Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he himself claimed was that he wished to enfranchise the Tibbu : he proposed to give land to Tibbu from the expropriated endowments of the Sanusi order . |
| 2 | Indeed , Marx saw his work very much in this light and at one time proposed to dedicate Capital to Darwin , who refused , horrified as he already was by the religious and political repercussions of what he had written . |
| 3 | Further 800,000 reported moving north to Austria from Yugoslavia … should this number materialize food and guard situation will become critical . |
| 4 | Further 600,000 reported moving north to Austria from Yugoslavia . |
| 5 | A LORRY driver who helped take aid to refugees in Croatia was yesterday named Britain 's Top Dad . |
| 6 | Comintern officials first tried to convert Sandino to Communism ( battling for influence with APRA ) and then , having failed , denounced him as a traitor . |
| 7 | Twice she tried to get water to Midnight . |
| 8 | You see , Father , ’ Corbett continued , ‘ some time ago Monsieur de Craon tried to gain access to Godstowe and was refused , so he looked around for someone to keep him appraised of developments at the priory , particularly Lady Eleanor 's movements . |
| 9 | In all , it was estimated that some 110 bills — all of which sought to restrict access to abortion to some degree — had been introduced in 47 state legislatures since July 1989 . |
| 10 | He finally agreed to sell Dunphy to Charlton . |
| 11 | She remembered how helplessly she 'd given way to Jake 's madness on Starr Hills . |
| 12 | ‘ Only the day before , you came barging into the flat , insinuating that I 'd given information to Richard Blake . |
| 13 | Hereford united travelled north to Rochdale , only to slip to 17th in the 4th division . |
| 14 | Erm , from what I knew of erm I knew he 'd got access to firearms . |
| 15 | Every time she imagined coming face to face with him her stomach knotted . |
| 16 | Yet still the Prussians delayed introducing expropriation to Pomerania until May 1912 lest they provoke an uprising , and while they bought up only four estates totalling over 6,624 hectares of land , they paid more than double the market rate . |
| 17 | An incendiary device exploded setting fire to furniture , but the blaze was brought under control . |
| 18 | But one day , in the late seventies , he and Fleury happened to come face to face in Pall Mall and , after a moment , succeeded in recognizing each other . |
| 19 | I hated making love to women I did n't even like . |
| 20 | At a Symposium organized to pay tribute to Darwin a hundred years after his death , it is perhaps permitted to expand on one tiny fragment of ecological research that may truly be said to have been directly stimulated by Darwin 's own writings , in particular by the paragraph quoted as heading to this paper . |
| 21 | Almost a hundred people telephoned offering help to detectives investigating the stabbing of Richard Miles . |
| 22 | My branch submitted a motion to the Apex conference two years ago that sought to draw attention to unemployment amongst the white collar workers . |
| 23 | The virus travelled into the neural net during a regular systems update and began to transmit information to IMC . |
| 24 | Not until the appearance in United Nations World , dated May 1951 , of an article by Professor Hans Thirring , entitled ‘ Is Peron 's A-bomb a swindle ? ’ , was Richter spurred to put pen to paper But his rejoinder , ‘ Argentina has no atom bomb ’ in the July issue of that journal , was a disappointment to those expecting some scientific enlightenment . |
| 25 | Pronouncing Congress to be ‘ a microscopic minority ’ , he began to give thought to ways of preventing this minority from poisoning the minds of the majority , especially those of the vast array of native collaborators — the patwaris and the chowkidars , the stationmasters and the clerks — on which British rule so visibly depended ; and before long attendance by government employees at meetings of Congress or any other political organization was made illegal . |
| 26 | Without a deal , he threatened to take BA to courts in the US and and the EC . |
| 27 | It was only the last and biggest headline-grabber — Sir James Goldsmith 's failed bid in 1989 for B.A.T Industries — that threatened to bring junk to London . |
| 28 | Also , as it so happens , in August 1941 Winston Churchill had a meeting with President Roosevelt on board a British battleship , off the coast of Newfoundland , and that was followed by a further meeting at Christmas in Washington , when they agreed to send aid to Russia in the form of armaments , etc. , also they drew up the Atlantic Charter under which it was proclaimed that all peoples , in all parts of the world , would have the right to choose their own form of government . |
| 29 | They decided to go north to Thorpe Old Manor and spend Christmas as if they had as few cares as they now had pence . |
| 30 | I decided to put pen to paper and let you know of a few problems some of us have in trying to become machine knitters . |