Example sentences of "they [vb past] a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way to the tomato patch they made a detour to Louis 's workshop to collect some baskets . |
| 2 | Eight people were arrested yesterday after police with riot shields were attacked by about 30 teenagers as they moved a family to safety from a council house at Southmead , Bristol . |
| 3 | Two of them , disguised as Spanish workers , walked the seventeen kilometres to Parma where they caught a train to Milan , and were arrested on the way . |
| 4 | From there , they drove to Zagreb where they caught a plane to Heathrow . |
| 5 | ‘ Capitalist swine , ’ she murmured , and sank back into a sleep in which she tossed and stretched and he was sure muttered someone else 's name , but in the morning went with him to a garage and they actually bought a car , albeit second hand , and she let herself be dragged into a travel agency and they booked a holiday to Spain just like anyone else . |
| 6 | When Ross and Minton set off in August 1947 , stopping first in Paris where they obtained a passage to Ajaccio from the French Minister of Culture , Louis Joxe , they did not know each other well . |
| 7 | When police investigations began to point towards the culprits , they addressed a petition to King George VI appealing for the stone 's formal return to Scotland , and fastened this to the door of St Giles 's cathedral in Edinburgh . |
| 8 | A group of Scots taken prisoner at Solway Moss , the earls of Glencairn and Cassillis , lords Fleming , Maxwell , Somerville and others , obtained their release and were sent back to Scotland when they signed a request to Henry that he should take Mary into his care , with the intention of marrying her to his son , the future Edward VI ; their offer that they would help to bring him to power in Scotland , should Mary die , was kept entirely secret . |
| 9 | 17–6–1848 They forwarded a memorial to Lord John Russell praying that the Post Office should be caused to be shut throughout the Kingdom on the Lord 's day ; and on 19th February 1849 they petitioned the shareholders at Perth against running trains on the Sabbath . |
| 10 | At the same time they submitted a memorial to Manners which stated their conviction ‘ that by a developement [ sic ] on the basis of the old architecture of the country there exists the best hope of our Public Buildings being effectually improved in character ’ . |
| 11 | Next morning they took a cab to Holborn . |
| 12 | They took a bus to Regent Street and posted the letter at the Heddon Street post office . |
| 13 | Instead they sent a message to Chaman , who used to visit the village every so often . |
| 14 | They sent a letter to Darlington MP Michael Fallon and Labour candidate Alan Milburn asking them to intervene . |
| 15 | But when New Consumer was writing this book Global Consumer , a couple of years ago , they sent a questionnaire to Nestle . |
| 16 | A regulation on the control of mergers and competition entered into force on Sept. 21 , giving the Commission authority to vet all large-scale mergers within the EC and to block or reverse them if they presented a threat to competition . |
| 17 | PUPILS and staff of St Mary 's College , Wallasey , celebrated their Good Shepherd fund-raising successes this year when they presented a cheque to Bishop Gray for nearly £2,100 . |
| 18 | They presented a plaque to Rob Poynter on behalf of the British association which holds its annual swimming championships at the centre . |