Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [pron] [noun pl] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely in the next Honours List its services to the nation should be acknowledged . |
| 2 | The position is perhaps best described by saying that the directors owe their duties to the present and the future shareholders , rather than simply to the particular persons who are shareholders at the relevant time . |
| 3 | Several companies open their doors to the public , but Grants ' Glenfiddich Distillery at Dufftown is singled out here because of its Scotch Whisky Museum . |
| 4 | Haiti 's illiterates tell their stories to the world |
| 5 | The larks carry their tongues to the last atom |
| 6 | Pilots using them plot their journeys across the uninterrupted emptiness of the Pacific by plotting a course between a series of way-points , random but fixed points above the Ocean that are each given five-letter nonsense names — Neeva , Nytim , Nokka , Nabie , among a host of others — from above which the planes report their positions to the Pacific 's oceanic control centres at Tokyo , Anchorage and Oakland , California . |
| 7 | MUCH rejoicing in Manchester as The Athenaeum bar throws open its doors to the public . |
| 8 | The fishing villages only come alive for the season when frantic fleets of boats fill their harbours to the brim . |
| 9 | As the major retailers adjust their strategies to the growth of discounters like their emphasis is very much on cost control . |
| 10 | The Ukrainians put their signatures to the Lisbon protocol . |
| 11 | So while Philip made tentative approaches to Elizabeth , families like the Raleighs , Grenvilles and Drakes put their shoulders to the door and pushed in the opposite direction . |
| 12 | To a lesser degree they still exist nearer home ; in the Alps herdsmen take their cattle to the ‘ Alm ’ meadows where they tend them during the summer , and in Scotland and Wales the hill sheep spend half the year on the mountain commons whilst the lower , enclosed land grows winter keep . |
| 13 | At the same time the prostate gland , seminal vesicles , and other glands contribute their secretions to the ejaculate . |
| 14 | Scientists present their ideas to the general public , contributing directly or indirectly to debates in social , legal , and religious domains . |
| 15 | To win tickets send your answers to the following questions on a postcard or on the back of a sealed down envelope to Buddy Competition , PR Division , by Friday July 16 . |
| 16 | A few of the burlier men put their shoulders to the door , but it was built of ancient oak , heavily reinforced with iron and their combined weights failed so much as to cause the door to tremble on its massive hinges . |
| 17 | Soldiers put their shoulders to the wheels of a trolley representing a bobsleigh at Thorpe Park , Surrey , |
| 18 | Soldiers put their shoulders to the wheels of a trolley representing a bobsleigh at Thorpe Park , Surrey , yesterday . |
| 19 | As dusk falls a glittering array of discos , jazz clubs , night clubs and casinos add their names to the town 's neon nightscape . |