Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their views might have attracted wider sympathy if the regime had been engaging in repression across the board , but although the tsar appeared to move to the right when he appointed Valuev to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Admiral Putiatin to the Ministry of Education , he was very far from abandoning the cause of reform . |
| 2 | Then they led Linkworth to the hanging-shed to punish him for his crime . |
| 3 | During the next few months a violent fascist backlash , an orchestrated campaign of civil disorder and terrorism culminating in armed insurrection , led Nizan to the conclusion that very firm Republican counter-measures were necessary . |
| 4 | In 1986 , on their first tour to Britain for years , the Bolshoi 's artistic director , Yuri Grigorovich , revealed Mukhamedov to the ballet world , and it gasped with astonishment . |
| 5 | There was general agreement that , although he never led Surrey to the title , their placings of second , third , fourth , third and second between 1921 and 1925 were little short of miraculous given the glorious lopsidedness of the team — brilliant batting ( led by Hobbs ) totally unmatched by workaday bowling . |
| 6 | WHEN Stuart Surridge led Surrey to the County Championship in 1952 , his first season of captaincy , Wisden , in choosing him alongside Tom Graveney , Fred Trueman , David Sheppard and Harold Gimblett as a Cricketer of the year , captured his salient qualities in a sentence : ‘ Though not always free from criticism as regards tactics and the manner in which he handled the bowling , he brought to Surrey a spirit of consistent enterprise and aggression such as they had not known since the days of P. G. H. Fender 's captaincy 20-odd years previously . ’ |
| 7 | When the shutters had been opened wider to let in the bright midday light she helped Luce to the bathroom . |
| 8 | He captained Scotland to the final of the Alfred Dunhill Cup England beat them then was third in the Madrid Open and on Sunday lost a playoff to Sandy Lyle for the Volvo Masters . |
| 9 | Sally Gunnell 's 400 metres hurdles gold thrilled the nation and Will Carling captained England to the Rugby Union World Cup final and then to another Grand Slam success . |
| 10 | The men ca n't have it all their own way — Sally Gunnell 's 400 metres hurdles gold thrilled the nation and Will Carling captained England to the Rugby Union World Cup final and then to another Grand Slam success . |
| 11 | Yet it was a wonderful pairing , one of the most exciting in the game 's history , and it helped Hampshire to the championship in 1973 and the John Player League in 1975 and 1978 . |
| 12 | Both men had served in the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers where d'Alembord had succeeded Sharpe to the command of the first battalion 's light company . |
| 13 | The attention has catapulted Singleton to the fore of the newwave of black film-makers and he has been taking full advantage of the limelight , running off his mouth on issues of Black America and the worldwide struggles of the oppressed , with a revolutionary fervour that threatens to eclipse even his hero and mentor , Spike Lee . |
| 14 | Seduce Eve to the apple . |
| 15 | ‘ Ah 's takin' Luney to the bread man . |
| 16 | But applying QALYs to the allocation of resources is quite different because it involves a choice between the welfares of different people . |
| 17 | As Forster helped Delaney to the ladder he was unaware of the huge distorted eye watching him . |
| 18 | Again , in 1747 , when reporting back on germination , Collinson referred Bartram to the Dictionary : |
| 19 | ‘ And the rest of that shelf and all of the bottom one covers Pemberley to the present . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Keep the gate closed ! ’ shouted Gabriel to the gatekeeper . |
| 21 | But Gascoigne wins it back , but Stein beats Gascoigne to the ball , lays it forward now to Simpson , Simpson — bad ball by Simpson , it 's Spurs in possession down the right side , it 's Paul Allen faced by Gary again , in fact it 's Paul Stewart , Stewart gets inside , will he get in the shooting chance , he 's trying to — chance now for Gascoigne , Gascoignes get in his shot and he 's scored . |
| 22 | With both batsmen in the middle of the pitch , the ricochet beat Barlow to the bowler 's end and broke the stumps there as well ; Lloyd appealed , but umpire Jepson gave ‘ not out ’ . |
| 23 | The filmed evidence of Barry smoking crack was undermined by the prevalent opinion that the FBI " sting " operation — in which Moore lured Barry to the hotel and offered him crack — had been over-zealous to the point that it had constituted a form of entrapment . |
| 24 | Lepus is a small but distinctive constellation , adjoining Orion to the south . |
| 25 | Pascoe 's stomach did a quick flip-over , he beat Dalziel to the door by a full two yards and almost fell into the lounge . |
| 26 | The Member who wrote to express his disagreement invited Mark to the House to discuss his reasons for taking the opposite viewpoint . |
| 27 | Indeed , Sally O'Brien 's has built up a reputation as an excellent venue , catering for a variety of musical tastes and keeping Omagh to the forefront when it comes to live music . |
| 28 | ‘ If we do n't do well in the exam , if we do n't get anything here , ’ Sheila blurted out , as they said goodbye outside the front garden while Moran waited with the engine running to drive Maggie to the station , ‘ you may see us in London soon enough . ’ |
| 29 | His tutor , Dr John Preston [ q.v. ] , recommended Bradstreet to the Earl of Lincoln , who employed him as an assistant steward on his estates . |
| 30 | and seeing England to the brink of victory . |