Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duke John and the Earl of Cambridge laid siege to Quimperlê , probably on 23 June , and after a heavy English assault the garrison agreed that if they were not relieved within a week they would surrender . |
| 2 | The move follows protest action by Greenpeace , which had prevented Hyundai 's logging barge leaving the port of Svetlaya to take timber to Japan . |
| 3 | Great mounds of Soya awaiting dispatch to animal feed mills . |
| 4 | On Aug. 1 the Australian Prime Minister , Bob Hawke , had accused the USA of " an unfriendly act " following sales of US subsidized wheat to Yemen , one of Australia 's traditional markets . |
| 5 | In West Sussex in 1547 Richard Stygant of Yapton got leave to sublet three crofts containing 9 acres for five years , as did John Standen of Nutbourne in respect of a messuage , garden and 3 acres . |
| 6 | When the news of his victory in the Battle of Lagos , as it is known , reached London on 6 September even the perpetually anxious Duke of Newcastle gave way to optimism . |
| 7 | In November 1102 , he explicitly ordered Gerard of York to swear obedience to Anselm . |
| 8 | One day earlier , the Stratford to Tottenham Hale service in the east end of London bade farewell to passengers . |
| 9 | General Baratieri , hearing he was to be superseded in command of the Italian forces , advanced by night with three columns through the rocky hills and gorges near Adua to give battle to Menelik 's army , which numbered a hundred thousand men . |
| 10 | Defeat in Canada merely sharpened France 's desire for revenge in Europe and as October gave way to November conditions in the Channel and Bay of Biscay worsened , making it ever harder for the British squadrons to hold their stations . |
| 11 | There were negotiations with China to supply oil to Mongolia to supplement the reduced Soviet deliveries . |
| 12 | Mr Annesley 's strongly-worded statement came as the agreement ran into yet another patch of stormy weather , with Dublin taking exception to remarks made by Peter Brooke , the Northern Ireland Secretary , about the Ulster Defence Regiment . |
| 13 | He is currently in jail in Miami awaiting extradition to Austria in relation to six other murders . |
| 14 | From Fairfield walk south-east to Hart Crag ( 0.75 miles ) and then down to the gap between Hart Crag and Dove Crag ( 0.25 miles ) in the same direction . |
| 15 | Friends and family crammed into the church of Saint Michael and All Angels in Eastington to pay tribute to Richard Miles . |
| 16 | Writing from Paris , Jean de Grilly expressed considerable anxiety over the pressure exerted upon Armagnac to render homage to Philip III . |
| 17 | This is not an affirmation of the status quo ; there is nothing in Simmel to reduce antipathy to class conflict or economic exploitation . |
| 18 | It would be fair to conclude that the trend in Japan caused concern to Peking but not to the extent that it did in Moscow . |
| 19 | The last ACE Executive Committee meeting in September recommended circulation to Age Concern organisations of the ‘ Statement of Recommended Procedure on Charity Accounting ’ . |
| 20 | The military regime in Iraq laid claim to Kuwait on the grounds that it used to be part of the Ottoman province of Basra . |
| 21 | The man who had run the neighbouring Radio Clyde in Glasgow moved south to London 's Capital Radio . |
| 22 | Yet , as we have seen , the need in Eliot to relate art to ritual and to religious emotion continued unabated . |
| 23 | Two months after the 1990 riot , Lord escaped while being held in police cells in Bolton awaiting transfer to Wakefield prison . |
| 24 | Although Carloman had an infant son , the nobles and bishops of Alamannia and Burgundy immediately travelled to Corbeny-sur-Aisne to do homage to Charles . |
| 25 | Jarlshof has been closed since January to avoid risk to visitors or their clothing . |
| 26 | Mr Skubiszewski has said the problem of East Germans who come to Poland to seek transfer to West Germany should be resolved in a humanitarian way . |
| 27 | The rule in Adam v Ward offers consolation to victims of attacks made under the " coward 's cloak " of Parliamentary privilege : they may reply in kind , through newspapers which will only be liable for the defamatory content of their reply if it is irrelevant to the subject-matter of the attack , or if it defames other persons who bear no responsibility for the attack . |
| 28 | The visit was also marked by a demonstration by Biharis demanding relocation to Pakistan . |