Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has irked the Northern selectors that the talent drain has largely led to London , the side that has dominated the Divisional Championship in recent years . |
| 2 | The central figure Source A whose ‘ evidence ’ Channel 4 relied on to make their programme has already admitted to RUC detectives and journalists that he was coached to read a script containing the allegations before Channel 4 cameras in a London flat . |
| 3 | Above all , the administration has barely responded to Mikhail Gorbachev 's swing to oppression in the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | Certainly , the United States administration had vastly over-reacted to Nkrumah 's book Neo-Colonialism : The last stage of imperialism ( 1965 ) , though the views he advanced were becoming the commonplace of Third World writing . |
| 5 | The Blues suspected the Georgians would be carpeted for their haphazard arranging of the first leg tie ; the Windsor Park club had already complained to UEFA about this . |
| 6 | The Blues suspected the Georgians would be carpeted for their haphazard arranging of the first leg tie ; the Windsor Park club had already complained to UEFA about this . |
| 7 | The rival claimant , an Andreas Ruckers of 1651 , was produced by the piano house of John Broadwood and Sons , who deposed that this instrument had once belonged to Christopher Smith and thus might have been Handel 's . |
| 8 | He recalled that the president had n't gone to Gromyko 's funeral . |
| 9 | His gaze had already returned to Jessamy , and she suddenly realised she did n't want to be left alone with Julius . |
| 10 | WITH IMPRESSIVE improvements complete at Welshpool , attention has recently turned to Llanfair station . |
| 11 | ALL that fame has clearly gone to Dannii Minogue 's head . |
| 12 | This point had already occurred to Loretta , who was doing some rapid calculations . |
| 13 | This conclusion had not occurred to Derek , but it was true nonetheless . |
| 14 | Campaigns of terrorist violence from the anti-democratic right and from Basque separatists had a destabilizing effect , while elements in the military remained strongly attached to Franco 's authoritarian vision . |
| 15 | 20 Nc5 ! ||Qc8||21 Bxg6+||Kd8|| 22 dxe5||Nxe5||23 Nxe6+||Qxe6|| 24 Qxe6||Nxe6||25 Rxd5+||Nd7|| 26 Bf5||Nf8||27 Bg5||c6|| 28 Rd1||Ke8||29 Re3||e5|| Black has survived with level material , but his king remains terribly exposed to White 's rampaging rooks and bishops . |
| 16 | The crew have just returned to England after making twenty one flights into war torn Bosnia . |
| 17 | Er for the panel 's information , Selby District er at any rate has not objected to Leeds City 's proposals in in their U D P for development in within their administrative area which as I mentioned this morning are very substantial . |
| 18 | The first prize has now gone to Dr Richard Gentle , a specialist in fluid mechanics at Nottingham University . |
| 19 | If the speaker has actually switched to LE , there is intentionally no adaptation . |
| 20 | No tuna importer has yet responded to WDCS 's latest appeal , and the majority insist that they will continue to carry " dolphin-friendly " labels . |
| 21 | Mr the headmaster has recently applied to Paul 's present local authority London Borough of Merton for a classroom assistant for Paul for thirty hours per week he does not know whether he will get that or a lesser number of hours or none at all , he was repeatedly , in my view quite rightly , extremely reluctant to express any view about what the outcome of his application maybe , but , rather force time is to which we have to guess , his guess was that ten hours might be afforded but he was at pains to emphasize that that was pure guess work . |
| 22 | The end of harvest had also come to Sleightholmedale , a couple of weeks earlier ; despite Jonadab Oaks ' reputation as a stern man and a strict master , the workers surged into the farmhouse kitchen , in answer to his invitation : ‘ Come in , one and all . |
| 23 | There was an Islamic doctrine , of which the headmaster had often spoken to Robert , known as ijma . |
| 24 | The world has always looked to Britain for stability , inventiveness and general mental agility , yet our National Prestige is low , our currency is less than one third of its immediate post-war value against the dollar and can not be explained entirely as a result of market speculation . |
| 25 | Roy had given Paul Nesbitt a note of the board requirements — horizontals and verticals — in early September , but the information had not gone to Harry . |
| 26 | The local MP had initially written to Mr Hanley demanding to know why there was a continuing reduction in the numbers of part-time soldiers . |
| 27 | The contract had originally gone to China , who along with Japan and the Soviet Union , was keen to enter the Western launch market . |
| 28 | Dave Sprott , the northern dentist at 102 , whose carefully preserved northern accent had always seemed to Henry a way of criticizing the London suburb in which he found himself , suggested that they ‘ hire ’ St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 29 | Until now the possibility had n't occurred to Godolphin — he 'd been too preoccupied by the secret that he 'd lived with most of his adult life — but it was an intriguing , and disturbing , thought . |
| 30 | The swan became so attached to Sam that it stayed for twelve years . |