Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [noun] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had come to Uganda to observe how the women use music to give advice , support each other and express their need for political identity . |
| 2 | Fans of volleyball reckon its the fastest … hardest court game of all … this week two of the world 's top teams Latvia and Lithuania have come to town to take on the might of England and the pick of the nation 's universities … on tuesday … wednesday … and thursday they 'll be battling it out in the gym at Iffley Road in Oxford and then on Friday they they head for the finals at the american airbase at Upper Heyford |
| 3 | The cases reported to WHO represent only a very small proportion of actual people infected . |
| 4 | The four hunger strikers decided to end their protest on Nov. 13 after the government announced that a bill would be presented to Congress to speed up the judicial processing of their cases . |
| 5 | The Miseroni were called to Prague to set up a workshop for crystal carving and gem cutting , and they laid the foundations for the Bohemian cut-glass industry . |
| 6 | There are men who have been in prison for ten years and more for claiming their liberty ; men who have slipped away to struggle overseas ; men who have escaped to Europe to carry on the fight there — they are hounded and they are imprisoned , but their views are heard . |
| 7 | Next came the mountains , their lower slopes cloaked in rain forest which had once covered the coastal plain but was now restricted to tongues licking down the banks of the Belpan and Makaa Rivers . |
| 8 | Sir Anthony says : ‘ The Department were at fault in failing to appreciate that the instructions given to Spicers to carry out an audit of the partnership 's client accounts would not , at least as regards some important Barlow Clowes portfolios , have enabled any reassurance to be gained on the score of the concern that the partnership could not make the payments of income they had guaranteed without eroding clients ’ capital . |
| 9 | On the other hand , the massive increase in conversions of redundant barns to homes had led to calls to halt entirely the conversion of historic barns into houses . |
| 10 | Lizzy would be allowed to get away with blue murder while her father was around , it was always the same , then when he swanned off again , it would be left to Kate to pick up the pieces and get back some kind of equilibrium . |
| 11 | In the spring of 1705 Colonel Nathaniel Hooke [ or Hookes ] , an Englishman who commanded a regiment in the French army , was sent to Scotland to spy out the land . |