Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A procedure for transforming to a frame in free fall is described in Section 6.6 . |
| 2 | Judith was well aware of the economics involved in the provision of kosher meat for Cork 's forty or so Jewish families , but it was worth submitting to a lecture on it from her mother if it helped to make her more amenable . |
| 3 | The usual reward for keeping to a diet is in-built ; you lose weight ! |
| 4 | Doctors at King 's College Hospital , London , believe that Aisling Barnett , 35 , who suffered liver failure after reacting to a drug prescribed after the birth of her daughter , would have died yesterday if not for the operation . |
| 5 | One Sunday , after listening to a sermon in church on the wickedness of Sabbath-breaking , he was playing at tipcat ( a predecessor of cricket ) when he suddenly heard a voice cry , ‘ Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to Heaven , or have thy sins and go to Hell ? ’ |
| 6 | Hegerty , 62 , of Park Street , Ruabon , gave himself up after confessing to a priest , but had since tried to kill himself . |
| 7 | But after speaking to a group of her most trusted advisers , she turned her anger into action . |
| 8 | But in Belfast , quite sharp style-shifting in a formal direction was noted on one occasion when a young man addressed an older male researcher , after speaking to a woman . |
| 9 | Jean had a daughter by her former marriage and , soon after moving to a flat not far from Hamilton Terrace , held a party for her , inviting adults as they as yet knew no children in the area . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been in that sort of situation before , sitting in a dressing- room after losing to a team you 've been expected to beat . |
| 11 | After coming to a stop with the glider facing into wind , holding the tail down is the worst possible thing , and even leaving the nose unattended for a few moments is dangerous . |
| 12 | The pub 's east wall was also used for playing handball , he says ‘ like squash but without the racket ; I 've seen men 's hands running in blood after playing to a final . ’ |
| 13 | Lord Merriman , after referring to a number of authorities said [ 1959 ] 1 W.L.R. 587 , 606–607 : |
| 14 | After referring to a number of authorities , none of which , as he said , were ‘ quite on the point , ’ although the Canadian decision of Malette v. Shulman ( 1990 ) 67 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 321 ; [ 1991 ] 2 Med . |
| 15 | After referring to a section of the relevant Customs Act which was said to give an importer an opportunity to obtain his goods without making an irrevocable payment of the duty claimed O'Connor J. continued , at p. 277 : |
| 16 | More importantly , this collection is about aspiring to a perfection of form , the inherent rush that comes from the simple juxtaposition of notes . |
| 17 | On the brink of suicide himself when imprisoned for writing to a friend who had been called a counter-revolutionary , Liang Heng wonders , ‘ Why should two good people like my parents be forced to divorce each other ? |
| 18 | If you do n't find any of the jobs you 've seen advertised appealing , it may well be worth writing to a company that you are interested in working for , but which has no vacancies that you know of . |
| 19 | Indeed , one might be wary of suggesting to a customer that an invoice is overdue for fear that he commit hari-kari immediately ( without paying first ) . |
| 20 | The notion of giving up one 's rights to a ‘ whole community ’ or of submitting to a decision forthcoming from the community or a portion of it would be a strange and abhorrent idea to them ( Overing , in press ) . |
| 21 | It 's another day , I have slept for more than ten hours and am now famished as I follow the smell of cooking to a spot behind the barn . |
| 22 | ( 1 ) For the purpose of bringing to a conclusion any proceedings which are to be brought to a conclusion at a time appointed by this Order and which have not previously been brought to a conclusion , the Chairman or Mr. Speaker shall forthwith put the following Questions ( but no others ) — |
| 23 | Does my hon. Friend agree that domestic rates were especially unfair to single people , and will he reassure the House that he , at least , has no intention of returning to a system that discriminated against many pensioners ? |
| 24 | The 1835 Merchant Shipping Act stipulated that agreements and crew lists be filed with the Register Office of Merchant Seaman ; the master was to make a list of his men , and submit it within 48 hours of returning to a U.K. port . |
| 25 | that need n't of come to a head like that really . |
| 26 | Fragment A is more difficult to analyse as the evidence is incomplete and the habit of keeping to a set rate of progress may not have evolved at the A stage of composition ; but it could have been completed between June 1758 and April 1759 , in a shorter or longer time depending on whether he wrote one verse or three each day . |
| 27 | Ways of explaining to a child or showing things for a child , or showing a child how to do things . |
| 28 | It is well known that the pressure inside a star resists the gravitational collapse , and yet it now looks as if pressure can , by virtue of contributing to a component of the stress-energy tensor , hasten gravitational collapse . |
| 29 | The judges dismissed suggestions that government scientists had deliberately withheld evidence , suggesting that there had been " material irregularity " which fell short of contributing to a miscarriage of justice . |
| 30 | This need not detract from the magic of listening to a story or require any re-scheduling of the traditional story hour . |