Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [noun prp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the war , of course , the superpowers did move in to set Europe to rights . |
| 2 | But it was not enough to commend Stanley to the City of Worcester Conservative and Unionist Association . |
| 3 | His father was told about the accident , and he arrived at the scene quickly enough to accompany Guy to hospital in the ambulance . |
| 4 | The laconic Ernie Walker , President of the SFA at the time , urged future managers not to put Macari to any future discomfort . |
| 5 | Although Joe had been careful not to criticise Chris to Maureen he felt indignant with him . |
| 6 | At one stage no less a person than Bobby Kennedy , soon to accompany Josie to the grave , had offered to help Roth gain his freedom . |
| 7 | ‘ My husband told me not to bring Mark to the Strand and if he 's out of the house he 's to stay in the buggy , ’ she said . |
| 8 | It seemed that she was not impressed for , having completed her examination , she turned ostentatiously away to follow Anthony to the table where the wine stood . |
| 9 | BASEBALL BAT BRUTE SPACED out on drink and drugs , Paul used the bat pictured above to bludgeon John to death |
| 10 | It would , however , be a great mistake to dismiss the event as an act of folly without any serious consequences , for the proof of the existence of a serious candidate led to the definite rebirth of Bonapartism as a political force in France and it was this movement which was later to carry Louis-Napoleon to power . |
| 11 | It is surely more than just coincidence that Alf Ramsey , later to lead England to World Cup victory in 1966 , played in both of these eye-opening defeats . |
| 12 | FitzAlan dismounted and reached up to lift Isabel to the ground . |
| 13 | When James did succeed to the throne in 1685 , the pro-Catholic and pro-French orientation of foreign policy was naturally maintained , and the new king made strenuous efforts both to return England to the papal fold and to realign her fully with the international Catholic axis . |
| 14 | Last I have a very pleasant task to perform , namely to ask Angela to kindly present to His Lordship a token of our loving esteem for all he has done for the Guild over the years and hopefully when he wears the vestment he will say a prayer for us all — AD MULTOS ANNOS . |
| 15 | He was keen to encourage the vocational aspects of art education and attracted into the various departments concerned with commercial art men and women of talent , including Macvyn Wright , Toni del Renzio , Mervyn Peake , Albert Halliwell ( later to follow Johnstone to Central School of Art where he became a catalyst for the teaching of basic design ) and Gertrude Hermes who was responsible for wood-engraving . |
| 16 | Bill Drummond , the man brought in to sort out Coats 's clothing side two years ago , has been sent out to restore Brazil to profits in 1993 . |
| 17 | Celia had immediately suggested that she might like to spend the night but , rather to her relief , Alison had said that she had to get back to accompany Geoffrey to some local gathering that evening . |
| 18 | He lowered the horse 's left foreleg and came back to lift Isabel to the ground . |
| 19 | John Major 's taking a break from the hard grind of political life here to sell Britain to the Japanese . |
| 20 | Yet this is also the government which has fought most ruthlessly to bring EuroDisneyland to Marne la Vallee in the early 1990s . |
| 21 | Realising too that he is about to lose Kate to her anger and the night , Jeremy forces a pleasanter expression to his face . |
| 22 | THE traded-options market in London could be about to play Lithuania to the stock exchange 's Russia . |
| 23 | John was confident enough then to leave Flynn to it and to go off himself to look at the proposed routes of the Waterford & limerick and the Waterford & kilkenny lines , both of which had been authorized by Parliament last year but neither of which had yet gone to tender . |
| 24 | He was about to call Marian to his side when a movement a few hundred yards away where the forest and the Waste met caught his eye . |
| 25 | ‘ Actually , you arrived just as I was about to invite Leith to Parkwood . |
| 26 | But the larger questions of how to anchor Germany to the West or watch it turn towards Central Europe , went unanswered . |
| 27 | In this sense he is symbolic of the nationalistic cause , either to restore Germany to her former glories , or to justify and inspire territorial ambitions . |
| 28 | For more than a year Alexander , at the French King 's request , had been putting discreet pressure on Henry either to return Alice to her father or marry her to Richard . |
| 29 | Californian neuroscientist John Lilly may have done most to bring Ketamine to our attention . |
| 30 | STAN FLASHMAN last night vowed never to sell Barnet to any consortium involving Barry Fry . |