Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] the [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've devolved the money to schools , but they 've got to spend most of it back with the council here . |
| 2 | You do n't reach Downing Street by pretending you 've travelled the road to Damascus when you have n't even left home . ’ |
| 3 | She added : You do n't reach Downing Street by pretending you 've travelled the road to Damascus when you have n't even left home . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ They 've torn the place to pieces and could n't even find a handbag . |
| 5 | And we 've seen , we 've seen the commitment to Local Government , have n't we , on the planning application on the , where two local Councillors , two Labour Councillors , sitting there , listened so much to their electorate that they abstain when it comes up to the vote ? |
| 6 | We 've put the world to rights |
| 7 | So far , we have calculated the yield to maturity on the basis of semi-annual discounting of semiannual coupon payments . |
| 8 | Senior Chinese officials have blamed the damage to Hong Kong 's confidence variously on Hong Kong people themselves , for daring to demonstrate ; and on the British , an astonishing claim which was made by China 's principal representative in Hongkong , Xu Jiatun , the director of the New China News Agency , who said that the responsibility for restoring confidence in Hong Kong rested with London . |
| 9 | The courts have upheld the right to VAT recovery on such costs . |
| 10 | Remember that many bright secretaries have made the transfer to media departments with great success . |
| 11 | About 15 mainly Protestant and professional Belfast-based activists have made the trip to Brighton this year , adding their voices to the clamour as the largely indifferent stream of Labour delegates pours from the conference centre at lunchtime . |
| 12 | Almost five hundred friends and relatives have made the trip to Winchester , to encourage and support the recruits due to graduate to the status of trained Light Division soldiers . |
| 13 | It is our dawning awareness that peat may not be in endless supply , and the prevalent fashion to be ‘ green ’ that have opened the way to alternatives . |
| 14 | Normally £19.50 , they have reduced the price to £4.95 a gift most children 's pocket money will stretch to . |
| 15 | Policies pursued by the government of President Zia ( 1977 to 1988 ) and the present government of Nawaz Sharif , in office since November 1990 , have violated the right to freedom of religion , particularly for the Ahmadis of Pakistan . |
| 16 | Tim Catterall , a director of Sanderson , Townend and Gilbert , said : ‘ We have found the response to Cornmill extremely encouraging and are working hard to put together a good mix of tenants who can thrive alongside each other . |
| 17 | I have now treated with Marine Cure and have increased the temperature to 80°s ; F. |
| 18 | And so — in my case very reluctantly , in a slow process of decision-making that took two years — we have taken the road to Budapest . |
| 19 | This time the losers , including the cities of New York , Los Angeles , Chicago and Houston , and the US Conference of Mayors , have taken the bureau to court to try to make it agree to change its initial 1990 findings and to add in its estimated under-count . |
| 20 | I have put the plan to Lothian Regional Council , and their Transportation Committee have promised a contribution towards the costs of construction . |
| 21 | Celia Brackenridge seems to think that it is at best frivolous , and at worst ideologically unsound , to suggest that any progressive change is possible in a field of civil society and popular culture ( such as sport ) unless or until we have put the world to right . |