Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He left home at the age of ten and went to London , then to Stamford , where he became apprentice to a draper and educated himself in his spare time . |
| 2 | The bank lent money to a speculator charged with extortion . |
| 3 | A plaintiff or other person made defendant to a counterclaim may pay money into court as if he were a defendant ( Ord 11 , r 8 ) . |
| 4 | As the abrasive words poured into her ears , he was moving her against an ornamental lacquerwork cabinet of hip height and bending her backwards , a hand dealing with the intricacies of her bustier with a sure skill that bore witness to a wealth of experience with even the most esoteric of feminine garments . |
| 5 | They outplayed Wilson , Gavin and Ofahengaue and helped Scotland to a half-time lead of 9–7 . |
| 6 | The Northwick Park study drew attention to a relationship between duration of untreated illness before first admissions and the probability of relapse ( Macmillan et al. , 1986 ) . |
| 7 | In her article on British arts funding ( The Art Newspaper No. 17 , March 1992 , pp.1 2 ) Giulia Ajmone Marsan drew attention to a threat from a Tory Minister for Arts to the Arts Council 's freedom from political control . |
| 8 | Two weeks ago , the rector was talking about the unity of the body of Christ in the church ; as he spoke , he drew attention to a review of a new book by the Regius professor of theology at Oxford . |
| 9 | But in February last year , Dr Helen Zeitlin , a consultant haematologist at Redditch , was sacked when she drew attention to a report on nursing shortage and the acute distress caused thereby . |
| 10 | Saddam Hussein contributed £2m to a mosque in north Birmingham , and his name is still emblazoned in giant letters on the front of the building , startling motorists speeding past on the Birchfield fly-over . |
| 11 | Unhitching his horses from the plough , he fastened Gracie to a sapling on the bank of the river , before leading Daisy down for a drink . |
| 12 | The Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications referred enquiries to a report in Monday 's edition of La Tribune . |
| 13 | Several nurses reported sensitivities to a variety of products , including Granuflex , paste bandages , medicated tulles , Iodosorb and , surprisingly , aqueous cream . |
| 14 | He referred Dawn to a neurosurgeon , who promised that he could operate to cure the spasticity which kept causing her muscles to tense up involuntarily . |
| 15 | I recently moved jobs to a firm which encourages all staff to improve their qualifications . |
| 16 | Soaring profits from the sale of lower cost hi-fi systems and home computers helped shares to a peak of 240p in the late 1980s . |
| 17 | His successor King John sold charters to a number of his barons which freed named woods and manors from the Forest law . |
| 18 | They caused damage to a log cabin in the forest and set litter bins alight . |
| 19 | A written apology was received from a boy who had accidentally , while playing badminton , caused damage to a picture . |
| 20 | Unfortunately he suffered damage to a knee which left him with a permanent slight limp . |
| 21 | The threat of a Western military attack against Iraq diminished after the government granted permission to a team of " neutral " UN weapons inspectors , drawn mainly from European countries , to conduct a search of the Ministry of Agriculture on July 28 and 29 . |
| 22 | In south-west Hertfordshire one in seven of the working-class boys secured entry to a grammar school , compared with one in two of the sons of clerks ; the corresponding proportions in Middlesborough were one in eight and one in three . |
| 23 | His large , gnarled hands had very gently stroked the soft flannel over the protesting muddle of arms and legs on his towelled lap , and when he held one leg by the ankle and it slipped from his grasp as the baby kicked , his sudden exclamation of horror had started a loud wail and reduced Carrie to a fit of laughter at her husband 's awkwardness . |
| 24 | A princess fair , the whiteness of whose skin would shame th ’ Arctic snows to a blush , the brightness of whose hair would provoke fabl 'd Helen to a fit of the envious humours … ’ |
| 25 | On Friday evening , Seth directed Joey to a car dealer and bought him a maroon 1982 Cutlass Calais for three thousand dollars . |
| 26 | She was particularly concerned by the large increase in petrol tax , which added 15p to a gallon of four star . |
| 27 | The problem with Darwin 's theory was that it reduced evolution to a chapter of accidents . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A magistrate who granted bail to a man who then committed murder has resigned . |
| 30 | THE Court of Appeal yesterday granted bail to a mother separated from her 13-week-old son because of the shortage of places in mother and baby units in prisons in England and Wales . |