Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1982 the enfeebled Leonid Brezhnev still clung to power in the Kremlin , detente was dead , the end of the cold war nowhere in sight . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | There is no way of telling how many of these men were actually raised , but Sir Edward certainly went to sea with a fleet at the end of April , and Dorset was thought to have accompanied him . |
| 4 | There is no way of telling how many of these men were actually raised , but Sir Edward certainly went to sea with a fleet at the end of April , and Dorset was thought to have accompanied him . |
| 5 | Did you say something about Mr Boulez perhaps returning to work at the opera ? |
| 6 | In her despair and grief Mrs McDermott also turned to alcohol for relief . |
| 7 | Daniel Hersheson then set to work on Pamela 's hair , cutting it into a more tailored and modern style . |
| 8 | It was with his father Paul 's encouragement that Pascal eventually set to work on the project , which has been ‘ something of a labour of love over the last few years ’ . |
| 9 | He spent his first summer from Cambridge in leisurely visits to his family , staying first with his brother Edward in Salisbury then travelling to Ottery for one of the few lengthy returns he had made since childhood . |
| 10 | THE great showdown between Barbie and Sindy finally comes to court in January , with Barbie 's manufacturer Mattel claiming that Hasbro Industries has copied Barbie 's face for Sindy . |
| 11 | In Russia , Yeltsin also came to power on a wave of anti-communist feeling augmented by Russian nationalism . |
| 12 | Stimulated and excited by Haydn 's example , Mozart immediately set to work on a similar set , K.168–73 , in which denser textures , use of contrapuntal devices , and a more rigorous approach , as opposed to the sensuous , Italianate tunefulness of the earlier set , all point to Haydn 's influence . |
| 13 | When Margy eventually went to court for her new shoplifting charge the judge gave her a probation order . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Rachael seldom went to bed before 11 pm . |
| 16 | Will the sanctions placed on Iraq eventually lead to peace in the Gulf ? |
| 17 | Abraham finally went to sleep on the waggon . |
| 18 | The Manor is sited in pleasantly wooden grounds and it is here that Alford truly comes to life on Spring and August Bank Holiday weekends . |
| 19 | According to Morolli : ‘ The seed sown by Lorenzo eventually came to fruition in Rome in the time of his son Giovanni , the future Pope Leo X. Seen in this light , Bramante and Raphael are the products of Florentine taste ’ . |
| 20 | Mrs Oram 's three-year-old son Charles almost choked to death in thick fumes after the £30 Safe and Sound monitor ‘ spontaneously ignited ’ . |
| 21 | Given this power , it is possible that Gloucester simply yielded to temptation in 1483 , first to dominate the minority and then , when that proved easy , to make himself king . |
| 22 | Given this power , it is possible that Gloucester simply yielded to temptation in 1483 , first to dominate the minority and then , when that proved easy , to make himself king . |