Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mexico was also the object of early Comintern interest : Moscow was keen to promote Communist activity in Mexico in order to distract the United States from intervening against the Soviet Union , and dispatched Mikhail Borodin in 1919 partly to achieve this end . |
| 2 | ‘ We have to be back in Duns by 8.30 am to start our riding which goes on until 2.00 . ’ |
| 3 | The railway was brought to Coniston in 1859 mainly to transport copper and slate . |
| 4 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has been told to turn up at his restaurant at Venice Beach , California at 2.30 pm to tell me his version of the story of his life , then Dudley Moore more or less dudleys into his restaurant at Venice Beach , California and joins me at a corner table where I 've been waiting to hear his story . |
| 5 | Nina was built too late to compete with other accelerators that had done most of the early work , leaving Daresbury with little else to follow up , says Irvine : ‘ It was a classic case of too little , too late . ’ |