Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Clinton claims new , higher estimates of the US government 's budget deficit forced him to sharply revise his election platform . |
| 2 | A short walk from the National Maritime Museum across the gentle greenery of Greenwich Park brings you to a handsome 18th-century red brick villa , once the official residence of the Ranger of Greenwich Park , and where the statesman Lord Chesterfield would retreat from the city . |
| 3 | Mountain lifts : The Valluga Peak cable car takes you to 9,220 ft and a magnificent view . |
| 4 | A member of the Finance Houses Association put it to us that the development of consumer credit might be seen as having three phases : first , loans granted to buy tangible assets ; secondly , loans for intangibles such as holidays ; and finally , loans simply as loans . |
| 5 | Angry , embarrassed and under close guard , he was flown to London where a Ministry of Defence car rushed him to Ramsgate , in Kent . |
| 6 | David Goldsmith treats us to a bumper four-page collection , including matting , bindings , boots and bleepers |
| 7 | According to the 1984 LFS rather over 6 per cent of the labour force considered themselves to be working on a temporary basis . |
| 8 | A conventional classics education at the equivalent of anOxbridge college brought him to Paris . |
| 9 | ‘ Guys come in with board injuries and they say , Johnny Boy did it to me . |
| 10 | At the start of your diving day , just press the face button once and watch the bar graph around the perimeter of the display countdown while the DataMax Sport zeroes itself to your current altitude , checks all internal functions and battery power . |
| 11 | The wind was tugging at her hair , the setting sun turning it to false and fleeting gold . |
| 12 | And she claimed Darlington Borough Council told her to unblock the chimney herself . |
| 13 | ‘ There is no doubt in my mind the took that decision because Castlereagh Borough Council took it to task over its figures , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Carbon monoxide attaches itself to haemoglobin much more easily than oxygen does . |
| 15 | Sponsors of each of the ten identical yachts have had to come up with a £220,000 entry fee to get them to the start line in September . |
| 16 | The slim-bodied design of the Cut Saw enables it to be used right up to walls or floors , so protruding pipes , etc , can be sawn off almost flush , especially if a slightly flexible blade is used . |
| 17 | The Flack team restored her to pristine condition as G–FURY , and she made her first flight at Elstree in June 1980 . |
| 18 | The burden of the message from schoolmaster Olver , who led Quins for three seasons before a head of department post took him to Northampton in 1990 , will be about debts — moral , not financial . |
| 19 | At 10 or 11 , I read On The Beach , Neville Shute 's book ; I thought it was frightening , so he called in an air force general to explain it to me . |
| 20 | On our way home via New York , some ‘ dear ’ friends ( as in generous ) , fixed us a stretch limo to take us to the airport . |
| 21 | For the first race the trainer friend advised us to back a horse called , I think , Super Duper . |
| 22 | If your man really wants to dress up on your wedding day send him to Louise Verity 's Dressing Up Box ( 071 622 7125 ) . |
| 23 | From the village , a 10-minute cable car ride delivers you to the slopes . |
| 24 | Their Saturday evening concert at the Arts Centre showed them to be individual artists of the highest quality who together produced something greater than just the sum of the parts . |
| 25 | Sadly , the convict 's transportation ship bore him to Botany Bay before a cure could be confirmed . |
| 26 | This talk/slide show took us to many of the stations forming part of the former Cambrian system . |
| 27 | Our second association item takes us to a late autumn in the next reign . |
| 28 | ‘ The worshippers ’ he continued , ‘ are still regarded mainly as an audience but the house is manifestly a house of God ’ : Newman Hall intended it to be both a non-denominational centre and a ‘ Cathedral of Nonconformity ’ . |
| 29 | What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done . |
| 30 | Bad news is that Robert Bosch GmbH said it planned to cut more than 1,000 jobs in its telecommunications division to take it to just over 37,000 ; 3,700 jobs went in 1992 . |