Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , for the English edition , he has added five new chapters , consisting mostly of advice to America to balance his previous advice to Japan . |
| 2 | Across the border in North Ossetia ( an autonomous republic within Russia ) , a group of Russian " volunteers " had arrived in late February in the regional capital , Vladikavkaz , according to the Georgian daily Sakartvelos Respublika of Feb. 27 , ostensibly to " protect Russia 's southern borders " , and a small number of these " volunteers " , apparently unarmed , had travelled on by helicopter to Tskhinvali , the South Ossetian capital . |
| 3 | You 're flown down in helicopter to Leeds . |
| 4 | It seemed , nevertheless , early in 1956 that Washington and London were drawing together in opposition to Nasser . |
| 5 | But what a difference a few days can make Saints crashed badly at home to Bradford Northern on the day when Doug Laughton 's men were giving arguably their best performance of the season in running up a convincing score against his old club Widnes . |
| 6 | He was in turn replaced by Sydney Box who , while reinstating Black 's policy of maintaining a broad range of films and enlarging the script department , run by his wife Muriel , to develop original stories and train new writers , gave a twist to the company 's film production that looks more like deference to Rank 's demand for moral uplift than a full-hearted pursuit of the popular audience . |
| 7 | Everything was set up and we moved off in convoy to Barry . |
| 8 | A phone call made just before midnight to St Aldate 's Police Station had been relayed to the murder scene at Parson 's Pleasure : Mrs Marion Kemp , of 6 Cherwell Lodge , had reported that her husband , who had left for London early that morning , had still not arrived back home ; that such an occurrence was quite unprecedented , and that she was beginning ( had long begun ! ) to feel a little ( a whole lot ! ) worried about him . |
| 9 | Moved on at dawn to Athens or Antibes or somewhere or other . |
| 10 | All the sales , service and administration staff came down by coach to Felcourt , and the service meeting was held on the journey one way and sales the other . |
| 11 | The task force from Normandy was first to seize the Isle of Wight , then land at Gosport , from which Portsmouth and its dockyard would be bombarded and neutralised , while , as a further distraction , a minor attack would be made on Bristol , with others on Liverpool and Cork , to destroy supplies collected there for transport to America . |
| 12 | ‘ I passed over the gas rigs right on track to Ronaldsway . |
| 13 | Owing much in design to S. Vitale in Ravenna but on more elaborate lines , it was originally symmetrical and had a western entrance with atrium and two-storeyed gallery ; the courtyard here was large and had a capacity of 7000 . |
| 14 | How I do need to look away from self to God , I can only find satisfaction : in him . |
| 15 | I was so excited to be a young bride going off on tour to Europe . |
| 16 | From Solva the route cuts back across country to Llanunwas Farm . |
| 17 | In 1402 he even acted briefly as secretary to Henry IV . |
| 18 | After a shop at Sainsburys in Camden Town and a quick cold meat and salad lunch I set off by Tube to Finsbury Circus to one of the big offices of BP for a Management and Membership Committee meeting of the British Association of Industrial Editors . |
| 19 | The second was called up by reference to Archbold , Criminal Pleading Evidence & Practice , 44th ed. ( 1992 ) , vol. 1 , p. 433 , para. 4–45 . |
| 20 | It follows that once a person reaches the level of authentic faith — which he sees as the third and highest stage along the path of life , following others which he terms the ‘ aesthetic ’ and the ‘ ethical ’ — it is led and governed purely by obedience to God and not by anything merely human , however lofty . |
| 21 | The answer lies largely in the kind of critique that we developed earlier in relation to Harré . |
| 22 | But it was not the earl 's death that had sent these influential couriers of de Burgh riding hard across country to Parfois , it was the fall of the coveted prize into the hands of Richard of Cornwall . |
| 23 | I had planned to go back by bus to Fulham , as I still could not face the underground . |
| 24 | Several of the unsuccessful court actions brought during this decade arose out of opposition to LEA plans for the introduction of comprehensive schools . |
| 25 | Italy 's ills of corruption , maladministration and government irresponsibility are blamed on the extreme form of proportional representation brought in as antidote to Mussolini 's dictatorship . |
| 26 | Coming in by train to Waverley I tried to identify with those tourists ‘ seeing ’ Edinburgh Castle for the first time . |
| 27 | Sixty-six-year-old Yevgeniy , whose regular excursions on to the frozen river were interrupted only by deportation to Germany when the Nazis came swarming through Kiev , knows how to test the ice . |
| 28 | They anticipated the hellenistic taste for theatre : Dionysius I brought his bride from Italian Lokri in a warship decorated with gold and silver ; Plutarch 's Life of Demetrius has a splendid account of the cortège in which the third-century king Antigonos Gonatas brought back by sea to Macedon the funeral casket of his father Demetrius . |
| 29 | There is nothing wrong with such fear if it leads a Christian to cry out in weakness to God and exercise faith . |
| 30 | In January this year it emerged that the sometime property dealer and owner of the Mountain Tortoise Gallery in Tokyo was running late on payment to Sotheby 's for a Picasso and a de Kooning , both of which he had bought at auctions in New York the previous November . |