Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doyle twitched and flexed his fingers , trying to communicate to Bodie in the only way possible . |
| 2 | The business was set up in one upstairs room in premises on High Row and moved to Priestgate in the early 1900s where it still practises , on a much larger scale , with a staff of more than 50 . |
| 3 | Jane Barker 's first poems were written for a small coterie including many Cambridge scholars , along the lines of the ‘ Society of Friendship ’ of her literary model Katherine Philips [ q.v. ] ; and when she moved to London in the 1680s , some of these poems were published in the unauthorized Poetical Recreations ( 1688 ) . |
| 4 | They began life together at Cheam and moved to Wimbledon in the 50s with their children , Terry , who now lives in Nevada with her husband and four girls and son , Richard , who is based at Toddington near Luton . |
| 5 | Charles Sweeny , born of wealthy parents at Scranton , Pennsylvania , on 3 October , 1909 , moved to Britain in the late 1920s with his younger brother , Robert ( Bobby ) , who was to become briefly engaged to the Woolworth heiress , Barbara Hutton . |
| 6 | Cheyney moved to Venice in the 1840s , where he lived at the Palazzo Soranzo-Piovene on the Grand Canal . |
| 7 | Being unfit for service , and to escape the danger of bombing , Firbank moved to rooms in the High Street , Oxford , in October 1915 , and remained there until September 1919 . |
| 8 | If you had been an out-of-work farm hand near Inverness , or near Dumfries , why might you have been one of many who moved to Glasgow in the last century ? |
| 9 | We know that there is a limit to what Britain can achieve alone and we are committed to building in the wider world the sort of society we strive for at home , founded on mutual cooperation , political liberty and shared prosperity . |
| 10 | In the twenty years after 1951 , Britain 's settlers from New Commonwealth countries increased from 0.2 million to 1.2 million , the majority being black workers attracted to England in the 1950s and 1960s by expanding job opportunities ( for more details , see The Runnymede Trust and the Radical Statistics Group , 1980 ) . |
| 11 | In the course of this book , we shall appeal to evidence in the psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic literature which offers insights into the way in which discourse , produced in describable contexts for recognisable purposes , is processed and comprehended . |
| 12 | In fact , Flaherty thought it was a better idea than invoking the Draoicht Suan until it was explained to him that unless Pumlumon did invoke it , they would all of them be roasting on spits in the Gruagach 's sculleries before the night was out , to which he said that giants had always been partial to roast Gnome and he had always thought it was a mistake to come to Tara in the first place . |
| 13 | Financial services including pensions and life insurance subsidiary Allied Dunbar , whose Liverpool office is one of the country 's best performers saw trading profits leap to £376m in the nine months from £142m . |
| 14 | Cyclops were not unique to Greek mythology ; appearing to Sinbad in The Arabian Nights was a huge monster : |
| 15 | Ian Evans first came to the Palace in September 1974 as The Eagles sought to adjust to life in the 3rd Division , after plummeting straight through Division Two in 1973–74 , and he quickly established himself as a favourite among the fans at Selhurst Park with his wholehearted displays at the centre of our defence . |
| 16 | He won the Military Cross and rose to Major in the first world war . |
| 17 | One of the breed of Northern working class actors who rose to fame in the British cinema of the early Sixties , he has moved smoothly between film ( Annie , Shoot the Moon and Miller 's Crossing of late ) , both commercial and subsidised theatre , and even television ( in Kingsley Amis ' The Green Man ) . |
| 18 | I am afraid that the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , East ( Mr. Prescott ) has a regrettable tendency not to bother with the facts , but to jump to conclusions in the immediate aftermath of any accident , before any of the facts are known to him or to anyone else . |
| 19 | It is unhistorical to assume that children in the last century responded to death in the same way as children today ; children 's attitudes are largely conditioned by those of adults , and in our day the usual adult attitude is to evade the subject of death , to treat it as ‘ morbid ’ and , so far as possible , to exclude it from the home . |
| 20 | Either will do , but the present confusion has only added to uncertainty in the financial markets . |
| 21 | The aim of the project is to produce an annotated bibliography of material in Parliamentary papers relating to Scotland in the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | The general analysis of the need for local government reorganisation was presented in straightforward terms relating to changes in the socio-economic geography of the country . |
| 23 | Also interested in personal anecdotes relating to aviation in the aforementioned county . |
| 24 | One of these was Piccadilly Circus , the authors observing that : ‘ here the architectural setting becomes a major consideration , although this must not preclude a satisfactory traffic solution ’ ( para. 32 ) — an almost prophetic comment , bearing in mind the events relating to Piccadilly in the 1960s ( see p. 168 ) . |
| 25 | However , at the time of writing , a new Children Bill is making its way through the legislative process , and will , once enacted , form the basic legislation relating to childcare in the 1990s . |
| 26 | Governors should be made aware of key material relating to schools in the 1990s and demand from their LEA governor-training officers the courses they want and need as an individual group . |
| 27 | Gradually , over the years , I would piece together another family history ; of those who had come to Scotland in the terrible years of the 1840s , some of whom , indeed , had even been Irish Catholics . |
| 28 | In recent years unification grammars have come to prominence in the computational linguistics community . |
| 29 | I mean , I think , there is something there that needs pursuing , I 'm not accusing all judges of being , inherently , you know , nutty , or , whatever , but , the number of cases that have come to light in the last few years , whether it 's because the press have just decided to home in on them , |
| 30 | Various governments have come to office in the postwar years , some committed to reducing public spending , others to raising it . |