Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun sg] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like all Far Easterners , Chan likes his action thick and fast and has since fallen victim to a perversion of the game known as Pai Gau poker — a game of pure chance , played as fast as mah-jong for very large amounts of money . |
| 2 | They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy . |
| 3 | Shortly afterwards he apparently became tutor to a son or sons of Sir Thomas Hoby [ q.v. ] , of Bisham Abbey , Berkshire , whose wife Elizabeth [ q.v. ] commended him to her brother-in-law William Cecil ( later Baron Burghley , q.v. ) , whom Hayes apparently served in unknown capacities for at least twenty years . |
| 4 | They were content to stay in the back-streets of our towns making their own coffins and providing a much needed service to a community which was either unqualified , unwilling or unable to extend to such outrageous luxuries . |
| 5 | The Court of Appeal required the council to give such an undertaking , as a condition of the grant of an injunction , first because , as Dillon and Mann L.JJ. held , in English law the discretion to dispense with such an undertaking in cases where an injunction is sought to restrain an infringement of the criminal law is available only to give effect to a privilege of the Crown alone and does not extend to local authorities exercising the function of law enforcement ; and second because under Community law an undertaking must be given were necessary to protect any Community law right of direct effect which might possibly be affected . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , suppose that a young woman is unfortunate enough to give birth to a child outside marriage . |
| 7 | The first woman reported to have been burned at stake for having sex with the devil was a citizen of Toulouse , who met her fate in 1275 after apparently giving birth to a child with the head of a wolf and a tail like a snake . |
| 8 | She flicked her eyes to Steve standing on the porch terrace eagerly awaiting admittance to a house of horror . |
| 9 | There must have been an increase in the number of different kinds of animals and plants since the Precambrian ; for example , the conquering of land alone gave rise to a multitude of new opportunities for the colonizing organisms , resulting in an increase in the total number of species . |
| 10 | The exclusion from the survey of land held by customary tenures not only restricts attention to a minority , but seriously distorts the profile of effective ownership , for not infrequently the lord of the manor 's control was more apparent than real : |
| 11 | The total energy consumed overnight is 70 megawatts , the amount needed daily to supply electricity to a town of around 70,000 like Basingstoke , St Albans or Methyr Tydfil , according to research published yesterday by Friends of the Earth . |
| 12 | By the 1930s not only had admission to a profession become the goal of every middle-class family in the land , but they had come to seem bulwarks of society . |
| 13 | After R. v. Samuel the police underwent a painful education , as a series of people charged with serious crimes on the basis of admissions went free because they had been wrongly denied access to a solicitor . |
| 14 | Ms Kiernan 's study shows that fewer than half of all single mothers living alone have access to a telephone , and a mere 15% to that essential tool of modern motherhood , a car . |
| 15 | Finniston takes issue , however , with the view that the next generation of managers will find themselves working within a post-industrial society , where manufacturing industry has largely given way to a dependence on the service industries . |
| 16 | This horse has just given birth to a foal . |
| 17 | This mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 18 | The second largest horse has just given birth to a foal . |
| 19 | The second largest mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 20 | She mentions that once , having just given birth to a child , she was ordered by Christ to get up and go to Norwich , though her journey appeared to be without purpose . |
| 21 | A WOMAN who was told she could never have children due to a rare disease has just given birth to a daughter . |
| 22 | CP is therefore a quickly and easily arranged alternative to a bank loan . |
| 23 | The likelihood of a redrawing of the 817 project had surely been on the horizon since Louis married Judith ( especially so if , as seems likely , she had already given birth to a daughter , Gisèle , in 821 ) . |
| 24 | Pregnant women over the age of about 35 , those who have a close relative who has Down 's , or those who 've already given birth to a baby with Down 's , are usually offered a test to see if their foetus is affected . |
| 25 | He moved with incredible speed , seizing her by the shoulders and propelling her towards the closed door , a hard violence etching the bones of his face into a mask that would have just done justice to a Viking warrior at his most rapacious . |
| 26 | And she had just made love to a stranger . |
| 27 | Corporation tax that is repaid as a result of a carry back of ACT will not generally give rise to a repayment supplement . |
| 28 | A special link is used in conjunction with passwords and allows users who do not normally have access to a user 's modules without supplying a valid password ( as they are in a different branch of the user tree ) . |
| 29 | So easily did the rational fear of not being able to exchange their products so advantageously merge , for a whole generation , into the absurdity of supposing that they could somehow have access to a source of wealth other than their own production . |
| 30 | For example , if UK exports or capital inflows into the UK are paid for in sterling , then foreigners have to purchase pounds in foreign currency markets with their own currencies , thus giving rise to a demand for pounds . |