Example sentences of "[det] [verb] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A journey to the capital in the late 18th century can scarcely have been as harrowing an affair as that made to Kent by William the Emigrant in 1711 . |
| 2 | The amount of serum given had to balance with the amount given me by the Pharmacist from the records she kept of that given to Ward Sisters for use on the wards . |
| 3 | If I said to you , ‘ I saw a chair going down the road yesterday and … ’ you would interrupt and say , ‘ That belongs to Mr So-and-So , 316 Carphalute Quadrant North , Lesmahagow , AND his dog has the croup , and last year he lost his … ‘ ’ |
| 4 | That led to Africa and to Kitchener 's campaigns . |
| 5 | that led to Hela 's drear abode . |
| 6 | Aquib shrugged off the flashpoint at Lord 's that led to Allan Lamb exposing Pakistan as cheats . |
| 7 | That got to Niki . |
| 8 | None of that matters to Kenneth Arnold so much as the fact that he acted selflessly at a time when he was needed . |
| 9 | That matters to Mr Levin . |
| 10 | Disgusting privvies , inadequate sewers , atmospheric pollution and the lack of piped water each contributed to Preston 's unprecedented public health problems . |
| 11 | He did some damage to Nogai , and now they 'll know to keep away from one another . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ In other words , ’ Cranston half whispered to Athelstan , ‘ the fellow is asking us when we are going to bugger off . ’ |
| 13 | But what difference could this make to Stephen ? |
| 14 | The diagram shows the global comparison of different levels of debt , but how does this relate to Modigliani 's marginal change in b ? |
| 15 | Their being excited in us in an orderly fashion ‘ gives us a sort of foresight , which enables us to regulate our actions for the benefit of life ’ ; and this testifies to God 's wisdom and benevolence . |
| 16 | This goes to Alt St Johann , Unterwasser and Wildhaus , the birthplace of Ulrich Zwingli , the fierce preacher of the Reformation , whose house can be visited . |
| 17 | Its leader , a Colonel Seymour , was charged with committing common assault on Charles Eyres , the leader of the Croydon branch of the organization , after a dispute in which Eyres claimed that Seymour had misappropriated funds and altered the constitution to turn himself into a virtual dictator ; this led to Seymour drawing a sword and pointing an unlicensed gun at Eyres . |
| 18 | All of this led to Khrushchev 's best-remembered comment of the tour : ‘ Man 's face , ’ he said , ‘ is more beautiful than his backside . ’ |
| 19 | To soften his feelings , however , we learned that the Professor from time to time gave him a fee which far exceeded the amount of the toll … just by the Bridge , turnstiles admitted foot-passengers to pass by different paths , intersecting the large extent of open ground , some of this led to Somers Town , Red Lion Street , etc … here and there , especially at the lower portion of the [ College ] ground , walls were standing , some of them being eight or ten feet high . ’ |
| 20 | This led to Gibson being seconded in 1928 to work with Michels on the properties of gases at high pressures , and to ICI becoming interested in the chemical effects of high pressures , the theme of Gibson 's work on his return to Winnington in 1931 . |
| 21 | This led to Meredith posing for the face of the dead poet , Thomas Chatterton [ q.v. ] , in Wallis 's painting ‘ Chatterton ’ ( Tate Gallery ) which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856 . |
| 22 | This led to Richard II being imprisoned in the Tower of London and the House of Lancaster usurped the throne with Henry IV being crowned at Westminster , on 13th . |
| 23 | This led to Jeff 's development of a personal tapping style , one which deviates from the two-handed norm … |
| 24 | I admit to feeling a little dubious regarding the adequacy of these small filtration units and this was well-founded in some respects as I discovered that although the two models are described as 35 and 55 gallon capacity no mention is made in the advertising that this refers to US gallons not Imperial . |
| 25 | On the other hand , a glance at the likes of Federico Mendez suggests if he is good enough , he is old enough — unless you subscribe to the theory that the dates of birth of Argentinian props are as suspect as those of Pakistani fast bowlers ! ( * For the cricketers this refers to Mike and Mike , not Wes and Charlie ) . |
| 26 | Do we ask : ‘ How does this match up to Beethoven 's original intentions ? ’ or ‘ How does this compare to Philharmonia/Klemperer , BPO/Karajan etc. ? ’ |
| 27 | This points to Eleanor of Provence , Edward 's mother and consort of Henry III , whose reputation is as bad as that of Eleanor of Castile is good — though not for David Gordon , who seems to think that because she 's said to be ‘ of Provence ’ , this puts her above suspicion . |
| 28 | All this thanks to Dorothy . |
| 29 | Of course this contributed to Britain 's ability to feed herself during the Napoleonic Wars , but in bad years , because of the lack of imported corn , most people could not afford bread . |
| 30 | This referred to Barvas , and has some bearing upon recent papers regarding the ‘ spread ’ of Petasites hybridus over the machair ( Currie , 1977 , Naylor & Cumming , 1892 ) . |