Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mosley in his autobiography made only one reference to Joyce , his sometime Chief of Propaganda , as a deserter and as one who was ‘ intensely vain ; a quite common foible in very small men . ’ |
| 2 | No other bishop could have done so much harm to Philip as Conrad . |
| 3 | Entitled The Special Edition , it restored around 17 minutes of original unscreened footage , filling in more background to Ripley 's material angst and showing exactly what happened to Newt 's parents and the other settlers on the Alien 's planet . |
| 4 | Sail early this morning to Denderah . |
| 5 | Neither MacLeod nor Michael Weir was available four days earlier when Hibs put up spirited resistance to Aberdeen and came within minutes of getting at least one point . |
| 6 | Micky Yornutta is not so sure , so he asked Brian what exactly he expects from his side and Brian , as ever , decided not to sit on the fence , but the main concern being for his side to pass the ball as opposed to kicking it , but first Brian says that long ball to John Durnin is all wrong . |
| 7 | On the domestic front , the General turned over more power to Pompidou than he had done before 1965 , although he did not abandon domestic politics entirely . |
| 8 | ‘ And worse still , ’ she says , ‘ I often worry that my other two children are suffering because I have to give so much attention to Graham . ’ |
| 9 | He strengthened American forces in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf ; stepped up military aid to Pakistan ; imposed an embargo on wheat exports to the Soviet Union ; and called for a boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games of 1980 . |
| 10 | Schools in a number of prosperous suburbs are starting to give as much prominence to Egypt as to Greece and Rome in their history courses . |
| 11 | It 's therefore to give too much credit to Wilko on their developement although their play did improve greatly under his guidance . |
| 12 | A Hornby clockwork train and a Number 4 Meccano set , both of which had given far more pleasure to John Redburn than they had to his son . |
| 13 | Opening a debate on public spending , the Prime Minister tried to mend fences with the Tory Right by vowing that Britain would not join a single European currency in the next seven years , and ruled out any return to Europe 's Exchange Rate Mechanism in this Parliament . |
| 14 | Opening a debate on public spending , the Prime Minister tried to mend fences with the Tory Right by vowing that Britain would not join a single European currency in the next seven years , and ruled out any return to Europe 's Exchange Rate Mechanism in this Parliament . |
| 15 | If no UK decathlete achieves the 7,850 Olympic Games A standard , Britain will take only one competitor to Barcelona . |
| 16 | In 1698 Celia Fiennes records in her ‘ Journeys ’ that she visited Windermere , but the object of the visit was not only to view the scenery but to taste the Windermere char , a fish already so famous that , for instance , James Graham of Levens Hall used to order his steward to send down potted char to London , where he presented some to Queen Anne . |
| 17 | WHEN the Angolan government delegates flew back last week to Luanda from Abidjan , capital of Côte d'Ivoire , few were mourning the abortive six-week peace talks they had left behind . |
| 18 | Des said : ‘ This trip will give me the opportunity to see how the adopted project is doing and feed back some information to Edinburgh . ’ |
| 19 | The Russian side recognized Latvia 's right to buildings erected before June 17 , 1940 , and used by the military , and would discuss handing over military equipment to Latvia . |
| 20 | ‘ My part in this was easy compared to his ’ , North tapped out one night to McFarlane , talking about Poindexter 's handling of the pre-Tehran manoeuvrings ; ‘ I only had to deal with our enemies . |
| 21 | " No , I do n't think we should pay too much attention to Regiomontanus or Johann Müller , or whatever it was he called himself , " laughed the priest , " even if he did manage to forecast a comet or two . " |
| 22 | Terry 's , sold earlier this month to Kraft for £220 million , saw operating profits fall 6 per cent to £13.4 million . |
| 23 | By the 1660s , Rome had given up all thoughts of the forcible deposition of the English Protestant monarchy ; indeed , in the 1670s its cautious and reluctant response to the proposed marriage of the heir to the throne James and the Catholic noblewoman Mary of Modena threatened to block the best route for a peaceful end to the English schism , and Rome continued to offer only lukewarm support to James both before and after 1685 . |
| 24 | SIR — Stephen Fry gives too much credit to P. G. Wodehouse , for it was W. S. Gilbert who , in 1881 , created the Duke of Dunstable — a gallant officer of the 35th Dragoon Guards who sacrificed himself in marriage to the Lady Jane to compensate for her misfortune in being distinctly plain . |
| 25 | Precedent , however , suggests that his comments will offer only cold comfort to Mr Jiang and Mr Li . |
| 26 | An Angster recently asked why the music press devotes so much attention to US bands . |
| 27 | Yet in the last few days the Romanians have started underplaying the role of Timisoara in sparking off open opposition to Ceausescu , highlighting instead the undoubtedly fearless role of the citizens of Bucharest . |
| 28 | He wrote laconically that night to John Prior Estlin , leaving unstated the bewilderment he evidently felt as he prepared to exchange Somerset for Shropshire . |
| 29 | This procedure is unusual in that Genette devotes far more attention to Proust than other narratological studies have to actual texts , and it is also unusual in that Proust 's novel is an infinitely more complex work than those which narrative theories have commonly analyzed : with Boccaccio 's Decameron , Todorov was taking relatively simple specimens as points of reference for his narratological analyses . |
| 30 | A good warrior but the Bruces had as much claim to Alexander 's throne as he had , and now the throne was empty . |