Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Olympia picked out one of the gems when they released Salmanov 's Fourth Symphony ( 3/89 ) , and I have been listening with much pleasure to Mravinsky 's Melodiya LPs of the previous three symphonies by this intriguing composer . |
| 2 | Yeats divagated into Virgil 's territory only when , in 1915 , he wrote Per Amica Silentia Lunae , going for that title to Aeneid , 2 , 255 : A Tenedo tacitaeper amica silentia lunae . |
| 3 | Strangely , and almost coinciding with this modification to weight reduction , I found myself in a lack-of-petrol situation . |
| 4 | There is also evidence of increased family tensions leading in some cases to violence , divorce and family break-ups . |
| 5 | The Federation of European Wholesale and International Trade Associations is calling for all references to traders ' responsibility to be removed . |
| 6 | Women are most heavily concentrated in the sales and service sectors , accounting for some 60% to 70% of the work-force , generally speaking the worst paid areas of work . |
| 7 | The Austrian Habsburgs had made efforts in the same direction from the end of the sixteenth century , when the custom developed of sending with each internuncio to Constantinople a small number of boys ( Sprachknabe ) to learn Turkish . |
| 8 | For within market relations two new kinds of control , amounting in some cases to dominance , have become apparent . |
| 9 | I 'm probably not compassionate or anything , I bet I 'm a real bastard inside and do n't care for anyone , but I fucking hated treading up those stairs to Mum , especially with Jean at the bottom watching my every step . |
| 10 | This should be required reading for all tourists to Kenya — though they would need no coercion beyond the first thirty pages or so . |
| 11 | What 're you doing — practising for another trip to Ireland ? ’ |
| 12 | The philanthropist Helen Bosanquet drew eagerly on the work of the French sociologist Frederick Le Play to argue that the ‘ stable family ’ with its male breadwinner was ‘ the only known way of ensuring with any approach to success , that one generation will exert itself in the interests and for the sake of another ’ . |