Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defender further averred that on or about 21st May 1973 Macfie & Alexander wrote to Ferguson & Forster offering on behalf of their client , the defender , to sell the farm to the pursuer ; that the offer was dispatched by Macfie & Alexander without informing the defender and contrary to his instructions as telephoned to Mr Rae . |
| 2 | In the mandatory pre-fight squabbling , ITN 's Stewart Purvis lambasted the swing-ometer as ‘ a two-dimensional 1970s device ’ , and Horrocks chose to home in on the opposition 's choice of untried Jon Snow as their E-night pivot . |
| 3 | Money problems at home led to a temporary fragmentation of the family and a new school for William but when the family got back together and William returned to St Augustine 's , reports from the other school followed the previous pattern at St Augustine 's . |
| 4 | The end of the war meant the end of the blissful congruence between fantasy and reality , and Churchill turned to painting and writing in an effort to regain that happy state . |
| 5 | In a swift readjustment of his property , Somerset and Berkshire were reunited with the earldom of Wessex , and Oxfordshire and Hereford went to Earl Ralph the King 's confused nephew . |
| 6 | The ungrateful King , however , refused to part with the mares and Hercules returned to Troy later with a body of companions and destroyed the city . |
| 7 | ‘ And Zadkine referred to Modigliani 's unfinished heads , outside in the mud , most of them still in a rough stage . |
| 8 | As he grew older , the villages and tents and armies of this world were fading away but the white cities and the armies that lie beyond the senses shone more brightly by day and by night and Hamza hastened to death on roads lined by the army of Prophets . |
| 9 | Doris and Jim went to school at the same time as me . |
| 10 | Silence , and Ward turned to Iris Sunderby with a smile that was very near to a smirk . |
| 11 | It was quite a problem to cut short her client 's long-winded story of the cat 's movements during the last twenty-four hours , but at last the door closed and Sophie turned to Helen . |
| 12 | The climax of Delaunay 's success in Germany came when he was given a large one-man show at the Walden Gallery in Berlin early in 1913 ; both Delaunay and Apollinaire travelled to Germany for the opening . |
| 13 | When that was done , she and Polanski flew to London to be married in high profile , with the London Playboy boss , Victor Lownes , having arranged everything . |
| 14 | He invited his brother Carloman to join in the campaign , but they argued immediately , and Carloman returned to Burgundy , leaving Charles to continue alone in the reconquest of Aquitaine . |
| 15 | Malcolm and Heidi went to London bef the Monday before christmas |
| 16 | Will and Deirdre came to supper recently — poor dears it was an uninspired meal but their visit cheered me immeasurably … |
| 17 | Emmie pulled at her blouse and Mo came to life . |
| 18 | Whereas the idealists pursued the production of ideas as such , the materialism of Marx and Engels sought to ground thought in a concrete world of practical action . |
| 19 | One obvious was of demonstrating that this system was a specific historical product was to show that it was not always so , and Marx and Engels turned to history and anthropology to demonstrate this . |
| 20 | At first this strategy produced disappointing results , as the French authorities in North Africa , Indochina , and Syria rallied to Vichy . |
| 21 | She and Liewer returned to France 7–8 June 1944 to set up a new group of resisters between Limoges and Périgueux . |
| 22 | Cos o Joanne and Dennis went to Bulgaria . |
| 23 | On Sunday mornings , Clare and Josh went to Mrs Gooden 's . |
| 24 | He and Epitot stood to attention to let the convoy pass . |
| 25 | Olivia Manning went to tea with her , and Ivy said to Herman afterwards , ‘ I do n't know what mistakes I made . |
| 26 | He looked down at the men lying there , unconscious , breathing shallowly ; and Luch jerked to wakefulness and tensed as his hand moved to his dirk … |
| 27 | They were floundering chest-deep , and Riven went to Madra 's head , helping to hold it above the water . |
| 28 | The Athenian attempt was a fiasco , 10,000 colonists were killed and Athens turned to Egypt and Sicily where she was sure of at least some local support . |
| 29 | Felipe advanced dangerously and Maggie came to life , jumping between them . |
| 30 | They walked in the beautiful gardens of the Generalife and seemed to have the place almost to themselves , and Maggie turned to Felipe as they stood and listened to the running water . |