Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molly had secretly enjoyed her initiation to sex on the night of Yanto 's near drowning , but then she had had to curtail her natural emotions for fear of waking her Father . |
| 2 | Since her marriage , she had become accustomed to a less competitive and more rural way of life and therefore regarded her return to court as a duty , an onerous duty . |
| 3 | Occasionally he saw Primaflora who , from serving Carlotta , had turned her training to attendance on the King 's mother . |
| 4 | In competition with other small businesses , the archetypal ‘ little man ’ had clawed his way to success through clinging to such beliefs . |
| 5 | In the 1930s one elderly man made his way to church through Bachelor 's Walk on winter Sunday evenings by the light of a hand-lantern . |
| 6 | However , I am delighted to report that , despite these hard time , the management has shown its commitment to Pipeline as the main means of communication for LASMO employees around the world . |
| 7 | It has recently raised its commitment to education from 4% to 5% of GDP . |
| 8 | The French reinforcements had arrived in answer to a plea from Mary of Guise , who had accompanied her daughter to safety in an island priory on the Lake of Monteith , about fifteen miles west of Stirling . |
| 9 | In Liddie 's case , however , it had brought her face to face with a disenchanted childhood which she had not wanted to recognize . |
| 10 | Some might not have found their way to prison at all . |
| 11 | If you have recently changed from a 16-bit computer ( something like an Atari ST or an Amiga ) to a PC , you will have suddenly found yourself face to face with DOS ( Disk Operating System ) , and this will most probably be Microsoft 's DOS 5 ( MS-DOS 5 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Your mum 's asked my mum to dinner on the sixth , ’ said Sam , ‘ so we 'll do it then , when we know where they all are . ’ |
| 13 | Robert Spence 's Swordfish C-GEVS ( see the August issue ) had not gained its Permit to Fly on August 31 so was restricted to taxi-ing at Muirkirk , Ontario , during the Labour Day fly-in . |
| 14 | Meanwhile in another part of the village Constable Quince had run his quarry to earth in the vegetable garden of the Manor . |
| 15 | The villagers have taken their case to Department of Transport officials in Manchester . |
| 16 | He 's taken his team to second in the first division . |
| 17 | Bush , who had repeatedly stated his opposition to abortion under all but the most extreme circumstances , was known to oppose the bill , and was thought likely to veto it in the event of its enactment . |