Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , two of the RAF 's great leaders , the one who saved this country from invasion in 1940 and the other who paved the way to victory in 1945 will be rightly commemorated . |
| 2 | Eleanor Pitman led the way to expansion in KENT , qualifying as a teacher at the first exam in 1955 , followed closely by Nellie Button and Cicely Harris . |
| 3 | A member of the Scottish Girls ' team for the European Team championship , she led the side to victory in the Home Internationals . |
| 4 | The Indian Tamil plantation voters , along with the Tamil Muslim and Christian voters in other parts of this Sinhalese-Buddhist island , helped the party to victory in the poorer areas . |
| 5 | One of those attacks involved the stabbing to death of Rolan Adams by a racist mob . |
| 6 | The four-and-a-half gallons of oil take about ten minutes to warm up to the minimum 40°C , and we used the time to taxi around the sheltered bay within Calshot Split , checking for debris and driftwood and surveying the area . |
| 7 | Zambia sucked the Munchis to softness before swallowing them , a procedure that took up the whole of the half-hour programme . |
| 8 | And since , through election by the princes , the kingdom and the empire are ours from God alone , Who at the time of the passion of His Son Christ subjected the world to dominion by the two swords ( Luke 22:38 ) and since the apostle Peter taught this doctrine ‘ fear God , honour the King ’ ( Peter 2:17 ) whosoever says that we received the imperial crown as a benefice from the lord pope contradicts the divine ordinance and the doctrine of Peter and is guilty of a lie … |
| 9 | Blanco White , from his London exile , saw the liberals ' mistake : their treatment of the king as ‘ a constitutional wild beast ’ inevitably condemned the constitution to destruction on the king 's return . |
| 10 | The mainsheet traveller tore off the deck and began a chain reaction : next to go was the boom vang , and this caused the boom to fracture at the gooseneck , overloading the mast check-stay which parted . |
| 11 | He welcomed the return to power of Soviet President Gorbachev . |
| 12 | This allowed the company to crow about the new models that cost no more than the old — a favourite Ford device but by no means exclusive to the blue oval badge . |
| 13 | In contrast , the 1980 Transport Act opened the door to competition by easing the procedures needed to obtain a road service licence . |
| 14 | The very deliberate rejection of ‘ is ’ and its replacement by ‘ subsists in ’ opened the door to acceptance of the , at least , partial ecclesial status of other Christians and other ecclesiastical bodies . |
| 15 | For the organizers of the Leeds convention , the Russian revolution opened the way to peace without victory . |
| 16 | Other problems were also experienced , including the damage of saplings during the logging phase of TSS , which opened the habitat to colonisation by secondary species , and the availability of light as the canopy was opened up encouraged the growth of unwanted climbers and weeds . |
| 17 | The chairman declined the invitation to flag off the train at Curriehill Station on Monday , 11th May , the first day of its operation . |
| 18 | The chairman declined the invitation to flag off the train at Curriehill Station on Monday , 11th May , the first day of its operation . |
| 19 | When they acquired their homes , they persuaded the council to section off some land at the back , and that became their secret garden . |
| 20 | Neither side were keen to take chances , but Harlow brought the game to life by killing a naked jack . |
| 21 | who thereupon took the road to heterodoxy in his disappointment : this can not be more than a fragment of the story . |
| 22 | The Monopolies Commission took the board to task on three main issues : the use of ‘ target ’ rather than expected values in estimating parameters under the CEGB 's influence ( for example , construction cost and duration ) ; the use and presentation of sensitivity analysis around predicted outcomes ; and the lack of any firm basis for forecasting nuclear fuel-cycle costs . |
| 23 | Individual Unionists played important parts in the government and many Unionist policies were implemented in full , but the party as a whole never took the government to heart as its own . |
| 24 | AT&T fought hard to hang on to its equipment businesses through telephone deregulation — the Justice Department took the firm to court on the issue in 1949 and again in 1974 . |
| 25 | Supposing that we took the route to legalisation of cannabis , what larger scale social and economic issues may arise ? |
| 26 | Wycliffe took the sergeant to lunch at his hotel and they sat by the great window overlooking the sea , which still sparkled in the sun . |
| 27 | Occasionally Ella took the train to town with a portfolio of hand-blocked patterns , and usually she returned , blown but jubilant , with a few orders from firms who appreciated her strong shades of olive green , dull beetroot and dirty yellow madly ensnared in black mesh . |
| 28 | That night and for many nights afterwards he took the lighter to bed with him , and lay there , thinking of Kate and feeling the metal growing warm in his hand , until he fell asleep . |
| 29 | The Catholic Church had enormous secular ( as well as spiritual ) power , since it possessed the right to income from vast expanses of land . |
| 30 | Åberg ( 1926 ) discussed the value to chronology of the Crondall ( Hampshire ) coin hoard ( Sutherland 1948 ) and graves at Sarre ( Kent ) and Compton Vernay ( Warwickshire ) which contained coins ( Rigold 1975 , pp. 71–2 ; Avent 1975 , p. 47 ) . |