Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other Evenki clans sought to avoid subjection to the Russians by moving north of the Angara , and some of these also crossed the Yenisei into Nenets territory . |
| 2 | Discover the wonderful Ionian Islands on one of our flotillas tailored to give confidence to the inexperienced and freedom to the expert . |
| 3 | Islamic independent candidates failed to secure election to the executive bureau . |
| 4 | Yet still the Prussians delayed introducing expropriation to Pomerania until May 1912 lest they provoke an uprising , and while they bought up only four estates totalling over 6,624 hectares of land , they paid more than double the market rate . |
| 5 | Nikos turned to say goodbye to some customers , flapped a cloth over the table he had emptied before turning his gaze back to Niall . |
| 6 | Three further units had refused access to the inspectors . |
| 7 | The unchaperoned freedom with which she and her sister had gone about the city with their prospective husbands had given rise to the ‘ hostile breath of rumour ’ , and had encouraged a general belief that ‘ Pantisocracy meant a system of things which dispensed with the marriage-tie ’ . |
| 8 | Thus , while virtually all schools wished to increase access to a better-stocked library in a way which would stimulate RBL , only 14 of the schools specified existing or intended extension activities in their plans , while nine made reference to the need to establish or develop display areas , and a similar number expressed a commitment to associated inservice developments . |
| 9 | Those candidates stood to draw attention to the fact that Northern Ireland residents can not vote for or join a party which will govern them when it comes to power . |
| 10 | Two fire crews managed to keep damage to a minimum . |
| 11 | List at least five practical things your parents did to demonstrate love to each other . |
| 12 | The ITA was persuaded in 1956 that unless the four major companies had guaranteed access to a national market for so many hours a week , the whole system might fail . |
| 13 | By October , though , these wally wagons had given way to splinter-thin rowing shells in which muscular lads sweated and gasped over their oars while a weedy wimp goaded them on to still greater suffering . |
| 14 | AMERICAN troops began delivering food to starving Somalians yesterday just hours after a disastrous televised arrival in the country . |
| 15 | The Palace dismissed it as a fake , but within 24 hours Royal officials appeared to add weight to its authenticity by failing to reject it outright as a hoax . |
| 16 | The Financial Times reported on Feb. 5 that arsonists had set fire to a British Airways office in East Jerusalem . |
| 17 | Whereas the peasants continued to be edified through oral accounts of the lives of the Saints and of holy pilgrims , and occasionally learnt to read the alphabet through the Psalter , the upper classes had paid lip-service to the state religion whilst immersing themselves in rationalist Western thought . |
| 18 | In the heart of it was one of those still meres that were frequent in this part of the forest but because the yews had given way to giant beeches there was nothing dark about this lake which reflected the blue sky above and was a mirror of brightness . |
| 19 | The amateur game was in a healthy state , much of the credit being due to men like Gerald Micklem and Raymond Oppenheimer , who for years had given encouragement to every movement that stimulated youth to play golf . |
| 20 | In the Soviet Union the emphasis on ‘ socialist legality ’ meant that the interests of particular individuals had to give way to the interests of society as a whole as interpreted by the party and government . |
| 21 | In the decades before Emancipation only a few isolated individuals had carried dissent to the point of revolutionary commitment . |
| 22 | Seven hundred serious haircuts gathered to pay homage to Liverpool 's wild and intelligently wacky Pink Industry , the band led by the individualist Jayne Casey , fashion queen , Mother Superior and friend of Morrissey . |
| 23 | No small group of favourites emerged to monopolize access to the king or royal patronage : even the Hainaulters at court attracted little of the obloquy that surrounded the Savoyards and Henry III 's court , and the families which had suffered forfeiture in the political violence between 1322 and 1330 were gradually restored . |
| 24 | Nobody could have dreamt of introducing the subject of a union now ; for some mysterious reason , even the feelings of righteous indignation about pay and conditions had given way to distinct pangs of guilt . |
| 25 | Fashionable rose-pinks and muted blue dresses had given way to garish reds , bright yellows topped with sailor hats or boaters with matching ribbons . |
| 26 | The police resisted the temptation to abandon by now traditional methods of using ordinary foot police without special equipment to maintain order in such places as Grosvenor Square where in 1968 tens of thousands of protesters sought to lay siege to the U.S. Embassy . |
| 27 | The real mystery about his story is not why two wives refused to make love to him , but how he stopped talking about himself long enough to invite them to bed in the first place . |
| 28 | ‘ Actually , ’ Matthew said , ‘ I 've always wondered how those girls managed to wear muslin to the crushes at Bath and not end up with pneumonia . |
| 29 | Most western donors had suspended aid to Myanma soon after the SLORC had taken control . |
| 30 | Earlier , press reports citing Western diplomats had indicated that Russia 's interpretation of the complex mechanism for inspections had prevented access to sites which Western officials said should be opened to scrutiny . |