Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] [noun] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grand jury documents relating to the forthcoming trial of former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger showed that , at a Reagan Cabinet meeting in January 1986 , Bush had voted in favour of secretly selling missiles to Iran in exchange for the release of US hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon . |
| 2 | In parallel with the American emergency air lift recently announced , we are offering a supply of badly needed aid to Ekaterinburg , formerly Sverdlovsk — the kind of city of which my hon. Friend is thinking — and details of that British aid are now being worked out . |
| 3 | The trial opened in Linz on April 4 , 1990 , of 18 executives of the state-owned Voest-Alpine engineering group and its subsidiary Noricum for illegally supplying arms to Iran via third countries in 1984-86 , during the Iran-Iraq war , in contravention of Austria 's neutral status [ see pp. 35792 ; 36561 ] . |
| 4 | The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , Mr Claiborne Pell , called the expulsion a ‘ disgrace ’ and compared it to Britain 's decision to forcibly return Cossacks to Stalin 's Russia after the second world war . |
| 5 | Urraca at once sent messengers to Alfonso who , having won the support of the Moorish king of Toledo , left his place of exile to proclaim himself King of Castile , Leon and Galicia . |