Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some time previously and after a wait of five years my name had been proposed and seconded for membership , but when my proposer heard that two members were of a mind to blackball me in the ballot , he ( without telling me ) withdrew my candidature . |
| 2 | He regularly went to the pictures to gorge himself upon the facial close-ups of the movie queens , while he surreptitiously masturbated . |
| 3 | The programmes on the computers , also accessible to visitors to Pompeii itself in the small museum at Boscoreale , are the culmination of what is known as the Neapolis project . |
| 4 | Using this last possibility , Spenser implies that the English acting firmly against Ireland might demonstrate that they have purified the fault which was going to cause Ireland to scourge them in the first place , namely a tameness in executing God 's designs against savage immorality . |
| 5 | The consequence of this may be , and in some cases will be , to divest a third party of title to property which since the commencement of the bankruptcy he has acquired from the bankrupt . |
| 6 | Every so often the animal would rear , lashing out with his sharpened hooves , as the men struggled with a stream of oaths to back it into the stable . |
| 7 | Third , she claims to have authorisation from Mephistco to boot me off the assignment . |
| 8 | This was the Orontea of Pietro ( Antonio ) Cesti ( 1623–69 ) , a newcomer to Venice who on the strength of this work alone was described by Salvator Rosa shortly afterwards as ‘ now the glory and splendour of the secular stage ’ . |
| 9 | They themselves might ‘ motor ’ down to their country retreat at the weekends but they looked with signal disfavour on the idea that the vast mass of the populace might enjoy a similar mobility and have access to pleasures which for the moment were peculiarly their own . |
| 10 | He received from one of those organisations , the Board of Guardians , food , clothing , a little money to tide him over the worst first weeks , and the address of a family who would provide a room and warmth . |
| 11 | Perhaps you will have a part-time job and a small capital reserve to tide you over the lean years until the farm is pulling its weight . |
| 12 | I have not changed my decision to disburden myself of the task . |
| 13 | The Government feels that the disclosure regulations , which came into force in October 1991 , place too onerous a task on auditing firms and clients in monitoring payments to associates which at the same time are unlikely to impair the independence and integrity of the audit . |
| 14 | She found it very difficult to get out of bed , so we moved life to centre it in the bedroom . |
| 15 | She is beyond time , and yet she is giving birth to time itself At the moment of birth , her baby is the very youngest member of the human race , its star of hope and its future . |
| 16 | There is no need to change this law , and as far as I am aware no need for Mr. Byran to distress himself upon the umpires ' behalf . |
| 17 | And Steve Albini — slightly abrasive , direct and not one to compromise just to impress people — is here in this studio to remaster everything for the reissues . |
| 18 | Lewis reached his third Test fifty before edging a flowery drive , and Salisbury recovered from an excruciating blow on the box from Waqar to bang him through the covers and generally give the impression that he might soon be worth a sport higher than No. 9 in the order . |
| 19 | Someone may grab your collar with both hands in order to head-butt you in the face , or may seize you by the hair to punch you . |
| 20 | There is also a mention if the cargo contribution to airlines which for the passenger carriers is , at 50 per cent return on revenue , the most profitable thing they have in the market at the moment . |
| 21 | He was reaching out from death to hurt me in the same old way , only this time I did n't have to know . |
| 22 | Our impact on industry through our green works campaign is there for all to see and from that point of view to encase it within the health and safety review is vitally important for all of us when we take the policy back to our members and advise them of the way in which we intend to go forward . |
| 23 | The National Railway Museum has a varied programme of events to interest everyone over the half-term holiday from Saturday October 24 until Sunday November 1 . |
| 24 | John McVurich , alledged diviner , being summond and not compared recommended him to the session of Kilarrow to processe him for the same . |