Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor does Herodotus necessarily refer to the Jews when he mentions Syrians and Phoenicians of Palestine , who acknowledge that they learnt circumcision from the Egyptians ( 2.104 ) . |
| 2 | CGT only applies to the actual profit you make , so if you buy shares to the value of £25,000 and sell them later for £35,000 the taxman will only be interested in the £1 0,000 profit you have gained . |
| 3 | The implications of ‘ story ’ have hardened to the extent that Federman constantly refers to the narrative as a ‘ recitation ’ , as if he were writing over earlier texts such as Beat novels . |
| 4 | Rex suddenly sobered to the rifle butt which struck him between the shoulder blades . |
| 5 | He said that Ken constantly referred to the ‘ guilt ’ that he felt . |
| 6 | Soon the summer revels of BB at the then uncrowded , unchic little port of St Tropez , with a succession of young actors and guitar players ( Trintignant soon withdrew to the peace of Army service ) , were spied on and peeped at by the photographers and published in countless magazines and newspapers . |
| 7 | First he made a gourd spring up to protect Jonah from the sun ( by ‘ gourd ’ we are to understand something like the castor-oil plant or Palma Christi , with its rapid growth and all-sheltering leaves ) ; then , with no more than a wave of the silk handkerchief , he sent a maggot to destroy the said gourd , leaving Jonah painfully exposed to the heat . |
| 8 | Hari quickly moved to the foot of the stairs , her head bent to hide the blush that warmed her cheeks . |
| 9 | Mrs Fellows also admitted to the nurse that she was a " bit of a worrier " and found it hard to relax . |
| 10 | In his assessment of the problem Hauge also points to the fate of some 118 nuclear vessels currently stationed at the Russian port of Murmansk . |
| 11 | The great spate of English translations of Paracelsus also belonged to the 1650s , confirming that the peak of his influence in England connected with what is arguably the unsurpassed golden age of British science and medicine , coinciding with the formative years of such figures as Boyle , Sydenham , and Willis , all of whom were affected by paracelsian influences . |
| 12 | By this conditional statement , Edward clearly referred to the non-performance of the territorial clauses of the 1259 treaty . |
| 13 | A Whig tract of 1711 argued that " The Revolution was almost entirely owing to them [ Tories ] " , whilst the Nonconformist Daniel Defoe repeatedly replied to the charge made by High Churchmen in Anne 's reign that the Dissenters had been responsible for the murder of Charles , by reminding them what they " did to his Son " : " if they will go back to 48 , and provoke us to Recriminate , by telling us of Killing the Father ; let us bring them back to 88 , and tell them of Deposing the Son , and sending him Abroad to beg his Bread " . |
| 14 | Musgrave also went to the fair at Guibray , and there among the freak shows was The Largest Fat Boy in France : Aimable Jouvin , born at Herblay in 1840 , now aged fourteen , admission a penny farthing . |
| 15 | In addition to the many successful plays he has written , David also contributes to the acclaimed radio serials The Archers and Citizens |
| 16 | It has been established that glutamine is an important food for many rapidly dividing cells , and the increased rate of glutamine utilisation in UC probably relates to the increased rate of proliferation seen in this condition . |
| 17 | The French referee awarded a dubious penalty to make it 1–1 in Germany , and then dismissed Wednesday goalscorer Hirst after Kaiserslautern defender Marco Haber dramatically fell to the ground after the players brushed together . |
| 18 | Branson then spoke to the Clarkes on the telephone . |
| 19 | Lands to the value of 300 marks were found for him in England , but half the endowment was found by persuading Guy de Blois , another French hostage , to surrender to Edward the County of Soissons , worth 500 marks a year , which Edward then granted to the new Earl of Bedford . |
| 20 | Whitlock closed the door behind Eddie and Rachel Kruger then returned to the lounge and slumped dejectedly onto the sofa . |
| 21 | In 1935 Louis Aragon proudly proclaimed to the world that his encounter with communism and the revolutionary society of the Soviet Union had transformed him into an entirely new man , had rejuvenated him , re-educated him , and in the process cured him of the social disease of his bourgeois class origins . |
| 22 | Six minutes from the end Murdoch again came to the visitors ' rescue when he dived to block a shot from Hateley . |
| 23 | Admittedly , the background was exceptional ; the true beneficiaries of the waiver were the allies , who did not want Germany 's economic resources to be diminished through claims from States previously allied to the Third Reich . |
| 24 | Mr Gorbachev never referred to the SDI in any of the other summit sessions , said US officials . |
| 25 | Mr Reynolds eventually returned to the ward after 5½ hours . |
| 26 | The Ley eventually reverted to the Garnstone estate and has long been a farmhouse , which it remains to this day . |
| 27 | Many of the specimens that had found their way back to England only added to the myths circulating in the popular imagination about the fauna of the southern hemisphere . |
| 28 | The loss of heart she experienced in May perhaps contributed to the loss of touch she demonstrated through the summer . |
| 29 | Hathaway wanted the scene played one way , Hopper wanted to do it another ; they battled for seven hours and eighty-six takes before Hopper finally bowed to the director 's wishes to do it straight . |
| 30 | Rees thereupon complained to the European Commission of Human Rights that , by refusing to alter the recorded sex on his birth certificate , the United Kingdom , through its law , is depriving him of the legal status corresponding to his actual condition , to which he is rightfully entitled by Article 8 . |