Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [noun prp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rugby Union : Hull kicks RAF to victory |
| 2 | Charles Boyce rode Emigrant to victory in 1858 with one arm strapped to his side . |
| 3 | When Mazarin invited Cavalli to Paris in 1660 to provide an opera with text by Buti for the young king 's marriage , the master encountered all sorts of difficulties and had to substitute a performance of his Xerse in the Louvre , with an overture and ballet music by Lully . |
| 4 | General MacArthur appointed Hodge to Korea with Hodge responsible to MacArthur in Tokyo . |
| 5 | When Edward invited Harry to Oxford for Eights Week he informed him of his expectations from Lincoln College . |
| 6 | On the evening of the same day , Hugo Brassard invited Celia to dinner . |
| 7 | Dan Sperber takes Lévi-Strauss to task for claiming that kinship systems should be regarded as a language with the circulation of women taking the place of the circulation of words : |
| 8 | Can the president of the United States commit America to war ? |
| 9 | Biddy switched Jazz to Midnight , and Jazz got round all right . |
| 10 | That night , Edward took Erica to dinner at the Savoy Grill in the Strand and explained that he would not be leaving after all . |
| 11 | The Ordinatio assigned Italy to Lothar " if God wills that he lives to be our successor " ( c.17 ) , without mentioning Bernard . |
| 12 | But one night , Polanski introduced Bailey to Catherine Deneuve in a nightclub . |
| 13 | The 70th anniversary on June 1 , 1990 , of the Treaty of Trianon under which Hungary ceded Transylvania to Romania , was marked by nationalist speeches in both countries . |
| 14 | 1915 Germany surrenders Namibia to South African troops . |
| 15 | IBM SHIPS POWERPCs TO APPLE , SAYS THIRD PARTY CHIP SALES ARE VITAL |
| 16 | In a letter to President Eisenhower , Sir Anthony compared Nasser to Mussolini , and it was revealed that he had felt that the Government should have resigned over the issue . |
| 17 | The three other small states of Europe , the Scandinavian countries , had before 1815 been two , but in 1815 Denmark surrendered Norway to Sweden , and the two northern countries were united in a personal union under the same king , although each had its own representative institutions . |
| 18 | She paid an extra dollar a week for Mrs Benson to put Maria to bed and keep an eye on her , but somehow she did n't think that Mrs Benson was all that reliable as a child-watcher . |
| 19 | After the Communist victory in 1949 , Chen followed Mao to Peking , where he worked quietly and largely anonymously for nearly a decade . |
| 20 | Aplin brought Eddy to Swinbrook and introduced him to Seb and Christian as the man ‘ who 's come here from London to help me solve the problem of our murderous highwayman ’ . |
| 21 | Enough money came in by mid-March for Chris , a Courtaulds worker for 18 years , and Lorraine to take Leannda to Boston for the first step in the long road to restoring her sight . |
| 22 | Glamorgan relegate Hugh to Morris minor |
| 23 | The stories grew more inflamed with the telling and witnesses were about equally divided as to whether Beatrice encouraged Modi to debauchery or he provoked her . |
| 24 | In the afternoon , D.C. Finch drove Charlotte to Newbury Police Station to collect her car . |
| 25 | In the first , hard-fought , sector of the battle , Louis put Lothar to flight ; in the second , Charles had swift and complete success ; conflict was fiercest , and most protracted , in the third sector , but " in the end , everyone on Lothar 's side fled " . |
| 26 | GRIM : Andre carries Alex to death spot |
| 27 | Certainly Jesus revealed God to man in way the written Old Testament alone could never have done . |
| 28 | Adam mentioned Tendulkar to Brian Close , the chairman of Yorkshire 's cricket committee , when a deal to sign Australian fast bowler Craig McDermott fell through . |
| 29 | Harry swore Sam to secrecy , and the two young fishermen told their crews that they had found nothing but an empty boat . |
| 30 | While McLaren was in Hollywood attempting to raise money for his film , Branson and John Varnom took Lydon to lunch and , over pork kebabs , persuaded him to appear on Top of the Pops to promote the single ‘ Pretty Vacant ’ . |