Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moorcroft 's letter of resignation refers to his ill health , but speaking 40 years later , Coleman said : ‘ I could see no ill health [ in Moorcroft ] at all . |
| 2 | There is no automatic award given to its . |
| 3 | A NURSE who had to learn to walk again after his neck was broken has hit out at the prison sentence given to his attacker . |
| 4 | Hope retraced his steps and came up alongside a Mr Crump whose mind had been cleared and relaxed by the stimulating freedom given to his prejudices : his expression was no longer that of the tentative , diffident social and artistic explorer : he was a hard man in his office dealing with a captain whose cargo did not comply with his list of instructions . |
| 5 | Martin Ward got to his feet , dusting off sand , and they held each others ' eyes for a few moments without speaking . |
| 6 | It was the thought of this that had her standing up after about half an hour in preparation to go to her room . |
| 7 | He had n't shaved for a few days and a sickly smell clung to his clothes and hair . |
| 8 | As the play builds to its climax , loyalties are strained , and it is only when Alec decides to cast aside the chains of a lifetime 's obedience that his character truly comes to life . |
| 9 | However , the growing budget deficit and lax credit policies led to its devaluation from parity with the rouble and caused a near breakdown in trade between Ukraine and Russia . |
| 10 | However , his policies led to his being condemned by Schumacher as ‘ the Chancellor of the Allies ’ . |
| 11 | A few seconds later , he gasped in realization : had n't the scientist referred to his tardy colleague as ‘ he ’ ? |
| 12 | Miss Honey got to her feet and walked smartly out of the room , but was back in thirty seconds carrying a thick book . |
| 13 | ( f ) Indemnity Whilst it might readily be implied that where one partner 's breach of some provision in the partnership agreement leads to liability attaching to his co-partners the latter should have the right to an indemnity from their colleague , the better practice is to make that right express ( Clause 16.02 ) in the partnership agreement . |
| 14 | It is necessary first to consider an argument which has throughout been presented by the Attorney-General as decisive ; namely , that the answer to this question must inevitably be negative because the district judge had no power , or no power that he could properly exercise , to do anything other than proceed with the cases assigned to his court , without any regard at all to the pendency of the B.M.F.L. prosecution , destined for committal to the High Court . |
| 15 | All our sympathy goes to his wife , and family . |
| 16 | His reckless driving at speeds of more than eighty miles an hour led to their deaths in Swindon 's Akers Way . |
| 17 | Though ultimately the methodological bases of such findings must induce caution in the researcher , nevertheless the findings may lead to plausible conclusions about the workings of elite groups in local communities , in particular about the economic base of the members and the support given to their power by specific cultural norms . |
| 18 | Scotland 's tackling at the weekend was akin to a holding operation ; not surprising really as only rarely in the domestic sevens circuit do you see the shuddering finality which the Samoans , Fijians and Canadians bring to their defensive chopping . |
| 19 | Leila stood , stunned , her fingers pressed to her lips . |
| 20 | I return to the lawn , make an excuse to go to my room where I lock the relics away in my blue metal toolbox … |
| 21 | The long occupation of northern France by the Lancastrian kings could never have been carried out without the active participation of men , many of them not yet noble , performing the tasks of their captains who , as noblemen with lands in England , had to return every so often to their estates to see to their upkeep . |
| 22 | With the spectre of the supermarket pinta a very real threat to the British milkman , Steve Ellis points to his unofficial role as social worker or even home help . |
| 23 | A YOUNG bungee jumper plunged to his death — after forgetting to attach the rope . |
| 24 | For the historian , then , the problem becomes one of discovering the contours of Victorian sexual mores without surrendering to facile generalisations , for despite a plethora of studies we are still woefully ignorant of general trends in the development of sexual attitudes , of their effects on individual lives , and of the particular meanings given to their activities by the sexual subjects in all their variety — by class , by gender , by generation and by region . |
| 25 | Alexandra got to her feet with difficulty . |
| 26 | The way Dean got to his Minor Counties hundred supports his belief that the essential difference between club and first-class cricket is consistently better bowling on quicker and better pitches . |
| 27 | The nun stopped , jumped , and gave a small cry , her fingers fluttering to her mouth . |
| 28 | ‘ By the end of a show my fingers are pretty loose and I feel pretty good , so I use the opportunity to go to my hotel room and play some more . |
| 29 | Whitlock got to his feet and crossed to the dispenser against the wall . |
| 30 | Whitlock got to his feet . |