Example sentences of "to [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This also applies to editing changes made in the window . |
| 2 | Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique . |
| 3 | Both pledged in speeches to cheering crowds that they would work to unite Somalia . |
| 4 | It has no relevance to unfolding events . |
| 5 | Step by Step to Mastering Spreadsheets |
| 6 | Until recently no one seems to have considered that in addition to filtering lymph , the fluid may also be pushed along by the lymph nodes — despite these structures being the most prominent features of the system . |
| 7 | When it comes to mobilising support , the left wing has few lessons to learn . |
| 8 | Terry Armistead and Jane Huntingford are prepared to give talks to knitting clubs , on Terry 's intarsia graphs and garment patterns , Jane 's geometric designs and their combined projects . |
| 9 | Category by category , more than a third of Soviet goods measured by value ( from sewing machines and locomotive cranes to coking equipment ) are produced in a single factory . |
| 10 | I think that I have said sufficient to indicate , if not prove , that there are no major technical obstacles to realising Ecotopia . |
| 11 | Here 's a typical example of a Viz comic strip : Dad gets a new putter for Christmas and says ( to onlooking wife and guffawing son ) , ‘ Oh ! |
| 12 | Moreover , this was a new form of imprisonment whose aims were not confined to con-taining offenders for a period and deterring the populace from crime . |
| 13 | The inevitable reduction in the amount of time likely to be given to singing challenges the Church to remedy this deficiency . |
| 14 | There 's little Bill Ward has n't turned his hand to in the first sixty years … from Tragic opera … to Singing puppets |
| 15 | In two different places in Monsieur de Pourceaugnac he switches in the space of a breath from performing a solo for soprano to singing bass in a duet or trio . |
| 16 | She got up and then when it came round to singing Jerusalem and Edie was put out at not singing Jerusalem , this is another one off the psychiatric list and Pat goes |
| 17 | It was at this point , when I was twelve years old , that I took to reading junk books the way some people take to eating junk food . |
| 18 | Then , when I started to get into it I felt kind of holy , y'know , ‘ I 'm eating this good food ’ , but behind that was the desire continually to revert to eating junk food ( and I do ) because I am emotionally dependent on it . |
| 19 | Most horses who are used to eating grain , if given the opportunity like an open feed room door , will eat too much . |
| 20 | We have talked about antecedent events , behaviour , and consequences as applied to eating behaviour and dieting . |
| 21 | Ten per cent of Britons profess to eating meat only rarely and nearly 50 per cent agreed that they much less than they used to . |
| 22 | It is difficult at the best of times to persuade consumers to try a new product , but when it is more expensive than rump steak the problem is exacerbated , particularly when one of the undeniable attractions of vegetarianism is that it is such a cheap alternative to eating meat . |
| 23 | There is no evidence that a rise in cases of the fatal brain illness Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ( CJD ) over the past two years is linked to eating meat infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ) , according to the UK Department of Health . |
| 24 | used to eating ice cream in-hand , out of doors ; |
| 25 | Shape dissatisfaction , endemic to young women in western culture , elicits restrictive dieting that increases the vulnerability to eating disorders . |
| 26 | Meat from the cull will be distributed to local villagers , who have been reduced to eating nuts and worms as a result of crop failures . |
| 27 | To call oneself a reductionist will sound , in some circles , a bit like admitting to eating babies . |
| 28 | By getting used to eating oranges rather than drinking orange juice , eating apples rather than drinking apple juice , and so on , you are establishing a good habit which will help to control your weight in the future . |
| 29 | ‘ Very well , ’ said the Commandant , ‘ I am afraid all the food is gone and we are now reduced to eating camel dung . ’ |
| 30 | And to this day I shall never be able to understand why so many of my generation , by the time they were in their teens , had a mouthful of dentures because it was not due to eating sweets . |