Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their views might have attracted wider sympathy if the regime had been engaging in repression across the board , but although the tsar appeared to move to the right when he appointed Valuev to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Admiral Putiatin to the Ministry of Education , he was very far from abandoning the cause of reform . |
| 2 | Then they led Linkworth to the hanging-shed to punish him for his crime . |
| 3 | During the next few months a violent fascist backlash , an orchestrated campaign of civil disorder and terrorism culminating in armed insurrection , led Nizan to the conclusion that very firm Republican counter-measures were necessary . |
| 4 | In 1986 , on their first tour to Britain for years , the Bolshoi 's artistic director , Yuri Grigorovich , revealed Mukhamedov to the ballet world , and it gasped with astonishment . |
| 5 | There was general agreement that , although he never led Surrey to the title , their placings of second , third , fourth , third and second between 1921 and 1925 were little short of miraculous given the glorious lopsidedness of the team — brilliant batting ( led by Hobbs ) totally unmatched by workaday bowling . |
| 6 | WHEN Stuart Surridge led Surrey to the County Championship in 1952 , his first season of captaincy , Wisden , in choosing him alongside Tom Graveney , Fred Trueman , David Sheppard and Harold Gimblett as a Cricketer of the year , captured his salient qualities in a sentence : ‘ Though not always free from criticism as regards tactics and the manner in which he handled the bowling , he brought to Surrey a spirit of consistent enterprise and aggression such as they had not known since the days of P. G. H. Fender 's captaincy 20-odd years previously . ’ |
| 7 | When the shutters had been opened wider to let in the bright midday light she helped Luce to the bathroom . |
| 8 | He captained Scotland to the final of the Alfred Dunhill Cup England beat them then was third in the Madrid Open and on Sunday lost a playoff to Sandy Lyle for the Volvo Masters . |
| 9 | Sally Gunnell 's 400 metres hurdles gold thrilled the nation and Will Carling captained England to the Rugby Union World Cup final and then to another Grand Slam success . |
| 10 | The men ca n't have it all their own way — Sally Gunnell 's 400 metres hurdles gold thrilled the nation and Will Carling captained England to the Rugby Union World Cup final and then to another Grand Slam success . |
| 11 | Yet it was a wonderful pairing , one of the most exciting in the game 's history , and it helped Hampshire to the championship in 1973 and the John Player League in 1975 and 1978 . |
| 12 | As Forster helped Delaney to the ladder he was unaware of the huge distorted eye watching him . |
| 13 | Again , in 1747 , when reporting back on germination , Collinson referred Bartram to the Dictionary : |
| 14 | ‘ Keep the gate closed ! ’ shouted Gabriel to the gatekeeper . |
| 15 | With both batsmen in the middle of the pitch , the ricochet beat Barlow to the bowler 's end and broke the stumps there as well ; Lloyd appealed , but umpire Jepson gave ‘ not out ’ . |
| 16 | The filmed evidence of Barry smoking crack was undermined by the prevalent opinion that the FBI " sting " operation — in which Moore lured Barry to the hotel and offered him crack — had been over-zealous to the point that it had constituted a form of entrapment . |
| 17 | Pascoe 's stomach did a quick flip-over , he beat Dalziel to the door by a full two yards and almost fell into the lounge . |
| 18 | The Member who wrote to express his disagreement invited Mark to the House to discuss his reasons for taking the opposite viewpoint . |
| 19 | His tutor , Dr John Preston [ q.v. ] , recommended Bradstreet to the Earl of Lincoln , who employed him as an assistant steward on his estates . |
| 20 | BILL Nicholson , the man who led Tottenham to the League and FA Cup ‘ double ’ in 1961 , last night slammed the modern game for failing to provide value . |
| 21 | Beador 's own response was reassuring — he thought it a ‘ ripping good idea ’ and gladly added Fontana to the travelling stable of two hunters she had brought down from Yorkshire . |
| 22 | The communiqué also committed Germany to the creation of " conditions favourable to lower global interest rates " . |
| 23 | In 1991 , I added Czechoslovakia to the programme and if you select a holiday there or a resort in Poland or Hungary , you will be delighted not only by the beautiful scenery but also by the welcome you will receive . |
| 24 | That , however , was exactly what attracted Jean to the company . |
| 25 | Their anxiety rooted Joseph to the spot for a moment ; then , desperate to make amends for his clumsiness , he flung himself through the doorway in pursuit . |
| 26 | At the last Congress of the Romanian Communist party in November 1989 , they added Valentin to the Party 's Central Committee where he joined his brother and uncles , but even in the heat of the revolution a month later , no one thought to use his promotion as a serious charge against Valentin Ceauşescu . |
| 27 | Von Ribbentrop reported back to Hitler , and on the evening of 24 November 1938 Adolf Hitler added Danzig to the list of military targets for the forthcoming campaign in the east . |
| 28 | It was the familiar title , rather than Zukov 's voice , which recalled Rostov to the present . |
| 29 | Lydia drove Betty to the Village Hall in the evening and drove back alone into the sudden shadow of the hill behind the cottage . |
| 30 | Carson announced Duncan to the man in the room and , once Duncan had entered the room , closed the door on the two men . |