Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | During a meeting held on Lake Titicaca in October 1989 , Paz Zamora was advised by President Alan García Pérez of Peru that Peru would not object if Chile granted landlocked Bolivia an outlet to the Pacific Ocean through territories formerly belonging to Peru . |
| 2 | On the second point , that of allowing youngsters a chance to ‘ have a look ’ at the pro game , I suspect it will have little effect . |
| 3 | The two leaders agreed to establish diplomatic relations , and to co-operate in transport links , including civil aviation and the construction of a highway from Termez ( near the border , north of Mazar-i-Sharif ) through Afghanistan to Karachi ( Pakistan ) which would give Uzbekistan an outlet to the sea . |
| 4 | Not only are its policies extremely wasteful , but one of the companies that it set up is just collapsing , insolvent , and this is costing £8 a head to every community charge payer in the area . |
| 5 | So we 're way down on all the others ! so , that then falls three hundred thousand pound short of what is required to er , give ministers an increase to twelve thousand next year . |
| 6 | However , the opposition , which controlled the Senate , warned that the result did not give Aylwin a mandate to " steamroller the country into political reforms " and threatened to resist the government 's package of proposed reforms of the 1980 Constitution ( in force since 1981 ) presented in March with the primary purpose of further distancing the government from the previous military regime [ see p. 38810 ] . |
| 7 | Makers Central have given Tom a chance to virtually write his own ticket . |
| 8 | After many trials with cross-spars and bridles , the Geisha flew well enough to win Joel a trip to Japan ! |
| 9 | Some subordinate foresters appointed by the king were paid wages : in 1228 Hubert de Burgh , as warden of Windsor Forest , was paying 6d. a day to Osbert and Robert , King 's serjeants , for keeping the forest of Odiham , and in 1233 2d. a day to each of six serjeants on foot for keeping the forest of Windsor by the king 's command . |
| 10 | They add $300 a user to the cost . |
| 11 | They add $300 a seat to the cost . |
| 12 | Ratso gets Buck an introduction to a man ( John McGiver ) who is supposed to put him in touch with some rich ladies , but he begs Buck to get down on his knees and pray with him under a kitschy lit-up Jesus on the bathroom door of his hotel room . |
| 13 | The company which used to give £40,000 a year to Tory funds , launched a stinging attack on Government policies . |
| 14 | But their real function is to give people a chance to be famous for five minutes , by saying something that will get them on to the next news broadcast . |
| 15 | The mart will thus wind up and return £8 a share to its owners — a perverse victim of its own success . |
| 16 | During the spring and summer of 1939 , Hitler intimidated Poland over his claim for the right to have back a corridor — which Poland had been given after the Greet War to give Poland an access to the Baltic Sea , including the port of Danzig . |
| 17 | I pay 11p a week to be a member of the union but I really think it is a waste of hard earned money . |
| 18 | Police had to wait before giving Jacko an escort to the M4 . |
| 19 | France now offered Germany a road to the future not as part of a German-Soviet alliance or as an American bastion in Europe , but as part of a European entity . |
| 20 | At the end of a trip to Devon , a friend offered Graeme a lift to the station . |
| 21 | Brook clearly thought this anti-committee mania was getting out of hand and sent Bridges a minute to this effect : |
| 22 | • A new 11 mile cycle route through Great Glen , initiated by Forest Enterprise , gives cyclists an alternative to the busy A82 Fort William to Inverness Road . |
| 23 | The Southern Centre has successfully sued both Mississippi and Florida on this basis and they now have to pay $25 an hour to defence lawyers . |
| 24 | People can subscribe £1,500 a year to such a trust through a general personal equity plan ( PEP ) . |
| 25 | It also gave King an audience to verbally push his next card — Chavez against Haugen and Norris against Maurice Blocker on February 20 in the 102,000-capacity Azteca Stadium in Mexico City — ‘ the biggest live boxing gate in the history of mankind ’ , as King grandiosely puts it . |
| 26 | Earlier this month Borg was ordered to pay £13,000 a month to his estranged Italian wife , Loredana Berte . |
| 27 | The European proposals , which could add $10 a barrel to the price of oil by the end of the century , were also opposed by large-scale energy users claiming that their businesses would be hampered if other trading partners did not introduce similar measures . |
| 28 | Lack of sound education in building up more mature religious concepts has left pupils a prey to chance forces , snatches of conversation and the effects of the implicit and nul curriculum . |
| 29 | The use just discussed bears a relation to the occurrence of the bare infinitive after the expressions rather than and sooner than : ( 32 ) He paid the fine rather than appeal to a higher court . |
| 30 | Children 's Corner is full of treasures , promises younger spectators the magic of live story-telling and offers adults a return to some of the enchanted places of childhood . |