Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each rod or cone contains a photo-sensitive pigment and the changes this undergoes when exposed to light cause a signal to be passed to nerve cells at the front of the retina . |
| 2 | Sufficient to say I was deeply embarrassed , and the time has come to put an end to this absurdity . |
| 3 | In her catalogue introduction Alexandra Noble notes the extent to which installation art , using hybrid forms , has come to represent a challenge to the modernist emphasis on the purity of the particular medium . |
| 4 | ‘ Ace , Benny , ’ Petion called out as he entered , ‘ the Colonel has decided to take a force to the cemetery . |
| 5 | Since graduation this particular environmental scientist has spent an admittedly enjoyable spell as a porter in a Newfoundland hospital , and has helped to ferry a yacht to the Canaries , and is now washing dishes in the basement of a famous and expensive London hotel . |
| 6 | Pedigree has promised to make a donation to WWF for every Archie and Purdy toy , and Whiskas or Chum calendar sold , guaranteeing at least £35,000 to support our highest priority projects . |
| 7 | Exports of wildlife products to the US are worth US$10 million a year to Korea , which has promised to become a party to CITES , although its promises are viewed with some scepticism by conservationists . |
| 8 | It said : ‘ The health authority does not accept legal liability but , in view of the unique and tragic circumstances of this case , has agreed to make a contribution to the family of an undisclosed sum . ’ |
| 9 | A DARLINGTON woman has died leaving a fortune to the American college where she studied more than 50 years ago . |
| 10 | Ignoring accrued interest , the price that a bond has to have to give a yield to maturity of 9 per cent is given by . |
| 11 | The infamous Tibbet , executed at the roundabout at the top of Putney Hill , is reported to have stabbed a man to death there ; it has literary associations also . |
| 12 | Point of order , Madam Speaker I seek your ruling on the fact that the Secretary of State for health has declined to make a statement to the house on the increase of fifty P in prescription charges . |
| 13 | It does not matter why a State has failed to become a party to a treaty , or whether it is eligible to become a party and intends at some time to do so . |
| 14 | It was only twenty-four hours after Gabriel had left the farm that three men came running to report a disaster to Bathsheba . |
| 15 | Police and MPs have strongly criticized an Old Bailey verdict which allowed a teenage vandal to walk free after he 'd admitted stabbing a neighbour to death . |
| 16 | police and MPs have strongly criticized a teenage vandal to walk free after he 'd admitted stabbing a neighbour to death . |
| 17 | The watchman is said to have loaned a machete to Kujabi on the day of Mrs Hiscocks 's death . |
| 18 | The Madonna and Child , whose wooden effigies were carved in 1615 , were said to have put an end to the great plague of 1634–41 and to have performed other miracles ever since , and they attracted a constant stream of worshippers throughout the year . |
| 19 | President Bush was said to have addressed an appeal to Mengistu in April and to Prime Minister Tesfaye Dinka on May 21 concerning the Ethiopian Jews , and press reports focused on the role of US envoy Rudy Boschwitz . |
| 20 | Thousands are said to have signed a Memorial to the Board of Trade abhorring the notion of the Shipping Offices , of " oppressive taxation inasmuch as British seamen are ticketed and numbered like slaves " and complaining " of an unconstitutional violation of the rights and liberties of freeborn Englishmen … to which no other class of Englishmen is subjected " . |
| 21 | I write with regard to your order for the above tape , as I am unable to trace having received a reply to my letter to you of 14 February last . |
| 22 | If you would like to consider leaving a bequest to the Trust please contact the Legacies Unit , 36 , Queen Anne 's Gate , London . |
| 23 | After all , even if she could hardly bear to face another row , she was going to have to put a stop to all this nonsense , and as soon as possible . |
| 24 | Exercise 2 : Pretend that you are a witness who is going to have to give a description to the police . |
| 25 | In January 1948 the US State Department began to consider posting an Ambassador to Madrid and supplies of petroleum and military and paramilitary matériel began to be sent through the Standard Oil Company . |
| 26 | Indeed , Silicon Graphics is understood to have added an instruction to the Mips architecture for TFP , allowing multiplication and addition functions to be performed in a single batch rather than as separate operations , speeding floating point throughput . |
| 27 | The upheaval of 1905 and repression which followed had dealt a body-blow to the popular , paternal image of the Tsar . |
| 28 | ( 3 ) The draftsman could never have intended to permit a doctor to lawfully sub-contract all his work . |
| 29 | How Lord Mountbatten would have relished adding a saint to the other family honours he proudly displayed . |
| 30 | Rather than railing against American policy in Vietnam in 1966 – 67 , might he not have attempted to mediate a solution to the conflict ? |