Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dismayed at the pain he had inflicted and at the pain he himself felt in consequence , Richard rushed forward , then stopped a few feet from Victoria twisting from side to side in frustration , wondering how he could stop her crying . |
| 2 | Bathsheba trembled from head to foot . |
| 3 | In Wednesday 's race Courtney was promoted to first place following the disqualification of the winner Nigel Davies but yesterday there was no such drama as Courtney led from start to finish to win by 20 seconds from Nigel Hansen with Greg Broughton third . |
| 4 | Dryden led from start to finish opening with a 75 and then roaring him with a 71 to win by six shots from Blyth 's Gary Wilson . |
| 5 | Just that I think Susanna wants to spanner to work , her bike 's not here otherwise I 'd have if she gets back in time , fair enough . |
| 6 | And Pat very much did not like Bert going with Jasper to Ireland . |
| 7 | Mellanby arrived in time to be heard , and succeeded in changing the decision so that Florey was appointed . |
| 8 | Jinkwa turned with horror to the General . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Eleanor glanced from side to side and then said in a low voice , ‘ It 's all right … what I told you about . ’ |
| 11 | The late Earl Spencer served as equerry to both King George Vl and the present Queen . |
| 12 | Cadfael returned in haste to the gatehouse . |
| 13 | Noel Davern was appointed Education Minister , Mary O'Rourke switched from Education to Health , and Rory O'Hanlon from Health to Environment in place of Flynn . |
| 14 | Macnab went on holiday to Berlin with a letter from Joyce to Christian Bauer , a contact whom they had made in London and who was said to be on good terms with Goebbels . |
| 15 | The derailment at Dovey Junction on the August Bank Holiday Saturday resulted in diversion to Aberystwyth and a change in the services operated by locos . |
| 16 | Earlier , in conversation with Vilnius residents during a walkabout in the city centre , Gorbachev said with reference to Lithuania 's relationship with the Soviet Union : " Nothing will be decided without you . |
| 17 | MAC ON POWERPC POINTS TO BINARY TO BINARY TREND OVER EMULATION |
| 18 | Yasmin Gibson , 31 , an actress , was freed on police bail earlier yesterday after being questioned about allegations that she abandoned Gemma to go on holiday to Spain . |
| 19 | Yasmin Gibson , 31 , an actress , was freed on police bail yesterday after being questioned about allegations that she abandoned Gemma to go on holiday to Spain . |
| 20 | The Bank of England acts as banker to a variety of customers , many of whom would be atypical clients of a commercial bank : |
| 21 | When the militarily defeated Czarist regime collapsed early in 1917 , Lenin returned from exile to push for an immediate socialist revolution against the weak parliamentary regime which succeeded it . |
| 22 | He wrote to the Lord Treasurer Rochester begging for appointment to Exeter in preference to Bristol , as the bishopric of Exeter yielded better stipends with which to pay off family debts . |
| 23 | Benny stumbled from time to time , and became tongue-tied when she looked at the handsome boy sitting beside them . |
| 24 | Cornelius leapt from table to table , Tuppe held high . |
| 25 | The brown bakelite electric radio , where , like every other girl in the country , Eve listened at night to Radio Luxembourg , was on her night table . |
| 26 | DeVore looked from face to face , gauging their response , coming to Weis last of all . |
| 27 | But while tanks revved in Lima 's main square , Washington shut off aid to Peru , worth nearly £200 million , and signalled it might veto new loans from multilateral institutions . |
| 28 | Benny smiled from ear to ear . |
| 29 | At the end of 1252 , however , Geoffrey of Langley was relieved of his Forest office , and was sent to Scotland to act as counsellor to Henry III 's daughter Margaret , Queen of Scotland . |
| 30 | Poor daggled Urs'la stalks from Cow to Cow , |