Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps too much emphasis was given in hyper-Calvinism to God the lawgiver ? |
| 2 | The customer sold the car to X. The finance company rejected the offers . |
| 3 | In the middle of May they had imprisoned Sir Roger Clarendon , who was , so the common people said , natural son to the great Edward , the Black Prince , and half-brother to Richard the king . |
| 4 | On his return to Ireland the party split . |
| 5 | At 18.30 a special evening train was behind 2857 in order to give visitors the chance to experience night steam , and on return to Toddington the loco was positioned in front of the station building to provide photographic opportunities . |
| 6 | The mission remained for six years in Abyssinia and after its return to Portugal the chaplain , Francisco Alvares , wrote his famous account of the country , A true relation of the lands of the Prester John . |
| 7 | An optional final toast to HM the Queen is made at most Jewish weddings in the UK . |
| 8 | These events eventually made plain to Gandhi the existence in both official and unofficial circles of a section of British public opinion which he could not hope to convert , though he came most reluctantly to an acknowledgement of this fact . |
| 9 | Anfield 's Welsh wizard also took time to pay tribute to Dalglish the player . |
| 10 | Oldfield excited the crowd with a long run from the halfway line and when he back-heeled the ball to Mills the full-back hit his shot against a post . |
| 11 | The government 's difficulties were compounded by separate developments relating to its pledge to Islamicize the economy . |
| 12 | Then Malcolm bowled Richards , and after Best fell to Small the tail soon went . |
| 13 | The first age was said to belong to God the Father , the second to God the Son , and the last age to God the Spirit . |
| 14 | With a boost in public increase brought about by the opening of the line extension to Glyndyfrdwy the Railway is now clearly in a higher division with a respectable 5½ miles of operating length . |
| 15 | Digiboard is negotiating for IBM Corp 's PowerPC division to OEM the thing . |
| 16 | There is a kind of confidence , typified in the prayer to Christ the source of sweet honey-cells of devotion , which is at odds with the stark mood provoked by a revulsion from sin in the whole piece and which is very different from the whole thrust of the short version : The profound realisation of Jesus as a source of grace at the heart of this passage in the long version colours the meditator 's longing for it in the other expanded meditations that open out of this sequence of prayers . |
| 17 | All subjects then learned to push a handle ( R1 ) in response to A and to pull it ( R2 ) in response to B. The test phase showed that stimulus C tended to evoke R2 , that is , to evoke the response acquired to the training stimulus that had received equivalent pre-training . |
| 18 | He has made an understandable decision to Americanise the story , just as Disney did with European fairy-tales like Pinocchio and English classics such as The Jungle Book . |
| 19 | From Brockdish to Weybridge the way runs through watermeadows and on to Harleston , Momersfield , Earsham and Ditchingham . |
| 20 | Terra Sigillata ware , including lamps , now date an early alteration to the palace around the year nought , placing it well within the possibility of identification as the Herodian palace described by Josephus , the Jewish historian ( 37–100 AD ) , together with the city of Caeserea , its great harbour , temple to Augustus the Emperor , and theatre . |
| 21 | By September 1938 it was clear that Carl Burckhardt , the Swiss League of Nations High Commissioner , was not prepared to do anything to prevent the drive to Nazify the city , and that he saw his position to be that of ‘ observer ’ or , at most , intermediary . |
| 22 | The scenes were acted swiftly in her mind : when Frere turned in bewilderment to Emilia the woman would deny that any such confidence had been exchanged ; accused of mischief , Louisa would be forgiven by neither ; the ‘ intolerable slander ’ ( for such it would be called ) would furnish a pretext for Emilia 's immediate departure from Munding ; and Frere , if he remained , would be friendless . |
| 23 | On the journey to Bristol the cold intensified . |
| 24 | That was a new word to Rincewind the wizard ( B. Mgc. , Unseen University [ failed ] ) . |
| 25 | The relief sought is an order of certiorari , and the principal ground on which relief is sought is that in relation to Winchester the board of Lautro had on 30 October failed to observe the rules of natural justice . |
| 26 | On the morning she was expected in the office for the signing ceremony , Stephen Navin , Virgin 's lawyer , telephoned the singer 's lawyers , only to learn that she had actually signed for a larger sum to CBS the day before . |
| 27 | Who put an end to Rimeq the Renegade ? ’ |
| 28 | The restoration of sight was made a general activity of Jesus in his answer to John the Baptiser , who was imprisoned by Herod , but seemed to have had doubts about whether Jesus was the expected one . |
| 29 | The pope , it was shown , was impotent to defend the clergy against royal demands : Boniface himself had sold the pass by his concessions of principle to Philip the Fair ; moreover , popes henceforward had too much need of diplomatic and financial support to impose interdicts and risk schism . |
| 30 | She rang the Sunday Herald number , placating her conscience with the thought that she might not have time to ring Tracey that evening after all ; but when she got through to the news desk , she discovered that he had taken the shuttle to Glasgow the morning before . |