Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eric was going to do a trip around the world when he left Mayall , which eventually became a trip to Greece . |
| 2 | The reason for this is quite simply that these aspects of deixis mostly make no difference to truth conditions . |
| 3 | She went on to issue a challenge to parents : ‘ The Government is allowing Essex to spend as little as £62 per child for a whole year . |
| 4 | But the peasant plaintiffs in the Mitry case presumably made the journey to Compiègne believing they might win . |
| 5 | I put the mink coat on a chair and retraced my journey , locking the door again and eventually returning the key to Mercer who nodded without speech and put it in his pocket . |
| 6 | This presumably posed a risk to airline uniforms ; was likely to distract passengers ( the male ones at any rate ) at a time when they should have been paying attention to the cabin staff for rather different reasons ; and carried the ultimate danger of the implant exploding . |
| 7 | Eventually I felt strong enough to write the truth to Margaret . |
| 8 | On June 28 the congress proclaimed the Crimea to be " the national territory of the Crimean Tatar nation , on which it alone has the right to self-determination " . |
| 9 | Someone had thoughtfully turned the page to March and now the glossy colour photograph showed the Riot Squad drawn up in full battle gear in front of their armoured personnel carriers . |
| 10 | Anne felt a stab of pain , although she told herself that she was not interested in John Redmond any more , yet eagerly accepted an invitation to Sunday tea from Sarah . |
| 11 | Rhodesia had long presented an affront to Ghana and other Black African states , yet Nkrumah still valued the Commonwealth connection sufficiently to support Britain 's compromise proposals . |
| 12 | The Convention not only transferred the Crown to William and Mary , but also laid down certain terms for the new rulers in the document known as the Declaration of Rights , and if the offer of the Crown was not strictly speaking conditional upon William and Mary 's acceptance of these terms , it was clear that everyone expected that they were to abide by them . |
| 13 | He said he only drove the car to Darlington to sell it . |
| 14 | Father Moore is only a brief visitor ; he has called in crisply to pay his respects , exchange a few words of banter with Patsy ( also a brother-in-law of somebody ) , and to inform Siobhan that next year he will be personally heading a pilgrimage to Knock so as to ward off any unfortunate flukes of the road . |
| 15 | I would suggest that the government would be a lot , lot better adding a ticket to amounts of money , which said ‘ You either spend this money on implementing the Food Safety Act , or you do n't get it . ’ |
| 16 | To the credit of both Hortense and Le Bas , it was agreed that Louis-Napoleon should be enrolled in the High School at Augsburg , a move which it was hoped would not only remove a tendency to idleness and day-dreaming but would also give him a chance to make friends with other boys of his own age . |
| 17 | The life which Jesus advocated must have necessarily had an appeal to men rather than to women , for it would in many cases have put women in an impossible position . |
| 18 | So ends the introduction to Douglas 's prose memoir of that battle and its aftermath , Alamein to Zem Zem . |
| 19 | On 6 January , 1918 , the soldiers ‘ protecting ’ its deliberations marched in to put an end to proceedings . |
| 20 | She 's only to give an envelope to Louise . |
| 21 | By paying this amount to the short , the long gets a yield to maturity of 9 per cent on his holding of Treasury 12' per cent 2003 05 as required by the futures contract . |
| 22 | De Discreptione Animae Spiritus et Mentis , Mediaeval Studies , vol. xxii , 1960 , pp. 148–9 ( which wrongly attributes the treatise to Gilbert of Poitiers ) ; J. Châtillon ( ed . ) , |
| 23 | The nominee of the more reformist social democratic faction , Georgi Pirinski , not only lost the leadership to Videnov ( who received 428 votes out of 608 on the second round after Lilov had withdrawn in his favour ) but failed to gain a seat on the supreme council , as did former Prime Minister Andrei Lukanov . |
| 24 | Later that day — the 26th — Hitler was still in command of his mental state sufficiently to send a telegram to Mussolini demanding a precise list of what he needed , but after that he almost snapped . |
| 25 | Why do you not go to a provincial university meantime , and perhaps win a scholarship to Oxford from there ? |
| 26 | She only sent the jacket to spite me . |
| 27 | But Malcolm suddenly gave the job to Chrissie instead Because , I suppose , she was older and more rock ‘ n ’ roll with her leather jackets , whereas I was still at school and pretty straight . |
| 28 | This is generated in a mixing system , situated above the column , by constantly increasing the solvent to non-solvent ratio and as the mixture is initially a poor solvent which is gradually enriched by the good solvent the low molar mass fractions are eluted first . |
| 29 | Even so , it should not be assumed that the abolition of public examinations would necessarily put an end to transmission styles of teaching . |
| 30 | IN A quiz published this week in TODAY and based on the popular TV show Have I Got News For You , we wrongly attributed the programme to Channel Four . |