Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] to [noun sg] in " 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 | A 29-YEAR-OLD Kilmarnock man who beat a nightwatchman to death in Dumfries was jailed for life yesterday . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | who thereupon took the road to heterodoxy in his disappointment : this can not be more than a fragment of the story . |
| 9 | Though this doctrine is patristic , some ‘ conservatives ’ at the Council saw a threat to faith in the Eucharistic real presence . |
| 10 | Shirnette brought a cockroach to school in a shoe-polish tin . |
| 11 | But he also kept a revolver to hand in the drawer of his desk . |
| 12 | It is often asserted that the First World War rescued the Unionist Party from an impossible position and left it poised to become the dominating force ; the war broke up Liberalism and destroyed the Liberal-Labour alliance , so opening the way for Unionism ; Lloyd George carried the party to victory in 1918 , incurred the odium for the post-war slump and was cast aside ungratefully in 1922 . |
| 13 | In strong winds , however , the sides of the tent had a tendency to cave in and flap about . |
| 14 | Her dark red suit , and the shoulder bag that swung carelessly , indicated that she also had a trip to town in view . |
| 15 | The Generalísimo was thoroughly imbued with the idea that Spain had a right to territory in North Africa . |
| 16 | Poverty compelled a return to advertising in the early 1940s but the work of this period is essentially derivative in that it borrows from the artist 's own paintings . |