Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , two of the RAF 's great leaders , the one who saved this country from invasion in 1940 and the other who paved the way to victory in 1945 will be rightly commemorated . |
| 2 | Eleanor Pitman led the way to expansion in KENT , qualifying as a teacher at the first exam in 1955 , followed closely by Nellie Button and Cicely Harris . |
| 3 | A member of the Scottish Girls ' team for the European Team championship , she led the side to victory in the Home Internationals . |
| 4 | The Indian Tamil plantation voters , along with the Tamil Muslim and Christian voters in other parts of this Sinhalese-Buddhist island , helped the party to victory in the poorer areas . |
| 5 | One of those attacks involved the stabbing to death of Rolan Adams by a racist mob . |
| 6 | The four-and-a-half gallons of oil take about ten minutes to warm up to the minimum 40°C , and we used the time to taxi around the sheltered bay within Calshot Split , checking for debris and driftwood and surveying the area . |
| 7 | Zambia sucked the Munchis to softness before swallowing them , a procedure that took up the whole of the half-hour programme . |
| 8 | A 29-YEAR-OLD Kilmarnock man who beat a nightwatchman to death in Dumfries was jailed for life yesterday . |
| 9 | Those circumstances posed a threat to peace in Europe and Neville Chamberlain , being anxious to avoid war at all costs , arranged to meet Hitler on 15th . |
| 10 | Eight people were arrested yesterday after police with riot shields were attacked by about 30 teenagers as they moved a family to safety from a council house at Southmead , Bristol . |
| 11 | And since , through election by the princes , the kingdom and the empire are ours from God alone , Who at the time of the passion of His Son Christ subjected the world to dominion by the two swords ( Luke 22:38 ) and since the apostle Peter taught this doctrine ‘ fear God , honour the King ’ ( Peter 2:17 ) whosoever says that we received the imperial crown as a benefice from the lord pope contradicts the divine ordinance and the doctrine of Peter and is guilty of a lie … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The mainsheet traveller tore off the deck and began a chain reaction : next to go was the boom vang , and this caused the boom to fracture at the gooseneck , overloading the mast check-stay which parted . |
| 14 | A few days later he received a summons to interrogation by one of these officers , which he refused to attend . |
| 15 | Near the end of the period gold coin may have been used in commercial transactions , but the dwindling supply of gold in western Europe caused a switch to silver as the principal precious metal . |
| 16 | He welcomed the return to power of Soviet President Gorbachev . |
| 17 | This allowed the company to crow about the new models that cost no more than the old — a favourite Ford device but by no means exclusive to the blue oval badge . |
| 18 | In contrast , the 1980 Transport Act opened the door to competition by easing the procedures needed to obtain a road service licence . |
| 19 | The very deliberate rejection of ‘ is ’ and its replacement by ‘ subsists in ’ opened the door to acceptance of the , at least , partial ecclesial status of other Christians and other ecclesiastical bodies . |
| 20 | For the organizers of the Leeds convention , the Russian revolution opened the way to peace without victory . |
| 21 | Other problems were also experienced , including the damage of saplings during the logging phase of TSS , which opened the habitat to colonisation by secondary species , and the availability of light as the canopy was opened up encouraged the growth of unwanted climbers and weeds . |
| 22 | These visits to New Southgate were , of course , reciprocated as the grandchildren paid a visit to Granny in Freegrove Road ; stopping off at Beale 's on Holloway Road for chocolate fingers on the way — a great treat — they would go to the side entrance of no. 17 and ring the bell . |
| 23 | Ramiz Alia , President of Albania and first secretary of the ruling Party of Labour , speaking at the 10th plenum of the party 's central committee in Tirana on April 17 , declared an end to opposition to diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union and with the United States . |
| 24 | TWO men who battered a man to death with hockey sticks after he shouted racist taunts at them walked free from the High Court in Glasgow yesterday . |
| 25 | The new recommendations made no reference to reduction of infant and child mortality as preconditions of fertility reduction . |
| 26 | Curiously however , the three traditional lecturers with whom I discussed the matter insisted that the plurality made no difference to assessment of students ' work ; in the words of Mr R : |
| 27 | A GATECRASHER stabbed a man to death at a nurse 's 21st birthday party in a hospital . |
| 28 | A murder suspect has told a court that he accidentally stabbed a teenager to death during a street fight . |
| 29 | The chairman declined the invitation to flag off the train at Curriehill Station on Monday , 11th May , the first day of its operation . |
| 30 | The chairman declined the invitation to flag off the train at Curriehill Station on Monday , 11th May , the first day of its operation . |