Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mozart was by no means the first freelance composer to die in financial difficulties in the days before copyright law and performance rights afforded the artist some protection : 60 years later the German composer Gustav Lortzing literally starved to death after having to sell his hugely successful operas to publishers for a pitifully inadequate outright fee , which denied him any further revenue . |
| 2 | WE CERTAINLY ca n't take the Lords for granted , ’ says an adviser to John Major , thinking gloomily of the battered Maastricht bill now poised to stagger , under the baleful glare of Lady Thatcher and Lord Tebbit , through the Upper House . |
| 3 | Jo Garcia sportingly agreed to flesh out the survey 's findings by revealing exactly what she found attractive about her lovers — Chris , Erick , ex-husband Steve , and current partner Geoff — and giving them marks out of ten for looks , manners , eligibility , personality , kissing ability and sexiness . |
| 4 | The South West Ham branch subsequently decided to affiliate to the Central Labour Party in West Ham ‘ to work amicably in the coming election ’ ( ibid. 10 August 19 ) . |
| 5 | Millicent Fawcett vehemently objected to family allowances becoming a feminist plank and clung to the typically nineteenth-century belief that allowances ‘ would destroy the fabric of family life by wiping out the responsibility of parents for the maintenance of their children ’ . |
| 6 | Iris Murdoch briefly warmed to Buddhism in her middle years , and more recently adopted a congenially fellow-travelling stance to Christianity much like Larkin 's : ‘ There are advantages , ’ she has remarked in an interview , ‘ in staying with the icons of one 's own people . ’ |