Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [noun] to the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then after the war , Disney and Reagan , he was running the Screen Actors Guild , they ganged up together to feed names to the McCarthy Committee … ’ |
| 2 | I see it as the so to speak Preface to the Prolegomena ! |
| 3 | The entry clearance officer ( ECO ) said he was not satisfied that the primary purpose of Mr Hussain 's intended marriage was not to obtain admittance to the UK . |
| 4 | ‘ My husband told me not to bring Mark to the Strand and if he 's out of the house he 's to stay in the buggy , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Berg was also an agent of the Office of Strategic Services , which was later to give birth to the CIA . |
| 6 | The 1975 Act had been accepted in the Court of Appeal as having been passed mainly to give effect to the Hague Convention , but that purpose nowhere appears in the text of the Act which was also designed to replace earlier United Kingdom legislation , notably the Foreign Tribunals Evidence Act 1856 in which the phrase ‘ civil or commercial matter ’ was used in a context wholly divorced from any international convention and which formed part of the law of many Commonwealth ( and common law ) countries . |
| 7 | He went on to pay tribute to the ANC president , Oliver Tambo ( currently recovering in Sweden from a stroke ) , to the rank and file members of the organization , to the fighters of Umkhonto we Sizwe ( the ANC 's armed wing ) , and to the SACP " for its sterling contribution to the struggle for democracy " . |