Example sentences of "to [noun] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way back to Baker Street in the taxi , Holmes sat thinking deeply . |
| 2 | He wants everyone to know that the Welsh selectors were right to prefer him to Colin Stephens for the game against Scotland . |
| 3 | And Joffre , planning to extend his left flank , prior to enveloping the German right , appealed to King Albert of the Belgians to abandon the North Sea coast and thrust inland with the Belgian Army to join his swinging manoeuvre . |
| 4 | British businessman Neville Norton , 59 , who had been barred from leaving Saudi Arabia since 1975 because of a financial dispute , was released on Aug. 13 and returned to London , reportedly following a personal appeal to King Fahd by the UK Prime Minister , John Major . |
| 5 | Namely he has expressed his wish to King Leopold of the Belgians and requested him to press us for a withdrawal . |
| 6 | The King of England in ancient times , he figures in fairy legends as follows : a mysterious creature covered in hair and cloven-hoofed , paid a visit to King Herla on the occasion of his marriage and showered him with many marvellous gifts . |
| 7 | Barbara 's written to Auntie Flo about the cake . ’ |
| 8 | One effect , according to Guillermo Martinez of the teachers ' union ANDEN , was to overburden classes , |
| 9 | Readers who came to Harvey Nichols for the show saw Linford Christie , Jeremy Guscott , George O'Dowd , Suzanne Mizzi and 50 models and 50 models all on the catwalk in the aid of charity . |
| 10 | Let us imagine that Big Ted , having heard me talk about this point , is trying to explain it to Little Ted in the pub afterwards : |
| 11 | Move along , say , to Greenwich Village at the six-and- a -half mile mark . |
| 12 | According to Marcus Colchester of the World Rainforest Movement , the industry " is stealing the food from the very mouths of tribal landowners " . |
| 13 | The approach to Low Catton from the direction of Kexby is attractive . |
| 14 | " The popular vision of climate apocalypse is wrong " according to Patrick Michaels of the University of Virginia , who suggests one effect of the trend , if it continues , could be longer growing seasons . |
| 15 | According to Sheila Sisulu of the South African Council of Churches , the DET 's strategy has largely involved shifting resources from place to place rather than substantially expanding the system . |
| 16 | Throughout his narrative he refers to Lebna Dengel as the Prester or Prester John . |
| 17 | junior counsel to Serjeant Buzfuz in the case of Bardell and Pickwick . |
| 18 | The trees stood at intervals down the Main Street and provided a meeting place for the villagers and presumably a resting place whilst they journeyed to Lowry Field at the bottom of the village , which had the communal St Laurence Well and provided water when all the house and farm wells were dry . |
| 19 | Work began in winter 1899 , and opportunity was taken to relay the old conduit track from Cocker Street to Church Street on the Promenade . |
| 20 | As soon as he noticed them , Howard beckoned the Doctor , Ace and Petion over with a relieved expression , and introduced them to Colonel Mortimer of the USMC . |
| 21 | Well , if you really want to know go to Jason McCoy before the end of August and you can see what an actual stable looks like , his stable . |
| 22 | It will include a directory of system suppliers and information for this listing should be sent to Jason Cowley at The Bookseller , to arrive by Friday 12th March . |
| 23 | According to Garel Rhys of the Cardiff Business School , Japanese car makers have sunk £2.4 billion ( $1.8 billion ) of investment in Britain . |
| 24 | And the if there was a street disturbance or a quarrel in the house everybody over there used to come to Stoke Bridge for the policeman . |
| 25 | The following week the US Tour moved to Los Angeles for the LA Open , and Frank asked me to caddie for him there . |
| 26 | I had just returned to Los Angeles from the Aleutians where I had been making a film , and I came across Errol Flynn at a party at David O Selznick 's house . |
| 27 | Keeping parallel to Bagworthy Water , continue south , past the memorial to RD Blackmore to the site of the medieval village . |
| 28 | ALCOHOL can disrupt the chromosomes of an unfertilised egg ( that is , even before conception ) , according to Matt Kaufman of the Anatomy |
| 29 | K1 2005 stands at Mallaig ready to run back to Fort William with the return Lochaber train in very wet conditions . |
| 30 | My parents , using mule transport , travelled to Addis Ababa through the Chercher mountains , by way of Harar , that ancient walled city which Burton had reached fifty-four years earlier . |