have been struck in the same month by Baghdad with a broadcast announcement of the death of Ayatollah Khomeini.i The Iraqis had previously given a trial outing to a line of attack which underwent persistent repetition as the war proceeded . |
| 20 | Burton was in a hit — and a classy hit — and in the tonnage of reviews he rarely failed to be mentioned , often praised . |
| 21 | He would not put out of the power of his creditors the mental and literary resources which yet remained to him . |
| 22 | The popularity of physical sanctions to prevent masturbation , including the development of elaborate machines which sensitively responded to erections or physically prevented masturbation , has been well documented . |
| 23 | The springboard for these changes was ‘ Fresh Start ’ , a concerted move in the prison service to change working practices , deployment of staff and work patterns ; to move towards local accountability and control and to deal with industrial relations problems which otherwise looked to be endemic . |
| 24 | Sharpe 's current illness apart , he also missed several months with repeated hernia problems which eventually led to surgery . |
| 25 | Manchester United were convinced he was finished four years ago and were happy to let Villa take him — along with the personal problems which also contributed to his departure from Old Trafford . |
| 26 | Even the nights were happy , full of wonderful dreams which almost amounted to a second life . |
| 27 | It was here that , at the Competition for the Crown forty-two years before , Edward the First of England had met the Scots magnates and set in motion the actions which ultimately led to the Wars of Independence . |
| 28 | In order to find examples of such an antithetical state of affairs they naturally turned to primitive society , as they assumed , like many before and after them , that these societies would offer illustrations of systems as totally different to those they knew as could be found anywhere . |
| 29 | With the word of the General absolute and discipline high oil the list of Army priorities he inevitably came to the subject before long . |
| 30 | They ignored the prior consultations , the use of friendship between secretariat officials and local chairmen which ensured that the business of government was carried on in ways which often responded to local needs . |