Example sentences of "to [noun] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The road to Haworth goes up a hill , and there was ice on the stones of the road . |
| 2 | Pemberton also started classes in book-keeping and shorthand , in response to parents answers to a questionnaire . |
| 3 | Thirdly , the reward to the lender for holding a bill to redemption comes in a form which resembles a capital gain rather than a conventional rate of interest . |
| 4 | I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines . |
| 5 | Mr Gould failed to back calls for a referendum . |
| 6 | How strong this support will prove to be in the last analysis remains to be seen , but Labour 's treatment of Mr Gould and its refusal to back calls for a referendum on the Treaty suggest that any hopes of altering the movement towards European Federalism remain with the Conservative Party . |
| 7 | NEWSAGENTS will today be urged to back calls for a change in the law to protect them from becoming innocent victims of the law which prevents tobacco being sold to under-age youngsters . |
| 8 | The wish to evoke a Jewish resistance to Nazism relates to a history which comprehends his own writings and example . |
| 9 | To Forces addresses without a BFPO number . |
| 10 | THAT SORT of conversion the road to Damnedmascus sounds like a cliché today , but people did go through it then . |
| 11 | Another important aid to analysing syntactic variation is the production of a concordance ; in addition to a reference location to word forms in a text which have been previously input , a concordance gives a certain amount of surrounding context . |
| 12 | A mile to the west of Loch Gorm the road to Gruinart cuts through a settlement at An Sithern of about a dozen round houses which were constructed in the late Bronze Age and which a cursory examination has shown that they were used at least three times . |
| 13 | After a day 's work and a trip to Wormwood Scrubs on a number 220 bus , arriving in the dark and perhaps the cold , I was not inclined to put in further effort . |
| 14 | Attention to detail counts for a lot , and attention to detail is what you get with one of Michael Pedulla 's instruments … |
| 15 | This year 's Buyers ' Guide to Tractors appears against a back-drop of falling sales and continued shuffling amongst tractor makers and importers . |