Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [noun prp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the same thinking that led Balcon to MGM persuaded Hitchcock , in 1939 , to sign a deal with David O. Selznick and emigrate to Hollywood . |
| 2 | I 've just mentioned the taunt that drives Sonya to prostitution . |
| 3 | Res. on the clifftop that joins Thurso to Scrabster are not interested in the loads of driftwood washed up below . |
| 4 | Harper had used the excuse of horse-trading to explain his journey to Isabella , but she knew the real truth of his escapade , It was not horses that fetched Harper to Belgium , but Sharpe . |
| 5 | The axis that joined Edinburgh to London — that was the lightning-rod of power . |
| 6 | Winger Dalton joined Plymouth from Hartlepool in the £250,000 deal that took Cross to Hartlepool . |
| 7 | After take-off Beaton surveyed his surroundings : ‘ Silk-lined walls , arm chairs like Pullmans , various compartments for eating , sleeping , smoking — this is the aircraft that took Churchill to America … how grateful I am to be among the lucky ones on the last lap for home . ’ |
| 8 | In Middle-earth , one may say , Providence or the Valar sent the dream that took Boromir to Rivendell ( I , 259 ) . |
| 9 | However , that brought Fulham to life and soon afterwards they were testing Prudhoe 's handling , in slippery conditions , with a stream of deep crosses . |
| 10 | With an ability to take a hardcore hip hop track and make the curly-permed DJ at the local disco understand it , Cook became the pop rap remix king ; an indispensable link in the chain that brought Brooklyn to Basildon and Basingstoke . |
| 11 | United passed the ball sweetly between each other to continue to create chances that should have put the game beyond Brentford , and it was no surprise when , in the 63rd minute , they created a fine goal that stretched Brentford to breaking point . |
| 12 | And what of Malcolm Crosby … he teamed up with Smith at York … followed him to Roker and then took over and led Sunderland to Wembley … |
| 13 | ‘ What a treasure ’ and asked Stella to afternoon tea at George Henry Lee 's across the road . |
| 14 | He claimed he had acted to protect US lives ; to defend the Panama Canal ( control of which was to passed over to Panama on January 1 , 1990 — eleven days before the invasion ) ; to ‘ restore democracy ’ to Panama ; and to stop drug trafficking and bring Noriega to justice . |
| 15 | He had only a daughter to succeed him and his son-in-law turned out to be a second Michael Chambre , who after Lath 's death ‘ let loose the reins to many disorderly courses , as cocking , raseing , drinking and lewdnesse ’ , so that he too finally lost all and sold Balderton to Robert Hayward , a local yeoman . |
| 16 | Storehouse sold Habitat to Ikea 's holding company , Stichting Ingka Foundation , and sold Richards to Sears . |
| 17 | He extended a huge hand and invited Wilkie to lunch . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Hubert , who was the boy 's housemaster , summoned a mechanic and invited Barbara to lunch . |
| 20 | Both the Soviet Union and the new Ethiopian regime denounced the use of these facilities , but the USSR simultaneously developed facilities off the Ethiopian mainland at the Dahlak Archipelago , including a floating dry-dock , and used Asmara to stage reconnaissance flights over the Red Sea . |
| 21 | If you want a job just run upstairs and say McCloy to Mr Burden . |
| 22 | He therefore brought Sobers close in at cover and told Gibbs to flight the ball at Harvey . |
| 23 | APENALTY of nine places against the Australian yacht Prime Factor has dropped her team to third overall in the NorTel Southern Cross Cup series and lifted Britain to second . |
| 24 | It was sport 's classless society and allowed Edwards to glory in his enduring ambition . |
| 25 | This had not happened on such a scale before and encouraged MacMillan to stage another biographical work , Isadora , which followed the pattern of his earlier Anastasia . |
| 26 | I 'll put Aline straight and try and get Tom to belt up about it when amongst the boys . |
| 27 | I had half expected him to begin raving about cursed women and sending Melinda to Asyut . |
| 28 | He defended himself vigorously , and took Theo to task for parroting their father 's words . |
| 29 | The turning point was Denis Law 's infamous transfer debacle in 1973 when he was given a free transfer by United and crossed Manchester to Maine Road to join Manchester City . |
| 30 | He finished top of the Minor Counties bowling averages in 1991 , and bowled Wales to victory at Neston with figures of 6 for 22 from 12 overs . |