Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun pl] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing that the independents would be slowly strangled so long as they relied exclusively upon the British circuits , he sought to establish connections to Hollywood . |
| 2 | Well erm Steve asked to write letters to Penny . |
| 3 | She took Bible-reading classes among her nurses , and tried to lead sinners to repentance , and Florence Nightingale was afraid this might damage the reputation of workhouse nursing . |
| 4 | The strategy involved removing troops to barracks and standing down checkpoints in nationalist areas . |
| 5 | While the government-in-exile headed by Sawyer proposed to send representatives to Monrovia to discuss its peace plan , the military conflict continued . |
| 6 | The three members of health care staff found to have antibodies to surface antigen were all women , reflecting the large proportion of female health care workers being vaccinated and followed up ( 7821 out of 10871 ; 72% ) . |
| 7 | Pheromones can also be used to detect and monitor pests ; some farmers in the UK already use pheromone baited collecting traps to time sprays against pea and codling moths , which are pests of apples . |
| 8 | Burns topped-and-tailed each episode with a monologue , and relished making asides to camera . |
| 9 | I 'd sent tapes to Radio One and I 'd also spent time devising quizzes that I thought would be better than the ones they were doing . |
| 10 | As arrests continued in Milan , Salvatore Ligresti , a leading financier , was taken into custody on July 16 and admitted paying bribes to Milan politicians of up to £500,000 . |
| 11 | On this day : the Gregorian calendar was adopted in Italy and Spain and today became 15 October 1582 ; Spain declared war on Britain , 1796 ; Italian troops occupied Tripoli , 1911 ; the first air battle took place between German and French aircraft , 1914 ; the Allies landed at Salonika , 1915 ; Sir Arthur Lee presented the estate of Chequers as an official country residence for the Prime Minister , 1917 ; the Locarno Conference met and the great powers guaranteed frontiers and agreed to put disputes to arbitration , 1925 ; unemployed shipyard workers started to march from Jarrow to London , 1936 ; the Cominform ( Communist Information Bureau ) was set up to aid European Communist parties , 1947 ; tea rationing ended in Britain , 1952 . |
| 12 | Following the decision to lift certain sanctions taken by the Commonwealth heads of state [ see p. 38553 ] , countries relaxing restrictions included Canada which on Oct. 22 began to issue visas to South Africans and India which on Oct. 31 lifted " people-to-people " , cultural and academic sanctions . |
| 13 | When her moments of lucidity grew longer , Sycorax began to issue orders to Ariel , as she had done before the fire ; first , she felt an urgency , while her slow death continued , to pass on what she knew . |
| 14 | The De Mazia trust charges that the Barnes trustees were acting on behalf of Lincoln University when they awarded publishing rights to Alfred A. Knopf . |
| 15 | So Robertson began writing letters to academics with free-market views , using Stone 's name as an imprimatur . |
| 16 | That settled , the two men began to discuss plans to rush-release the Sex Pistols ' first record for Virgin , a special composition to mark the Queen 's Silver Jubilee . |
| 17 | Stories came in of fresh controversies and skirmishes between the Desmonds and the Ormondes , and Maurice Fitzgerald began making overtures to Spain in the hope that King Philip might agree to support Ireland and throw out the English , once and for all . |
| 18 | The agency began to make loans to farmers and food companies against their production and to hold back on demanding payments for goods it supplied . |
| 19 | People from all over the world began to make pilgrimages to Monkey Mia and some 200,000 visitors arrived during the 1989 season . |
| 20 | On 14 December 1557 , parliament agreed to send commissioners to France to negotiate the marriage , while making a sideways nod to Châtelherault 's shrill demand that this should not prejudice his right as heir presumptive . |
| 21 | As outpatient clinics developed in local general hospitals , GPs started to refer patients to consultants in exactly the same way as they did for other medical specialties . |
| 22 | Friends and family gathered to hear tributes to Richard Miles . |
| 23 | A young messenger-boy for the Post Office described what he thought brought youths to Highbury . |
| 24 | Have you , at any time , sent threatening letters to members of the Bamford Hunt or people connected with it ? |
| 25 | She kept giving lifts to boys in the corridors and provided chairs for those standing in the queues . |
| 26 | At the start of the 1970s , before the Russians sent fighting men to Africa and with the Americans stuck in Vietnam , Cuba was exporting revolution . |
| 27 | * ‘ The last major wooden ( actually composite ) passenger sailing ship seems to have been Torrenns which ceased carrying passengers to Adelaide in 1903 . |
| 28 | 233 was a case in which the plaintiffs agreed to supply goods to Brammall on credit terms provided his wife would guarantee payment . |
| 29 | At the High Court in Manchester yesterday the Ministry of Defence agreed to pay damages to Captain Green 's widow , Patricia and her two daughters . |
| 30 | Fleetwood has always jealously guarded its 1919 agreement , in which Blackpool agreed to maintain services to Fleetwood equal to any terminating at Cleveleys . |