Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] to the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In response , however , Polycarp turns to the crowd in the amphitheatre and shouts out the words which the Proconsul has invited him to repeal as if they applied to the audience in the arena . |
| 2 | Well the last the last time when Sunderland got to the Final in seventy-three er there were five of us in the , in my house and I 'd made red and white rosettes |
| 3 | Finally , in the treasury of the sanctuary is the Cross of Chiaravalle , a processional cross from the Abbey of Chiaravalle given to the church in 1296 by Ottone Visconti , Archbishop of Milan . |
| 4 | Head of state : King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva succeeded to the throne in 1972 . |
| 5 | Tremayne lent me his Volvo to go to the boatyard in the morning , reminding me before I set off that it was the day of the awards dinner at which he was to be honoured . |
| 6 | Rex turned to the man in the trenchcoat . |
| 7 | The following week Sylvie went to the clinic in Pennsylvania . |
| 8 | ‘ Constable Yallop responded to the call in person . |
| 9 | Even when Victoria came to the throne in 1837 only five places in England and Wales contained more than 100,000 people . |
| 10 | Acheson alluded to the reference in the recent Sino-Soviet treaty , signed in February 1950 , to the desirability of holding a peace conference ; if the Soviet Union brought forward a proposal , it would be highly embarrassing . |
| 11 | Ruth came to the table in her charcoal skirt , blue jumper and scarlet blouse . |
| 12 | Karen came to the door in her dressing-gown . |
| 13 | A recent correspondence printed in the Regimental Association journal Mars and Minerva alluded to the time in Operation Houndsworth when three aircraft had left from Fairford for the Morvan . |
| 14 | Mr Heath returned to the limelight in the Euro-election in June 1989 . |
| 15 | Rachaela went to the door in a towel , and with a second towel wrapped round her head . |
| 16 | Sadly , they turned to leave , and when they had gone , Nancy fell to the ground in a storm of tears . |
| 17 | It took him considerably less than that , for within weeks of the couple parting , Mr Parkes , 27 , took advantage of Miss Dyson 's trip to Spain to return to the home in Northwich they had once shared . |
| 18 | Election 1992 : Enoch returns to the fold in ‘ funny old election ’ |
| 19 | I 'm saying there 's Jim going to the library in the car , the lazy lump , take him all of seven minutes to walk there |
| 20 | Sheffield was already known for its knives by the fourteenth century — Chaucer refers to the miller in The Canterbury Tales as carrying a ‘ Sheffield thwitel ’ ( a large knife ) . |
| 21 | Mr. Browne referred to the trend in the developed world to make the polluter pay , but Mr. Malone stressed that the west could not deny developing countries who could n't afford the cost of cleaning up the growth which they had enjoyed . |
| 22 | On the far side of the camp , she saw Jacques Devraux stripping to the waist in order to resume work at the skinning platform , and suddenly unable to remain in the hut any longer , she strolled out across the clearing again . |
| 23 | Paula Wilcox returning to the theatre in Raving Beauties at the Liverpool Playhouse Picture : EDDIE BARFORD |
| 24 | ‘ Jo came to the club in May and I joined a little later , ’ he says . |
| 25 | The Reverend Thomas Horton came to the Rectory in 1781 , put forward by his friend Mr Charteris of Hornby Castle . |
| 26 | Vitor said to the child in his arms . |
| 27 | I confirm that Councillor Young came to the Department in July with five hours ' worth of videos showing how Derbyshire had been running down its schools . |
| 28 | The English philosopher G. E. Moore returned to the problem in a famous paper , A Defence of Common Sense which , in its turn , forms a background for Wittgenstein 's effort to demystify the issue in Über Gewissheit which , along with the Philosophical Investigations and , of course , the Tractatus , are the only texts he ever actually prepared for publication . |
| 29 | London picture dealer David Messum succumbed to the recession in late August . |
| 30 | Gareth leapt to the telephone in hopes that were all too soon dashed . |