Example sentences of "to [det] [noun] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , you could then easily say " hello " to that Porsche and a lot of other luxuries . |
| 2 | Both ignored the fact that yesterday they had said farewell to each other and a way of life . |
| 3 | Throwing throwing balls of putty to each other and a couple of them went through windows and |
| 4 | ‘ I think it 's time we ventured out on to some grass and a semblance of the real thing , ’ Biddy remarked , fastening her crash-helmet . |
| 5 | The Parish Council were strongly opposed to this development and a letter was sent to the planning officer stating their views . |
| 6 | I 'll see that your salary is made up to this date and a cheque posted on to you . ’ |
| 7 | Bizarrely , it 's a pork butcher 's shop , and there 's more to this business than a bacon slicer and a few trays of pies . |
| 8 | He was a funeral ‘ director ’ rather than a furnisher , and it was to this practice that a number of top-rank funeral furnishers working in London looked — Ballard , Dowbiggin & Holland , J.D. Field , A. France & Son , J. Kenyon , Leverton 's and John Nodes — though they were never quite to match his mastery . |
| 9 | 1812 " It is proposed that the Clergymen of the Island shall … convene the poor of their respective Parishes , & to such as they find needy , to issue a Ticket of his or her name & Parish Written thereon , who only should be served as the Poor , & impostures excluded — It is Represented to this Meeting that a number of Beggars keep dogs at home and abroad — and as Scarcity is apprehended , it is considered proper that every person should this year Discharge every unnecessary Dog … " |
| 10 | Apparently , for the ‘ exclusively heterosexual ’ X , homosexuality is not a submitting to another man but a competition with , a displacing of , him . |
| 11 | This unmarked transition from " Chaucer " to another pilgram-narrator where a tale begins is unparalleled in the rest of the Canterbury Tales , and , be it by accident or design , it encourages us to reflect upon how far the Miller 's Tale is also Chaucer 's . |
| 12 | Care should , however , be taken where a section appears to confer no right of appeal , but that section is in fact linked to another section where a right of appeal exists ; e.g. under s.62 a licensing board may attach conditions to a grant or transfer of a licence and apparently there is no right of appeal against that section , but in Wallace v. Kyle and Carrick Licensing Board , 1979 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 12 , it was held that as s.62 was ancillary to s.10 under which licences were granted , an appeal was competent ; see also M. Milne v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 145 where an appeal against a decision by the clerk under 5.10(1) refusing to accept a late application for renewal was allowed in respect that the application related to a renewal of a licence under s.17(4) . |
| 13 | He was taken to another hospital where a diagnosis of vertigo due to otitis media was made , and he was discharged on oral antibiotics . |
| 14 | Three days later , Mr Koc said he was taken from his room at the hospital to another room where a man was lying in bed watched by his wife and six-month-old baby . |
| 15 | Three days later , Mr Koc said he was taken from his room at the hospital to another room where a man was lying in bed watched by his wife and six-month-old baby . |
| 16 | Something as innocuous as suggesting to another student that a life preparation student should be allowed to take the coins out of her purse unaided may , inadvertently , upset the nursery nurse student in the short term . |
| 17 | In fact , timber felling grew to such proportions that a law was passed restricting it ; anyone found guilty of contravening this law more than three times , could be hung . |
| 18 | In addition to such items as a fridge and a vacuum cleaner , she has a dishwasher , central heating , hired domestic help and the use of the family car in the day time . |
| 19 | There was no easy solution to these problems but a number of alternatives could be considered . |
| 20 | A. abyssorum differs from A. otteri in the arm spine number , the lack of any terminal hook to these spines and a lack of tentacle scales on the tentacle pore , although in some specimens of A. otteri tentacle scales may be insignificant or absent from many pores . |
| 21 | Even a table of results can be frightening , confusing or at least boring to many people unless a summary interpretation of the content is made available . |
| 22 | Right then you suspected he was more to those Apaches than a friend or a boss . |
| 23 | He has hitched his wagon to more stars than a Romany king yet he 'd have put down lifelong roots at first love Manchester City , and not just because a ground called Maine Road was bound to be his spiritual home . |
| 24 | Good victuals and ale to any man but a slave master . |
| 25 | Even now one of the best-known West Country booksellers sends a standard letter to any institution if a book from its library comes into their possession without a dispersal stamp . |
| 26 | I represent erm the the er the brewery which is located in Tadcaster , and erm I can I can er say without hesitation to this panel that erm the brewery object most strongly , or would object most strongly , to any suggestion that a level of population growth suggested woul should be accommodated . |
| 27 | Dickerson and Brown began interviewing kids to find out how they felt about life , pressure and violence , and took the resulting screenplay , ‘ an adult story for kids ’ , he explains , to several studios and a host of big-name producers . |
| 28 | ‘ I have spoken to most captains and a lot of players and the general feeling is that we have played against sides in the past with Test players and we wanted to be able to fight fire with fire so to speak . |
| 29 | They provide a way in which the student can cover up his true self by finding a vocabulary acceptable to most people and a set of facts which are generally known among people generally considered to be generally educated . |