Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 29-YEAR-OLD Kilmarnock man who beat a nightwatchman to death in Dumfries was jailed for life yesterday . |
| 2 | Those circumstances posed a threat to peace in Europe and Neville Chamberlain , being anxious to avoid war at all costs , arranged to meet Hitler on 15th . |
| 3 | Eight people were arrested yesterday after police with riot shields were attacked by about 30 teenagers as they moved a family to safety from a council house at Southmead , Bristol . |
| 4 | A few days later he received a summons to interrogation by one of these officers , which he refused to attend . |
| 5 | Near the end of the period gold coin may have been used in commercial transactions , but the dwindling supply of gold in western Europe caused a switch to silver as the principal precious metal . |
| 6 | These visits to New Southgate were , of course , reciprocated as the grandchildren paid a visit to Granny in Freegrove Road ; stopping off at Beale 's on Holloway Road for chocolate fingers on the way — a great treat — they would go to the side entrance of no. 17 and ring the bell . |
| 7 | Ramiz Alia , President of Albania and first secretary of the ruling Party of Labour , speaking at the 10th plenum of the party 's central committee in Tirana on April 17 , declared an end to opposition to diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union and with the United States . |
| 8 | TWO men who battered a man to death with hockey sticks after he shouted racist taunts at them walked free from the High Court in Glasgow yesterday . |
| 9 | A GATECRASHER stabbed a man to death at a nurse 's 21st birthday party in a hospital . |
| 10 | A murder suspect has told a court that he accidentally stabbed a teenager to death during a street fight . |
| 11 | THE woman juror whose looks prompted a man to wolf-whistle at her in court yesterday said she was secretly flattered and took it as a compliment . |
| 12 | She managed to slip the skirt over her head gingerly and settle it in place with its ribbon ties , but she realised that she needed a maid to lace up the front of the separate bodice for her . |
| 13 | These included a return to work for those who had not been laid off , the re-employment of the sacked strikers next week and a final , binding decision by the arbitration body ACAS . |
| 14 | David Parkin was next shown outside a pub in Pimlico , where he delivered a piece to camera with mock gravity about Ken O'Mara 's commitment to investigative journalism and to recruiting more female reporters . |
| 15 | Though this doctrine is patristic , some ‘ conservatives ’ at the Council saw a threat to faith in the Eucharistic real presence . |
| 16 | Shirnette brought a cockroach to school in a shoe-polish tin . |
| 17 | She chose a man to leech from . |
| 18 | But he also kept a revolver to hand in the drawer of his desk . |
| 19 | When they were introduced they offered an alternative to insulin for the patient not responding to diet alone . |
| 20 | ‘ She did a piece to camera on every single thing she did . |
| 21 | Right , the only comment I have is members will remember that we got slapped in council last year because we issued a permit to LIFE for a flag day application . |
| 22 | A GANG of 10 men bludgeoned a mother-of-three to death with pickaxe handles and baseball bats after she was warned to stop throwing wild parties . |
| 23 | Lord Swinton presented a paper to Cabinet on 24 January arguing that Britain should have three airline companies : the nationalized BOAC for long-haul overseas services ; a company responsible for services to Europe ; and another one for services to South America . |
| 24 | In 1682 a printer gave a boost to cannibalism by substituting ‘ if the latter husband ate her ’ instead of hate her in the verses on the Mosaic law of divorce at Deuteronomy xxiv.3 . |
| 25 | And both of course climaxed a return to form by winning their respective championships last season . |
| 26 | The President of the Board of Trade , Michael Heseltine , put an end to speculation on the future of Warren Spring with an announcement in June that the government laboratory will merge with AEA Technology . |
| 27 | As John of Reading observed in 1362 , the passage of a statute in that year dealing with the problem of purveyance put an end to discontent amongst the common people . |
| 28 | golfers to maestro who took on the establishmentOpen victory put an end to system of subjugation |
| 29 | Thirty or 40 years ago someone wrote a letter to Nature after tracking down its origin . |
| 30 | In union negotiations , for example , I always found that if you had a heart to heart with the opposition , the single leader , you could probably gain something . |