Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] [to-vb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowd of playgoers began to hurry to the doors , and I ran round to open them . |
| 2 | In a referendum on April 22 inhabitants of Karl-Marx-Stadt voted to revert to the town 's former name of Chemnitz . |
| 3 | I noted that the Secretary of State omitted to refer to the date when he will be able to tell the House about Mr. Stoner 's opinion . |
| 4 | It stipulated that at least 60 per cent of lending had to go to the private sector , and no more than 40 per cent to infrastructure projects . |
| 5 | Four years ago , Ghanaian students studying in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku refused to return to the city after their summer holidays , because of hostility amongst the local population . |
| 6 | Significantly , in the House of Lords the limitation clause was as a matter of construction upheld to apply to the circumstances of the case although , in the event , their Lordships affirmed the unanimous judgment of the Court of Appeal in holding that the clause was rendered unenforceable by statute because it would not be " fair or reasonable to allow reliance " on it . |