Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , the banks which lent the money to the dealers to enable them to pay the vast prices of the boom period are being very patient in waiting for their money , as it was partly their fault that a bubble economy was created in Japan . |
| 2 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 3 | He walked on , crossed the isthmus , and passed the entrance to the docks . |
| 4 | Great Britain and Germany led the rush to the cities . |
| 5 | Amelia McLean , who led the resistance to the men , alleged that Mr Alfred Evans , general secretary of the Warehousemen and Cutters " Union , was " trying to organise all the girls in the printing trade , including warehouse , machine room and stationery workers , [ to come out ] on strike with the men " . |
| 6 | Silas led the way to the stables , where he unsaddled and attended to the horses ; then he turned to her and said gruffly . |
| 7 | Bill Bradley , a Democratic senator from New Jersey who probably knows as much about the Soviet economy as anybody on Capitol Hill , led the opposition to the credits . |
| 8 | He tried the door to the parcels office , but it seemed to be locked tightly . |
| 9 | Officially the case has never been cleared up , as not a soul reported the man to the authorities . |
| 10 | The incident , which occurred in July , 1980 , was brought to the attention of the Life organisation who reported the matter to the police . |
| 11 | If a wife reported the matter to the police , her children ‘ might resent what she had done to their father ’ . |
| 12 | In July 1919 , the Leeds City full-back Charles Copeland , dissatisfied with his contract , reported the club to the authorities . |
| 13 | The next day the Metropolitan Police Commissioner referred the complaints to the Police Complaints Authority . |
| 14 | Even the ever-ebullient Sir Peter Parker saw parts of the commuter system ‘ rattling into decline ’ , and nobody was surprised when in 1979 the government referred the services to the Monopolies & Mergers Commission . |
| 15 | The government referred the bid to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( MMC ) which allowed it to proceed , ruling that it was ‘ not against the public interest ’ . |
| 16 | He smoothly changed the subject to the looks of the blond model , three tables away , and Barton agreed he would n't mind a bit of that ; on the thin side , mind you , but tasty . |
| 17 | Alexei added the permafax to the others already contained in the folder in his hand . |
| 18 | His Chanel show blasted the audience to the backs of their seats with 20,000-volt fashion and hyperactive disco music . |
| 19 | It was only a dispute over finance with the Olympic authorities which prevented the EEC from enacting a programme in which the athletes of every Member State would have competed in European Community uniforms , mounted the podium to the strains of Beethoven 's Ninth in place of their own anthems , and totted up a European total of medals . |
| 20 | Swinging lightly over the top rail he glanced down , measured the drop to the shoulders of his unsuspecting victim below , and stepped into space . |
| 21 | In September 1940 the Tizard Mission , including J. D. Cockcroft , E. G. Bowen and R. H. Fowler , visited the Us and showed the magnetron to the authorities and to the Bell Telephone Company who got it working in a single weekend . |
| 22 | Thus laden , and with eyes popping and face red , he motioned Jitka to go ahead and open the doors , which she did , and together , they climbed the stairs to the children 's room at the back where Noreen used to sleep . |
| 23 | I joined the body to the wires from my machine . |
| 24 | A connection like this , to a family from the Touraine , was an abrupt departure from the time-honoured pattern of Angoulême marriage alliances which linked the Counts to the lords of Périgord , the Limousin , La Marche and the Saintonge . |
| 25 | The king 's soldiers saw her beautiful white dress and her three medals for goodness , and they opened the doors to the gardens at once . |
| 26 | But what happened when Reagan actually cut the grants to the states was that the states increased their own spending . |
| 27 | Having arranged to meet Morton back at Old Jewry , Bragg took a train to Hackney Downs and walked the quarter-mile to the police station . |
| 28 | The Procedural Interface formatted the mail to the files indicated before clearing the messages out . |
| 29 | The Interface Procedure formatted the mail to the files indicated before clearing the messages out . |
| 30 | We followed the nuns to the steps of a tall , gloomy building . |