Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | His creator James Driscoll has just returned to Britain after signing a £20 million deal to create the 40-acre fun park in Samara , 600 miles east of Moscow — where Digswell has been made a Freeman of the City . |
| 2 | Coca-Cola has also decided to ‘ compete ’ with UNESCO by giving the Hermitage $320,000 ( for years Pepsi-Cola had the monopoly of the Soviet market ) . |
| 3 | Clough has always marched to a different tune , but this time his perversity may finally be his undoing . |
| 4 | Mr Ward has consistently refused to be interviewed by the British authorities investigating the Guinness affair . |
| 5 | Mr Taylor has already appealed to the Home Office for an extra 20 men in a bid to boost the number of bobbies on the beat . |
| 6 | I suppose it 's remotely possible Clare was romantically involved with Jack Cornelius , although it does n't say much for my powers of observation that I was unaware of it , but it 's equally possible Rex Cunningham has simply jumped to the wrong conclusion : he was ever one to do that . |
| 7 | Bishop David has already appealed to us to double the money we give to the Church wherever we can . |
| 8 | In New York , exhibition space at the museum 's headquarters on Fifth Avenue has nearly doubled to 51,000 square feet , and a further 31,000 square feet has been provided through a downtown building which opens on the same day . |
| 9 | Anfield has quickly taken to the midfielder and manager Graeme Souness 's decision to replace him with Michael Thomas during Tuesday 's match with Southampton was greeted by a chorus of boos . |
| 10 | Steven has since moved to Marseille while winger Mark Walters is now with Liverpool . |
| 11 | Despite the fact , then , that Castells has now moved to other concerns , consumption and civil society remain key themes in urban sociology . |
| 12 | The ARPS has already responded to the dramatic increases in the costs of obtaining an order for new works under the new system which were due to come into force from September 1st . |
| 13 | Yesterday , however , his deadly spell was merely a generous layer of icing on the cake with Leicestershire looking already doomed to failure at 86 for five . |
| 14 | Kruger grinned then moved to the railing where he watched two female joggers passing beneath him , their bronzed legs moving in rhythmic unison . |
| 15 | This was the closest Neil had ever come to Wembley and on the way home that night he came to the conclusion that this was the closest he would ever come in his entire life . |
| 16 | She managed to control herself and fortunately Dr Neil was as quiet as she was , and when they reached Vetch Street Matey had already gone to bed . |
| 17 | What was it Adams had once said to him apropos talking to Edna : it 's a gamble . |
| 18 | A few weeks earlier , at his party 's conference , Mr Adams had studiously referred to Ulster Protestants as ‘ our people ’ . |
| 19 | Hari had already got to his feet and little by little was becoming animated again . |
| 20 | But out of sight at the other end of the course , Mr Hill had also come to grief . |
| 21 | By the summer of 1419 all Normandy was his : the major walled towns of the duchy , Caen , Falaise , Cherbourg , and Rouen had all fallen to the English besiegers . |
| 22 | When one thinks about it , when one remembers the way Miss Kenton had repeatedly spoken to me of my father during those early days of her time at Darlington Hall , it is little wonder that the memory of that evening should have stayed with her all of these years . |
| 23 | Even in the early days of her marriage to Julius , Eleanor had always seemed to be there in the background . |
| 24 | What what I did say that Halam had already objected to them going down Station Lane at Edingley which we did . |
| 25 | That impatient man did not have so long to wait as he had feared , for the very next evening a young townsman arrived at Hoddom from Annan , ten miles distant , with the news that Edward Balliol had indeed returned to his army . |
| 26 | The master of titters , Frankie had always wanted to be noticed , that 's why during shows for the troops during World War Two he changed the a in his surname to an e . |
| 27 | Frankie had often spoken to one of the very black men who lived at Nanny 's house in Lansdowne Place . |
| 28 | She closed the living-room door before answering , even though Dickie had long gone to bed . |
| 29 | Like Hyndman , and the Webbs , Blatchford had always looked to the state as the main agency of social change . |
| 30 | The Mercedes had almost rolled to a halt about fifty yards behind them . |