Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the peasant plaintiffs in the Mitry case presumably made the journey to Compiègne believing they might win . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Eventually I felt strong enough to write the truth to Margaret . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He said he only drove the car to Darlington to sell it . |
| 8 | So ends the introduction to Douglas 's prose memoir of that battle and its aftermath , Alamein to Zem Zem . |
| 9 | 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 . ) , |
| 10 | 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, not only lost the leadership to Videnov ( who received 428 votes out of 608 on the second round after Lilov had withdrawn in his favour ) but failed to gain a seat on the supreme council , as did former Prime Minister Andrei Lukanov . |
| 11 | She only sent the jacket to spite me . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The evidence of history , not to mention the physical evidence of those land deeds , suggested a subject of legitimate journalistic inquiry : who legally as well as morally had the right to ownership of the property ? |
| 16 | I much prefer the attitude to sex in Amsterdam where the whole set-up is less clinically efficient than in Germany . |
| 17 | However , these fun boards winds are not frequent enough to recommend the resort to experts . |
| 18 | Propulsion occurs on the back-stroke ( when the hairs are erect ) and far less energy is expended in moving the leg forward on the recovery stroke ( when the hairs collapse against the leg and so reduce the resistance to movement ) . |
| 19 | From their smiles it appeared that the Corporal was a regular there , as he obviously travelled the road to Boulogne often . |
| 20 | Luckily , 21-year-old Emma , was well enough to make the trip to St. Bart 's on Monday morning by train , said Lyn , — but a few months ago the situation would have been completely different . |
| 21 | In addition to making an order for the child 's attendance the court may order any person who is in a position to do so to bring the child to court ( s95(5) ) . |
| 22 | It is one thing to produce an unbiased manuscript which adequately tells the complex factors which contributed to the American disaster that day ; it is quite another to successfully bring the story to life before the cameras . |
| 23 | In Matabeleland , the conflict between the government and dissidents between 1982 and 1987 effectively condemned the region to years of not only destruction and deaths , but also to general neglect . |
| 24 | He 's just broken the news to parents in a letter to each family . |
| 25 | Seb should have been overjoyed at the news that Anna was not to marry the educated young gipsy , but he knew that unless Boz explained it to her — preferably in a more diplomatic way than the manner with which he had just broken the news to Seb — she would be devastated . |
| 26 | All the evidence available suggests that the rate of fall of the glucose concentration does not affect the response to hypoglycaemia in a clamp . |
| 27 | The Statute of Limitations itself does not affect the right to payment , but only affects the procedure for enforcing it in the event of dispute or refusal to pay . |
| 28 | The delay in publication of the original book would probably have been much longer had Medvedev not given the manuscript to Andrei Sakharov to read in October 1988 . |
| 29 | The events described had already formed the backdrop to Guinness I , and two unfinished sequels . |
| 30 | In any event , the new regulations can not eliminate the risk to taxi drivers . |