Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As John IV of Portugal had offered protection to Rupert 's squadron , no military resolution was possible , and a lengthy stalemate ensued . |
| 2 | In July 1333 the Scots had been defeated at Halidon Hill , near Berwick , and Edward Balliol had done homage to Edward III for Scotland , while King David II retired to France , there to seek the support of Philip VI against England . |
| 3 | Three years earlier Richard had performed homage to King Louis at Montmirail but now that he had worn the ring of St Valerie he could claim that he held his duchy in indissoluble union with the people of Aquitaine and the saints who watched over them . |
| 4 | Hereford united travelled north to Rochdale , only to slip to 17th in the 4th division . |
| 5 | And locals who said that McSweeney had given birth to twins bounced Farrah up and down , never suspecting they were holding the most wanted baby in Britain . |
| 6 | You see , Father , ’ Corbett continued , ‘ some time ago Monsieur de Craon tried to gain access to Godstowe and was refused , so he looked around for someone to keep him appraised of developments at the priory , particularly Lady Eleanor 's movements . |
| 7 | Not until the appearance in United Nations World , dated May 1951 , of an article by Professor Hans Thirring , entitled ‘ Is Peron 's A-bomb a swindle ? ’ , was Richter spurred to put pen to paper But his rejoinder , ‘ Argentina has no atom bomb ’ in the July issue of that journal , was a disappointment to those expecting some scientific enlightenment . |
| 8 | At a press conference on Sept. 15 , however , Panic confirmed that China intended to supply oil to Belgrade which was suffering severe fuel shortages from UN sanctions . |
| 9 | possibly Count Raymond offered to do homage to Henry and to hold Toulouse as a fief of the duchy of Aquitaine . |
| 10 | A two-day visit to Lagos in late December 1989 by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) Managing Director Michel Camdessus had given rise to speculation that the Fund would soon agree to further financing facilities [ for 1989 standby arrangement see p. 37140 ] . |
| 11 | Hubbard-Ford wanted to get code to resellers early to maintain good relations with Pegasus ' third party base , but his arguments were overruled and dismissal followed . |
| 12 | As soon as they got home , Anne started getting Abigail to bed . |
| 13 | It was reported on Nov. 11 that France had refused permission to members of the environmental group Greenpeace to conduct its own investigations on the Pacific nuclear testing site of Mururoa Atoll [ see p. 37886 ] . |
| 14 | During the Qasem regime in 1961 Iraq had laid claim to Kuwait in succession to Ottoman Turkey . |
| 15 | Then in November last year , soon after Wendy had given birth to Bryony , her second daughter , everything began to go wrong . |
| 16 | Although a number of rather insincere sounding press interviews gave no hint of any rift ( in fact they seemed to make a point of stating the reverse , itself a suspicious fact ) it was said that Morrissey had taken exception to Marr 's increasing amount of non-Smiths activities . |
| 17 | If Honderich had paid attention to clues like this he could have subjected the credentials of the new right to closer scrutiny and interrogated the development of Conservative thought with much greater sensitivity . |
| 18 | Gundobad had contemplated conversion to catholicism , and Sigismund was already a catholic by 515 , when he founded one of the most prestigious of early medieval monasteries , that of St Maurice at Agaune . |
| 19 | Japan had halted aid to Vietnam following the Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia in 1978 . |
| 20 | But one day , in the late seventies , he and Fleury happened to come face to face in Pall Mall and , after a moment , succeeded in recognizing each other . |
| 21 | And Horsley had given money to miners ' families during the 1984–5 strike . |
| 22 | Jacqueline had given birth to Tommy 's daughter and moved in with a man called Steve Branch , who was living on Mill Farm Close . |
| 23 | Dad and Liza went inquiring door to door while Frankie and I used this opportunity to see if our bottles were safe in the washhouse . |
| 24 | Executive circulars on 9 and 22 April had drawn attention to Conference and Executive decisions against Party members co-operating with or speaking from the same platform as members of the Communist Party . |
| 25 | The ballet 's most notable virtue , widely remarked upon in the reviews , was the sensitivity with which John had matched movement to music . |
| 26 | There was also a mathematician there from the university who John has known for about thirty years and a young man from Rome , maybe the daughter 's boyfriend , who John also knew , as he , the young man , is the son of a scientific contact of John 's in Rome and the said Dave had sent son to John about two years ago to discuss what university course the son should do and where . |
| 27 | He fortunately knew exactly what was wanted and would talk to John for hours on end , about the making of music , history , composers etc. , to such good effect that , when John wanted to put music to ballet , he knew exactly what he wanted . |
| 28 | Ralemberg intended to export parchment to Brittany and , for the homeward journey , his ship would bring wine to the London market . |