Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | TOMORROW 's moonstruck but musically unaccomplished lover may soon get a chance to serenade with the help of a computer . |
| 32 | well I 'm not gon na ask Chris cos I 'll just write a cheque to Society . |
| 33 | Nearly all the canine members of the police dog section are former unwanted pets donated by families who for a variety of reasons found the could no longer offer a home to man 's best friend . |
| 34 | I finally ran a copy to earth , with some difficulty , at Penguin 's own bookshop in Covent Garden , and telephone enquiries to a selection of London 's larger booksellers indicated that two out of three had at least one copy on their shelves . |
| 35 | Papa will have already described the journey to Mamma . |
| 36 | ‘ No , I just wanted the key to father 's studio . ’ |
| 37 | The wood should be allowed to air dry slowly to avoid a tendency to surface cracking and distortion , but it kiln dries well with little degrade and is stable in service . |
| 38 | The sunk costs involved in building a strong market position may additionally become a barrier to entry , even if the intention was ‘ innocent ’ competition rather than a deliberate strategy to exclude potential competitors . |
| 39 | Crude anthropomorphism effectively closes the door to understanding of religion for most pupils . |
| 40 | For him it must be said that he went at once to report the death to authority , and then came back to us and again told the same story . |
| 41 | Some of them have not been found guilty , and albeit they have been charged with horrendous crimes they are still innocent people and it does n't matter even if they are not innocent people , the Government still has a responsibility to life and limb and really I ca n't see any case at all for not storming . |
| 42 | Did you in your time ever send a man to execution ? |
| 43 | From its inception in April 1864 , George Healey was Honorary Secretary of the Liverpool Society for over 50 years , and still found the energy to back James Paul in his efforts to establish a national society . |
| 44 | But this fact alone would hardly entitle a beneficiary to execution in rem against a third party : to allow that would be to indulge in a breach of fundamental principle and equity . |
| 45 | Not that I really expected them to ; I could hardly expect the Umpire to side with me so soon . |
| 46 | Jacob Bright MP , dismissed Acton as probably the most illogical man who ever put a pen to paper . |
| 47 | The leadership formally reaffirmed a commitment to socialism , but accepted criticisms of its own past authoritarian practices , and criticized the lifestyles of some comrades which had " contrasted with the difficult conditions the majority of our people faced " . |
| 48 | Liza had always had a tendency to wildness . |
| 49 | It very seldom goes to court , but when they tell lies that are damaging , I sue them as a matter of principle , and always give every penny to charity . |
| 50 | A new cellular phone has been introduced which directly links the car to emergency aid within seconds . |
| 51 | Nobody — not even Finlayson — knew what would have happened if he had ever got the chance to pepper Woolley . |
| 52 | Another , at both A and B , was that very little genuine help was given with problems ; the question and answer sheets were not marked , for example , and tutorials did n't always provide the key to understanding what the work was about : |
| 53 | If I ever get a chance to git even , I would n't think twice now . |
| 54 | I mean I did not need to stay on at school or get my B.A. at Strathclyde to know when not to F or C. Fuck-me shoes , I just handed them back to the saleslady with as much dignity as I could muster and says , thanks but no thanks , I do n't know when I 'd ever have the occasion to werr them . |
| 55 | I knew there was only the one slice left , but I 've never been the sort deliberately to starve an animal to death , so in it went . |
| 56 | Always having a calculator to hand ( is n't that what you bought a computer for ? ) and an instantly accessible notepad are probably the two essential elements . |
| 57 | Test methods usually convert the manganese to permanganate , which is estimated by its pink colour , by comparison with standards , or absorptio-metrically . |
| 58 | A powerful 25 yard free kick from Peter Beagrie hit the underside of the bar before Oldham gratefully scrambled the ball to safety . |
| 59 | A powerful 25 yard free kick from Peter Beagrie hit the underside of the bar before Oldham gratefully scrambled the ball to safety . |
| 60 | We sat and watched not the coldness and menace of evil but a pantomime dame who was obviously too stupid and incompetent ever to pose a threat to goodness . |