Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] to [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She staggered and fell ; nearly blinded with the blood that rained down from a deep gash in her forehead ; but raising herself with difficulty … breathed one prayer for mercy to her Maker . |
| 2 | And Madam I 'd ask you not to make any award for compensation to his girlfriend cos that 's just gon na add insult to injury really , is n't it ? |
| 3 | That bit about screw to their heart 's content ? |
| 4 | ‘ It would add a great deal of colour to my article , please Mr Parnham and give Ana the right kind of Press coverage . ’ |
| 5 | For example , at first interview Mrs Kitchener 's daughter expressed a great deal of antagonism to her mother , talked at great length about the difficulties she experienced in caring for her mother and said that she had often told her mother — and other people — that she ought to be in a Home . |
| 6 | With the increase of tension between universal education and differential provision , the special qualities of the new English ( under the hegemony of English literature ) for securing the sense of a common culture while at the same time being suited to differential application across the range of educational sectors , caused the Board to look very kindly on the fledgling discipline and to give a great deal of support to its advancement in schools . |
| 7 | Both parents were able to devote a great deal of time to their son , walking with him in the park or going for carriage drives , sometimes as far as La Malmaison , for which Napoleon III had a special affection because of its links with his mother and grandmother . |
| 8 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 9 | As you climb by the road , you see a ring of mountains to your right which you might easily take to be the Cirque de Troumouse , but this is in fact yet a third cirque , that of Estaubé , intermediate between Gavarnie and Troumouse , imposing in its own right if too withdrawn properly to enclose you , as a good cirque should . |
| 10 | I am not an expert , so I leave the decisions regarding the buying of paintings to my specialist colleagues . |
| 11 | Property rights , in this case whether you are legally entitled to compensation for loss of light to your garden , determine who compensates whom but not the outcome S * of the bargain . |
| 12 | Thank you for your reply of Nov. to my letter . |
| 13 | It is possible that the earlier opposition of Chramn to his father , Chlothar , and to his brothers was linked to the fact that he alone was the son of Chunsina . |
| 14 | The Holy Spirit continues to operate in revealing the mind of Christ to his Church . |
| 15 | These units , which introduce ideas about narrative , language , form and meaning , and link the study of literature to its background , give a foundation for the study of English . |
| 16 | These introduce ideas about narrative , language , form and meaning , and link the study of literature to its background , giving a foundation for the study of English . |
| 17 | Her choice made , she went back for vegetables to accompany it , recklessly adding a demi-kilo of the huge firm-fleshed tomatoes , as well as nectarines , oranges and a punnet of strawberries to her collection . |
| 18 | But Olten , in common with so many small Swiss towns , has been careful not to buy prosperity at the expense of damage to its character . |
| 19 | So you wish to mark their passing with some action of respect to their memory . |
| 20 | They were fortunate enough to secure a seat actually in the window alcove , which , although the shop was crowded , gave an illusion of privacy to their conversation . |
| 21 | But the others were plainly endorsing her vote of thanks to their host rather than paying tribute to the newly-discovered ‘ communautaire ’ qualities of the Iron Lady . |
| 22 | WITH its every utterance the board down at Feethams is approaching the moment when it will have to give a vote of confidence to its manager . |
| 23 | Wordsworth concludes The Prelude with tributes to his sister Dorothy , and to S. T. Coleridge , both of whom , in their different ways , helped him to resolve the personal crisis into which the events of the 1790s had led him , and I have given a short biography of each . |
| 24 | As she was taken away , other officers moved in to find Pringle , 24 , slumped in the first floor bedroom with injuries to his neck and face . |
| 25 | Furthermore , males minimize vest investment in attempt to their potential for reproduct for a high reproductive success . |
| 26 | I am pleased to be able to let you know that our branch has sent £250 to HQ in response to its request for help in its dire financial situation . |
| 27 | Having received no reply from Wrexham to my offer of taking over as manager , I have decided to set my sights a little lower , hence my chat with Stan . |
| 28 | All types of facilities are given a pedagogical mandate in addition to their care function in the explicit sense of fostering the development of autonomous and socially competent ( ‘ gemeinschaftsfähig ’ ) characters ( s. 22 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ We had heard ‘ t was so , of course , ’ muttered the priest in answer to his brother 's statement . |
| 30 | I have pleasure in enclosing a further submission in response to your Tourism 2000 consultation . |