Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a male tutor from the local college used this technique to cajole some of the male users into joining the bridging course . |
| 2 | In the next story in the Gospel , John the Baptist sent some disciples to Jesus to ask if he was the one who was to come or whether they should begin to look elsewhere . |
| 3 | WOBBLER : Bruce Grobbelaar 's return made little difference to Liverpool 's leaking defence . |
| 4 | So far as possible , therefore , the compilation eliminated all reference to missio ; but , as often , traces survive , and these have been put together by Impallomeni . |
| 5 | And this day Lady had some letters to post in the early morning , she wanted them away , on the mails in the early morning . |
| 6 | The general deferred this honour to Miles , before Joseph stepped back to deliver his speech of surrender : |
| 7 | The boys could see that in reception classes , as in the all-in village school of a few generations ago , only one teacher taught all subjects to children between twelve and sixteen . |
| 8 | The researches of Robert Whiting into the impact of the official reformation on the people of Devon and Cornwall have revealed that even in this conservative part of the country , where attachment to Catholic ritual had been particularly strong , statues of the saints began to disappear from churches soon after their condemnation by the Henrician injunctions , and within a short space of time the wills of the laity contained fewer references to images or intercessory masses . |
| 9 | A budget concession on the poll tax offered more relief to pensioners with savings . |
| 10 | The King paid another visit to India on Jan. 31-Feb. 4 , 1990 . |
| 11 | A purely defensive strategy made little appeal to Pitt and he now eagerly supported a plan devised by Anson to carry the war into enemy waters . |
| 12 | For example , one Inner London library authority indicated that access to funds was available through the Head of Personnel and Management Services , for post-entry in-service training , but that only the total available to the Council ( £100,000/£101,200 ) was known . |
| 13 | ‘ I learned , quite by chance , that when Sir Nelson 's father willed this farm to Mr Timms , he also officially recognised Christian as his natural son . |
| 14 | County cricket made little concession to spectators . |
| 15 | The total presented few problems to Southport , with Jamie Butler 's unbeaten 70 and Malcolm Swift 's 28 not out guiding them home in 21 overs . |
| 16 | Nevertheless Chilperic I complained that his treasury was always empty because of the church , while one retainer of a Merovingian prince attributed this penury to St Martial and St Martin , that is to the churches of Limoges and Tours . |
| 17 | The meal bore some resemblance to Filippo 's formula ; after about six courses you realise you 're still in the thick of the antipasto . |
| 18 | Although the time spent teaching was said to be similar on most wards , the trained staff on a good ward devoted more time to supervision , practical demonstrations and participation in ward reporting sessions . |
| 19 | The audience packed this room to capacity . |
| 20 | Mark Bowen 's goal two minutes from the end brought some consolation to Wales . |
| 21 | The Doctor 's conversation made little sense to Blake . |
| 22 | Matron sneaked some soup to Mould , giving him a lift on her motorbike , and Endill paced up and down until he felt dizzy . |
| 23 | The Buddhist press paid more attention to gambling and drunkenness than it did to cattle stealing , presumably because most newspaper correspondents lived in towns , where cattle stealing was a relatively infrequent occurrence . |
| 24 | They called on the unwell clergyman Mr Riddoch , and again finding the conversation wanting — the poor man was unable to tell Johnson how much a university education cost at Aberdeen — the couple resisted all invitations to supper . |
| 25 | Our panel gave more weight to unemployment throughout the final campaign than they had done in the Pre-Campaign wave . |
| 26 | The sport made a big impact in Germany where Frankfurt Galaxy drew more spectators to home matches than Eintracht Frankfurt . |
| 27 | The equaliser brought more boost to Town , than United and for the first time in the game , the Oxford goal was under pressure . |
| 28 | What will be a few minutes of footage on the screen took all day to film . |
| 29 | The Agreement gave some legitimacy to US criticism of both dumping in the US market and protectionism in the Japanese market ; but the Agreement was designed solely to settle differences between two nations controlling some go per cent of the non-communist world market for semiconductors . |
| 30 | Chemically , the antimalarial drug Atebrin or mepacrine had some resemblance to riboflavin . |