Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [art] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This presumably posed a risk to airline uniforms ; was likely to distract passengers ( the male ones at any rate ) at a time when they should have been paying attention to the cabin staff for rather different reasons ; and carried the ultimate danger of the implant exploding . |
| 2 | She only sent the jacket to spite me . |
| 3 | IN A quiz published this week in TODAY and based on the popular TV show Have I Got News For You , we wrongly attributed the programme to Channel Four . |
| 4 | The evidence of history , not to mention the physical evidence of those land deeds , suggested a subject of legitimate journalistic inquiry : who legally as well as morally had the right to ownership of the property ? |
| 5 | who thereupon took the road to heterodoxy in his disappointment : this can not be more than a fragment of the story . |
| 6 | But it was E.J. Urwick who most aptly summarized the approach to youth work : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ No , I just wanted the key to father 's studio . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 " . |
| 11 | A powerful 25 yard free kick from Peter Beagrie hit the underside of the bar before Oldham gratefully scrambled the ball to safety . |
| 12 | A powerful 25 yard free kick from Peter Beagrie hit the underside of the bar before Oldham gratefully scrambled the ball to safety . |
| 13 | and she said she , its cos she said , she said of course if its because she 's so used to Joe he would of , I said yeah but he went over the top did n't he , cos he always did every thing to perfection , I said you ca n't have Joe doing it |
| 14 | It was a convenient gathering point for all non-trainload traffic to and from South Wales , and also became the gateway to south-west England with feeder services to Bristol , Exeter , Plymouth and so on . |
| 15 | They also expressed a desire to institute mechanisms for co-operation and integration before then , although the need to safeguard against South African economic domination in the region was stressed . |
| 16 | But it also brought a smile to manager Brian Horton , and I was thrilled to bits for him because he 's taken a lot of stick over recent results . |
| 17 | But he also kept a revolver to hand in the drawer of his desk . |
| 18 | Her dark red suit , and the shoulder bag that swung carelessly , indicated that she also had a trip to town in view . |
| 19 | Blanco White , from his London exile , saw the liberals ' mistake : their treatment of the king as ‘ a constitutional wild beast ’ inevitably condemned the constitution to destruction on the king 's return . |
| 20 | He really took the matter to heart and finally wrote his Master 's thesis on the subject . |
| 21 | A member of the SPD in 1923-27 , and of the Communist Party of Germany ( KPD ) in 1927-46 and an exile during the Nazi period , he rejoined the SPD in 1946 , and was prominent in drafting the reformist 1959 Godesberg Programme , which eventually brought the SPD to power . |
| 22 | McKellar 's subjects " … quite frequently likened the images to lantern slides … " and furthermore their unrelatedness both to current preoccupations and to each other made them seem like a series of lecturer 's slides which had not only " … been mixed up but were really intended for some other lecture " . |
| 23 | From the outset he was at odds with the Conservatives , nominally his own party , who increasingly saw the return to normalcy , along with the need to return to the governmental conventions of party politics of the pre-war era , as the top priority . |
| 24 | A KNIFE maniac vowed to wage war on the police then stabbed an officer to death , a court heard yesterday . |
| 25 | Ironically Roche , who was so effective at creating business , appeared unable to manage it , and almost drove the firm to bankruptcy when he became its president . |
| 26 | Dr Beeching 's famous report of January 1963 then opened the floodgates to closure proposals , battles by campaigners and , invariably , consent by the Conservative Government which , after all , was the architect behind Dr Beeching 's appointment as Chairman charged with reducing losses . |
| 27 | Q : I am reminded of Chernechersky , that most fierce and feared of Russian revolutionaries , who was put in prison and then converted the guards to Communism . |
| 28 | All Armenians living abroad had the right to citizenship . |
| 29 | The two men then left the office to lunch , as arranged , with the attorney-general . |
| 30 | By the early 1990s the BBC had lost interest altogether , and the TCCB cynically sold the product to satellite broadcasting . |