Example sentences of "to [noun prp] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus an English ambassador going to Stockholm in the mid-seventeenth century took with him a great quantity of household goods and even food " hard to be met with in Sweden " , as well as enough horses to fill a ship hired specially to carry them . |
| 2 | The two main threats to Sunderland in the first half came from Brooks and Coleman . |
| 3 | It was the champions ' first defeat since losing to Hull in the First Division at the start of April — a run of 13 successive victories . |
| 4 | The Director of the State Historical Library plans to invite German specialists to Moscow in the near future to help sort out the holdings and to decide the fate of the books . |
| 5 | It 's their first since splitting with Phonogram Records and taking up with Compulsion ( a new label started by the A&R man who had signed them to Phonogram in the first place ) , and shows the band in muscular form . |
| 6 | We are introduced to Imamu in the first sentence of ‘ The Disappearance ’ seeing as he is one of the main characters of the book , but although Boo Radley plays a large part in ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ , I would n't consider him to be one of the main characters and it is not until we are well into chapter one that Boo is first mentioned . |
| 7 | Their daughter Mary was born at Linlithgow , of which her father was also fond and to which he fled after defeat by the English at Solway Moss , before going on to Falkland in the wooded heartland of Fife . |
| 8 | All of the references given above come from what is called the Priestly strand ( ‘ P ’ ) and as such they are to be dated to around the time of the Jews ' exile to Babylon in the sixth century BC — that is , according to the still widely accepted dating of this biblical strand within the source-critical school of thought ( though it must also be said that my own arguments as developed in this essay and elsewhere independently point to the exile as the time when these blood concerns and rituals would first have emerged ) . |
| 9 | For James and the Nazarean Party in Jerusalem , what matters is Jesus 's teaching and his claim to Messiahship in the established context of the time — as rightful king and liberator . |
| 10 | Commentators noted that some of the unsuccessful presidential candidates in the first round were likely to lend support to Ratsiraka in the second round , due to take place in January . |
| 11 | Mike , an ex-philosophy student , was going off to Germany in the New Year ; Naomi from Bristol was about to embark on a Museum Studies course at university ; Liane , a weights and measures official , was one of the many volunteers who had helped at Uppark after the fire ; and Hugh , a quantity surveyor currently between jobs , set out to astound us over the next few days with his minimalist clothing ( some ancient jeans which were fashionably ripped at the crotch and a pair of lurid , exceedingly short shorts ) . |
| 12 | He had ever favoured Em — there were no two ways about it — and Em had been quite wrong to post herself to Norfolk in the first place . |
| 13 | Certainly it has exhausted the works explicitly credited to Carver in the great Scone Choirbook , and I suppose that is why Dr Elliott remarks , in connection with Pater Creator Omnium , that any music which ‘ may have intervened between the Mass Fera Pessima … and this work is sadly lost ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's the reason we went to LA in the first place , to be perfectly honest . |
| 15 | WHEN Sara Gomer , Clare Wood and Julie Salmon collapsed to a 2-1 defeat to Indonesia in the first round of the Federation Cup in Melbourne last December , they were the laughing stock of the tennis world , writes our correspondent from Tokyo . |
| 16 | Danish international John Jensen , who is gradually finding the feel of the English game , placed a subtle pass to Wright in the 55th minute . |
| 17 | The following morning we flew to Tacna in the far south of Peru , crossed into Chile by taxi and flew on from Arica to Santiago . |
| 18 | It was known to Paracelsus in the fifteenth century , it can be found in the fourth century BC in Hippocratic writings and is one of the principles of treatment in Ayurvedic Medicine which was written down over 5000 years ago . |
| 19 | The North Cheshire Leaguers , who travel to Tattenhall in the third round of the Cheshire Cup , are captained by Mike Beckett who will be aided by his brother Richard . |
| 20 | After some examples of these foreign seals were imported to Crete in the Middle Minoan , some cylinder seals of the eastern type were tried out by Cretan craftsmen , but the standard seal shape in the Early Minoan period was i simple button shape : a very short cylinder with convex ends . |
| 21 | Erm , now can you tell me about how you how you decided to actually , you know why you decided to actually go to Spain in the first place ? |
| 22 | On my return home I discovered that the plant that I had thought was a weed was in fact ‘ The Marvel of Peru ’ , first brought from Peru to Spain in the sixteenth century and John Gerard used to lift the roots in autumn and keep them in a butter firkin filled with sand . |
| 23 | yeah we 've heard you do n't give it to Karen in the French style . |
| 24 | Champions Hampshire are at home to Dorset in the first round on June 24 , while Durham make their first NatWest Trophy appearance as a first-class county against Ireland in Dublin . |
| 25 | I announced last week assistance to Russia in the safe reduction of its surplus nuclear warheads , and we are considering with other interested countries how best to help Russia use the skills of its scientists for peaceful purposes . |
| 26 | With that qualification it is true that Attica , from dates earlier than Themistokles , looked to the ‘ wooden walls ’ of a famous oracle delivered to Athens in the Persian War : the phrase referred to the fleet ( Hdt. vii . |
| 27 | It was a poor situation in which to have to assume control : Palace were rock bottom of the League with only nine points from 18 matches and had crashed 1–4 at home to Millwall in the 1st round of the FA Cup ; their seventh consecutive defeat . |
| 28 | Although essentially the poor man 's housecow in Ireland , the breed was exported to England in the second half of the nineteenth century to become the rich man 's pet , favoured for its dainty good looks . |
| 29 | Van Dyck had a hand in exporting his style to England in the 17th century ; the allure of the full-length formal portrait endured for the following 300 years . |
| 30 | Edward returned to England in the following spring with Burgundian support and defeated first Warwick at the battle of Barnet and then the Lancastrian army at Tewkesbury . |