Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its expressed view , that the Uprising was part of that violence which the United States now wished the PLO to bring to an end , indicated it wished to eliminate the source of the new political reality , against which it had laboured so long through its preference for negotiations through Jordan . |
| 2 | On the morning of his operation a nurse helped Mr Reynolds to put on an operation gown after his bath and then encouraged him to rest in his freshly made up bed . |
| 3 | Young men and women , not so young men and women , wended their way across Cambridge to sit for an hour with Esther Breuer , sipping coffee , tea , or , if they were favoured , vermouth or wine , as they gazed at the red-draped walls , the crowded bookshelves , the umbrella stand , the hatstand , the cabin trunk , the medley of different-patterned fabrics , the little figurines that marched along the shelves in front of the books , the carefully assembled strip of photographed Roman frieze , the little glass doves in front of the tiny mosaic fountain . |
| 4 | The UN Security Council on June 29 mandated 1,000 Canadian troops of UNPROFOR currently in Croatia to redeploy in an effort to secure control of Sarajevo airport . |
| 5 | A photographer from Melody Maker wanted Gedge to pose with an accordion but Gedge told him he did not play the instrument , but Solowka did . |
| 6 | It was rather clever of Lewis Carroll to think of an animal , flamingo , which could be used as a mallet and also to think of hedgehogs as balls . |
| 7 | The United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , Douglas Hurd , had flown to Maputo during the Commonwealth summit in Harare on Oct. 16-22 and , according to some sources , put strong pressure on President Joachim Chissano to come to an agreement . |
| 8 | Then Liza told me that Mrs Mitchell had died in childbirth and that Nelly herself had been taken to Wolverhampton to live with an aunt and uncle . |
| 9 | On the eve of the start of the plenum various radical pro-reform groups organized a huge demonstration in the centre of Moscow to call for an end to the communist monopoly , for the removal of conservatives from the CPSU leadership , and for an end to privileges for the nomenklatura ( party functionaries ) . |
| 10 | The NPT thus repeated a pledge first made by America , Russia and Britain to work towards an end to nuclear testing ‘ for all time ’ . |
| 11 | It literally takes seconds for a message typed in by someone in Britain to arrive at an address in the US , or Australia , or wherever . |
| 12 | Benjamin had scored earlier after Cornwell challenged Leicester keeper Muggleton to get to an Ansah cross . |
| 13 | The following year Israel persuaded Britain and France to join in an attack on Egypt following the latter 's nationalization of the Suez Canal . |
| 14 | Edward retreated to Brussels , but in the winter of 1339–40 he achieved an important diplomatic success in Flanders when he persuaded James van Artevelde to enter into an alliance with him under which Artevelde recognized his title to the French throne and agreed to give him military aid . |
| 15 | Because of the way the pressure from creditors was building up , Arthur Andersen advised Hook Harris to go into an IVA . |
| 16 | On the completion of his articles in 1814 he moved to London to work as an assistant in the office of David Laing [ q.v. ] , architect to the customs and excise , before setting up in independent practice there in 1818 . |
| 17 | In time , Jakki moved to London , Jim to America to work as an exhibitions organiser . |
| 18 | More recently she headed over to Dublin to work on an album with producer Kevin Moloney who , in the past , has masterminded releases by the likes of Sinead O'Connor , U2 and Clannad . |