Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , the banks which lent the money to the dealers to enable them to pay the vast prices of the boom period are being very patient in waiting for their money , as it was partly their fault that a bubble economy was created in Japan . |
| 2 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 3 | He walked on , crossed the isthmus , and passed the entrance to the docks . |
| 4 | Great Britain and Germany led the rush to the cities . |
| 5 | Amelia McLean , who led the resistance to the men , alleged that Mr Alfred Evans , general secretary of the Warehousemen and Cutters " Union , was " trying to organise all the girls in the printing trade , including warehouse , machine room and stationery workers , [ to come out ] on strike with the men " . |
| 6 | Silas led the way to the stables , where he unsaddled and attended to the horses ; then he turned to her and said gruffly . |
| 7 | Bill Bradley , a Democratic senator from New Jersey who probably knows as much about the Soviet economy as anybody on Capitol Hill , led the opposition to the credits . |
| 8 | He tried the door to the parcels office , but it seemed to be locked tightly . |
| 9 | Officially the case has never been cleared up , as not a soul reported the man to the authorities . |
| 10 | The incident , which occurred in July , 1980 , was brought to the attention of the Life organisation who reported the matter to the police . |
| 11 | If a wife reported the matter to the police , her children ‘ might resent what she had done to their father ’ . |
| 12 | In July 1919 , the Leeds City full-back Charles Copeland , dissatisfied with his contract , reported the club to the authorities . |
| 13 | The next day the Metropolitan Police Commissioner referred the complaints to the Police Complaints Authority . |
| 14 | Even the ever-ebullient Sir Peter Parker saw parts of the commuter system ‘ rattling into decline ’ , and nobody was surprised when in 1979 the government referred the services to the Monopolies & Mergers Commission . |
| 15 | The government referred the bid to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( MMC ) which allowed it to proceed , ruling that it was ‘ not against the public interest ’ . |
| 16 | He smoothly changed the subject to the looks of the blond model , three tables away , and Barton agreed he would n't mind a bit of that ; on the thin side , mind you , but tasty . |
| 17 | After the incident , the infant had been taken into care but a sheriff held she had not been the victim of an offence and dismissed a referral to a children 's hearing . |
| 18 | Men 's immorality not only threatened the stability of the family but in the end posed a danger to the foundations of good government . |
| 19 | On 18 May 1989 , in Standing Committee B , I moved an amendment to the Children Bill , supported by my hon. Friend the Member for Monklands , West ( Mr. Clarke ) , which would have required all local authorities to appoint a children 's rights officer . |
| 20 | Alexei added the permafax to the others already contained in the folder in his hand . |
| 21 | His Chanel show blasted the audience to the backs of their seats with 20,000-volt fashion and hyperactive disco music . |
| 22 | It was only a dispute over finance with the Olympic authorities which prevented the EEC from enacting a programme in which the athletes of every Member State would have competed in European Community uniforms , mounted the podium to the strains of Beethoven 's Ninth in place of their own anthems , and totted up a European total of medals . |
| 23 | Romania looked world beaters when they thrashed Wales 5–1 last May , but they dropped a point to the Czechs at the weekend and are notoriously bad away from home . |
| 24 | Also on Oct. 17 the Supreme Soviet passed a decree which went a long way towards meeting other student demands , and secured an end to the protests . |
| 25 | The blow caught him off-balance and he teetered for what seemed an age to the watchers , before falling into the rushing water with a hoarse scream . |
| 26 | In Johnson and Bloy ( Holdings ) Ltd v Wolstenholme Rink Plc [ 1989 ] IRLR 499 the Court of Appeal granted an injunction to the plaintiffs to prevent the defendant from disclosing or using the information that two specified ingredients might be used in combination in the manufacture of a drier for a printing ink and from manufacturing or arranging for the manufacture of printing inks containing therein a drier containing the two ingredients . |
| 27 | Swinging lightly over the top rail he glanced down , measured the drop to the shoulders of his unsuspecting victim below , and stepped into space . |
| 28 | In September 1940 the Tizard Mission , including J. D. Cockcroft , E. G. Bowen and R. H. Fowler , visited the Us and showed the magnetron to the authorities and to the Bell Telephone Company who got it working in a single weekend . |
| 29 | Thus laden , and with eyes popping and face red , he motioned Jitka to go ahead and open the doors , which she did , and together , they climbed the stairs to the children 's room at the back where Noreen used to sleep . |
| 30 | I joined the body to the wires from my machine . |