Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Doody 's death in 1706 , the Court of Apothecaries agreed to lease the garden to a joint stock of ninety subscribers , amongst whom Isaac Rand was prominent . |
| 2 | The government alleged Dr Siraj knew of a planned coup attempt by military officers and that , although he refused to take part , he failed to report the matter to the security services . |
| 3 | The Supreme Privy Council , established during the reign of Peter 's widow Catherine I ( 1725–27 ) , sought to establish the right to participation in , and an effective veto over , all major policy decisions . |
| 4 | It was n't that Ice-T never got to meet the highly desirable Coffy , whose destruction of dope dealers took place to the accompaniment of a Roy Ayers score , but rather that he and Hinojosa failed to obtain the rights to a James Brown track from the movie Black Caesar . |
| 5 | A Canavan free was floated into the square , where corner forward Stephen Ramsey rose to fist the ball to the net , leaving the scores at the break St Marys 1–6 UCG 0–3 . |
| 6 | She tried to banish the humiliation to the back of her mind , but it was worse than the physical pain . |
| 7 | As soon as the Reclusiarch moved to restore the mirror to its hook , the fluorescence of the amber faded . |
| 8 | The man , who was wearing a black balaclava tried to pull the boy to the ground , but he managed to struggle free . |
| 9 | Hurriedly the Maiden Guard of the Queen moved to meet the threat to their lady . |
| 10 | She tried to open the door to the storage-room , but twice the wind blew it out of her hands . |
| 11 | He moved to open the door to the hall . |
| 12 | Twice the trainer tried to sell the horse to the Seagram company and twice they refused . |
| 13 | He very much admired the poetry of Ebenezer Elliott , the Corn Law Rhymer , that is , a poet who helped to lead the opposition to the laws which kept the price of bread artificially high , and said ‘ None of us have done better than he has at his best ’ . |
| 14 | Hodge had pursued policies from his arrival in Korea designed to strengthen the opposition to communism and to move away from rather than towards cooperation with the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | In Berlin William II interfered repeatedly with the conduct of German diplomacy in a way which helped to conceal the extent to which his effective authority in many areas was ebbing away . |
| 16 | Last month a shaken state government banned the sale of booze in the district , and promised to extend the ban to neighbouring areas . |
| 17 | The full seven bands of image data were loaded into an ERDAS ( Earth Resources Data Analysis System ) software system and ground control point information entered to rectify the image to National Grid coordinates . |
| 18 | Furthermore , ‘ nationally prescribed tests ’ would be administered at each of the age levels mentioned to determine the extent to which the prescribed targets had been achieved . |
| 19 | She tried , bitterly , to resist this fatal colouring ; she tried to reduce the trip to words upon a notice board ; but the mind had gone its own way , and she could not force it back into its grey and natal landscape . |
| 20 | Diplomatically , she tried to shift the conversation to firmer ground . |
| 21 | He would be seeing Caterina again , with her sweet face like a ripe apricot and her almond eyes , and he laughed when he remembered her childish stumblings as she tried to repeat the message to the letter . |
| 22 | This helped to anchor the sides to the base and maximized reliability , for a base board nailed to the underneath of the sides might have failed on lifting . |
| 23 | The king tried to rally the city to his defence , but failed utterly and withdrew westwards with the Despensers and a few remaining friends . |
| 24 | He tried to export the birds to several countries , and has been allowed to import them by the British despite strong reservations from the Spanish authorities and concern expressed by conservationists . |
| 25 | He moved to take the figure to twenty . |
| 26 | Full-back Jordan made a try saving tackle as Stortford tried to exploit the disruption to the Ipswich back division . |
| 27 | ‘ As he opened the door he saw the youths and tried to push the door to . |
| 28 | He promised to take the cast to him in the morning , and I arranged to call at his office at noon to learn what he had discovered from the dentist . |
| 29 | After his return in 1471 Edward tried to limit the damage to the Stanleys by modifying Gloucester 's grant . |
| 30 | After his return in 1471 Edward tried to limit the damage to the Stanleys by modifying Gloucester 's grant . |