Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 29-YEAR-OLD Kilmarnock man who beat a nightwatchman to death in Dumfries was jailed for life yesterday . |
| 2 | Sweeney 's Brittenesque , atmospheric score provided a counterpart to McGuinness 's vision of suitably hatted dancers , as chromosomes and genes , swishing about in a vibrant multi-coloured womb . |
| 3 | At the end of the last article I promised a visit to Wales , to see whether the same geometric patterns existed in that part of the country . |
| 4 | If , for example , you changed a word to italic , the word-processor would record a mark before the italicised word indicating ‘ italic from now on ’ and a second mark after the italicised word so it knows to return the rest of the text to normal style . |
| 5 | Dedicated kite flyers had been aware of the Sanjo Rokkaku for ages , largely through Tal Streeter 's excellent book The Art of the Japanese Kite ( Weatherhill , New York 1974 ) in which he vividly described a visit to Toranosuke Watanabe , the Shirone kite maker who specialised , as did generations of his family before him , in making these hexagonal Rokkaku fighters . |
| 6 | Eilean Donan provided a strong , almost impregnable , base , the invaders still enjoyed the advantage of surprise and Inverness , supposed to be lightly held , lay a mere 56 miles [ 90 km ] away , but , after several days of indecision , Tullibardine lost his nerve completely and proposed a return to Spain . |
| 7 | Eliot talked about Missouri and his childhood there and then , at the end of the meal , he proposed a toast to Stravinsky : " Another ten years for both of us ! " he said . |
| 8 | Its fourth issue devoted a page to analysis and views of the smaller , 21 July Vietnam demonstration half a page to strike reports from Manchester and London , two pages to a suppressed BBC script on racism , and almost a page to Malcolm X and an excerpt from American black power advocate Julius Lester 's Look Out Whitey . |
| 9 | To Rousseau , non-participatory institutions posed a threat to freedom — ; ‘ man is born free and he is everywhere in chains ’ . |
| 10 | Those circumstances posed a threat to peace in Europe and Neville Chamberlain , being anxious to avoid war at all costs , arranged to meet Hitler on 15th . |
| 11 | However , the widening of the margin of fluctuation either side of par to 2¼ per cent at the Smithsonian Conference in December 1971 posed a threat to EC plans for limited exchange rate fluctuations amongst member currencies . |
| 12 | Similarly , Edward Woodville 's fleet posed a threat to Gloucester only as long as the duke 's own position was uncertain ; once he had been recognized as protector the matter could be dealt with . |
| 13 | Similarly , Edward Woodville 's fleet posed a threat to Gloucester only as long as the duke 's own position was uncertain ; once he had been recognized as protector the matter could be dealt with . |
| 14 | This still , however , posed a threat to Stanley influence . |
| 15 | This still , however , posed a threat to Stanley influence . |
| 16 | However , Foreign Minister Gyula Horn on March 12 expressed the concern felt in many quarters internationally that the secession of Soviet republics might jeopardize Soviet reforms , and that the potential rapid disintegration of the Soviet Union posed a threat to world peace and stability . |
| 17 | This presumably posed a risk to airline uniforms ; was likely to distract passengers ( the male ones at any rate ) at a time when they should have been paying attention to the cabin staff for rather different reasons ; and carried the ultimate danger of the implant exploding . |
| 18 | Gómez claimed that the public criticism of officials for disciplining officers posed a danger to democracy . |
| 19 | The men of the Old World were determined mariners and eventually some of their ships found a route to Ulthuan . |
| 20 | Eight people were arrested yesterday after police with riot shields were attacked by about 30 teenagers as they moved a family to safety from a council house at Southmead , Bristol . |
| 21 | ( 29–30 September 1777 ) Having decided that he would like to remain in Munich Mozart reported a plan to Leopold which he thought might enable him to do so . |
| 22 | After several days in Nairobi he took the train to Mombasa where he caught a ship to England ; there , soon after my brother Dermot was born , he rejoined my mother . |
| 23 | On her very next day off Paula made herself up carefully , put on her smartest suit — a cheap version of the one she had shown in the restaurant — and caught a bus to Bristol . |
| 24 | A few minutes later , he paid off the taxi and caught a bus to Shepherd 's Bush . |
| 25 | ‘ He caught a flight to Frankfurt . |
| 26 | He returned to Los Angeles and then caught a plane to Europe where he had been invited to show the finished article at the Venice Film Festival at which The Last Movie was voted the best picture on exhibition . |
| 27 | From there , they drove to Zagreb where they caught a plane to Heathrow . |
| 28 | I called for him at Faber 's — ; which meant waiting downstairs either du côté de chez Swan or in the small waiting-room crowded with Faber books ready for dispatch — ; and we caught a train to Merstham from Victoria . |
| 29 | Two of them , disguised as Spanish workers , walked the seventeen kilometres to Parma where they caught a train to Milan , and were arrested on the way . |
| 30 | In it we incredulously quoted a Guardian story suggesting that Bishop Auckland born Meale defending a tiny Labour majority in Mansfield bore a resemblance to Clark Gable . |