Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun prp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what we can not accept is that those who have been prepared to co-operate thus far with the P.C.A. , now knowing as a result of this court 's widely publicised recent judgment of the grave suspicions presently surrounding the police officers concerned , would truly prefer to remain anonymous and watch these officers prosper in their libel action , than that their statements should be disclosed to C.N.L. with a view to their being proofed and , if necessary , called as witnesses in defence . |
| 2 | Zulfikar Ghoe , born in what became Pakistan , moved to England as a teenager , married a Brazilian , and now lives in Texas . |
| 3 | Then in 1870 he moved to London to a post as an articled clerk , and in 1877 was appointed librarian of the Incorporated Law Society . |
| 4 | Handsome Gilbey has known Diana since she first moved to London as a teenager . |
| 5 | After one year he was asked to open a new office in Hull which was , he says , ‘ a great challenge and very exciting ’ , and two years later , in 1990 , he moved to London as a local director responsible for one of the investment teams in Greater London . |
| 6 | In 1881 he moved to London in an unsuccessful endeavour to enter journalism . |
| 7 | Towards the end of 1893 he moved to Liverpool as a freelance . |
| 8 | He then moved to Westminster as a consulting engineer and became engaged in the survey , design , and construction of many large schemes for canals , railways , docks , and harbours , including those at Port Talbot , Ipswich , Penzance , and Neath . |
| 9 | Fleming was born in Manchester but moved to Dublin as a baby . |
| 10 | South Korea required support and the combination of the United States and Japan was important : the Americans were committed to Japan to an extent not applicable to South Korea and the South Korean aim was to draw the Americans in further . |
| 11 | I strongly predict that the changes that have come about in the Soviet Union are likely to come to China in a different form but to the same degree in the years that lie ahead . |
| 12 | I were only saying to a lady this morning about ee aye our Emma used to come to Leyland with a a wad of ten shilling notes new and we 'd go to er Southport would n't we ? |
| 13 | Bob and I had all sorts of schemes for us all to meet , including asking you to come to Edinburgh as a halfway house , but we realised that actually that is rather more than halfway for you , and would n't be at all easy . |
| 14 | So he invited her sent her a ticket to come to America for a year in nineteen three . |
| 15 | He told the boy , she says , to go back to Wales and save up the money which would allow him to come to London with a certain degree of security . |
| 16 | A young German student who finishes her school studies in June this year , is anxious to come to England as an au-pair for six months or a year . |
| 17 | He said it was not easy to come to Cork with a favourite 's tag and play against a posse of cuemen he had grown up with and played so often in amateur competition . |
| 18 | Twenty-seven year old Middlesbrough born midfielder Paul Lemon , who has played over 100 games for Sunderland , agreed to come to Derry on a short term contract and makes his League of Ireland debut this afternoon . |
| 19 | The Census , which until ten years ago existed only on index cards and photographs in the Warburg 's Photographic Collection , seems to have had its origins in a project allocated by Fritz Saxl to Alfred Scharf who had come to London as a refugee from Vienna around 1935 . |
| 20 | On 28 May , he had a meeting with General Dulac , who had come to Colombey as an emissary from General Salan , to brief him about plans for Operation Resurrection . |
| 21 | The 21-year-old McCracken , who makes his debut in tomorrow 's home game with Wakefield , said : ‘ I 've come to England with a bit of a reputation but I want to put all that behind me and get on with playing rugby and improving my game . |
| 22 | She was only half Indian , her mother being a Viennese woman who had come to England as an au pair and married a doctor from Darjeeling , a surgical registrar in a Bradford hospital . |
| 23 | The community we serve is largely made up of families who have come to England from a rural district of Bangladesh called Sylhet . |
| 24 | The PSOE government at first tried to break the pattern by appointing a ‘ professional ’ businessman to the chairmanship in 1983 , and by purging those who had come to RENFE as a result of their political connections with earlier governments ( see Diario 16 , 4 , 5 February 1983 ) ; about twenty people who had held senior posts in the previous UCD administration were on RENFE 's pay roll when the PSOE came to power ( Cinco Días , 2 November 1983 ) . |
| 25 | Now , the idea for the curtained cab appears to have come to Flaubert as a result of his own eccentric conduct in Paris when anxious to avoid running into Louise Colet . |
| 26 | This Ethiopian , he had come to Jerusalem , he was a , he was a a , go , a Godly man , he was seeking after the things of God , and he had come to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage to worship God , and he was returning home , and he had got hold of the scroll that had Isaiah fifty three in it , and he was reading it , and Philip goes up to the man in the chariot , he said , do you understand what you 're reading ? |
| 27 | He had come to Canterbury with a firmly established and clearly defined view of liberty as a state of the will wholly integrated with the will of God , seeking no escape from obedience , but finding freedom for the development of the soul in ever-deepening understanding of the divine nature , and ever-broadening assent to God 's will . |
| 28 | The students , all Hindus from colleges of the neighbouring states of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana , had come to Patiala for a students ' festival and were sleeping in a dormitory when they were attacked yesterday . |
| 29 | While exploiting the conquered territories France constantly proclaimed in public that it had come to Indochina on a " mission civilisatrice " to help the backward nation into the light of the twentieth century . |
| 30 | His rather was Catalan ; he had come to Mexico as a young man and worked in his brother-in-law 's grocery shop . |