Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arab peacemakers will presumably seek to find a successor to Muawad . |
| 2 | Arab peacemakers will presumably seek to find a successor to Muawad . |
| 3 | King Hussein of Jordan no less has beaten a path to Costa Teguise , selecting Lanzarote , a land of unusual beauty , for his get-away-from-it-all home . |
| 4 | That 's obviously going to make a difference to you , ’ he commented : ‘ Well , it 's marvellous to have a lot of support ’ . |
| 5 | First admitted to Maudsley Hospital with a ‘ sudden onset of schizophrenia ’ and given insulin shock treatment , she was soon sufficiently recovered to consider a return to work . |
| 6 | In the following May , Miller again reported illness , being just recovered from a fever and subsequent attack of rheumatism , so wished to postpone a visit to Woburn . |
| 7 | So come take a pilgrimage to the past and embark on a Medieval adventure . |
| 8 | You see , so these people were going to move in at the weekend so had to put a stop to that cos they had no authority to move in there until the solicitors try and get this thing sorted out . |
| 9 | ‘ While we want to preserve the best of the past , we do not want to build a monument to it . ’ |
| 10 | He said Mr Say was not considered to pose a threat to anyone other than himself . |
| 11 | I suspect that the confidentiality is largely that of the Secretary of State , and am confident that in acceptance of our decision he will not seek to maintain a claim to such confidentiality . |
| 12 | It 's usually the parents not wanting to repeat a joke to the daughters |
| 13 | The Allied politicians lacked understanding , and yet they did not hesitate to place a barrier to Germany 's growth , and having placed that barrier , did not think to support it effectively in the years to come . |
| 14 | I … that is I , my wife and my children … we , I , do not like to invite a friend to a party and not give him the best . |
| 15 | Mrs Cutforth had been the wife of one of their most devout followers and they were not going to approve a marriage to this worldlywise womaniser and scoundrel , however financially well endowed he might be . |
| 16 | And I 'm , I 'm faxing erm I 'm sorry , I 'm not gon na fax it , I 'm just going to send a letter to national office about The Savoy in First Leisure . |
| 17 | The decision is justified on the grounds that there was no guarantee that the plaintiff would receive any of the fine and that Parliament could not have intended a workman to be deprived of the chance to seek compensation for his injuries . |
| 18 | The lack of a licence in Barlow Clowes ' early years may or may not have made a difference to the way investors ' funds were handled during that time . |
| 19 | Mr Thomson said Mr Wilson could not have got a bus to the area where he was found , which more than a mile from a road , and he could not have walked the distance on his own . |
| 20 | Such a transfer will be appropriate whether the property was held by the husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants or as tenants in common : in the latter case , as the transfer to the husband and wife will not have contained a declaration to the effect that the survivor of them could give a good receipt for capital monies , a restriction will have automatically been entered on the register to the effect that no disposition by a sole proprietor of the land ( not being a trust corporation ) under which capital money arises is to be registered except under an order of the registrar or of the court ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s58(3) and Land Registration Rules 1925 , r213 as amended by Land Registration Rules 1989 ( SI No 801 ) ) . |
| 21 | But Cambridge keeper John Vaughan somehow stretched to get a hand to the ball on the goal-line . |
| 22 | In choosing your background materials you will already have made a commitment to a particular colour . |
| 23 | Well all I can suggest is the case is adjourned for the week we 'll just have to arrange a solicitor to be here . |
| 24 | Antislavery history thus entailed building a monument to the sect . |
| 25 | The West Germans had not appeared to pose a threat to that plan until they wiped out a 2–0 deficit late in the second half of the quarter-final . |
| 26 | If I am correct — and the statement is also seen in some measure as a form of protection of the parents ' and child 's rights in this matter — it is surely anomalous that this statement appears largely to have become a passport to special schooling . |
| 27 | I had just finished serving a glass to a gentleman when a voice behind me said : ‘ Ah , Stevens , you 're interested in fish , you say . ’ |
| 28 | I once went out to dinner and discovered that the seven other people present had all just finished reading A Dance to the Music of Time . |
| 29 | And that may be okay in a departmental level but when I had an integrated global enterprise operating in integrated fashion around an integrated I T system then clearly I can not afford to allow a failure to actually paralyze the system . |
| 30 | If , for clinical reasons , a GP wishes to refer a patient to a hospital that is not contracted to provide a service to the GP 's district , the GP must be able to do so . ’ |