Example sentences of "[noun prp] to a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own introduction to the world of stand-up involved performing at benefit gigs in the upstairs room of a pub in Exeter to an audience that shouted at one another until the local anarchist punk band came on . |
| 2 | Riches : until she had given Luke the money she owed him , paid a month 's rent in advance , redeemed a few things from the pawnshop , bought extra coal for the cold weather , taken Liam to a doctor because something had to be done about his cough ; looked down the bleak distance of the weeks ahead with no work promised . |
| 3 | Jim has decided it would be a good idea if he took Sylvia to a dance that has been advertised , and he hopes that George will bring Mary . |
| 4 | Innocent 's main hope at this point was to bring Otto and Philip to a truce and he had , on 3 May 1199 , commissioned Archbishop Conrad of Mainz to bring this about . |
| 5 | Herbert invited the Wrights to a meal and they became friends . |
| 6 | Seb guided Anna to a chair and sat her down , but instead of releasing his hand immediately she pulled him to her and her hand went up to his face , her finger-tips gently assessing his injuries . |
| 7 | BOMB SURBITON — pausing only to nail Felicity Kendall to a wall and throw Richard Briers ’ severed head at her . |
| 8 | She waved Celia to a seat and continued to browbeat Ivor 's unfortunate secretary . |
| 9 | In the case of the Near Eastern traditions I talked of images which compared God to a guide or shepherd or mother eagle or father , all of them personal ( or at least animate ) metaphors . |
| 10 | Of course Alison was not ‘ living in ’ the house , but was often there visiting Patrick ( her help as a nurse was no longer required ) , joining Jack in his studio ( where she talked with him about his work ) , or chatting with him and Franca in the drawing room or kitchen before departing with Jack to a restaurant and taking him on to her flat for the night . |
| 11 | She and Horatia , her daughter by Nelson , were taken from their house in Fulham to a Lock-up or Sponging House within the ‘ Rules ’ ( boundaries ) of the King 's Bench Prison in Southwark — no. 12 Temple Place on the east side of Blackfriars Road where it joins St George 's Circus , one of a terrace of twenty houses . |
| 12 | Nora tied Fontana to a thorn and walked briskly toward the sound . |
| 13 | He waved Frau Nordern to a seat and took one himself . |
| 14 | The disappearance of manned bombers as well as fighters would reduce the RAF to a missile and air-transport force — not an inviting prospect , but one that seemed too far ahead to worry about unduly in 1957 . |
| 15 | She motioned Jenna to a seat and it was clear that her initial diffidence was now controlled . |
| 16 | The versatility of it is the big attraction ; it can sound like anything from a vintage Strat to an Ibanez or a Les Paul , with the mid-boost in it . |
| 17 | The project will consider the hypothesis that the UK is technologically dependent for the effectiveness of a wide range of defence systems on the US to a degree that is not fully understood . |
| 18 | At the height of the rush hour , when the streets were at their very busiest , two terrorist bombs exploded bringing the city of Manchester to a standstill and injuring 64 innocent people . |
| 19 | Brutus compares Caesar to a snake and says that as it is bright day which brings forth the adder it will be Caesar 's crowning that would bring out his bad personality . |
| 20 | The house stood at the summit of a rocky mound at the end of it , like a miniature St Michael 's Mount , but to Leonora it was Mecca to a believer as she began the steep climb from the beach towards journey 's end , and Guy . |
| 21 | When a tour brought them to Johannesburg , Herbert took John to a performance and afterwards asked whether they could be shown how everything worked . |
| 22 | It would be the first time she had ever been with John to a place that was part of her own particular world , unless one counted the Ash Wednesday lunchtime service at her uncle 's church . |
| 23 | She wrote her name , then followed Stella to a room that was small , but adequate . |
| 24 | But this contrast should not blind us to the fact that he could work with Henry to an extent that was impossible with Rufus . |