Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that he wanted to be able to comment on each question in more depth and indeed some staff did so on separate sheets . |
| 2 | When Mrs Orton proposed that they listen to the Queen 's Speech on the radio , Bill 's only protest was to produce a bottle of brandy from his case , open one of his gift books , roll himself a cigarette with gift tobacco , lean back and stare covertly at his son . |
| 3 | When I last wrote to you in January I mentioned that I hoped to be relieved of the secretarial duties of the B.A.E.C. by another member who had volunteered to take these over . |
| 4 | Women workers who were covered by national insurance found that they tended to be submitted to strict surveillance by national health insurance visitors because of the unexpectedly large number of sickness claims . |
| 5 | Dr Vickery found that there appeared to be a critical acidity level which affected both dippers ' breeding success and a stream 's population of the invertebrates on which the birds feed . |
| 6 | Some years later , when her health and strength failed her , she found that she had to ; but when that day came , she packed her courage as well as her clothes into her suitcase . |
| 7 | She took a path across the land at the side of the house and found that it led to a small wood which girdled the top of the hill on which the house was built . |
| 8 | and I found D Y by D X and I found that it came to erm X squared . |
| 9 | They all laughed and joked until they got to Holborn . |
| 10 | Whether strictly order twenty eight , er order sixty , rule twenty eight for erm applies in this case is not amount entirely clear to me because the obligation to lodge a bill of taxation under rule twenty nine provides that he must begin proceedings for the taxation either within three months after the judgement direction or order of the terminations enter sides are otherwise perfected , and that is presently on it 's face which seemed to be debited May of nineteen ninety three and er accordingly that is right , it 's not in fact been any failure to comply with order tw order sixty two , rule twenty nine , one , and that has n't been disregarded , it 's not entirely clear to me that erm there is any matter come from paragraph sub paragraph A of rule twenty eight , four , it may already require , still nevertheless erm fall within paragraph B of rule fo , erm there has in fact been a delay in lodging the bill of costs for taxation , the delay being really and truly , the delay in having the order of Mr Justice perfected and it seems to me that although in chasing matters generally speaking it is the court will itself draw the order , nevertheless where er it seems to be clearly in this case would contemplate it that counsel would sign a minute erm that counsel do sign a minute and that minute has been signed having forwarded by the defendants solicitors to the defendants solicitors seems to me it must be the case that erm the obligation to , as it were , forward that minute to the court , it is an obligation which would lie upon the plaintiffs solicitors and it maybe said that erm there has been delay and erm on the best it should be lodged with the court sealed , er shortly after it was received and that therefore on that footing there has been delay lodging the bill of costs for concession , er Mr , doctor does n't seemed to be take any point in relation to that er because it 's not in his interest to do so , it seems to be that he does have to say if it has been delayed , with an order of twenty eight rule four that 's a rule , rule , rule twenty eight er four if he is to have interest disbarred and er Mr er he 'll apparently have the matter of read before the taxing master , it seems that the taxing master did not chew any sympathy with that er suggestion , that er there was in fact no breach of the requirement rule twenty , four , Mr he said , very probably , that erm , look on text upon it , he really is concerned to erm have this case dealt with as you put it on the merits , it seems to me it 's in the interest of all parties that erm I should deal with the case on merits have on the assumption erm that er , that that was lodged properly I think , I ca I , a matter of which found within rule twenty eight , four and that the taxing officer give our interest under that rule . |
| 11 | And then it stopped and they went to Stronsay then . |
| 12 | So he stopped and he listened to this and went to have a look , see what was going on . |
| 13 | And why the problems there is that any sort of loud music was actually buried under the auditorial I mean that was the problem that occurred and we had to sort of tone it down a bit . |
| 14 | One swam because one had to . |
| 15 | Indefatigably the Lionisers prowled their way along Albion Street and surged up the narrow Fort Road , but this time they stopped before they got to Fort House . |
| 16 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |
| 17 | In the early 1970s Brooke-Rose described the different ‘ houses of theory ’ she encountered when she moved to Paris in 1968 : |
| 18 | She walked along by the shops , and stopped when she came to a door with ‘ Madame Eloise — Hair ’ on it . |
| 19 | She giggled and pouted as he chatted to her . |
| 20 | On the one hand , business leaders agreed that something had to be done to the health-care system because the cost of covering their workers was eroding their profits . |
| 21 | Several speakers agreed that there seemed to be a great waste of resources in the whole training area . |
| 22 | We agreed that there needs to be increased participation and representation of Caribbean peoples , their needs and perspectives . |
| 23 | He recommended that I go to a hospital and see a psychiatrist . |
| 24 | ‘ The club realised that something had to be done . |
| 25 | She realised that he had to be the root of her insecurities , of her inability to believe that anyone could ever love her in return . |
| 26 | Then her anger erupted , her hand flashed upwards and she had delivered a stinging slap to his left cheek before she even realised that she intended to . |
| 27 | Zen gulped down the rest of his coffee and announced that he had to be going . |
| 28 | Bernard announced that he wished to be known as an uncle , not a grandfather . |
| 29 | Credit for forcing a decision on this issue goes to Rudi Fuchs , director of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague , who caused a fierce public discussion when he announced that he wanted to deaccession two Picassos in his collection in order to create a fund with which he could supplement his annual acquisitions budget and concentrate more on collecting contemporary art ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 14 , January 1992 , p. 3 ) . |
| 30 | Two Afghans , among several arrested trying to cross the border , ‘ admitted that they belonged to an intelligence group entrusted with the organisation of an underground anti-Soviet movement in Tadjikistan , whose purpose was to turn the republic into an Islamic state ’ . |