Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun sg] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By April the sense of crisis among the Six receded when it was agreed to quicken the pace towards a customs union still further . |
| 2 | And you 're also summoned that on that same occasion you not having given your name and address to any person requiring it at the time , you failed to report the accident at a police station , or to a constable as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case within twenty four hours of it happening again , that 's an offence under section twenty five of the road traffic act to that effect do you plead guilty or not guilty ? |
| 3 | He was attending a conference which had been called to discuss the formation of a police force in Oxfordshire . |
| 4 | Representatives of foreign , defence and border guard ministries of CIS member states met in Tashkent ( Uzbekistan ) on July 16 to discuss the establishment of a CIS peacekeeping force . |
| 5 | As things turned out , Benjamin just lived beyond the Victorian era and into the Edwardian : on Sunday 3 September 1905 he was in church about to play the organ for a children 's service when he collapsed . |
| 6 | Frances Power Cobbe deplored the approval doctors gave to what she considered to be an essentially unhealthy lifestyle ; she had little faith in medical expertise and liked to recall the case of a women friend who , on deciding to stop seeing her doctor and carry on normally , promptly recovered . |
| 7 | Walter gave crack sprinter Sheikh Albadou a spin yesterday morning and he flies to New York to ride the horse in a pre-Breeders Cup race on Saturday week . |
| 8 | Myeloski was beginning to realize that he could be taking on forces that encompassed the very people who ran the Soviet Union , the powermasters who employed him to keep the peace as a police officer . |
| 9 | Next year she plans to turn the garage into a games room for table tennis . |
| 10 | By the beginning of 1982 a team had been recruited to develop the BDA as a consumers ' organisation and pressure group with the primary aim of eliminating discrimination against deaf people and of improving their quality of life . |
| 11 | POWYS councillors are being recommended to approve the installation of a cattle grid at the Lake Vyrnwy Reserve , Y Gadfa , following representations from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , but only on condition that the RSPB is responsible for all the costs involved in the construction of the grid . |
| 12 | Durie then teamed up with Hobbs to complete the whitewash with a straight-sets doubles win to earn Britain a second-round confrontation against Austria , the eighth seeds . |
| 13 | Taxing work , determination , application , steadfastness , resilience : these were some of the qualities needed to make the grade as a sportsmen even at the more modest levels . |
| 14 | It is a funny story , but it seems that the reviewer mainly liked it because it was not very likely to please the editor of a women 's magazine . |