Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [art] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 22 | A KNIFE maniac vowed to wage war on the police then stabbed an officer to death , a court heard yesterday . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | All Armenians living abroad had the right to citizenship . |
| 25 | The two men then left the office to lunch , as arranged , with the attorney-general . |
| 26 | By the early 1990s the BBC had lost interest altogether , and the TCCB cynically sold the product to satellite broadcasting . |
| 27 | Presumably this could happen if the employee retired and sold the information or if he joined company X and yet sold the information to company Y. It may be a recognition by the Court that the attitude of the courts generally towards employees since 1913 has , in some cases , been over generous . |
| 28 | The English and Australian newspapers heavily took the team to task . |
| 29 | A murder suspect has told a court that he accidentally stabbed a teenager to death during a street fight . |
| 30 | The taxpayer bank 's foreign exchange department continually monitored the day to day situation and decided what certificates should be purchased and at what time before maturity they should be sold . |