Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ali had attacked the British bases in Iraq , and so created a threat to pipelines and oilfields vital to the Allied cause . |
| 7 | One of these , Bernard Levin , memorably described a visit to Evita as " one ofthe most disagreeable evenings I have ever spent in my life , in or out of the theatre " , and " Do n't cry for me , Argentina " as a somewhat inferior melody to one he would hear as a boy , improvised on the saxophone by a busker outside the Albert Hall with only three fingers on his left hand . |
| 8 | He 's just broken the news to parents in a letter to each family . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was true : she had not given a thought to Gazzer . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The events described had already formed the backdrop to Guinness I , and two unfinished sequels . |
| 13 | ‘ I understand , ’ he said anxiously , ‘ that Roy has already received a summons to Downing Street . |
| 14 | Frank , at the age of 16 , had already won a scholarship to Trinity College in Cambridge . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She put in an offer to the oily estate agent and just caught a train to London , which was lucky , for there was not another for two hours . |
| 17 | This column has already reported an addition to Matthew Hall 's family and now it gives me pleasure to report another addition at the Dodge Chemical Company — but this time its not another birth , it is the news that Adrian Haler 's daughter , Patricia Lewis joined the company on August 17th . |
| 18 | He had already written a note to Becky — with a little help from Father O'Malley — instructing her to sell the shop along with the two barrows if she possibly could and to hold on to his share of the money until he came back to Whitechapel . |
| 19 | The loan exhibition of eighteenth-century European ceramics from the Bowes Museum will allow many who have not already made the trek to Barnard Castle a fascinating glimpse of this major collection of Continental ceramics assembled by Josephine Bowes , beginning in 1860 , with the idea in mind of creating a public collection ( opened 1892 , unfortunately after her and her husband 's death ) . |
| 20 | And if they only want twenty-four hours then they 've already made the appointment to hand it over . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Miranda did not tell him why she had not had the nerve to buttonhole Meursault again , in a later break in the filming . |
| 23 | Well , well they 've just sold a player to Leicester for eighty five thousand and they , they bought a fella from Port Vale on a free transfer , well he 's a Richard they 've bought him back again , only with a , all due respect but er now he 's got he 's playing very well with Leicester now , and he 's , he 's scored two goals and made one the other Saturday , and , and everyone , every match since he 's been there every time he 's played . |
| 24 | He could have just got the ferry to Fishbourne and spent a fortnight at Butlins . |
| 25 | Paul Lawrie , who is working on a reconstruction of his long game , has still not found the key to consistency . |
| 26 | The whole palace seemed deserted , as if the Royal family and all the staff had already taken the road to Varennes . |
| 27 | They had already taken the play to Lancaster as well as performing it in Durham , and now had the assembly of the pageant down to a fine art , taking about two hours to mount the superstructure . |
| 28 | ‘ You 've already dismantled the link to Kirov , so there 's no way the authorities could prove he had n't acted on his own initiative . |
| 29 | Papa will have already described the journey to Mamma . |
| 30 | Franklin had once written a letter to Sir Ralph which the Member thought highly offensive and relations between them had since remained frigid . |