Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [verb] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in the cell Pete began a letter to his wife . |
| 2 | Given permission by the Brigade Major to pay a visit to the Highland Division to obtain new reeds for the bagpipes . |
| 3 | By this marriage Gaunt acquired a claim to the throne of Castile which , if successfully asserted , might reverse the most important consequence of Pedro 's murder , the movement of Castile into the French orbit . |
| 4 | On his return Gujral made a statement to the Lok Sabha in which he indicated that he had rejected a Pakistani proposal for the UN to assume an observer role , and appeared to impose on Pakistan the responsibility for easing relations . |
| 5 | Against this background the Soviet leader Gorbachev chose a visit to Moscow by the Algerian President to seize the diplomatic initiative by calling for superpower talks on the nuclear and naval demilitarisation of the Mediterranean Sea , for the transformation of this region in a military sense into a neutral zone for the naval forces of external powers . |
| 6 | As Auntie Jean entered the hall from the living room Ted pressed a finger to his lips . |
| 7 | There are two very strong pieces of evidence confirming that the examples of inherently restrictive predicative adjectives accompanied by articles must indeed be regarded as entity-identifying expressions : First , they can quite generally appear where entity expressions appear , including positions which are not even superficially available to an ordinary adjective : ( 24 ) the rudest came from your cousin she gave motherly advice to a second , and a stern warning to a third the oldest of the aircraft should be scrapped ( 25 ) the honest deserves the appointment Bert offered a peanut to the untidy the elegant of the vases lay on its side |
| 8 | As we saw in Chapter 2 , in his criticism of subcultural theory Matza favoured a return to the less deterministic , less differentiated view of the criminal that was characteristic of classical criminology though , in his later work ( Matza , 1969 ) he moved to a more fully indeterminist view . |
| 9 | On that historic morning Nelson sent a signal to his fleet saying : ‘ England expects that every man will do his duty . ’ |
| 10 | Her daughter Jessica wrote a letter to the New York court saying : ‘ Please make Amy Fisher stay in jail for a long time so she ca n't hurt my mom again . ’ |
| 11 | Popular pressure for political reforms induced the then ruling MLSTP to initiate a transition to a multiparty system of government in December 1989 [ see p. 37479 ] . |
| 12 | In her inaugural address Chamorro announced an end to military conscription ; plans to reduce state bureaucracy , strength of the Army and the size of the defence budgets ; the recognition of titles to land redistributed under the previous Sandinista government ; and a thorough review of economic policy . |
| 13 | The prophet Samuel raised a monument to God in the hour of Israel 's victory and publicly declared , ‘ to this point the Lord has helped us ’ . |
| 14 | It was the Moroccan ambassador to Egypt , who had flown form Cairo to extend an invitation to the Shah from His majesty King Hassan , an old ally . |
| 15 | Lavender Patten gives a cuddle to runaway terrier Soda yesterday . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , on July 11 Prime Minister Sharif issued a threat to " any country whose soil is used " to attack Pakistan 's nuclear sites . |
| 17 | Two days before Christmas Hayling circulated a memo to the staff . |
| 18 | In 1009 Æthelred assembled a fleet off Sandwich , and Eadric 's brother Brihtric made an accusation to him against a nobleman of Sussex , Wulfnoth . |
| 19 | The referee allowed the reknowned loony Cantona to hurl a canary to the ground without a caution , amongst many unpunished fouls . |
| 20 | The North Region PGA brought an event to the Darlington municipal course for the first time and tournament controller Les Massey said : ‘ We ca n't fault this place . |
| 21 | The sense of relief , and the newfound power , of a queen who has successfully produced a healthy boy emerge in an anecdote told by Charles himself over forty years later : " In the very hour of my birth , my mother Judith sent a ring to Ebbo [ archbishop of Rheims ] , asking him , since he was an archbishop , to pray for the newborn baby . |
| 22 | At this time Henry contributed a poem to the fund-raising campaign for the construction of Salisbury Cathedral , and also wrote for patrons in Cologne . |