Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [noun] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having explained carefully to Willis what he was about to do , Richard invited Pinkie out to lunch . |
| 2 | There was further deformation of the Moine and Dalradian rocks on the north side of the Iapetus Suture causing metamorphism up to granulite grade and widespread granitic intrusion . |
| 3 | Harrods , which last year refused entry to Jason Donovan , the singer , because he was wearing torn denims , said the guidelines were part of a programme to keep staff up to date with the latest styles . |
| 4 | War on the ground is really a man with a large field with curved corrugated metal huts to keep pigs in to grub all the vegetation off to feed them up to get themselves eaten by other men to help those men to have the energy to work to make the curved corrugated metal huts and grow other food in other fields that gets eaten by another lot of men who leave some of it to feed back to the pigs . |
| 5 | With her fingers busy and her mind occupied with the story it was late afternoon before the end of a tape brought Leonora back to earth with a start . |
| 6 | Watching Piers throw stones out to sea — where was it ? somewhere near Valencia . |
| 7 | PFR Station Manager , Mr Ed Adam said : ‘ It has always been AEA 's intention to bring PFR back to power as soon as possible . |
| 8 | Rescuers slung bodies on to pick-up trucks from gutters streaming with blood . |
| 9 | As they rode , Artemis pushing Buttons on to keep pace with the free-striding chestnut , her father never spoke . |
| 10 | Stories of the Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs and his life in Brazil arouse feelings close to affection , for example . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's Inge 's job to see Kirsty off to school . ’ |
| 12 | Sugars , in particular glucose , were introduced ‘ for energy ’ , on the notion that because the body digests carbohydrates down to glucose , the main circulating fuel of the body , then taking glucose directly would shortcircuit the digestion and provide more energy . |
| 13 | If attitudes change and , with the need to attract people back to work , they may have to , then company creches could soon be as common as canteens . |
| 14 | At the great Adam , Eve and Immaculate Conception church near the river , I stood with others in the marble hallway and listened to beautiful female solos soaring praises up to Heaven . |
| 15 | It does not envy her husband taking clients out to lunch , |
| 16 | , of course , was a chapel man and er I think they saw , or some of them saw him er a in him a way round , out of things , and , of course , he did deals with the collieries to get people back to work , and whilst families had enjoyed six months in the gardens and doing all sorts of strange things , erm the men mainly wanted to get back to work , because they saw time running out . |
| 17 | While a point puts City closer to safety , a point slows Wednesday down and allows Arsenal to move within three points of them in fourth . |
| 18 | In some places , it could take only a small shift to bring socialists back to power . |
| 19 | Hundreds more were injured when police attacked the demonstration and Clarence Baker spent weeks close to death . |
| 20 | Jesus told Jairus not to worry but to have faith . |
| 21 | Mecklenburgh Opera 's Adela cuts Jacob down to size |
| 22 | So the Wife of Bath and the Prioress together challenge the social norms of women 's roles ; the shifting surfaces of the Pardoner 's blatant hypocrisy tease the reader into an uncomfortable awareness of the unfathomable nature of human motivation for the onlooker ; the Nun 's priest 's juxtaposition of intellectual solemnity with quick-witted pragmatism and his stress on the saving grace of social charity cuts self-importance down to size . |
| 23 | ‘ Compeyson and his wife put Arthur back to bed , but at five o'clock in the morning we heard screams coming from his room , and he died soon after . |
| 24 | Pace the unjustified slur , naming 10 famous Belgians is easy , even if the Singing Nun , the Mannekin Pis and Hercule Poirot are declared ineligible ( and Jacques Brel counts five of most other countries ' famous people in our book ) — and there could just be another one soon , in the person of Finance Minister Philippe Maystadt , who could become the father of a whole new economics after his proposal that Belgium levy a robot tax on factory machines to get humans back to work : it 's a great idea , and why not take it further and ban construction machinery from the roads to get the shovels back into navvies ' hands — and no doubt computers can be included under the tax , so that in no time , in a dramatic return to Victorian values , while the Belgian economy may not actually start booming , the country will have the world 's biggest quill pen industry . |
| 25 | Since the downfall of military regimes in South America and elsewhere provide clear evidence that no political structure relying solely on coercion can hope to survive for long , we should not be surprised to find that the most effective form of social control involves attempts not to crush opposition but to stop it arising in the first place : that is , by the control of people 's ideas , rather than of their actions . |
| 26 | ICAS welcomed the review but also said it was a timely reminder of archaic and unnecessary burdens in the UK tax system and urged an independent examination by a working party of all interested bodies to tackle problems close to home . |
| 27 | Repeat as 1 but , when dropping arms , continue movement to extend arm sideways to shoulder height . |
| 28 | Everyone 's position was dubious in some respect : no one had been able to stand aloof from the efforts of Philip and Mary to turn England back to popery , and all except the few convinced Romanists in the village hoped that the days of compulsory religion and inquisitions would now be over . |
| 29 | Mechanical recycling : Which brings the plastics waste conundrum back to recycling . |
| 30 | The first issue of UPDATE brought readers up to date with the pilot schemes which were validated to commence in 1988 under the new arrangements . |