Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [art] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On arriving at Cape Town we found that the rumours of a seamen 's strike were very real , and that several boats were delayed in Table Bay owing to the crews ' refusing to take the vessels to sea . |
| 2 | Moreover , by November 1983 American soldiers had gone into action in the Middle East , as the major element in a United Nations force attempting to open a way to peace in the Lebanon , long battered by civil war ; and in the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada , where , following a coup within the island 's Marxist-dominated government , the Reagan Administration — fearful of Cuban activities — had sent in the Marines , an action condemned by the United Nations . |
| 3 | And he was going to give a rocket to Show-Off , whose performance on the publicity front had been absolutely dismal . |
| 4 | Cyril Reenan sold the tape to a newspaper for six thousand pounds , but he says he regrets ever recording it and is going to give the money to charity . |
| 5 | Vietnam was attempting to make the transition to socialism at a time when the international situation had undergone major changes . |
| 6 | With some notable exceptions , the costs of innovation have been rising to reinforce the barriers to entry and further concentrate already strongly oligopolistic industries . |
| 7 | AFTER failing to give the kiss-of-life to Top of The Pops the Beeb now seem hell-bent on wrecking Radio One . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's an anti-Socialist plot , ’ said the party 's secretary-general , Tsuruo Yamaguchi , threatening to take the magazine to court . |
| 9 | If the process of learning to conquer the impulses to self-gratification seems too painful to be borne , the author reminds the sisters that ultimately a complaint will seem as misguided as that of a prisoner thrown a bag of money to buy his release who moans that the bag hit and bruised him . |
| 10 | It was the veteran Michael Balcon who blocked Sydney Box 's takeover of British Lion in late 1963 , and had the unenviable task of trying to put an end to faction within the board . |
| 11 | In 1253–54 the French sent an embassy to the Great Khan in the Far East , hoping to convert the Monguls to Christianity and to enlist their support in a crusade against the Muslims . |
| 12 | If it fails , a riskier operation will begin on Thursday with about a dozen boats trying to shepherd the animals to safety . |
| 13 | Anyone who has torn round the house in search of a lost shoe while trying to get the kids to school will sympathise with the camel that collapsed under the weight of one more straw . |
| 14 | Declining to lie , she let the priest take her home , planning to swear the maid to secrecy and slip out of the back door again as soon as he had gone . |