Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [noun] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following their deaths , Ronnie sold Docton to a man who was keen to get the wheel going again and , with Nigel 's assistance and local labour , the second restoration was started and we both made new friends in Steve and Iris Pugh . |
| 2 | In Pietermaritzburg Mr Mandela brought traffic to a stop when he went ‘ walk-about ’ in the main street . |
| 3 | On Jan. 25 , 1990 , Bhutto gave birth to a daughter ( thereby becoming the first head of government to give birth while in office ) ; the withdrawal of the Prime Minister from public life during the latter months of her pregnancy increased the aura of indecisiveness surrounding the government , particularly as the Cabinet had offered its resignation in mid-November ( see p. 37043 ) . |
| 4 | FA Cup second-round replay : Gloucester City 0 , Cardiff City 1 Scott makes headway to a date with Rangers . |
| 5 | Betjeman asked Lewis to a number of his parties , and Lewis found their High Church pansyism fairly difficult to stomach . |
| 6 | So It 's a pleasure an a compliment for RAF Kemble to play host to a squadron this week and next . |
| 7 | If at times Hope needed women to a point of desperate madness , so , at other times , he ached for wealth so badly that he heard his inner voice crooning for it , like the ululation of a gin-addicted street beggar , the sound suddenly there but as if never absent , an ancient and ineradicable longing . |
| 8 | Mountbatten fell victim to a bomb placed in his yacht . |
| 9 | WREXHAM fell victim to a sucker punch for the second home match in succession , going down to goals at the end of each half at the Racecourse . |
| 10 | DONNA MULLER gave birth to a boy in a staff lavatory at the stables where she worked after keeping her pregnancy secret for nine months . |
| 11 | On the strength of this extra income , Mozart moved his family to another apartment , Unten den Tuchlauben , where on 27 December 1787 Constanze gave birth to a daughter , Theresia . |
| 12 | of all general practitioners in the NHS had access to a computer . |
| 13 | Saddam Hussein contributed £2m to a mosque in north Birmingham , and his name is still emblazoned in giant letters on the front of the building , startling motorists speeding past on the Birchfield fly-over . |
| 14 | Brutus compares Caesar to a snake and says that as it is bright day which brings forth the adder it will be Caesar 's crowning that would bring out his bad personality . |
| 15 | Graham brought proceedings to a standstill , arguing that he was within his rights to declare even though the rules stated he had to bat for the full 10 overs . |
| 16 | What a wonderful Christmas gesture by Nigel Havers to donate £300 to a woman whose plumber charged her that amount for unblocking a toilet . |
| 17 | It is a shame other parts of the estate have been lost : the north side of Keir Street is now a car park for Edinburgh College of Art , and earlier demolitions on Lauriston Place bear witness to a clash of architectural cultures . |
| 18 | In late June Hrawi and Hoss paid visits to a number of Gulf States including Bahrain , Qatar , Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates . |
| 19 | Seb guided Anna to a chair and sat her down , but instead of releasing his hand immediately she pulled him to her and her hand went up to his face , her finger-tips gently assessing his injuries . |
| 20 | Mahmoud took Owen to a part of the city he had never been to before . |
| 21 | Despite her frenzied pleadings , Byron sent Allegra to a convent in Italy , where she died of typhoid , aged five . |
| 22 | My other friend Edie gave birth to a baby with one leg . |
| 23 | It was beautiful , two people loving one another all these years and Dr Greenslade being too much of a gentleman to leave his wife and family , and Miss Lavant giving birth to a baby and the baby being handed to a Dynmouth woman . |
| 24 | So to New York , where the world of women 's tennis met for the Virginia Slims Championships to a background of political ferment , following my disclosure in The Daily Telegraph , that , like the men three years earlier , the women — or at least the WTA board — felt they were also ready to declare UDI . |
| 25 | Sir Bedivere takes Arthur to a chapel — |
| 26 | The 1988 Education Reform Act extends this power to the point where governors can require the LEA to give notice to a teacher if this is their decision after passing through all due legal processes . |
| 27 | Nestorius believed it heretical to describe Mary as Theotokos , or God-bearer , on the basis that Mary gave birth to a man , Jesus , in whom God dwelt . |
| 28 | Ian falls victim to a disease which , for a long time , has been killing the Sensorites and which the Doctor traces to the city 's water supply . |
| 29 | ‘ Sir Patrick took exception to a point in our manifesto about involvement in the talks process . |
| 30 | MILLIONS of radio listeners have heard how Ulster 's TV chat show king Gerry Kelly fell victim to a prank by four young viewers . |