Example sentences of "[vb past] to [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE first permanent public gallery in Britain devoted to art inspired by the world 's many religions has opened in Glasgow . |
| 2 | When she woke she found her hand covered with blood which she could not wash off until she went to church to confess to the priest . |
| 3 | Her friend Rory Scott remembers her eating a 11b bag of sweets in short order during a bridge evening while her admission that she ate a bowl of custard before she went to bed added to the perplexity concerning her diet . |
| 4 | In sharp contrast to his ‘ enthusiasm ’ of 1792 , in 1806 Fox introduced the abolition resolution by reminding the Commons what was owed to its own reputation after its 1792 decision for gradual abolition was not carried through ; he appealed to the memory of Pitt and the arguments of Burke ; he looked to parliament to speak for the nation on ‘ a question in which party feelings , arising out of political connections , can have no share ’ . |
| 5 | 577 and Dunton Properties Ltd. v. Coles , Knapp & Kennedy Ltd. ( 1959 ) 174 E.G. 723 related to information received by the estate agents in their capacity as agents of the principal who was complaining and was therefore not subject to any duty of confidentiality owed by the agents to other persons . |
| 6 | Once Clifford had departed Palmer set to work to wring from the central government a series of concessions which , had he succeeded in obtaining them all , would have converted Northern Nigeria into a separate state . |