Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stabbed Ben to death with a pair of dress-making scissors and then tried to kill herself . |
| 2 | It goes every day and I can assure you that your cousin who is helping Germany to victory with her work will receive them very quickly . ’ |
| 3 | Tesseract will port Primrose to Unix by year end using Sequent Computer Systems Inc and Pyramid Technology Corp multi-processors . |
| 4 | IAN WRIGHT proved a point to manager George Graham at Highbury last night as he led Arsenal to victory in their delayed third round replay against First Division Derby . |
| 5 | Jealous spinster Kath-leen Calhaem , who doted on Ken , hired part-time detective Julian Jones to batter Shirley to death at home in Yatton . |
| 6 | She had just finished an article about pawnshops , the meat of which had been supplied by Rose , who had come round again and invited Sally-Anne to tea at the Buildings . |
| 7 | Her father , David Hammond , aged 25 , allegedly beat Sukina to death in the family home in St Paul 's , Bristol , last December 6 after he became annoyed when she would not spell her name . |
| 8 | Oh dear Ian Botham 's dream of helping England to victory in his last world cup campaign took thrilling shape in Perth . |
| 9 | Thus most Tories supported the war with France in William 's reign as both necessary and desirable , whilst it was a House of Commons with a Tory majority which committed England to war in defence of a balance of power in 1701 . |
| 10 | Indeed , he hopes to lead England to gold at the Chess Olympiad in Manila now the mighty Soviet chess machine is defunct . |
| 11 | John Crawley : 70 against the Pakistanis , then a century to lead Cambridge to victory in the Varsity match |
| 12 | When he dropped short outside off stump there would be mutterings that Wilfred was never cut in his entire career ; if he failed to bowl Yorkshire to victory on a wearing pitch , grumblings would be heard that Wardle would have had them out by tea . |
| 13 | Charles Boyce rode Emigrant to victory in 1858 with one arm strapped to his side . |
| 14 | DJ Carey has all the skills necessary to inspire Kilkenny to glory against Galway this afternoon |
| 15 | It was sport 's classless society and allowed Edwards to glory in his enduring ambition . |
| 16 | I 'm not suggesting that we chain Peter to Caliban for eighteen hours a day . |
| 17 | The aim was to use the wealth from one natural resource , to fund a system that would return Mexico to self-sufficiency in basic foods . |
| 18 | But to the surprise of western political spectators , last autumn 's elections returned Iliescu to power in preference to the policies of Emil Constantinescu and the Democratic Convention , an anti-government coalition promising civil liberties and a free market economy . |
| 19 | Dan Sperber takes Lévi-Strauss to task for claiming that kinship systems should be regarded as a language with the circulation of women taking the place of the circulation of words : |
| 20 | On that same day , Franco ordered Varela to detour to Toledo . |
| 21 | Reed had called Jesse to book on his ‘ New York ’ album over the Rainbow Coalition leader 's alleged reluctance to condemn the anti-Semitic utterances of black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan , and sure enough made pointed reference to this particular troubled racial undercurrent in an America riven by the Reagan-Bush years ' divisive culture . |
| 22 | The study then compares NT to Unix on 80 functional areas falling into three categories : user environment , operating environment and development environment . |
| 23 | Certainly Jesus revealed God to man in way the written Old Testament alone could never have done . |
| 24 | With 10 needed off the last three overs of the day , Waqar worked Salisbury to mid-wicket for three . |
| 25 | Tonight 's game against Turkey will not have any influence on USA'94 : we are alreay qualified — but a win might take Norway to top of the FIFA ranking and i guess all the players want to show that they can perform even in such a ‘ meaningless ’ game . |
| 26 | His father was told about the accident , and he arrived at the scene quickly enough to accompany Guy to hospital in the ambulance . |
| 27 | So you 'll take Paul to church in the morning will you ? |
| 28 | Beatty 's aim was to keep Hipper so closely engaged that the Germans could not break off the action until Jellicoe arrived ; Hipper 's task was to lure Beatty to destruction at the hands of Scheer . |
| 29 | MAN FOR THE JOB GARRY Schofield played the game of his life when he led Britain to victory in the second Ashes Test in Melbourne . |
| 30 | — GRAEME Hall , who is joining Arsenal next month as an apprentice professional , signed off from school athletics with a fine double in the shot and javelin before helping Stockton to victory in the intermediate relay . |