Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watching a small , speckled lizard sunning himself on the trunk of one of the trees , Luce made an attempt to push her uneasy fancies aside and fulfil her half of the bargain . |
| 2 | After a number of rows , Peckinpah got a double to complete the scene . |
| 3 | Baker wins a thriller to stay in race |
| 4 | Jessica made a noise to silence her . |
| 5 | Mr Crump made a note to get the Honourable Colonel to repeat the full name of the resembled figure later so that he could copy it out and memorise it . |
| 6 | Mrs. Peggy Webb has a story to tell us . |
| 7 | Drudy and Drudy also found that 22 per cent of their survey group wished to leave the area , although they did not seek to establish the motives , while Dench found a willingness to leave mid-Devon if career prospects were frustrated . |
| 8 | Now , in the absence of team conductor Paul Gascoigne , Clough has a chance to stake his claim for the autumn World Cup climax … if Taylor survives at the home of the New England Patriots . |
| 9 | So can sort of we point the discussion in in that direction but before we do Miss Whittaker has a corollary to push with that point . |
| 10 | For the moment and until Philips and their partners finally launch their product , CDTV has an opportunity to scoop a substantial segment of the market . |
| 11 | Marcus moved a bishop to block the check , and continued pondering . |
| 12 | For it is not clear that the generative or productive motions which ‘ cause ’ a circle really are put forward as ‘ efficient ’ causes ; Hobbes has a tendency to speak of them in ways which make it not inappropriate to think of them in terms of some notion of ‘ formal ’ cause . |
| 13 | Lucy made an effort to placate her . |
| 14 | All the other matches ended in draws but Nottinghamshire wasted an opportunity to go top of the table at Lord 's . |
| 15 | All the other matches ended in draws but Nottinghamshire wasted an opportunity to go top of the table at Lord 's . |
| 16 | I know Fran Cotton has a business to run but it did spoil the World Cup celebrations for many . |
| 17 | Predictably , Margaret Stanhope found an excuse to interrupt his thoughts within moments of his conversation with the general . |
| 18 | In 1961 , while working as anaesthetics research registrar at the Westminster Hospital , Manley designed a machine to monitor or assist breathing during anaesthesia and other forms of unconsciousness . |
| 19 | I only said we 're getting a lift and Richard to write a letter to join the dance . |
| 20 | At a plenum of the CPSU central committee , held in closed session on April 24-25 , Gorbachev defeated an attempt to force his removal from the post of party general secretary , and then called the bluff of his critics inside the party by offering his resignation , only to have it refused . |
| 21 | If WEU has a role to play in integration , that kind of defence collaboration is what it is peculiarly able to do . |
| 22 | Would Mr and Mrs Husayn get a chance to study MY HOLIDAYS by M. and N. Husayn , a hundred-word masterpiece that it had taken three months to squeeze out of them ? |
| 23 | Gaveston raised a hand to fend off Corbett 's objections . |
| 24 | Hemmings took a catch to dismiss Logie , who was beginning to look dangerous , and then the wickets slithered away — including Harper run out by a fine throw from Hemmings , who was having a wonderful time . |
| 25 | Mr. Michael Latham presented a Bill to abolish the General Synod of the Church of England , on a date to be appointed ; to provide for the creation of a Church of England Assembly , consisting of a house of all diocesan , suffragan and assistant bishops , and a joint house of clergy and laity , to be directly elected by all Church of England clergy and lay persons on parochial electoral rolls ; to make provision for the Diocese of Sodor and Man ; to empower the Assembly to decide on all appropriate matters , except those within the legal responsibilities of the Church Commissioners , without further reference to Parliament ; to provide for the election of new bishops by members of the house of bishops , saving the right of final approval of the chosen candidate by the Crown ; to abolish the Ecclesiastical Committee ; to abolish the automatic places of bishops in the House of Lords ; to permit ordained clergy of the Church of England , with the consent of a diocesan bishop , to seek election to the House of Commons ; and for connected purposes : |
| 26 | The visit brought to an end a period of tension in Franco-Lebanese relations , and Mitterrand accepted an invitation to visit Beirut . |
| 27 | And Doogie had a job to go to . |
| 28 | All day long she had wondered how he had managed to bamboozle his way into a consultancy , but first the calm , unflappable way he had dealt with Steve and now here , with the devastated relatives , Kathleen had an opportunity to see at first hand the qualities that set him apart as a consultant . |
| 29 | Larne had a chance to equalise but Geoff Crothers shot high over the bar . |
| 30 | The PNC meeting in Algiers in September , while welcoming the latest efforts for a peace conference , had reiterated that the PLO had a right to form its own delegation from " inside and outside the homeland , including Jerusalem " [ see also p. 38453 ] . |