Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took forty years for Dronfield to recover to its 1881 level . |
| 2 | But again Bramall Lane roared United back into the game , Cork running onto Paul Beesley 's pass down the left and turning the ball into the middle for Ward to hook in his second equaliser . |
| 3 | It took a particular mood for Ken to talk about his sexual problems . |
| 4 | Now that society is at last recognizing and developing the full range of women 's abilities and now that women are seen to have , with men , full ‘ human rights ’ , many people conclude that it is time for the Church of England to embody in its official ministry the biblical vision of equal partnership between women and men . |
| 5 | But Mr Szilagy and his staff are not expecting the citizens of Budapest to flock in their thousands to see the collection of ugly lifeless forms . |
| 6 | John Blundell Maple , the furniture magnate , declared in 1891 , for instance : ‘ It must be infinitely more wholesome for the workers of London to reside in their own suburban homes than to be congregated together … |
| 7 | Surely the ultimate prize of motivating and supporting a wide cross-section of the communities of Wales to care for their local environment in a practical way is sufficient incentive for us to get our collective acts together ? |
| 8 | The men who had marched north with Duncan to dispose of his dangerous half-brother at Tarbatness had mostly died in that battle . |
| 9 | On Saturday mornings , doing the shopping in Petersfield , we always found time to go into Woolworth to look at their latest toys . |
| 10 | Stephen Webb , Editor of the Christian Conference of Asia 's magazine , CCA News , left Hong Kong in August to return to his native Australia . |
| 11 | Members will want to know how Pat Keen has been getting on since she gave up her classes in the London area and moved to Newquay in Cornwall to look after her 94–year-old mother . |
| 12 | Bangor 's forward power was evident but Banbridge defended well and their defence was not breached again until the 37th minute when McKinty again made the initial surge for Dawson to cross for his second try of the game . |
| 13 | According to the report , the only way for Britain to benefit from its military strengths in rebuilding an electronics industry is for a massive , government-sponsored effort in technology transfer . |
| 14 | By 1174 Henry returned to Germany to serve under his imperial overlord on the fifth campaign in Italy . |
| 15 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 16 | For the moment , it was left to England to capitalise on their 2–0 lead in the resumed one-day series , with three matches to come in a fortnight . |
| 17 | Eubank goes back into the gym on Wednesday to train for his next fight at London 's Olympia on February 20 , presumably against just another hand-picked mug . |
| 18 | When I moved to Cornwall to live with them first , their home was a bracing , windswept ( take your pick ! ) clifftop cottage at Widemouth Bay , three miles from Bude on the North Cornish coast . |
| 19 | In February 1943 he despatched Jean Monnet to Algiers to act as his personal envoy to Giraud . |
| 20 | This he kneaded into a pulp and then gave to Cleo to hold against her scratched cheek . |
| 21 | On 4 October 1748 she wrote to Richardson to argue against his proposed alterations to Sarah Fielding 's The Governess , or Little Female Academy . |
| 22 | My poor old friend Ron , is worried about money up to his , up to his arm pits , but he manages to get out and play his violin , you know , two Saturday 's ago I went up with him to Norwich to stay with his nice lady Trudy , and in the evening , Saturday evening , I went to the gorgeous old church in Norwich where he and the other 's were all working away playing the Mozart Symphony or two . |
| 23 | When we look at the lists of saints ' resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England , when we see how saints ' remains were moved from the outer fringes to the heart of the West Saxon and Mercian kingdoms where they could do more good ( for example , St Oswald from Tynemouth to Gloucester , St Judoc from Cornwall to Winchester ) , when we watch Otto I move the body of St Maurice ( the soldier saint ) in state from Burgundy to Magdeburg to fight on his eastern frontier , we witness the deployment of heavenly troops on earth as if there were not the slightest difference between the two spheres . |