Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [noun] 's [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they are a slave nation under a new pharaoh , of a dynasty which has long forgotten Egypt 's debt to Joseph ( see Genesis 41 ) . |
| 2 | Mr Connolly said he had written to Mr Clarke saying he very much hoped Labour 's commitment to the retention of water services under local government control extended to returning those services to councils ‘ in the unhappy event of any form of privatisation or transfer to some hybrid organisation ’ . |
| 3 | Nicol — acknowledging club triumphs at the Midlands contest and at Panmure — has not had Millard 's exposure to quality sevens fields yet , but it 's not in Nicol 's nature to meekly accept that Millard remains front-runner for a place in the World Cup Sevens at Murrayfield from 16-18 April . |
| 4 | He had certainly not drawn James 's attention to Araminta 's departure — or his own . |
| 5 | Equally serious , recession has not inspired Japan 's government to economic reform . |
| 6 | She had always imagined Nigel 's home to be large , but this was immense ! |
| 7 | The agreement was denounced by Portugal which had always rejected Indonesia 's claim to its former colony . |
| 8 | What is remarkable is that the initiative here was taken by the High Anglican clergy , who should have been the natural allies of the Stuart monarchy , and who had staunchly defended James 's title to the throne during the Exclusion Crisis . |
| 9 | And you 've also got man 's desire to be sure of achieving success . |
| 10 | The thaw which had so earnestly menaced France 's lifeline to Verdun became , on balance , more her ally than her foe ; it turned the pulverised earth into a glutinous quagmire that sucked off the close-fitting knee-boots of the German infantry ; the 8-ton howitzers sank up to their axles in it , and the Germans ' new motor tractors were too few and too under-powered to extract them . |
| 11 | No country has so far recognised Bougainville 's claim to independence . |
| 12 | While the removal of individual rivals unquestionably smoothed Franco 's path to power , what really launched him upon it was the role allotted to him in the rising and the manner in which this role was played out . |
| 13 | The OSF press release and its mock shock horror surprise also does n't allow for the fact that Addamax voluntarily revealed Sun 's involvement to defendants ' counsel in October of 1991 and that OSF itself has known about it since at least May of this year . |