Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 29-YEAR-OLD Kilmarnock man who beat a nightwatchman to death in Dumfries was jailed for life yesterday . |
| 2 | He just requires to spend one night in London , he 's due to catch a flight to Vienna the next day . " |
| 3 | Peter arranged a taxi to Victoria for me to catch a train to Gatwick and the last flight to Edinburgh . |
| 4 | Congratulations , you have won a holiday to Canada . |
| 5 | The chorus of televisions was tuned to an American game show in which competing families were leaping up and down and screaming with apparent incontinence because they had won a trip to Disneyworld . |
| 6 | Mr D. Ling from Colchester in Essex has won a trip to Club St. Lucia as a result of entering the exclusive competition in the Feb/March issue of Tennis World . |
| 7 | His school was the County High School at Dagenham and from there he had won a scholarship to Oxford . |
| 8 | Frank , at the age of 16 , had already won a scholarship to Trinity College in Cambridge . |
| 9 | But six months before term began , and after Paul had won a scholarship to Corpus , Jonas Arkwright went out of his mind . |
| 10 | Sweeney 's Brittenesque , atmospheric score provided a counterpart to McGuinness 's vision of suitably hatted dancers , as chromosomes and genes , swishing about in a vibrant multi-coloured womb . |
| 11 | The Duke of Gloucester , President , British Consultants Bureau , tomorrow accompanies a mission to Portugal . |
| 12 | You do n't need a line to God now to see the way things are going . |
| 13 | Field notebooks ( some held in Library ) — provide a back-up to data on specimen labels , and biographical information . |
| 14 | By contrast both productive opportunities yield positive NPVs ; that is , they provide a return to investors over and above that offered by the capital market . |
| 15 | Geminis provide a contrast to Drago with a more relaxed cosmopolitan atmosphere . |
| 16 | Within that period there will continue to be stated periods for exchange of pleadings and other interlocutory steps since these provide a guide to parties and a means by which they can keep one another up to schedule . |
| 17 | The following steps provide a guide to action . |
| 18 | At the end of the last article I promised a visit to Wales , to see whether the same geometric patterns existed in that part of the country . |
| 19 | If , for example , you changed a word to italic , the word-processor would record a mark before the italicised word indicating ‘ italic from now on ’ and a second mark after the italicised word so it knows to return the rest of the text to normal style . |
| 20 | He worked at St Mary 's Hospital as assistant physician and lecturer in pathology and in 1866 graduated MD before returning to University College as professor of pathological anatomy in 1867 , becoming a physician to University College Hospital in 1878 . |
| 21 | Some circulate in the Arctic Ocean , others stream down the east Greenland or Labrador coasts and disperse widely in the north Atlantic Ocean , becoming a hazard to shipping . |
| 22 | In the early 1960s it became clear that compulsory continuing education was actually becoming a hindrance to recruitment . |
| 23 | Many elderly housebound people living alone feel the loss of their independence very keenly and fear becoming a burden to others . |
| 24 | As long as you identify with the negative messages that trick you into becoming a victim to negativity , then you will be used . |
| 25 | Belgium has its Coordination Centre regime and has recently extended its participation exemption to gains and so is becoming a rival to locations such as the Netherlands , Luxembourg and Gibraltar for holding companies . |
| 26 | On Nov. 12 Israel agreed to accept a visit to Jerusalem by Jean-Claude Aimé as the envoy of the UN Secretary-General , on condition that Aimé would not use the opportunity of his visit for an investigation specifically directed to the Temple Mount killings . |
| 27 | The nurses made approximately 41 visits a day to clients with leg ulcers . |
| 28 | The author , Susan Hill , was given a large advance to write a sequel to Daphne du Maurier 's Rebecca and Emma Tennant is penning a follow-up to Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice . |
| 29 | They decided to write a letter to Angel Clare , to inform him of the dangerous situation his wife was in . |
| 30 | One possible way of getting round the problem of the ‘ doorstep ’ explanation is to write a letter to people in the sample to let them know in advance of the survey and the coming call by an interviewer . |