Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Hayman was over-age for recruitment , he was taken into the Diplomatic Service as a first secretary in 1954 and posted the next year to Belgrade . |
| 2 | Then , his smile broadening , he passed the second file to Ellis . |
| 3 | She passed the joint back to Joey and lay back . |
| 4 | Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team . |
| 5 | After five years in Yorkshire he was transferred to Manchester City for £56,000 and a year later made the fateful move to Torino . |
| 6 | Born the son of a bank official , he was 23 when he made the five-week voyage to Britain aboard the Northern Star armed with an Auckland University degree to take up his scholarship place at Balliol College , Oxford , in the early 1960s . |
| 7 | She drove past the great Celtic cross , so ancient that its age was only speculation , down the main street , past the gates of the Marquis of Headfort 's magnificent estate , now sold to foreigners with money , made the final turn to Cloncarrig . |
| 8 | It was an attitude like this which made the individual transfer to community relations in the first place , as all those in Easton 's Community Relations Unit did , one even from the Traffic Branch . |
| 9 | On Jan. 28 , 1990 , the then State Secretary for Church Affairs , Kurt Löffler , made the first visit to Israel by an East German government official . |
| 10 | And as soon as his own net duties were over on Tuesday and yesterday , Ian made the short trip to Derby to spectate . |
| 11 | Leaders Sunderland made the short trip to Seaham and things looked close at half time as they nosed in front 19–14 . |
| 12 | Flowers East made the brave step to East London several years ago and has now acquired an additional space of large proportions directly opposite its headquarters in Richmond Road . |
| 13 | Sensibly , but with some sensitivity , her boss made the same points to Muriel as he had made in his reference , asking her at the same time if these conflicts had ever arisen out of the office with family friends or neighbours . |
| 14 | Relative to the original equilibrium wage W , the imposition of the tax on wages has raised the pre-tax wage to W ' ; , but lowered the after-tax wage to W ’ ; . |
| 15 | PHILIPPE ROZIER , who has just finished a three-month ban after Oscar Minotiere was found over the permitted limit of the painkiller , butazolidine , rode the same horse to victory for France in the Euro Horse Trophy in Gothenberg yesterday , writes Alan Smith . |
| 16 | Thus laden , I rode the 20 miles to Picton and caught the ferry ; stayed overnight in Wellington and then took the train to Auckland — no problems in putting the bike aboard ; and this journey lived up to expectations and surpassed them ; the scenery through the ‘ King Country ’ in autumn is quite unrivalled , and again looks like a superb area for a cycle tour . |
| 17 | The experience of Aden was therefore precious in that it revealed the only alternative to acquiescence or schizophrenia : the political struggle . |
| 18 | King , therefore , sold the Southern shares to D C Thomson of Dundee — about as far removed from a ‘ regional ’ interest as could be imagined . |
| 19 | A man named William Talbot also claimed he sold the second gun to Henry . |
| 20 | Then they sold the old market to Citicorp which set about restoring it as a trading floor , aimed at meeting the demand generated by Big Bang . |
| 21 | They 'll calculate as if Carmichael sold the whole consignment to end-users and made all the profit himself . |
| 22 | By Jaysus , they run to the top and stabbed the old fella to death . |
| 23 | Still , as Jane belonged nowhere , Sussex became the nearest thing to home . |
| 24 | WENDY RUSSELL became the first woman to hole in one twice during a top-class event yesterday when she sank two tee-shots in the opening round of the British Women 's Seniors ' Championship at Wrexham . |
| 25 | In the late 1930s , the demand that Britain make an alliance with the Soviet Union became the key alternative to Chamberlain 's foreign policy — the only combination that had the power to resist Hitler and thus prevent war . |
| 26 | Last week Cyrix , a small , four-year-old Texas company , became the latest challenger to Intel 's technological dominance of the $50 billion-a-year worldwide personal computer ( PC ) industry . |
| 27 | Not to psychoanalyse her in any way , but we all became the Big Sisters to Debbi . |
| 28 | Hans Waldman , another great Zurich burgomaster , led the Swiss forces to victory at Morat during the Burgundian war in 1476 , defeating the formerly all-conquering Charles the Bold . |
| 29 | Their campaign reflected the uncertainties and weakness that led the Financial Times to back Labour . |
| 30 | There were several other incidents in Streatham and Brixton which interrupted the through service to Croydon and Purley and occasionally cars had to be lent to other depôts . |