Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun prp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 'm to escort Zurachina to Pesth . ’ |
| 3 | Jealous spinster Kath-leen Calhaem , who doted on Ken , hired part-time detective Julian Jones to batter Shirley to death at home in Yatton . |
| 4 | The Prestel in Schools project " identified six objectives : I. to educate young people in information technology 2. to show that Prestel is a general information source 3. to provide a cheap means of obtaining telesoftware 4. to provide Prestel to schools at a low introductory cost 5. to aid British industry in I.T . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Using this last possibility , Spenser implies that the English acting firmly against Ireland might demonstrate that they have purified the fault which was going to cause Ireland to scourge them in the first place , namely a tameness in executing God 's designs against savage immorality . |
| 7 | Indeed , he hopes to lead England to gold at the Chess Olympiad in Manila now the mighty Soviet chess machine is defunct . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | John Crawley : 70 against the Pakistanis , then a century to lead Cambridge to victory in the Varsity match |
| 10 | The peculiar geography involved has disturbed many , who have wanted to emend Thuringia to Tongres , an emendation already made by a scribe of one manuscript of Gregory 's Histories . |
| 11 | In the First World War radicals had looked to the emerging superpowers to enable democratic movements to set Europe to rights — whether by the enforcement of a Pax Americana , or by the boost given by the Russian Revolution to the campaign for a negotiated peace . |
| 12 | After the war , of course , the superpowers did move in to set Europe to rights . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In an attempt to maintain pressure on Soviet leaders Carrington explained his proposal to neutralise Afghanistan to President Ceausescu during an official visit to Romania in mid March 1980 . |
| 15 | DJ Carey has all the skills necessary to inspire Kilkenny to glory against Galway this afternoon |
| 16 | The 1919 Versailles Conference decision to award Shandong to Japan sparked off the nationalist eruption of the 4 May Movement in Beijing and a boycott of Japanese goods . |
| 17 | During the Oral Therapy Extension Programme the Oral Replacement Workers had told the mothers to administer LGS to children suffering from diarrhoea . |
| 18 | This will give birth to humility in us , and humility will help us resist the temptation to play God to people . |
| 19 | " We lunched at the Inn at Port Askaig , and being unable to get a hire we secured seats in the post 's gig to cross Islay to Bridgend where was a good Hotel in which we intended to pass the night . |
| 20 | Dr Granville wrote : ‘ July is much too early to see Harrogate to advantage . |
| 21 | Germany was to lose Alsace-Lorraine to France , and northern Schlesswig to Denmark . |
| 22 | ‘ Did he ask you to put Gary to bed ? ’ |
| 23 | She paid an extra dollar a week for Mrs Benson to put Maria to bed and keep an eye on her , but somehow she did n't think that Mrs Benson was all that reliable as a child-watcher . |
| 24 | Slaven claimed he had been made the scapegoat and vowed to blast Boro to promotion given the chance . |
| 25 | No one can achieve anything without the help of others and we are not talking about militancy , more the desire to support people in their quest to put Darlington to rights . |
| 26 | Although Joe had been careful not to criticise Chris to Maureen he felt indignant with him . |
| 27 | His presence gives Joan some respite and complements the assistance she receives from the doctor who visits once a week and a nurse who comes in the morning and at night to put James to bed . |
| 28 | It is in the key of E flat major , which has three flats ; there are three Ladies , attendants to the Queen of the Night , and three Spirits , who are sent to guide Tamino to Pamina . |
| 29 | Just time to put Annie to bed before they ate . |
| 30 | They managed to send Richard to school and at some time he attracted the notice of the lawyer-priest Thomas de Nevill , later Archdeacon of Durham , who gave him a grant to study at Oxford when he was about thirteen or fourteen years old . |