Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The green men in their cloaks of leaves and branches then discovered them , and came down to the beach and circled Dulé and his companions where they lay prone , and shook their fronds and squatted on their haunches and kicked their legs and tossed their heads and slapped palm to thigh , in order to rally them and send them off again ; pouring spirits and water into their faces to invigorate them , beating out a rhythm with their feet . |
| 2 | However , instead of dispersing , the Uzbeks rampaged into the city centre , smashing cars and setting fire to houses , shops and buses along the way . |
| 3 | Slowing down at all corners and giving way to pedestrians . |
| 4 | In this view from early 1981 , 76047 has just deposited its train in the BSC exchange sidings and returns light to Rotherwood . |
| 5 | Among other things , these regulations require operators of hazardous installations to draw up on-site and off-site emergency plans and to give information to members of the public who live or work near such installations ( Houston 1987 ) . |
| 6 | Deep in the basement of the Foreign Office , a team of junior diplomats is on hand to answer queries and give advice to people returning from Iraq and Kuwait . |
| 7 | On April 26 Shining Path guerrillas had killed 16 ronderos and set fire to houses in the town of Nuevo Progresso in Ayacucho department . |
| 8 | When I go south , you can take some dogs and go east to King Edward VII Land . |
| 9 | At the same time , however strong the desire to cut defence costs and to give priority to home affairs , too much had happened since the mid-1930s for the United States to return to its prewar foreign and defence policies . |
| 10 | Similarly , a fall in demand by consumers is signalled by price falling relative to production costs and gives rise to losses for producers which may well lead to factory closures and job losses . |
| 11 | The nodes or links point to text blocks , but the semantic net can be seen without necessarily seeing the text blocks . |
| 12 | Values , he argues , select problems and attach significance to items of knowledge and so constitute a basis of meaning that is tied to the social function of knowledge . |
| 13 | Firms in the UK , it can be assumed , import goods and services from foreign firms and export merchandise to others . |
| 14 | The Centre has its own library and conference rooms and has access to services for oligonucleotide and peptide synthesis and microsequencing as well as to powerful computer and database services . |
| 15 | they 're not putting money into delegated budgets now , I , I , I was a teacher , a head teacher and I was told that the erm , the essential , the educational departments finding more money for devices and to give advice to school , now , they 're all unnecessary as it is , I would say , we are the ones that carry out the job , we 're on the ground , we 've got to do it . |
| 16 | Meiosis , you will remember , is the special kind of cell division that halves the number of chromosomes and gives rise to sperm cells or egg cells . |
| 17 | For this need , another type of para.professional was envisaged , with sound training in all these areas , able to work with teachers and give support to teachers , and with a thorough understanding of educational principles and methods . |
| 18 | ‘ A while ago , the Federation of Family Support Groups set up advisers at some courts to distribute leaflets and give help to families of prisoners on the spot . |
| 19 | On Feb. 9 the Revolutionary Command Council ( RCC ) issued a decree appointing popular committees to supervise prices and distribute food to citizens . |
| 20 | Tudor England was no cultured and sophisticated Italian state , but the country did feel the influence of the humanists and gave hospitality to Erasmus . |
| 21 | Both Sebokeng inquiries exposed a pattern of unlawful behaviour by members of the security forces and lend weight to allegations of unprovoked use of lethal force by security forces , like in Daveytown on 24 March when 12 members of the ANC were shot dead by the police . |
| 22 | De Gaulle used the Interministerial Councils in order to inform himself more fully on important issues or to give momentum to policies that he favoured . |
| 23 | Local girls dressed in green and yellow ballet skirts performed dances and sang praise to Saddam . |
| 24 | In the absence of anything so spectacular , the most impressive parts of the speech were those which declared how Germany had successfully surmounted the most severe test in the previous winter , and those indicating the exploitation of the material resources of the occupied territories and giving rise to hopes of improved foodstuff provisioning at home . |
| 25 | On the Isle of Man they were known as Hogmen and tended to be far more aggressive , kidnapping women and children and setting fire to barns . |
| 26 | They might spend much time , therefore , patrolling their school and its classrooms , talking with children and offering comment to teachers . |
| 27 | In Parsons ' view , the modern family deals only with the socialization of children and gives stability to adult personalities . |
| 28 | The head must also make available for inspection at the school information on syllabuses , schemes of work and school hours as well as details of the arrangements for dealing with complaints and providing access to pupils ' records and documents , such as any HMI Report on the school . |
| 29 | Westminster must become more effective in protecting citizens and holding government to account . |
| 30 | Many of the girls wanted to ask about domestic details such as rationing , clothes and saying goodbye to boyfriends while the boys frequently said they wanted to interview the men to find out if they had been on active service or if they had killed anyone . |