Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 100,000 people who live and work in the city are being called to action tomorrow in a bid to score a hat-trick of victories in the friendly fitness competition . |
| 2 | It looked to Dot more like a skeleton in clothes than a father . |
| 3 | The bland slopes bordering and beyond the river , innocuous when seen from the train , abound in hidden secrets that yield to discovery only after a search for them . |
| 4 | Yeah I do n't say we do n't row , I do n't say we do n't argue and get on each other 's nerves , we do , but when he goes back to work now for a couple of days it 'll take me three or four days to settle down into not having him there . |
| 5 | Madonna and Jackson never have mixed — even professionally , though they were once set to work together on a duet . |
| 6 | Mr Yeltsin 's team was preparing to counter-attack today with a draft of a new constitution that would extend the presidential term from five years to six and give him a right of veto over parliamentary Bills and to pick a small team of state ministers . |
| 7 | We got up to mischief obviously like a lot more , youngsters do even today , but er there was none of this sort of vandalism , we did n't use to destroy anything . |
| 8 | I can decide that I 'm gon na go to church twice on a Sunday , and , once , during the week or , however many times , and I 'm gon na spend an hour doing this , and an hour doing that , I 'm gon na go round and do good deeds and help people and help and all the rest ! |
| 9 | Do n't go to bed immediately after a period of intense concentration , e.g. working late , playing cards , or following a difficult knitting pattern . |
| 10 | You know nothing of me , only that we went to bed together for a while . |
| 11 | Matron said I had to go to bed early for a fortnight . |
| 12 | The engineer would go to sleep soon in a corner . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's the way to do it , ’ said Araminta pleased , as all the puppets came to life again for a curtain call . |
| 14 | The second seems to amount more to a statement of the internalist position than an independent argument against externalism . |
| 15 | A man 's been airlifted to hospital tonight after a crash involving two lorries a trailer and several cars . |
| 16 | PRINCE CHARLES made a hush-hush trip to hospital yesterday for a knee operation . |
| 17 | TWO women were taken to hospital yesterday after a crash involving a bus and a car . |
| 18 | A WRECKED block of maisonettes at Dagenham , east London , where four people were taken to hospital yesterday after a gas explosion . |
| 19 | Becky had been admitted to hospital earlier with a stomach upset and died at her parents ' home the night she was discharged . |
| 20 | A smallholder , by virtue of his small scale , may often be able to farm successfully in a manner defying the commercial conventions of the district , but such success will depend upon his grasp of the principles of soils , crops , and animal husbandry and a wise assessment of his land potential . |
| 21 | I could n't permit someone of your abilities to moulder away in a backwater . |
| 22 | For instance : in standards of textual presentation ; in ability to thumb rapidly through a text ; in immediate portability of the viewed page ( desk to bed to balcony to garden ) ; in freedom of posture for the user ( stand , sit , lie ) ; and so on . |
| 23 | Mr Major has invited the French president to dinner tomorrow in a bid to win his support . |
| 24 | We were really looking forward to Christmas together as a family but now everything is ruined . |