Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This company subsequently made and sold pultruding machines to many other plastics specialists , both in the UK and overseas . |
| 2 | The Whole Curriculum ( 1975 ) and The Practical Curriculum ( 1981 ) both sought to alert teachers to the complex issues that have to be taken into account in whole curriculum planning , but both eschewed the provision of ready-made answers . |
| 3 | With Edie , he made drawing expeditions to Little Chart Forstal , Frittenden and Tenterden . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the fact that constructions containing mutated oligonucleotides I or III failed to stimulate transcription to wild type values , argues in favour of a direct effect of the binding proteins on transcription , in a similar way as observed for the homologous constructions . |
| 5 | When he dropped short outside off stump there would be mutterings that Wilfred was never cut in his entire career ; if he failed to bowl Yorkshire to victory on a wearing pitch , grumblings would be heard that Wardle would have had them out by tea . |
| 6 | During the political unrest of Edward II 's reign , Eastry sought to restore tranquillity to the realm . |
| 7 | We have seen how ‘ the street ’ and ‘ the city ’ played important roles in middle-class demonology , so it is easy to understand why youth workers sought to provide counter-attractions to them , believing as they did that ‘ there is nothing worth doing to be done there ’ . |
| 8 | Seeing that the independents would be slowly strangled so long as they relied exclusively upon the British circuits , he sought to establish connections to Hollywood . |
| 9 | Substitutes have been developed in the past but failed to absorb water to the extent that ivory does . |
| 10 | Islamic independent candidates failed to secure election to the executive bureau . |
| 11 | The United Kingdom failed to secure re-election to the Commission for a further three-year term , for only the second time in the Commission 's history . |
| 12 | Well erm Steve asked to write letters to Penny . |
| 13 | IBM demonstrated imaging extensions to its X-Window software in an implementation produced by the New York-based software house Congruent Corp , The X Imaging Extension ( XIE ) is the imaging software for X submitted to the X Consortium by DEC as a proposed standard . |
| 14 | Last October George Bush was asked to sign a bill that tried to restore things to the more liberal way they were between 1971 and 1989 . |
| 15 | His persistent returns to the fray helped to drive Thomson to an early grave-though not before he had succeeded in getting Palmer promoted out of Nigeria . |
| 16 | We tried to write letters to you — but they were taken away by the cai and burned . |
| 17 | Under these circumstances , a " Device full " error would be reported when you tried to write data to the file for the first time . |
| 18 | However , as Omari has pointed out , the paper also printed letters from readers who took a nationalist point of view , and tried to provide answers to them . |
| 19 | Under Phase 2 of the scheme , Nissan proposed to increase output to 100,000 cars a year by 1991 , with local content rising above 60 per cent during 1988 and subsequently rising to 80 per cent . |
| 20 | For their part , the provinces promised to provide $360,000 to each affected person to cover medical costs and survivor benefits . |
| 21 | Rising labour costs , together with the depreciation of the won , helped to increase inflation to its highest level since 1981 , with consumer prices rising by some 10 per cent in 1990 , and wholesale prices by 7 per cent . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's a question of pragmatism , because we found to obtain rights to certain tracks would have cost more than the budget for the entire picture . |
| 23 | Alison Rose to write memorandum to all staff asking for suggestions for workshops . |
| 24 | The stench that the Doctor noted as he approached bore witness to the speed with which decay took place in the tropical climate , and he found that he had to clap a handkerchief over his mouth as he knelt to examine the body . |
| 25 | Then he watched a video and tried to set fire to the house before going back to Bath . |
| 26 | It helped to spur federalists to greater efforts , and inspired the creation of new organisations devoted to the European cause . |
| 27 | She took Bible-reading classes among her nurses , and tried to lead sinners to repentance , and Florence Nightingale was afraid this might damage the reputation of workhouse nursing . |
| 28 | They cut , and the actress scrambled up and examined her knees ; a woman from Wardrobe ran up and gave her a change of mack , and bent to apply panstick to her hands where they had been dirtied by the wrecker's-yard floor ; she checked her hose and brushed her hair and the actress shook her head slowly from side to side so that it fluffed . |
| 29 | Is it not time that the Government stopped selling arms to a country with such a brutal regime ? |
| 30 | They stopped reporting incidents to the police when repeatedly no action was taken , and they were subjected to racial abuse from police officers . |