Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a [noun sg] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did , yes , erm , when erm , we thought our prisoner was finished the co-ordinators wrote to me and said would I be interested , would our group be interested in erm , writing to Yugoslavia 's still , because with the Civil War going on there 's lots of cases coming up , for example there was a whole hospital full of patients that were taken prisoner I do n't know if they were actually physically removed or whether they were held in the hospital without access to medical treatment for something like ten days , and erm , Saria did say she 'd help me last time and I wrote back and said yes , two of us could write once a month , well they 're taken that very liberally and , and , got two or three things from the already and erm , if anyone else is interested in writing an odd letter say once a month to Yugoslavia maybe they could erm , let me know later on . . |
| 2 | According to the convention , Barker himself does n't include even a postcard to Wright in his own posthumous collection , Street Ballads ( Faber , £4.99 ) , addressing instead the shades of Yeats , Kavanagh , Tennyson , Shakespeare and Catullus . |
| 3 | They may go down the field below the cave to a gate on the Kingsdale road which , followed to the left , goes over a rise to Deepdale and Dent , and to the right leads down the valley to the more probable destination of Ingleton which has accommodation , shops , refreshments and bus services . |
| 4 | ‘ He came around a bit to Michael but I do n't believe he ever liked him . |
| 5 | Fox turned down a move to Hull at the weekend but Northern had to match the Humbersiders ' £140,000 offer before clinching the deal . |
| 6 | DARLINGTON defender Mark Sunley yesterday revealed the reason why he turned down a move to Motherwell . |
| 7 | Mr Kozyrev cut short a trip to Finland , returning to Moscow to read the president 's address to the commonwealth . |
| 8 | Ally McCoist 's fitness will determine who plays up front and yesterday Roxburgh said that the improvement in the player 's hamstring injury was such that he would now be ‘ disappointed ’ if the scorer of 41 goals for his club this season did not play on the ground that has yet to give up a goal to Scotland since they became tenants at Ibrox . |
| 9 | And the sister was further surprised when , holding out a hand to Millie , it was not taken , but , instead , the child began to walk out before her , only to be brought to a stop by the nun saying , ‘ You must always ask Mother Superior if you may leave her presence . |
| 10 | He reached this conclusion notwithstanding the fact that the defendants had received this information as agents for Mr. Brant and that they owed accordingly a duty to Mr. Brant not to disclose the information to others . |
| 11 | FORMER Darlington and Middlesbrough director Henry Moszkowicz last night ruled out a return to Feethams following the resignation of chairman Dick Corden . |
| 12 | Now he recalled how , on the second night after his mother had left home , he had climbed out of bed in the late evening and slipped unnoticed from the house to run over a mile to Bournemouth Central Railway Station to catch a train to nearby Christchurch , where his mother had gone to live with her sister . |
| 13 | Now , instead of a day walking on the estate 's 50,000-acre grounds or picnicking on the heather-clad hills , the Queen and the duke are likely to send out a summons to Andy and Fergie , who are staying close by . |
| 14 | THE tremendous response to news of the video ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ means the release date has been brought forward a week to October 12 . |
| 15 | Already next season 's Ulster Senior Challenge Cup final has been brought forward a week to April 23 in order to accommodate the Lions party who will take in the game as part of their celebrations . |
| 16 | As the April meeting would coincide with election day it has been brought forward a week to April 2 when Richard Wood of Durham Wildlife Trust will be the speaker . |
| 17 | Unlike some Poll Tax demonstrations , this one passed off without any violence , protestors were satisfied with handing in a petition to Mrs Thatcher 's front door . |
| 18 | The Yorkshire handler has ruled out a trip to Aintree next week or an outing in a less demanding event in favour of a well-earned rest . |
| 19 | The French prime minister has just thrown down a gauntlet to America on agricultural trade : he wants to rewrite the deal recently struck by America and the EC on farm exports ( see page 92 ) . |
| 20 | One young person gave up a holiday to America just to help us . |
| 21 | Grainne gasped and put out a hand to Raynor . |
| 22 | Bismarck followed it up by putting out a feeler to Great Britain , but nothing came of it . |
| 23 | But she added that she understood that AT&T was interested in setting up a competitor to Telecom Eireann . |
| 24 | He stretched out a hand to Merrill , and she found that she needed it to escape the embrace of the thick , downy cushions . |
| 25 | Claudia , her face bland , her body speaking , stretched out a hand to Thomas . |
| 26 | Then on December 31 , right before they started ringing in the new tax year , executive vice president Ron Lachman wrote out a cheque to Systemhouse buying back the piece of Interactive that had originally been the most famous part of the old Lachman Associates ( UX No 220 ) . |
| 27 | Chaovalit 's successor as Army C.-in-C. , Gen. Suchinda Kraprayoon , was forced to cut short a visit to Singapore to return to Bangkok . |
| 28 | Pearce returned a hard stare , pushed himself from his seat and held out a hand to Rohmer . |
| 29 | Silas stood watching the rafts until they disappeared round the bend of the Mohaka , then he held out a hand to Lucy . |
| 30 | For Michael Starke , alias Sinbad from Brookside , is a red-hot Liverpool fan and alternate weekends revolve around a trip to Anfield . |