Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [noun prp] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Churchill recommended Ramsey to the new young Queen who had never before been confronted with the situation , and the Queen asked the archbishops whether they objected , they could not say that they did . |
| 2 | Corbett led MacAirth to the nearest table , cleared a space and gestured to him to sit . |
| 3 | The two leaders agreed that they would meet on a regular basis in the future , perhaps annually and with less formality , and Gorbachev invited Bush to the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | Some time during the course of that summer , Dr Harvard introduced Lewis to the Roman Catholic Chaplain to the University , Monsignor Ronald Knox . |
| 5 | The following morning Julia accompanied David to the gloomy courtroom again with a sense of relief . |
| 6 | Mrs Maylie sent Oliver to the nearest town , four miles away , to post two express letters . |
| 7 | Joyfully , the Marchants elected Kitty to the same category of quaint but endearing knick-knack which they had devised for her son . |
| 8 | Keeping clear of the wharves where machinery roared and clanked as cargoes were being discharged from or loaded on to rust-streaked ships with flaking paint , Nathan tied Seawitch to the rickety wooden pontoon reserved for yachts in transit . |
| 9 | ‘ Major Bagshot accompanied Bonzo to the 15th green where he found a ball and a complete set of Henry Cotton ‘ St Andrew 's ’ clubs lying , abandoned . |
| 10 | First , Lord Grade sold ATV to the Australian financier Robert Holmes à Court ; second , the 49 per cent of ‘ Midlands ’ shares were bought by D C Thomson ( who thus made up for losing Southern ) , the betting company Ladbrokes and the printing and publishing interests of Robert Maxwell . |
| 11 | It had been nearly a year ago , when the postman had delivered a letter postmarked Venice to the little cottage in Wales she had shared with her grandmother . |
| 12 | Savognia helped Constance to the delicious buffet . |
| 13 | Wimbledon owner Sam Hammam and chief executive Dave Barnard accompanied Jones to the two-hour hearing at Lancaster Gate . |
| 14 | It was inevitable that when Miss Hatherby introduced Constance to the Romantic poets she should fall heavily under the spell of Shelley and Keats . |
| 15 | Mrs Barrie-Brown left Fresden to the Roman Research Trust , specifying in the codicil to her will that she wanted it to be turned into an educational centre . |