Example sentences of "[verb] to a [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were no longer committed to a debtors ' prison at the instance of the man to whom they still owed money , to suffer indignities at the hands of a Thomas Bambridge . |
| 2 | The trader can appeal to a magistrates ' court against the notice and obtain compensation if there has been no contravention . |
| 3 | The Major began to feel that Onyx Muggeridge was not quite what he had come to a Parents ' Evening for , and was quite grateful when the headmaster disengaged himself with palpable reluctance from the Fromes and sailed in his direction , exuding Manner . |
| 4 | An application for a warrant should be made to a magistrates ' court unless there are public law proceedings pending in the county court or the High Court ( APO , art 3(3) ) . |
| 5 | For the police may apply to a magistrates ' court which can issue a ‘ warrant of further detention ’ if it reasonably believes this course of action to be justified . |
| 6 | Haines , with an annual salary of £2,400 , was unable to pay and was consigned to a debtors ' prison . |
| 7 | In some cases a postgraduate diploma is linked to a masters ' degree . |
| 8 | I am thirteen years old and go to a girls ' school , predominantly working class , at the Elephant and Castle , London . |
| 9 | Perhaps next year we shall discuss flagship problems and decide that each boat must belong to a producers ' or other organisation , which is then allocated a quota from the United Kingdom TAC . |
| 10 | If her answers were unsatisfactory , their report would be taken to a magistrates ' court the next morning and a petition for her " reception order " drawn up and signed by two people — preferably near relatives or representatives of the family . |
| 11 | All right , they say , a wife is a wife after all , but when it comes to a parents ' decision … |
| 12 | Satisfied , she retraces her steps until she comes to a Ladies ' cloakroom . |