Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] a [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That damn' word brought me back to the harsh reality of my situation : not just the discovery of a traitor or bringing a murderer to book but vengeance for Agnes and , of course , the Herculean task which the Great Killer had assigned me ! |
| 2 | The matter of paying rent , rates , bills of any sort , or taking a child to dentist or doctor , or when need be , to the school in order to enquire into the progress ( or otherwise ) of his offspring were not part of his world . |
| 3 | In d'Abreu ( Arthur ) v IRC [ 1978 ] STC 538 , it was held that where a parent released and assigned a right to income , which she had under a trust , for the benefit of her children , there was a sufficient disposition to come within s663 . |
| 4 | An example of practitioner as researcher , in the field of adoption , demonstrates how a practitioner can enrich her practice and make a contribution to knowledge at the same time . |
| 5 | a man of trained hand , eye , and brain ; disciplined and good mannered ; of sound muscle and fully developed lungs ; with a general knowledge of common tools and simple machines ; able to read a plan and make a drawing to scale ; ready to undertake any kind of unspecialised work , ; and competent , even if he does unskilled work , to do it ‘ with his head ’ . |
| 6 | At the conference , the Director of the National Museum in Phnom Penh , Pich Keo , asked Unesco to pass information on stolen property to Interpol and the International Council of Museums , and made a plea to museum directors to research the provenance of objects in their collections , and to return those illegally exported from Cambodia . |
| 7 | Saxton , from Oxford , insisted he had used the drug for his asthma and given a dose to Welshman Davies when he complained of a ‘ tight ’ chest . |
| 8 | They got off the bus at Holborn and got a train to Mile End , from there taking another train to Ilford . |
| 9 | You 're desperate to see some progress and push a plan to success , so today 's delays will be all the more infuriating . |
| 10 | Darnel is a weed , sometimes referred to as ‘ tares ’ , and has a resemblance to wheat . |
| 11 | Danny Baker was born to banter , conceived to chat and has a remit to rabbit . |
| 12 | She believes the plum role with US network NBC will give her ‘ massive exposure and send a signal to film studios that she 's back ’ , say friends . |
| 13 | The third khthon was also swaying and chanting a welcome to death . |
| 14 | Why do human beings form sexual bonds and show a tendency to monogamy ? |
| 15 | JANUARY ‘ 89 saw the beginning of transformation at the Wallingford maltings with the launch of a massive £4 million investment programme to modernise the existing plant and give a boost to production . |
| 16 | A horizon of humus accumulation may be present above the iron pan ( Bf horizon ) which is often continuous and forms a barrier to water or roots . |
| 17 | The learning of English-based sign places severe limitations on the learner 's understanding of BSL as used by deaf people and forms a barrier to understanding of the deaf community and its culture . |
| 18 | One is starting from an ordered behaviour , with period 3 , and observing a transition to chaos as the voltage is decreased . |
| 19 | Following the transfer of power the opposition parties officially called off their agitation programmes and urged a return to work . |
| 20 | Ellen and I worked hard that week and , on the Saturday , as though to commiserate with ourselves on this being our last day alone together , we stopped work at midday and took a bus to Mama Sipcott 's Café on the beach where we ate lobster and drank too much of Mama 's sticky-sweet white wine . |
| 21 | Like everyone else , I do my best , try very hard , and leave a lot to luck . |
| 22 | The true danger to English today , according to Mr Francis , is not a decline in standards from some mythical golden age in the 1930s or the eighteenth century , but that the National Curriculum will stifle imagination , and mark a return to over-emphasis on rigid expository forms . |
| 23 | Sainsbury is now encouraging customers to return plastic carrier bags for recycling , and pays a penny to charity for each one brought in . |
| 24 | Coming down off the mountains , Matthiessen first finds that he loses the calm and joy of the transfiguration of his perception in high places and becomes a prey to irritation and a sense of desolation and purposelessness — his past experience apparently rendered hallucinatory in the face of his present sense of failure . |
| 25 | Socialist parties have often rejected such a close connection with the Western alliance , but claimed a commitment to pacifism , neutrality and equality also found among left-wing parties in the West . |
| 26 | ‘ Old Vulcan is fiery , he can rear , bite and lash out , but pound a man to death ? |