Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] to [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lent weight to his side of the story |
| 2 | Describing the Government 's response to the company 's predicament as inadequate , Mr Gorman castigated the failure of Michael Heseltine , President of the Board of Trade , to intervene and drew attention to his involvement in the rescue of Rolls Royce in 1972 during the Heath administration : ‘ Heseltine was involved up to his neck in saving Rolls Royce . |
| 3 | Mr John Charles , clerk to the court , said : ‘ Mr Loveluck-Edwards drew attention to his clothing by reading a novel during a case . |
| 4 | fencing abutting public pathway between Baberton Avenue and Baberton Mains Wynd Letter to the Director of Highways and a copy of a letter from Mrs. Weir whose son suffered damage to his coat from a protruding fence . |
| 5 | fencing abutting public pathway between Baberton Avenue and Baberton Mains Wynd Letter to the Director of Highways and a copy of a letter from Mrs. Weir whose son suffered damage to his coat from a protruding fence . |
| 6 | He added Zeta to his realm in 1186 , and forged a strong alliance between his state and the Church . |
| 7 | At her funeral The O'Rahilly paid tribute to her love of justice and devotion to the Irish people . |
| 8 | In his speech Ralph Ellis paid tribute to their experience as a valuable asset which contributed to the success of the company . |
| 9 | President Kenyatta asked for it to be translated into Swahili ; and members of his Cabinet paid tribute to its part in bringing a bloodless transition to self-government there . |
| 10 | I 'd also recorded Neil Kinnock 's speech after his count and I managed to freeze the frame on the exact moment when she almost cried as he paid tribute to his wife for her dignity under the onslaught of the tabloid press . |
| 11 | In 1878 he became assistant to his father in Bristol . |
| 12 | And Richards needed treatment to his back after being stamped on by Paul Ashmead before the Gloucester flanker was sent off at Leicester . |
| 13 | The next day he accompanied Baldwin back to London , and upon arrival took hint to his house in Westminster . |
| 14 | MacAulay sent word to his father in Harris , and the hunt was up . |
| 15 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the liability imposed under section 1(1) of the Act of 1978 was intended by Parliament , by virtue of section 6(1) of the Act , to enable claims for contribution to be made as between parties who had no claim for contribution under the general law , and applied whenever a plaintiff had a cause of action against a third party in respect of the same damage as gave rise to his cause of action against the defendant , irrespective of the legal basis of the liability ; and that , accordingly , the defence of ex turpi causa non oritur actio could not be relied upon in answer to a claim for contribution under the Act ; and that , since there was sufficient possibility of the third party being found liable for some part of the plaintiffs ' loss , there were no grounds for striking out the third party notice ( post , pp. 1022H — 1023A , G–H , 1024G — 1025D ) . |
| 16 | He gave effect to his decision at seven o'clock that evening . |
| 17 | We need have no reservation that such memories , not least the sounds , entered deeply into the young boy 's consciousness , as his mother gave vent to her distress in English and her native Yiddish , as well as symbolically rending her clothes and chanting the dirges . |
| 18 | When choosing estate sites , many developers gave priority to their convenience in relation to the railway . |
| 19 | Fordingbridge was within the Wessex region where Hardy set his tales , and Elizabeth Downer gave birth to her son in the workhouse just seven years before his book was published . |
| 20 | Roger Fry , archetype of the new breed of self-appointed high priests of modernism , gave voice to his philosophy in a celebrated essay , published in 1937 . |
| 21 | This gave credibility to our relationship with other schools . ’ |
| 22 | Her exemplar was her father , a local patriarch and evidently an apostle of Samuel Smiles-type individualism : she omitted reference to her mother in Who 's Who . |
| 23 | First , she made a free gift of Scotland , and her claim to England , to the French king , should she die without issue ; second , she put her country in pawn , for the money spent by France in defending it and educating her ; and third , she negated in advance any agreement between her and the Scottish Estates which ran counter to her disposal of Scotland in the interests of France . |
| 24 | AN American killer who stabbed a teenager and a boy aged seven to death said farewell to his fiancee in Britain before being given a lethal injection yesterday . |
| 25 | Today at Oxford Crown Court admitted one charge of arson … after he set fire to his home in desperation … |