Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father Morrow felt it his duty to try to appeal face to face to Tony 's parents to allow their son to live . |
| 2 | Yet even more of parliament 's time was occupied dispensing justice in response to petitions from the king 's subjects on all manner of grievances . |
| 3 | At Dunstable , where the rebels were townsmen , they tried to restrict freedom of trade to within the borough , whereas the rural Essex rebels had followed precisely the opposite policy , and at Yarmouth the insurgents , drawn from the neighbouring countryside attempted to overthrow the rights of the municipality ( 98 , pp.41 , 108–11 ) . |
| 4 | She urges the excellence and dignity of courage , a glittering idea which has dazzled mankind from age to age and animated sometimes the housebreaker and sometimes the conqueror . ’ |
| 5 | Even a predator as powerful as a tiger wants to avoid risk of damage to itself . |
| 6 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 7 | All that 's happened is that , in switching from rock to soul , agit-pop has shifted emphasis from denunciation to affirmation , or what has been called offensive optimism . |
| 8 | As laicisation has forced religion from community to private practice , we should not be surprised that so few people know how to mourn together and share common griefs . |
| 9 | Rupert Widdicombe reports on the revolution that has taken Deportivo from obscurity to the top of the league |
| 10 | The reflowering of narrative has taken place without reference to one particular school or movement , to one genre or style . |
| 11 | The prime factor was ( and still is ) the vast expansion of paper note issues ( and bank deposits ) that has taken place in relation to world gold stocks . |
| 12 | AY has admitted negligence in relation to the stock over-statement , provided that WG can prove the fraud took place , but the firm is claiming that it only owed a duty of care to Alkar as its auditor , and not to Walker Greenbank , even though it audited the group accounts . |
| 13 | After being bound apprentice to the barber-surgeon Edward Nourse , he rose to become master of anatomy to the Corporation of Surgeons and , for nearly forty years , Surgeon to St. Bartholomew 's Hospital . |
| 14 | In all , it was estimated that some 110 bills — all of which sought to restrict access to abortion to some degree — had been introduced in 47 state legislatures since July 1989 . |
| 15 | News coming out recently from financial and government circles indicating government plans to increase duty on paper to 15% was met with dismay . |
| 16 | Between 1695 and 1705 four attempts were made to restrict membership of Parliament to men of landed wealth , in the belief that men of such independent means would be less susceptible to Court bribery , until eventually a Land Qualification Bill was passed in 1711 . |
| 17 | This further seemed to give encouragement in practice to the ‘ go-into-groups-discuss-an-important-issue-and-find-a-dramatic-statement-for-us-to-discuss ’ sequence . |
| 18 | A more general approach to the physical-geographical sphere and the anthroposphere has also been offered using entropy in relation to a cybernetic system by Krcho ( 1978 ) . |
| 19 | Well so that one 's got to go back to back to Cambridge then has n't it . |
| 20 | After that she would make her way back to her aunt , her mission a failure , because she now knew that in no way would Silas be persuaded to go cap in hand to Bertha . |
| 21 | We found the construction very sound and she was comfortable to live aboard , but we would like to see improvement in attention to some interior details . |
| 22 | Jordan also asked for two offences of attempting to obtain money by deception to be taken into consideration . |
| 23 | But if SEAC can be persuaded to give parity of esteem to the assessment of cross-curricular themes within subjects , and better still , to revise syllabuses when an overall plan does eventually emerge , much will have been achieved — in fact , nothing less than the coherence and purpose educators seek . |
| 24 | His was a world in which sacred and secular , clergy and laity , men and women , were all to be sharply separated in a way that neither modern secular society , nor those in the West attempting to rethink Christianity in relation to that society , could possibly accept . |
| 25 | On Sept. 27 , Economics Minister Andrei Nechayev , in an interview with Interfax , said that the RCB had agreed to cut credit to industry to 500,000 million roubles for the remainder of the year . |
| 26 | Data of independent groups ( healthy controls , patients with duodenal ulcer , patients with chronic atrophic gastritis ) were compared using analysis of variance to one channel and Scheffé multiple range tests . |
| 27 | Even before it was given the food , the dog began to produce saliva in response to the appetizing smell . |
| 28 | The decision to purchase a microcomputer or to give advice on the purchase means that the school librarian and teachers will have to gather information in relation to the questions posed above on criteria for selection . |
| 29 | In the case of archival acquisitions , the Library aims to acquire material of value to the ‘ national heritage ’ ( a definition subject to continual review ) , in electronic as well as other forms . |
| 30 | One meal a week with you and I wo n't even have to go cap in hand to Johnson 's store . ‘ |