Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When confiding the news to Greeves , he said , ‘ My long night talk with Dyson and Tolkien had a good deal to do with it . ’ |
| 2 | Middlesbrough Council has joined the growing campaign to urge British Steel to keep using the Redmire to Redcar freight rail link in order to prevent thousands more lorry journeys through Teesside . |
| 3 | For the first months of the war , therefore , Franco proceeded with caution as he sought ways of using the conflict to Spain 's and his own advantage . |
| 4 | Jane dreaded broaching the subject to Christopher . |
| 5 | I thought it over very carefully before broaching the subject to Nigel . |
| 6 | Hugh Clopton , a mercer , erected the bridge at Stratford-upon-Avon that still bears his name ; Sir William Horne , salter , left 500 marks for repairing the road to Cambridge ; Sir Thomas White , Merchant Taylor , founded St John 's College , Oxford , and others endowed grammar schools at Holt , Macclesfield , Wolverhampton and many other places . |
| 7 | Woosup Koh , managing director of IMS ( Scotland ) , paid tribute to the involvement of Locate in Scotland both in bringing the company to Scotland and in helping it to complete the deal in less than two months . |
| 8 | Joe Johnson is the man responsible for bringing the gendarmes to Oxford Sandhills school . |
| 9 | ‘ I applaud the courage of the Turkish referee in bringing the matter to UEFA 's attention . ’ |
| 10 | For the past two years he 's been dreaming of bringing the marathon to Nepal … now he 's planning the big day … |
| 11 | It is certain that not one incident of satanic abuse has been proved anywhere in the world , An American child abuse counsellor from Illinois , Pamala Klein , was instrumental in bringing the scare to Britain . |
| 12 | The second man did likewise , the third man completing the journey to Roade Station , where they all met and caught the 5.30 am workmen 's train to Wolverton . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , this was a continuation of a growth that had begun during the mid-1960s , reflecting the transmission to RENFE of pressures for wage increases elsewhere in the economy . |
| 14 | Four-year-old Laura , accompanied by nurse Christine Kenny and her parents will arrive at Heathrow airport today before catching the shuttle to Manchester for a family reunion . |
| 15 | We arrived in Venice with time to spare before catching the train to Bologna , where we would have to change a third time for Parma . |
| 16 | She caught her usual bus , but instead of getting off at Frankfurter Allee and catching the S-Bahn to Biesdorf , she stayed on it , all the way to Ostkreuz where , like Herr Nordern once before her , she made her way to Ostkreuz Police Station . |
| 17 | The process of attributing the blame to Paisley continued the next day with a debate in Stormont in which a Labour member said : |
| 18 | Walking the half-mile to Chapel market , she turned over and over in her mind the many questions about the murder that remained unanswered . |
| 19 | Blackpool had been interested in purchasing the line to St. Annes Square and extending the Promenade tramway reserved track from Starr Gate . |
| 20 | mhm Do you think it had anything to do with protecting the routes to India ? |
| 21 | On relating the story to Mr Bailey , the man asked whether a train service was running at that time of night . |
| 22 | ‘ Friends in high places , ’ I said , opening the door to Janice Rae . |
| 23 | By acquiring the rights to Merck 's Elival , ICI will gain expertise in marketing drugs for the central nervous system to support its own products in that area which are currently being developed . |
| 24 | Returning the jade to Jonas was her main thought . |
| 25 | I put the mink coat on a chair and retraced my journey , locking the door again and eventually returning the key to Mercer who nodded without speech and put it in his pocket . |
| 26 | Should you wish to cancel the Bond , you then have 14 days to do so by returning the Notice to Midland Life . |
| 27 | On a dry pitch Kieft might have gone for goal instead of squaring the ball to Berghuis , one of four new Dutch caps to appear during the game , whose shot sailed high over the bar . |
| 28 | His early through pass caught Brazil moving up too late for offside and Kieft broke clear before squaring the ball to Berghuis , one of three new caps in the Dutch team , who lifted his shot high over the bar . |
| 29 | The only way of squaring the circle to Moscow 's satisfaction would be to send in troops . |
| 30 | Shortly before 8.10am on December 12 , Mr Alex McClymont , driving the Basingstoke to Waterloo train , noted that the signal was at red . |