Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when Dr Losberne offered to take Oliver to London to see Mr Brownlow , the boy was very pleased . |
| 2 | As John IV of Portugal had offered protection to Rupert 's squadron , no military resolution was possible , and a lengthy stalemate ensued . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ellen had to take Jed to casualty to have a cut above his eye stitched , as poor Prune was too upset to do it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Hereford united travelled north to Rochdale , only to slip to 17th in the 4th division . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Fleetwood has always jealously guarded its 1919 agreement , in which Blackpool agreed to maintain services to Fleetwood equal to any terminating at Cleveleys . |
| 9 | The house , after Sue and Sylvia had taken Robin to school , was quiet . |
| 10 | Stories came in of fresh controversies and skirmishes between the Desmonds and the Ormondes , and Maurice Fitzgerald began making overtures to Spain in the hope that King Philip might agree to support Ireland and throw out the English , once and for all . |
| 11 | While the government-in-exile headed by Sawyer proposed to send representatives to Monrovia to discuss its peace plan , the military conflict continued . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Minister of Foreign Affairs , Roelof " Pik " Botha , stated that South Africa would not intervene to crush the coup , indicating a change in government policy since February 1988 , when South Africa had sent troops to Bophuthatswana to save the government of President Lucas Mangope from being overthrown [ see p. 36548 ] . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Ron compared getting Ray to Leeds signing Strach three years ago , and I can see what he means , ’ said McAllister . |
| 17 | possibly Count Raymond offered to do homage to Henry and to hold Toulouse as a fief of the duchy of Aquitaine . |
| 18 | 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 ] . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Well erm Steve asked to write letters to Penny . |
| 21 | As soon as they got home , Anne started getting Abigail to bed . |
| 22 | Britain had created obstacles to co-operation . |
| 23 | 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 ] . |
| 24 | During the Qasem regime in 1961 Iraq had laid claim to Kuwait in succession to Ottoman Turkey . |
| 25 | Then in November last year , soon after Wendy had given birth to Bryony , her second daughter , everything began to go wrong . |
| 26 | Evelyn Lennox had checked flights to London . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Japan had halted aid to Vietnam following the Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia in 1978 . |