Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're not all like your PC Palmer , singing Schubert to well-heeled geriatrics in your Sunday concerts . ’ |
| 2 | An attempted return led David to disastrous defeat at Neville 's Cross , after which he was a prisoner in English hands for eleven years until bought back for what could truly be called a king 's ransom . |
| 3 | Given this assertion about the sexual nature of social ties , it is incumbent upon sociologists to examine the arguments , the conceptualizations and the observations which led Freud to this position . |
| 4 | Perhaps the retention of the State Paper Office and its adjacent houses led Scott to this asymmetrical composition , but he seems to have made little attempt to relate the design of his central tower to Soane 's Italianate structure even though it would have been only approximately 20 feet ( 6.096 m ) away . |
| 5 | SEQUENT BEATS ICL TO NUCLEAR ELECTRIC |
| 6 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 7 | But no king of Macedon before Philip could afford to provoke Athens to outright invasion . |
| 8 | George beats Alexander to fourth position . |
| 9 | When the £5 million Juventus midfielder leads out England for the first time he will spare a thought for the man who captained England to 1966 World Cup glory , just 48 hours after Bobby Moore revealed that he was battling cancer . |
| 10 | Once in power , she immediately set about turning the clock back to 1529 by returning England to papal jurisdiction , restoring Catholic forms of worship , and reintroducing the old heresy laws . |
| 11 | One problem with the above studies which used GSR to different words as a manipulation of arousal is that the words producing high arousal were not necessarily the ones which would have been predicted a priori . |
| 12 | Peter 's initiative in opening Russia to western influences , his modernisation of the administration and his development of industries were in sharp contrast to the Muscovite traditions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 13 | The level of shareholders ' return varies according to the investment attraction of the various companies — from 8.10 per cent for highly rated Thames to 9.68 per cent for South West , hit by a series of pollution incidents . |
| 14 | The level of shareholders ' return varies according to the investment attraction of the various companies — from 8.10 per cent for highly rated Thames to 9.68 per cent for South West , hit by a series of pollution incidents . |
| 15 | The doctor came over and drew Harry to one side . |
| 16 | one of the favourites to win the British Hangliding Championships is Pete Harvey from Milton Keynes … he helped Britain to third in the world cup which has just finished in California … now he 's taking off for Spain … that'ss where they 're holding the British competition … why its hot sunny and its ' not raining … |
| 17 | These two arrangements , which directly and indirectly committed Britain to major international financial responsibilities in which the operation of sterling as a reserve currency was an essential element , stemmed from a deeper commitment to the belief in Britain 's world role [ Clarke , 1982 ; Scammell , 1980 ; Strange , 1971 ] . |
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| 19 | CRAY COMPUTER WANTS CRAY-3 TO FRONT-END PARALLELs |
| 20 | Meanwhile , in the UK , IXI has got an agreement with the Combined Higher Education Software Team — CHEST — to provide X.desktop to all universities and colleges across the UK , including Motif kits for Sun workstations . |
| 21 | His drive and energy helped Leeds to four FA cup finals and two league titles , before he moved to nearby Hull City where he played another 61 games . |
| 22 | The same has turned out to be true of show-jumping , a little-known landed pursuit before it was taken up by the BBC as a sport which might appeal to women , especially when Pat Smythe rode Flanagan to four European Championship victories between 1957 and 1963 . |
| 23 | But Ladbrokes reacted by easing Miinnehoma to 14-1 ( from 10s ) in their Gold Cup betting . |
| 24 | His words heartened Lucy to such an extent that uncontrollable giggles began to erupt from her until she became almost hysterical . |
| 25 | She drove Eva to one of the community homes where she was due to address a group of girls . |
| 26 | In our discussion of arms control issues , President Yeltsin committed Russia to further significant reductions in the Russian strategic and international arsenal . |
| 27 | Normally that should present no problem to the team batting second , but none of them could dominate the bowling and the low total seemed to spur England to some brilliant fielding ; when Botham got Gomes and Richards in successive overs , the game moved England 's way , and the rest of the wickets drifted away for a total of just 148 . |
| 28 | Draw they did , but goallessly , a result that did nothing for Maidenhead but lifted Cambridge to sixth place , writes Pat Rowley . |
| 29 | Draw they did , but goallessly , a result that did nothing for Maidenhead but lifted Cambridge to sixth place , writes Pat Rowley . |
| 30 | Milton can not lift Satan to such great heights and put such great speeches in his mouth and then snatch them back denying in his authorial intrusions what he has just proclaimed through his character . |