Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [pron] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1912 he insisted , against opposition from the foreign ministry , that Prince Lichnowsky be appointed to the London embassy , saying " I send only my ambassador to London , who has my confidence , obeys my will , fulfills my orders with my instructions " . |
| 2 | It has just taken the unusual step of calling home its ambassador to Guatemala ‘ for consultations ’ . |
| 3 | The day after , General de Gaulle cut short his visit to Rumania and returned to Paris ; by then two million workers were on strike , 120 factories occupied ; within three days 250 factories were occupied , and eight million on strike . |
| 4 | Senior officers may or may not have been involved , but they certainly made public their opposition to party politicians who had held back the growth of military expenditure in budget balancing financial policies . |
| 5 | It takes away , no doubt , the right of the solicitor to bring an action directly the work is done , but it does not take away his right to payment for it , which is the cause of action . |
| 6 | The volunteers are currently working on a Darlington wetland site to improve vastly its appeal to wildlife and migratory birds . |
| 7 | As for Williams , who had an English father , it would be easy to explain away his hostility to England ; but the sorrier likelihood is that he saw quite justly the baleful mixture of timidity and arrogance which characterized literary London in his lifetime . |