Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [verb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example in Alcine , Act 3 , scenes 4–5 , as Melanie pines for Astolphe , who has fallen victim to Alcine 's desires ( E minor ) , Alcine 's spurned lover Athlant attempts to console Melanie by proposing vengeance ( E major ) ; as the scene continues E minor becomes ‘ Athlant 's key ’ as he declares he loves Melanie and suggests that her ‘ fickle lover ’ can be punished if she will love him in return . |
| 2 | UK bank authorises US bank to debit their NOSTRO account with the relevant sum of money and pay American beneficiary who has supplied goods to depositor in London . |
| 3 | ‘ We would n't have thought it possible , ’ said Lyn , daughter of Angela , who has taken Sam to classes . |
| 4 | A LORRY driver who helped take aid to refugees in Croatia was yesterday named Britain 's Top Dad . |
| 5 | Grappling with this problem , feminists who want to draw attention to women 's presence rather than simply adopting male titles have sometimes proposed completely novel words ( for instance Italian dottora , a feminine coining for ‘ doctor ’ that flouts the rules of Italian word-formation ) . |
| 6 | Father Peter McGuinness , the parish priest and a man of gentle understatement , says this is going to be very confusing for tourists who want to pay homage to Inniskeen 's most famous son . |
| 7 | Adrian , who professes to prefer football to cricket , will certainly be paying more attention to the game from now on , particularly as we are giving him a year 's membership to the Young Cricketer Bunbury as our Young Cricketer of the Month . |
| 8 | Mrs Bottomley would not be drawn on whether it was a public inquiry , but told BBC Radio 4 's PM programme that all who wished to give evidence to Sir Cecil would be able to do so . |
| 9 | It was Judy , the woman who had invited Loretta to dinner the following evening . |
| 10 | This , after all , was the man who had made love to Elise , made an impact strong enough to perhaps contribute to Elise 's death . |
| 11 | Many of Rosemary Cook 's respondents in the Rhondda , who had given birth to children during the inter-war years , said that birth control had been out of the question despite the fact that the birth rate for the Rhondda fell dramatically during the inter-war period . |
| 12 | Who had given information to Brückner 's wife ? |
| 13 | Governor General of Fiji from 1973 to 1983 , Ratu Cakobau was the great-grandson of Ratu Seru Cakobau who had ceded Fiji to Britain in 1874 . |
| 14 | Our captors took political and spiritual guidance from Khomeini , who had condemned Rushdie to death . |
| 15 | All CSD staff based in the UK were invited , together with representatives of other JM locations and Divisions who had provided support to CSD in its endeavours . |
| 16 | In early September he had won a promise from India that anti-Bhutan activity would not be allowed by ethnic Nepalese who had fled Bhutan to West Bengal and Assam . |
| 17 | Cup final nerves got the better of Benson who had guided Leicester to Lord 's in the last over of the semi-final against Essex . |
| 18 | He readily granted licences for enfeoffment to uses , and although Chancery officials made some effort to track down unlicensed or fraudulent uses , such cases ‘ form a very small minority of all those tenants in chief who had conveyed land to uses ’ . |
| 19 | Najibullah attempted to flee the country , but was prevented from reaching Kabul airport by troops under the command of Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam , an Uzbek militia leader previously deployed by the government against Pashtun mujaheddin groups , who had switched alliance to Masud . |
| 20 | And for the more ambitious film projects he developed a coproduction arrangement with David O. Selznick , the producer who had lured Hitchcock to Hollywood . |
| 21 | It was I who had introduced Thessy to McIllvanney and who had secured him the job with Cutwater , but Bonefish had only allowed his son into the wide wicked world because of his trust in me . |
| 22 | ‘ Guidelines for Teachers and Lecturers of Students with Special Needs ’ is intended to help teachers and lecturers who wish to deliver modules to students with special needs , whether these arise from a learning difficulty , a sensory impairment or from some other reason . |
| 23 | On one occasion Wallace rode daringly down upon Scone and put to flight an English justiciar who was busily pronouncing outlawry upon anyone who refused to swear loyalty to Edward . |
| 24 | He was one of four prelates who refused to do fealty to Edward III in January 1327 , although he took part in the new king 's coronation in February . |
| 25 | Refiners who have to give priority to products such as petrol and lubricating oils may tend to treat chemicals as a convenient way of dealing with unwanted fractions . |
| 26 | Does the Secretary of State intend to thank those who have given service to Queen and country by making them not only jobless , but homeless ? |
| 27 | This is naturally most relevant in the case of employees whose skills have been overtaken by changing business patterns and the increasing use of new technology and who have fallen victim to redundancy or reorganisation plans . |
| 28 | But it is understood that most of the banks who have lent money to Bond have secured their loans against assets or have made provisions against ultimate default . |
| 29 | Women who have done things to children get a bad time inside if the other women know and can get hold of them . |
| 30 | The third section , " Challenges " , considers theorists who have proposed alternatives to Austin 's approach , most notably Derrida and de Man . |