Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their views might have attracted wider sympathy if the regime had been engaging in repression across the board , but although the tsar appeared to move to the right when he appointed Valuev to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Admiral Putiatin to the Ministry of Education , he was very far from abandoning the cause of reform . |
| 2 | Instead , the finger of doom is pointing at Malcolm Crosby , a Wearside hero when he led Sunderland to the FA Cup final last season , but perilously close to getting his P45 if the players that love him let him down again today at Derby . |
| 3 | Then they led Linkworth to the hanging-shed to punish him for his crime . |
| 4 | During the next few months a violent fascist backlash , an orchestrated campaign of civil disorder and terrorism culminating in armed insurrection , led Nizan to the conclusion that very firm Republican counter-measures were necessary . |
| 5 | But it was the same friend who eventually led Jean to the dead man 's ‘ passion wagon ’ caravan . |
| 6 | In 1986 , on their first tour to Britain for years , the Bolshoi 's artistic director , Yuri Grigorovich , revealed Mukhamedov to the ballet world , and it gasped with astonishment . |
| 7 | If Churchill recommended Ramsey to the new young Queen who had never before been confronted with the situation , and the Queen asked the archbishops whether they objected , they could not say that they did . |
| 8 | In explaining the sequence of thought which led Keynes to the General Theory , Dr Clarke has taken full advantage of recently discovered sources , including students ' notes of Keynes 's lectures at Cambridge . |
| 9 | Whitaker may well have parted with a horse of remarkable talent four years ago when he sold U2 to the Edwards family in Shropshire . |
| 10 | There was general agreement that , although he never led Surrey to the title , their placings of second , third , fourth , third and second between 1921 and 1925 were little short of miraculous given the glorious lopsidedness of the team — brilliant batting ( led by Hobbs ) totally unmatched by workaday bowling . |
| 11 | WHEN Stuart Surridge led Surrey to the County Championship in 1952 , his first season of captaincy , Wisden , in choosing him alongside Tom Graveney , Fred Trueman , David Sheppard and Harold Gimblett as a Cricketer of the year , captured his salient qualities in a sentence : ‘ Though not always free from criticism as regards tactics and the manner in which he handled the bowling , he brought to Surrey a spirit of consistent enterprise and aggression such as they had not known since the days of P. G. H. Fender 's captaincy 20-odd years previously . ’ |
| 12 | Along with a Chinese freelance photographer , Cavell had called for her that morning and whisked her round some of Taipei 's famous landmarks , the all-marble Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial , a colourful Buddhist temple , and the Grand Hotel with its magnificent Chinese architecture , pausing only long enough at each for the young man to take the photos that would help introduce Maria to the Taipei public , before escorting her back to the apartment and approving the outfit she planned to wear to the dinner the radio station was hosting for the rest of the local media that night . |
| 13 | When the shutters had been opened wider to let in the bright midday light she helped Luce to the bathroom . |
| 14 | He captained Scotland to the final of the Alfred Dunhill Cup England beat them then was third in the Madrid Open and on Sunday lost a playoff to Sandy Lyle for the Volvo Masters . |
| 15 | Sally Gunnell 's 400 metres hurdles gold thrilled the nation and Will Carling captained England to the Rugby Union World Cup final and then to another Grand Slam success . |
| 16 | The men ca n't have it all their own way — Sally Gunnell 's 400 metres hurdles gold thrilled the nation and Will Carling captained England to the Rugby Union World Cup final and then to another Grand Slam success . |
| 17 | Yet it was a wonderful pairing , one of the most exciting in the game 's history , and it helped Hampshire to the championship in 1973 and the John Player League in 1975 and 1978 . |
| 18 | Both men had served in the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers where d'Alembord had succeeded Sharpe to the command of the first battalion 's light company . |
| 19 | The attention has catapulted Singleton to the fore of the newwave of black film-makers and he has been taking full advantage of the limelight , running off his mouth on issues of Black America and the worldwide struggles of the oppressed , with a revolutionary fervour that threatens to eclipse even his hero and mentor , Spike Lee . |
| 20 | Barthelsson was over the line at the start , put in his 720° turn and still beat Österlund to the first mark , a lead which he held until the end . |
| 21 | Seduce Eve to the apple . |
| 22 | ‘ Ah 's takin' Luney to the bread man . |
| 23 | The competitive industry would produce Q C to be in equilibrium at E , whereas the monopolist , equating MR to the lower curve LMC ' ; , would produce Q M to be in equilibrium at E ' ; . |
| 24 | But applying QALYs to the allocation of resources is quite different because it involves a choice between the welfares of different people . |
| 25 | Returning Rover to the private sector had been an aim of the Conservative government for several years . |
| 26 | She wondered whether ‘ dear John ’ would do the decent thing and send Ralph to the Lords . |
| 27 | As Forster helped Delaney to the ladder he was unaware of the huge distorted eye watching him . |
| 28 | Again , in 1747 , when reporting back on germination , Collinson referred Bartram to the Dictionary : |
| 29 | ‘ And the rest of that shelf and all of the bottom one covers Pemberley to the present . ’ |
| 30 | AT LAST — IBM ADDS ETHERNET TO THE 3174 CONTROLLER |