Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An advancement means a sum of money paid to a child to start him in business or to make a permanent provision for him ; it does not include casual payments given as a present or to help to tide over temporary difficulties . |
| 2 | ( 21 ) Performing or listening to period music . |
| 3 | A time-honoured method for allowing intuition to blossom is to meditate regularly — whether this means taking an inner journey , dancing , walking in the woods or listening to music . |
| 4 | He links this to the act of consciousness raising , which I consider presents the greatest problem for the insider who can not leave the field or return to academia . |
| 5 | In some cases , with your manager 's prior permission , you may make long distance calls or calls to directory enquiries but you will have to pay for these . |
| 6 | Sunset had been grand but remote , like listening to a radio signal from some distant country with only a weak transmitter : when a surfer caught a wave or came to grief , you had to filter out a lot of static and strain to follow what was happening . |
| 7 | And charge transfer transitions , which involve transfer of an electron from metal to ligand or ligand to metal ( Section 6.8.5 ) , are fully allowed , and bands may be very intense indeed , as for example in . |
| 8 | Secondly , these falling yields mean that it is becoming cheaper for firms and individuals to borrow by issuing new claims like bonds and equities or going to building societies , by comparison with borrowing from banks . |
| 9 | If , however , they show no sign of ability to make contact or to learn by five years they are placed in a special school , welfare institution or returned to family surroundings . |
| 10 | In this atmosphere , it was understandable that commercial television should be placed under the close scrutiny of a licensing body , empowered by what is now s4(1) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 to ensure : ( a ) that nothing is included in the programmes which offends against good taste or decency or is likely to encourage or incite to crime or to lead to disorder or to be offensive to public feeling … ( b ) that due impartiality is preserved on the part of persons providing the programmes as respects matters of political or industrial controversy or relating to current public policy . |
| 11 | Some of these creatures are eaten , others are kept as pets or ridden to war , while the very biggest are worshipped as gods . |
| 12 | ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE TO BAGGAGE ETC. , WHILST IN THE CUSTODY OF CARRIERS ( AIRLINES , BUS COMPANIES , ETC . ) |
| 13 | As soon as he was satisfied that all was well , he laid back his ears and set to work on the grass . |
| 14 | It was her second husband , David , who died 16 years ago , who persuaded her to adopt orphaned elephants to see if they could be nursed through their grief and restored to health . |
| 15 | She reflected on the reasons why people in modern society have difficulty in expressing and ritualizing grief and responding to loss and bereavement experienced by others . |
| 16 | To determine the origin of the cloned IRS-PCR products , amplification products were used as probes and hybridized to Sfi I partially digested GM06318 DNA ; all 7 products tested hybridized to a fragment between 600 and 670 kb in size and multiple smaller fragments ( data not shown ) . |
| 17 | Well , it was late — the simplest answer would be to drop the book on the floor , throw off his T-shirt and his jeans , and crawl under the covers and go to sleep . |
| 18 | I got into bed beside my sleeping daughter , peeled aside all but one of the covers and went to sleep . |
| 19 | We gave chase using extra boost and climbing to height of 16000 . |
| 20 | The Marquess was arrested at his flat in west London on Tuesday and taken to prison for failing to pay the maintenance arrears within the stipulated two weeks . |
| 21 | When asked to explain this the boy remarked ‘ my father called me an ear'ole [ a ‘ crawler ’ or conformist ] once , in the second year , for playing football and coming to school ’ . |
| 22 | The man , in his mid-forties , was rescued by fire fighters and taken to hospital , where he was treated for smoke inhalation . |
| 23 | Shut your eyes and go to sleep . |
| 24 | Close your eyes and go to sleep . |
| 25 | I closed my eyes and began to pole . |
| 26 | MARCUS DALY-FERRIERA , 27 , is a Royal Engineers corporal and came to pentathlon through the Army Triathlon in 1987 . |
| 27 | That this principle applies even to a person convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment seems to me to emerge clearly from the decision in this court in Reg. v. Board of Visitors of Hull Prison , Ex parte St. Germain [ 1979 ] Q.B . |
| 28 | Each of the four applicants , now the appellants , has been individually convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 29 | On 13 December 1983 he was convicted of murder and sentenced to death . |
| 30 | If you wish to invite your Principal please apply for a complimentary ticket from the office should you do this please ensure that any V.I.P. you have invited is met , conducted to their seat and taken to tea and is generally made to feel welcome . |