Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Tindal C.J. in that case gave as examples of permissible retaking by A from the land of an innocent person , C , ( a ) where the goods have come there by accident ; ( b ) where they have been feloniously taken by B and A follows them to C's land ; ( c ) where C refuses to deliver up the goods or to make any answer to A's demand for them .
2 As it turned out , he was interviewed only perfunctorily six months later , because events had moved fast in Germany and her neighbouring countries and to meet any threat to Britain , her allies , her interests and her Empire , the Services , particularly the Army , had more than doubled their manpower .
3 I think we should note that in the current year , and you 've corrected Mr , that it 's three million pounds extra that we 've spent , even though we 've spent three million pounds extra in May , with our decisions then to restore the sheltered workshops and to give more money to education and to keep elderly peoples homes open .
4 The Commission announced in October that as from early 1990 banks would be obliged to report the use of these reserves to cover an annual loss , and to disclose any allocations to profits above a certain level .
5 For her , the dreadful underlying fear is that the space can never be filled : any such attempt would be futile , and so the best thing to do in the circumstances is to accept that the space exists , and to turn this fact to advantage .
6 But to avoid this return to voluntarism he must have in mind some further conception of strategy , and it is not surprising to find him talking about it in what might be called its objective sense : the strategy of a class — the course of action which will best enable it to gain power over other classes — is estimated in the light of its objective interests and its position in a formation , and is detached from the beliefs and aspirations of its members .
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