Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1174 Henry returned to Germany to serve under his imperial overlord on the fifth campaign in Italy . |
| 2 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 3 | For the moment , it was left to England to capitalise on their 2–0 lead in the resumed one-day series , with three matches to come in a fortnight . |
| 4 | When I moved to Cornwall to live with them first , their home was a bracing , windswept ( take your pick ! ) clifftop cottage at Widemouth Bay , three miles from Bude on the North Cornish coast . |
| 5 | In February 1943 he despatched Jean Monnet to Algiers to act as his personal envoy to Giraud . |
| 6 | This he kneaded into a pulp and then gave to Cleo to hold against her scratched cheek . |
| 7 | On 4 October 1748 she wrote to Richardson to argue against his proposed alterations to Sarah Fielding 's The Governess , or Little Female Academy . |
| 8 | My poor old friend Ron , is worried about money up to his , up to his arm pits , but he manages to get out and play his violin , you know , two Saturday 's ago I went up with him to Norwich to stay with his nice lady Trudy , and in the evening , Saturday evening , I went to the gorgeous old church in Norwich where he and the other 's were all working away playing the Mozart Symphony or two . |
| 9 | When we look at the lists of saints ' resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England , when we see how saints ' remains were moved from the outer fringes to the heart of the West Saxon and Mercian kingdoms where they could do more good ( for example , St Oswald from Tynemouth to Gloucester , St Judoc from Cornwall to Winchester ) , when we watch Otto I move the body of St Maurice ( the soldier saint ) in state from Burgundy to Magdeburg to fight on his eastern frontier , we witness the deployment of heavenly troops on earth as if there were not the slightest difference between the two spheres . |