Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he turned up and explained his ideas about bringing electricity to Low Birk Hatt . |
| 2 | But he 's obviously genuine about bringing democracy to Zimbala . |
| 3 | Being the only Leeds fan in a London inner city school with Alan Clarks famous speach about bring Success to Leeds in 3 Years , is causing me to go into cold shivers and giving me a pessimistic mood about the new season , I can still remember the years of telling school friends at the end of each season that we are rebuilding and that we would come up the next season . |
| 4 | After applying balm to Cleo 's face , Apanage took them to Dratslinger 's workroom . |
| 5 | In 1906 , he married a widow he had met on his first Australian tour in 1887–88 , and after becoming secretary to Neasden Golf Club , he took £300-a-year sinecure as secretary of Queen 's Club , for his stockbroking activities had not flourished . |
| 6 | The document also alleged that Montazeri had been involved in a gang whose members had been executed in Iran in 1987 after smuggling explosives to Saudi Arabia during the pilgrimage to Mecca the previous year [ see pp. 35541-42 ; 35677 ] . |
| 7 | Three days after giving birth to Caroline , Mrs Cossins had a second sterilisation operation . |
| 8 | He sold Grove Chance , then in foal for the first time , to his neighbour Percy Thomas , but when she died shortly after giving birth to Norton 's Coin he bought back the foal . |
| 9 | Three weeks after posting copies to Manchester 's social services and education departments , the North-west regional health authority and South Manchester health district , Mrs Finni had had no replies . |
| 10 | Genevieve ( 1953 ) , one of Rank 's biggest successes of the decade , was directed by another old Ealing hand , Henry Cornelius , who left the studio after making Passport to Pimlico . |
| 11 | ‘ wrote the book ’ on computerised electric submersible pump cable testing — a new service of testing cable to IEEE 1017 — 1985 or customer specifications . |
| 12 | The Question of Paying Taxes to Caesar ( Mark 12:13–17 ; Matt 22:15–22 ; Luke 20:20–26 ) |
| 13 | In testimony and published accounts he had insisted that he had argued against the proposition of selling arms to Iran and had believed that the idea had been abandoned . |
| 14 | the security contracts that have covered Wakefield , Drury and Norwich Houses for some years now show that this is an effective method of providing security to Stamford and Rennie House . ’ . |
| 15 | The extension of recycling facilities to JS car parks is most useful . |
| 16 | Meanwhile Morrissey made a brief appearance between the pages of No. 1 when the magazine had the interesting idea of flying Morrissey to Liverpool for a tape recorded chat with Echo & The Bunnymen 's outspoken Ian McCullouch . |
| 17 | It was also necessary formally to sever its links with the Odiham Agricultural Society so , on 19 April 1791 , a letter was sent to the Society , saying that the College would not now persist in the Odiham plan of sending youths to France to be trained . |
| 18 | Hopkins 's attitude to the publication of his poetry had always been ambivalent , but his habit of sending copies to Bridges indicates that he did not want them lost . |
| 19 | However , in 1937 Herbert had the idea of sending John to Summerhill , a school in Suffolk which had been founded by A. S. Neill , a teacher famous ( at that time many would have said notorious ) for his views on freedom in education . |
| 20 | The results are also adversely affected by the costs of meeting enhanced safety requirements and a switch of accounting date to November , the 14-month period bearing the full costs of a non-income producing extra two months . |
| 21 | The Delight was met with opposition at St John 's Harbour from the mixed fishing community , but on sight of the queen 's commission the squadron was admitted and Gilbert went through the ceremony of annexing Newfoundland to England and issuing passes to non-English vessels to fish there . |
| 22 | The Treasury 's official head from 1942 to 1945 , Sir Richard Hopkins , was in favour of giving consideration to Meade 's ideas but some of his subordinates were worried about the implications of managing demand to achieve full employment . |
| 23 | Four days earlier the Sun had also helped to set the tone with a centre-spread report , ‘ HUMAN TIDE LABOUR WOULD LET IN — Bogus refugees will grab state handouts ’ , complete with coloured maps representing the locations of intending immigrants to Britain from Africa , Asia , eastern Europe and the Middle East . |
| 24 | It was left to Western businessmen to manufacture CCCP T-shirts which ended up on the Soviet black market , an acute case of carrying coals to Newcastle . |
| 25 | He is revered locally , and especially by Mrs Joe , as a man of great sagacity and judiciousness but is , in fact , a pompous , self-satisfied fool , who bullies Pip as a child but fawns upon him when he becomes a young man of fortune , and postures as the ‘ founder of his fortunes ’ since he had been the means of introducing Pip to Miss Havisham 's . |
| 26 | In his article in your March issue Mr Royalton-Kisch roundly criticizes Benesch 's serial method of making attributions to Rembrandt : as a result almost any Rembrandtesque drawing might find itself not just in the catalogue raisonné but might be used as a starting point for further attributions to Rembrandt . |
| 27 | Consistency with corporate IT objectives was also a factor ; Pearl has a policy of migrating applications to IBM 's DB2 relational database . |
| 28 | The mens rea of the defendants transmuted the innocent act of transferring assets to Spain into a dishonest appropriation of the money . |
| 29 | That is why ‘ the Spirit of truth , who proceeds from the Father ’ is shown in his role of bearing witness to Jesus who is the truth of God incarnate ( John 15:16 , 16:14,15 , 14:6 ) . |
| 30 | Well-versed in esoteric lore , he wove spells into his art , and donated his discovery of the cut-up method of rearranging prose to William Burroughs . |