Example sentences of "[verb] of [verb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know you do n't approve of giving money to people in the street , so that was nice of you . ’ |
| 2 | All were victims of a year-long bribery scandal in which dozens of politicians stand accused of demanding contributions to party funds in return for lucrative public works contracts . |
| 3 | Wamwere was accused of entering Kenya to foment an armed uprising and was in December charged with treason [ see p. 37908 ] . |
| 4 | Sources said they were accused of paying kickbacks to politicians to obtain public contracts . |
| 5 | Beware of carrying things to excess . |
| 6 | If we take seriously the idea of valuing individuals as citizens , then instead of using bridging capital from the sale of hospital sites to purchase large houses and hostels outright , a means could perhaps be found of lending capital to individuals as an initial down-payment on a property or a share in a property . |
| 7 | They would n't dream of causing offence to Muslims . ’ |
| 8 | His passionate onslaught at the 1985 party conference against the Militants of Merseyside ( whom he accused of hiring taxis to hand out redundancy notices to their workers ) appealed to the unions and gave him new public stature . |
| 9 | He talks of assigning responsibility to children , holding them responsible , requiring them to take responsibility and these are natural ways of speaking . |
| 10 | Mr Van de Kamp , the state attorney-general , who admits to a personal distaste for execution , has responded with a commercial in which he boasts of sending people to death row — while , in the background , the camera dwells on a close-up of the gas chamber . |