Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] [noun] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got my mate to caddie for Seve . |
| 2 | I fought my way to school through flowers — |
| 3 | And I am not talking about the drunken louts who beat their wives to death in a cellar . |
| 4 | A Tottenham teenager beat his stepfather to death with a cricket bat after an argument about mess caused by his puppies . |
| 5 | He devoted his life to politics for a twofold purpose : to ensure that the useless slaughter of the First World War was not repeated , and that the survivors of that horrific experience should live in a better world . |
| 6 | Unionist candidates used his letter to Law as an election leaflet to reassure their supporters and to parade his capture to the nation . |
| 7 | JAMAICAN umpire Steve Bucknor changed his attitude to trial by television on the second day of the second cricket Test between India and South Africa in Johannesburg yesterday . |
| 8 | so there you , you get on the accounts you get a , a er , apparently , income er extension of the scheme budget by nearly four thousand pounds , three , eight , then you go back with what Lord was asking you about and I just want you to explain it if you can , if you ca n't tell me , as he drew your attention to surplus per audited account at August ninety nineteen one , a hundred and eight , eighty , so that , in fact the year ending nineteen ninety two , along these accounts we 're dealing with , in fact the expenditure of exceeded budget by nearly four thousand , the previous year er in nineteen ninety one er it had gone the other way that er |
| 9 | A TEENAGE mother who stabbed her daughter to death after giving birth because she was too terrified to seek help , walked free from a court yesterday . |
| 10 | Both leaders reiterated their commitment to co-operation within the Visegrad Three ( Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland — see p. 38930 ) and to the creation of a regional free-trade zone , and stressed their wish that an independent Slovakia should be included in both . |
| 11 | Earlier , in one of the best speeches by an outgoing party chairman in recent years , Anne McGuire added her voice to chorus of attacks on the SNP 's action . |
| 12 | Certainly they offered a number of impressive portents for 1990 and England are still trying to forget the way Aleinikov , Mikhailichenko and Zavarov reduced their defence to rubble in Frankfurt . |
| 13 | As the passenger capsule whisked through the crystalline tube above the blurred green hell of jungle , Jaq scrutinized his personal Tarot card and recalled his trip to Earth as a boy aboard the Black Ship … |
| 14 | The dead person was then taken by Horus and presented to Osiris , who was seated on his throne accompanied by Isis and Nephthys , and received his reward to admittance to the afterlife . |
| 15 | Putting one foot after the other in a style I have developed during cross-country runs organized by Cranborne School , I allowed my head to sort of loll forward and my legs to patter after it , leaving the middle bit of me completely free for inflation and deflation . |
| 16 | In the 1940s Carmen Miranda sang and danced her way to success beneath exotic head-dresses festooned with leaves , flowers , fruits and berries . |
| 17 | In the 1940s Carmen Miranda sang and danced her way to success beneath exotic head-dresses festooned with leaves , flowers , fruits and berries . |
| 18 | J. G. Frazer in his monumental work on folklore in the Old Testament maintained that the belief that the gods revealed themselves and declared their will to mankind in dreams was widespread in antiquity ; and accordingly people resorted to temples and other sacred spots for the purpose of sleeping there and holding converse with the higher powers in visions of the night , for they naturally supposed that the deities or the deified spirits of the dead would be most likely to manifest themselves in places specially dedicated to their worship . |
| 19 | So great by now was Edward 's paranoia that in 1324 he seized the lands of his queen , Isabella , and dispersed her servants to safe-custody in various religious houses , lest they be employed to aid her brother , the king of France . |
| 20 | Kuhn started his academic career as a physicist and then turned his attention to history of science . |
| 21 | Delaunay was himself profoundly aware that he had evolved a new kind of painting and he communicated his discoveries to Apollinaire with whom he had become very friendly . |
| 22 | It is likely that , in the early days , the Ayrshire owed its improvement to infusion of Dutch , Holderness Shorthorn , Highland and possibly Jersey blood . |
| 23 | SUPERMARKET chain Sainsbury spent its way to success in the past six months with vast amounts ploughed into stores paying dividends in increased customers and a big boost in profits . |
| 24 | The huge international interest in Brightness which followed his escape to freedom in Turkish waters , has turned him into a valuable commodity . |
| 25 | A MAN who hacked his father-in-law to death with a Samurai sword in a row over drugs was yesterday jailed for life . |
| 26 | Yet the Adams group worked their way to power in the republican movement in the late 70s out of recognition that the IRA campaign was teetering on defeat unless a political front was opened . |
| 27 | Dalglish switched his sights to Marker after failing in a £2.5million bid for Craig Short . |
| 28 | ‘ But we do not proceed on some of the grounds mentioned at the bar , such as the effect of the plaintiff 's alteration of the instrument as making it void , or that the defendant thereby lost his right to contribution from the joint makers of the note ; nor on any doctrine as to the relation of principal and surety . |
| 29 | When I took my children to bed at night they would pause to look through a little knee-high window which lit the stairs . |
| 30 | Then I made him a little tent to sleep in , but for a few weeks I always took my gun to bed with me . |