Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the case of Peru , initially the departments that contributed the most migrants to Lima were Ancash , Junín , Ica , La Libertad and Arequipa . |
| 4 | It is about time that Government departments sorted themselves out and adopted the same approach to business taxation |
| 5 | Then he turned the few feet to Creggan 's cage and stared up to where Creggan had taken stance on the bare branch of wood that hung across his cage . |
| 6 | He showed no such leniency to Edward Childs who , unlike Carroll , appeared in person , and was sued by Edmund Geering for 14s 6d . |
| 7 | I had most of the morning to myself and made a few calls to clients , to a financial journalist whose opinion I valued and finally to Andrew Buccleuth . |
| 8 | Once they found their bearings some of them even discovered a few side-benefits to internment : |
| 9 | " I 'll think o n't , " he said , and having drained his tankard again , pushed his chair back , tossed a few pence to Marion , and elbowed his way to the door . |
| 10 | She sent a few dogs to Ireland and , after the war , attempts to track them down only resulted in letters being sent back marked ‘ gone away ’ . |
| 11 | Among the customs prevalent in gaols were those such as garnish , fotting or chummage , which all gave the same message to newcomers — ‘ pay or strip ’ . |
| 12 | Indeed , his account of their interests gives the impression — and perhaps gave the same impression to Lanfranc — that they were a lot of old gossips chattering about wonders and miracles and gifts of relics , when they should have been engaged on more serious religious observances , or on the studies laid down in the Rule . |
| 13 | The abbot of Fécamp put the same question to Ivo of Chartres , who produced the text of Pope Hyginus , misquoted by Anselm but available in the Canon Law collection of Burchard of Worms . |
| 14 | The nub of Monsieur Landes 's thinking was that Mt Pelee presented no more danger to St Pierre than Vesuvius did to Naples , a distinctly ambiguous conclusion ! |
| 15 | She put a few questions to Dr Scott . |
| 16 | ( I once said the same thing to Will Shakespeare and , sure enough , it 's in one of his plays . |
| 17 | This is a suitable metaphor after the rain pouring from leaden skies which greeted the All Blacks to training yesterday . |
| 18 | The EC decided she had the same right to benefits as a man or a single woman . |
| 19 | She seized her jacket and bag , said a few words to Myra and practically ran the short distance to her flat , visions of Dana lying unconscious from a fall filling her mind . |
| 20 | ‘ I said a few words to Miss Mallender — Miss Heather Mallender , that is — at her sister 's funeral , last year . |