Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [noun prp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his letter to the auditor , councillor O Muilleoir said the council had ‘ worn a path to the travel agents ' door ’ with trips to Thiepval and other war sites including : June-July 1988 six council representatives ( all unionist ) toured Somme battle sites for one week June-July 1989 , a week long visit to France by four unionists cost £1,984 |
| 2 | Exactly a week later I suddenly went to Oxford by the most impossible train which stopped at every station . |
| 3 | You see , we know that if the Hispaniola does not return to Bristol by the end of August , a rescue ship will be sent to look for us . |
| 4 | Gibraltar and Minorca remained in British hands throughout the war , and were formally transferred to Britain by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 . |
| 5 | HARMONY IN MY HEAD Brian May I spoke to Brian May on the day the news broke that his guitar had been mistakenly despatched to France by a roadie , to await an uncertain fate at the hands of ‘ lost and found ’ … |
| 6 | The donkeys have now gone of course , but you can still get to Malvern by train , and through the tunnel right under the hills , although not by steam train . |
| 7 | The important point , however , is that the two " likes " must be treated as like in some respect ; and in the linguistic cases this does not merely mean that the two items co-ordinated must be on the same level in terms of specific syntactic classifications , as has often been remarked ; more importantly , it is clear that they must be alike in both bearing one of the other relations , already introduced , to some third element ; thus , in : ( 38 ) Nora is Irish and beautiful the structure is such that Irish and beautiful are both related to Nora by assignment , while in : ( 39 ) bed and board is going to take half his wages the relation of instantiation links both bed and board to the single entity in the subject position . |
| 8 | The smuggling vessel was later towed to Gravesend by Venturous where she was officially seized . |
| 9 | In May 1688 Ken was urgently summoned to London by Sancroft , the Archbishop of Canterbury , to consult with his fellow bishops in response to an Order in Council requiring them to instruct their clergy to read in Church a Declaration of Indulgence ; under this , Roman Catholics and Dissenters would no longer be required to subscribe to oaths under the Test Acts . |
| 10 | Originally a Nonconformist , Rogers was later converted to Anglo-Catholicism by the ritualist curate Arthur Henry Stanton [ q.v . ] . |
| 11 | You can also get to Dover by coach — we have coaches departing from regional departure points around the U.K. See pages 10–13 for details of departure , periods of operation and supplements . |
| 12 | The altar was originally brought to Slovakia by a count who installed it in his castle in Bojnice , central Slovakia . |
| 13 | They were originally brought to Britain by Northampton schoolmaster Gerald Smith . |
| 14 | They were originally brought to Britain by Northampton schoolmaster Gerald Smith . |
| 15 | Evidence shows that people are often brought to Christ by membership of such a group . |
| 16 | Apart from the £2,500 for which he allegedly sold the dormeuse to the British government , von Keller is reputed to have discovered a quantity of diamonds ( originally ceded to Napoleon by his brother Joseph ) sewn into the lining of the Emperor 's spare uniform . |
| 17 | Robert Polhill , a US lecturer , was freed in West Beirut on April 22 and was immediately driven to Damascus by Syrian security officials . |
| 18 | The South India Railway was to be built as far as Ramaswaram and then connected to Ceylon by embankments and bridges . |
| 19 | Under the Seadocs procedure , The bill would have been issued by the carrier in the traditional negotiable paper based manner , but would have been taken out of circulation immediately after issuance , and then sent to SeaDocs by courier for safekeeping in Seadocs ' vault . |
| 20 | More than 200,000 cases of AIDS had been officially reported to WHO by more than 150 countries by the end of 1989 , and it was estimated that between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 people were HIV-positive . |
| 21 | In the latest recorded incident , Haitian security police had detained 150 refugees on Aug. 14 , only minutes after they had been forcibly returned to Port-au-Prince by the US coast guard . |
| 22 | Almost certainly brought to Britain by the Romans , it is now occasionally found growing wild , and can easily be confused with cow parsley when the latter is young . |
| 23 | That opportunity arrives with Pistol 's reckless threat to ‘ knock his leek about his pate/Upon Saint Davy 's day ’ ( IV.i.54f. ) , dutifully relayed to Fluellen by the King . |
| 24 | and that had been so cruelly denied to Isaac by Jacob himself in his youth . |