Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | VETERAN rocker Rod Stewart got to grips with fatherhood at last yesterday . |
| 2 | Jenkins admitted to ignorance , but covered himself by saying that the selectors did not know the team either . |
| 3 | Her reluctant pioneering activity in Huntingdonshire led to courses at Eaton Socon , St. Neots and the county town . |
| 4 | Cardiff clung to Rohmer 's gun hand . |
| 5 | I whispered something to my mother and then Ma whispered to Dad . |
| 6 | Four claims filed against the firm in Tennessee amounted to $255m . |
| 7 | A chance meeting at an international conference on prison security in Stockholm led to Latvia getting the blessing of a Scottish Office minister for assistance from the Scottish Prison Service towards reform of their penal system . |
| 8 | FIFA president Joao Havelange , who issued the ultimatum to the FFF last week , and general secretary Sepp Blatter agreed to Fournet-Fayard 's request for a meeting before they joined the UEFA executive as observers . |
| 9 | Bibliography and acquisitions of valuable collections of Welsh books and manuscripts for Cardiff led to Ballinger 's appointment in 1908 as first librarian of the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth , which was opened in 1909 . |
| 10 | Tony Pigott 's 1991 benefit with Sussex amounted to £60,025 . |
| 11 | Ritchie passed to Irwin and then ran on to head the cross past Lukic . |
| 12 | After the long drive they were understandably tired , yet for some reason Stirling failed to post sentries . |
| 13 | Vice-chancellor Sir Donald Nicholls agreed to demands from a majority of the informal BCCI creditors ' committee for more time to consider the deal , under which the bank 's majority shareholders in Abu Dhabi will inject nearly £1 billion . |
| 14 | Eventually , Mr Grimwig whispered to Mr Brownlow , ‘ He may be a good-looking boy , but I think he 's deceiving you , my good friend . ’ |
| 15 | Ilona Staller moved to Italy when she was 17 and you would imagine that more than 20 years as a star of blue screen and stage — she had an act with a tame snake that caused concern among Italian animal-rights organisations — would have left her a little world-weary . |
| 16 | Ferguson moved to Kuwait , where he first met and impressed Crosby , who was just embarking on a coaching career . |
| 17 | Mr Hall and his wife Jacqueline moved to Craigbarnet Road , Milngavie , in October 1991 , soon after the birth of their daughter . |
| 18 | Marinello rose to fame on the back of one of Hibernian 's greatest eras . |
| 19 | Cheyney moved to Venice in the 1840s , where he lived at the Palazzo Soranzo-Piovene on the Grand Canal . |
| 20 | Gloag moved to Glasgow where , with an unmarried sister , he set up home in the university . |
| 21 | ‘ Manuel took 37 to the turn , ’ Patrick reported to Richie . |
| 22 | ‘ And Zadkine referred to Modigliani 's unfinished heads , outside in the mud , most of them still in a rough stage . |
| 23 | More immediately though , Carl Theodor moved to Munich , where members of his court were eventually to follow him , and Mannheim was plunged into a state of mourning with all concert , theatre and opera performances cancelled , and a considerable impact on the local economy . |
| 24 | In 1983 production increased from 58.3 MTOE ( 1982 ) to 61.5 MTOE and the Netherlands proposed to Britain that Dutch gas could replace Norwegian should the two parties be unable to reach an agreement on Sleipner as subsequently proved to be the case . |
| 25 | When Ferdinand Marcos fled to Hawaii in 1986 after being deposed as president of the Philippines , his close friend Mr Cojuangco went with him . |
| 26 | West Germany objected to French being the single language of the organisation , and the net result was that the ECSC had to operate with four official languages . |
| 27 | When Deuce split up , Marty moved to Hawaii and formed a band down there called … |
| 28 | The conversion was at first a family secret ; when it leaked out to the neighbours the Murphys fled to Dublin , where William worked in his teens in a boot shop . |
| 29 | McNaught moved to Lancashire in 1849 , and the firm of J. & W. McNaught was established in 1860 , acquiring new premises in Rochdale in 1862 , and remaining in business until 1914 . |
| 30 | Mabbott moved to Dublin during the summer of 1661 , surrendering the office to the Crown in June 1664 for £4,800 . |