Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [noun pl] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Yet he started with few political debts , and seemed to offer Alabamians a chance to become part of that shining land , the New South .
2 Santa Clause 's reindeer brought an entire city centre to a standstill when they arrived to give children a treat before Christmas .
3 Assertion of the principle served to do away with the monarch 's previously claimed powers to suspend or dispense with acts of Parliament and it served to deny judges the power to strike down measures .
4 Also opened , in 1905 , was the Sir James E. Jones Industrial Training School attached to the Royal Residential Schools for the Deaf at Old Trafford which sought to teach school-leavers the bootmaking , tailoring , carpentry and bakery trades .
5 We soon learned to give animals the right of way in the swamps , sitting for hours at a time in the dugout , watching elephants plod by .
6 Until now , each parallel computer has been so different that users had to re-write applications every time they changed machines .
7 TOP judges have launched a probe into sky-high divorce costs after a couple had to pay lawyers a record £1 million .
8 Danny Glover recalls : ‘ The script was never finished so Mel and I had to improvise scenes every day ! ’
9 Erm Singers do every colour , it 's just the fact she wanted to give friends a present and I said
10 This rat wanted to eat ropes the way Gene Kelly wanted to sing and dance .
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