Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is when the strength of his emerging side , and England 's case for making it to the 1994 World Cup finals , will be truly tested . |
| 2 | ‘ 'T WAS little enough payment for taking me to Winchester . ’ |
| 3 | One other scheme allowed for one-to-one tests but left the decision about including them to individual teachers . |
| 4 | ‘ The action of the relieving officer in granting milk to the value of 5s.3d. to Ernest J. W … who is suffering from gastric ulcers , and in providing an ambulance for conveying him to Bedford for operation at a cost of £1.6s.0d. ’ was confirmed . |
| 5 | The following morning , three of the six were eventually discovered at various positions around the living room , the faint glimmer of life making me change my mind about dispatching them to the waste bin . |
| 6 | The CAR are studying the feasibility of converting them to electronic warfare trainers . |
| 7 | You do n't study these subjects at college : they are the incidental , unintended , beneficial result of submitting yourself to " the college experience " . |
| 8 | For Loeb , it had the unfortunate result of committing him to too narrow a view of the mechanisms responsible for animal orientation . |
| 9 | Lothian Regional Council began acquiring the various disused lines in 1981 and the programme of converting them to cycleway/footpaths will be continuing until the early 1990s . |
| 10 | ‘ It requires a continuous programme of selling themselves to the Catholic community . |
| 11 | The kitchen window was still open and I climbed in after crushing another handful of lavender with the intention of taking it to bed with me for an invigorating sleep , if such a thing is possible . |
| 12 | Having created the luxury 4 × 4 niche , it has no intention of relinquishing it to recent pretenders in the form of the revised Shogun , G-Wagen and Land Cruiser . |
| 13 | Nor have I the slightest intention of subjecting you to a close examination of my emotions . ’ |
| 14 | The picture passed to her son , John Whitney Payson , who lent it to a university museum in Maine with the intention of bequeathing it to the university in return for eventual tax relief on his estate . |
| 15 | Well , no point in denying it , she took after her mother 's side of the family for looks even if she had her dad 's brains , and Mrs. Pridmore had no intention of exposing her to the temptations of London . |
| 16 | Private letters are like a conversation overheard , often more revealing than an autobiography , or than a diary which may have been written with more than half an intention of allowing it to be published . |
| 17 | In 1968 , the Kittyhawk was purchased with the intention of returning it to flying condition . |
| 18 | A group of Scots taken prisoner at Solway Moss , the earls of Glencairn and Cassillis , lords Fleming , Maxwell , Somerville and others , obtained their release and were sent back to Scotland when they signed a request to Henry that he should take Mary into his care , with the intention of marrying her to his son , the future Edward VI ; their offer that they would help to bring him to power in Scotland , should Mary die , was kept entirely secret . |
| 19 | Needless to say I 've no intention of committing myself to that particular folly . |
| 20 | Where the Buyer purchases the goods with the intention of selling them to a third party for the use by that third party of the goods at work , the Buyer undertakes to supply the goods to the third party on the basis that the third party will ensure , so far as reasonably practicable , that the goods will be safe and without risks to health when properly used , and the Buyer further undertakes to procure the signature by the third party ( prior to delivery of the goods to the third party ) of the written undertaking attached hereto as Annex A obliging the third party to take the steps specified in that undertaking to ensure this . |
| 21 | Voltaire 's work is , arguably , offensive but one should err on the side of allowing it to be available . |
| 22 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 23 | And even those modern fictional texts , such as the novels of Samuel Beckett , that seem dedicated to demonstrating the impossibility of communicating anything to anybody about anything , do so by alluding to a paradigmatic act of storytelling , a paradise lost of communication : |
| 24 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 25 | There had been talk of sending me to a special school , but my family were not ready to accept such an open acknowledgment of my disability , and the excuse was again made about academic standards . |
| 26 | The man who was the driving force behind bringing them to Britain for surgery was Sir Jimmy Savile . |
| 27 | But he did not wait for a reply before throwing himself to one side as a sabre whistled down and buried itself deep in the brickwork of the window sill where he had been sitting . |
| 28 | If he was lucky and the bird ended up in the net , the Birdman would extract it and , with a deft flick , break its neck before adding it to others in a canvas bag carried round his waist . |
| 29 | Angeli , who also was not in court , had committed a fault in selling them to the press last August . |
| 30 | A private motorist who ‘ clocks ’ his car before selling it to a car dealer , may well find that he is guilty under section 23 , since it may well be his act which causes the car dealer to commit an offence under section 1 , Olgiersson v. Kitching ( 1986 D.C. ) . |