Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [art] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The church distributed 16,000 copies of the letter which was immediately declared seditious , and the Congress Party secretly sentenced the bishops to death . |
| 2 | While badgers can ‘ snuzzle and take all the corn crops ’ and will sometimes take the odd lamb , they are not considered a threat to farming , though it has been suggesting that they might have links with tuberculosis in milking herds . |
| 3 | And if they only want twenty-four hours then they 've already made the appointment to hand it over . |
| 4 | Jessica had just seen the boys to bed when the call came . |
| 5 | ELIZABETH dreads to think what life would have been like if legal aid had not opened the door to court action after her husband was seriously injured in an industrial accident . |
| 6 | Miranda did not tell him why she had not had the nerve to buttonhole Meursault again , in a later break in the filming . |
| 7 | Paul Lawrie , who is working on a reconstruction of his long game , has still not found the key to consistency . |
| 8 | He said Alex had already led the girls to safety by the time he arrived to rescue Michael , who had slept through the ordeal . |
| 9 | Papa will have already described the journey to Mamma . |
| 10 | Liza had always had a tendency to wildness . |
| 11 | Nobody — not even Finlayson — knew what would have happened if he had ever got the chance to pepper Woolley . |
| 12 | For Marxist thinkers this has usually meant the accession to power of a new class , involving the transformation of the whole social system , as in the transition from feudalism to capitalism , or from capitalism to socialism . |
| 13 | That is not what unions , under the present dispensation , are about ; and that is why , after three years of wage restraint under the compulsion of economic crisis , there was in 1979 what the Financial Times properly called a return to normality , with all its faults . |
| 14 | I 've also reported the incident to Maintenance . ’ |
| 15 | The provision of a cycle track system in some towns also made a contribution to safety ’ |
| 16 | • I have also resisted the temptation to dose up the pond every time I saw a fish flick or flash . |
| 17 | They are also guaranteed the right to secrecy and to protect their sources of information . |
| 18 | Romania 's inability to provide quick ball and their fumbling loss of possession often allowed the Scots to counter-attack from deep positions with the same instinctive fluency that has earned them 130 points in four games at Murrayfield this year . |
| 19 | In earlier times , the family had often held the key to power and women had more opportunity to influence affairs : thus , in feudal times , the Lady of the Manor supervised a large household , exercised great practical authority over both men and women , and stood in for her husband in his frequent absences from home . |
| 20 | However , I have n't got a copy to hand and even if I had I ca n't be arsed looking through it . |
| 21 | Similarly , when she catches me watering my plants on the balcony we share , she says , ‘ Shame you have n't got a patch to muck about in . ’ |
| 22 | Superman is I do n't know erm , well same difference any way , but you see this is it , he 's not , you know , in that story , in that , in , in , in , in that sort of nonsense thing , he is not the same character at both times , he has n't got , when he 's walking along the street as Clarke Kent he has n't got the ability to whoosh through the air as Superman he 's Clarke Kent , not so Jesus , he was n't Jesus divine one moment , Jesus human the other but they were perfectly married at all time from his , from the time he was , he 's conception took place , so he was n't one thing one moment , you know and one thing the next , but there it was a perfect marriage if you like , the two , I was gon na say becoming one so that they were invisible , you could n't say of that 's it that 's the human nature of Jesus , that 's his diviner it ju , because the two were perfectly married , they were fused together so they really they became one . |
| 23 | I mean yes er as I said earlier on it 's just a question for for just a bit more obviously in the readings report th there is there is concern naturally with the by-passes in paragraph two five I mean I have n't had a chance to sort of looking up yet , and I 'd by grateful for County Executive 's advice on that and I thought we as a County Council had agreed a line erm for a by-pass through the West Sussex portion at least . |
| 24 | Young Francesca has even taken the pig to school , and says she enjoys playing games . |
| 25 | Young Francesca has even taken the pig to school , and says she enjoys playing games . |
| 26 | I have n't mentioned the contact to Bliss . |
| 27 | Firstly , donkeys began to be used in the draft capacity , which was not too serious a blow , but the advent of the train almost doomed the breed to extinction . |
| 28 | The government has belatedly recognised the danger to health of smoking and of passive smoking , but the health menace created by cars is far worse . |
| 29 | I did n't see this as being primarily er a , a reflection on the day as such , although they have n't actually had the opportunity to sort of mull it over . |
| 30 | Our link up with adidas has certainly provided a boost to membership , with many of you taking up the option to join and receive a free headband or wristband for their trouble . |