Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 29-YEAR-OLD Kilmarnock man who beat a nightwatchman to death in Dumfries was jailed for life yesterday . |
| 2 | ‘ the world beat a path to our door , ’ said Pearce , ‘ We were supplying the technology and the catalysts world-wide . |
| 3 | But which of us , locked behind a desk or in a queue at the supermarket check-out , has not had an overwhelming desire to drop everything , run into the street , hail a passing cab and make for the nearest airport to catch a plane to anywhere ? |
| 4 | It was just ten minutes to nine , and Richard walked by on his way up to World 's End to catch a bus to the office . |
| 5 | William Walker , an official from the State Department , remembered seeing him rush to catch a flight to Central America , having just got off a flight from Europe , unkempt , a flight-bag over his shoulder . |
| 6 | He just requires to spend one night in London , he 's due to catch a flight to Vienna the next day . " |
| 7 | Now he recalled how , on the second night after his mother had left home , he had climbed out of bed in the late evening and slipped unnoticed from the house to run over a mile to Bournemouth Central Railway Station to catch a train to nearby Christchurch , where his mother had gone to live with her sister . |
| 8 | Peter arranged a taxi to Victoria for me to catch a train to Gatwick and the last flight to Edinburgh . |
| 9 | Spreading : The name given to the effect whereby an increase in exposure causes a subject to be seen as larger . |
| 10 | The alternative is to say that assimilation causes a phoneme to be realised by a different allophone ; this would mean that , in the case of and , the phoneme of ‘ good ’ has velar and bilabial allophones . |
| 11 | Exposure of the small intestine to cow 's milk antigens causes a lesion to the gut mucosa and increases its permeability , permitting the entry of antigens through the impaired host barrier . |
| 12 | FRAME causes a rectangle to be drawn around the map . |
| 13 | There was a fondness for the strict classical style , as seen in Moscow Kiev Station , affirming a desire to be recognized as a fully-fledged European power . |
| 14 | In time he would seek a solution to this problem by envisaging a brotherhood of painters living self-sufficiently , away from the worldliness of towns and thus uncontaminated by modern fevers and distractions . |
| 15 | Congratulations , you have won a holiday to Canada . |
| 16 | The chorus of televisions was tuned to an American game show in which competing families were leaping up and down and screaming with apparent incontinence because they had won a trip to Disneyworld . |
| 17 | Mr D. Ling from Colchester in Essex has won a trip to Club St. Lucia as a result of entering the exclusive competition in the Feb/March issue of Tennis World . |
| 18 | He 'd won a bursary to a local grammar school when he was eleven and then gone on to an apprenticeship with an engineering firm which employed a quarter of the town 's local inhabitants . |
| 19 | Frank , at the age of 16 , had already won a scholarship to Trinity College in Cambridge . |
| 20 | His school was the County High School at Dagenham and from there he had won a scholarship to Oxford . |
| 21 | Raymond Radiguet was a youth of 12 when Modigliani painted him , a brilliant schoolboy who had won a scholarship to a Paris Lycée and began coming in daily to the city from the suburbs . |
| 22 | But six months before term began , and after Paul had won a scholarship to Corpus , Jonas Arkwright went out of his mind . |
| 23 | Jones had won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London . |
| 24 | I agreed with him , even if Posh Porky had won a scholarship to some place called St Paul 's , which in any case was miles away in Hammersmith . |
| 25 | At the age of 98 he contributed a preface to the biography of Col De Lancey Forth , of the Imperial Camel Corps . |
| 26 | At this time Henry contributed a poem to the fund-raising campaign for the construction of Salisbury Cathedral , and also wrote for patrons in Cologne . |
| 27 | He was a lively and stylish writer , and contributed a column to the Jerusalem Post on high life and low living . |
| 28 | Conservator Nathan Stolow , who contributed a chapter to the National Gallery 's own guide to art transport , has called for public accounting of the way in which the paintings were prepared and restored for travel and attacked the National Gallery for creating an exhibition advisory committee composed of officials from the tour 's participating institutions . |
| 29 | She contributed a paper to the first congress of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science in Birmingham ( 1857 ) . |
| 30 | Elected FRS on 19 November 1772 , Jackson contributed a paper to the Philosophical Transactions for 1773 , stressing that over forty tons of isinglass had been processed from fish in the Great Lakes resembling those imported expensively from Russia . |