Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was my blood because he had given me mouth to mouth resuscitation . |
| 2 | The Brighton-based fighter , who stopped Benn in their WBO middleweight title fight in November 1990 , added : I 've nothing to prove by fighting Benn again , so if we do meet I 've got to be given my passport to retirement . ’ |
| 3 | Molly had secretly enjoyed her initiation to sex on the night of Yanto 's near drowning , but then she had had to curtail her natural emotions for fear of waking her Father . |
| 4 | Having arrived in Britain as a raw but gifted teenager , Wattana has honed his game to match-play sharpness by three seasons on the professional circuit . |
| 5 | It had given its support to League sanctions against Italy , putting this view forward to its international contacts in the " Left Bureau . |
| 6 | The most obvious choice for a nosode was Tuberculinum given its relationship to Phosphorus and the continued desire for cold milk . |
| 7 | The American opossum has given its name to death-feigning . |
| 8 | What is more , the crucial issue of traffic segregation should have been discussed in Stadtverkehr , given its relevance to cost-effectiveness , design and indeed a whole range of issues connected to the principles of traffic quietening . |
| 9 | Since her marriage , she had become accustomed to a less competitive and more rural way of life and therefore regarded her return to court as a duty , an onerous duty . |
| 10 | ULSTER pensioners have given their answer to government proposals to accounts . |
| 11 | It is clear that the Authority adjusted its approach to INSET quite considerably after the early days of PNP and in the light of our sixth report and feedback from schools . |
| 12 | It had almost lulled her mind to blankness when she felt fitzAlan 's arms close tightly about her with the utmost care , bringing her nearer to the warmth of his body . |
| 13 | Language understanding also involves being able to relate the information in successive sentences , which is why psycholinguists have turned their attention to discourse interpretation , that is , to the comprehension of whole passages rather than single sentences . |
| 14 | Some people have noticed their similarity to material distributed by Mr Round . |
| 15 | It was possible for a man to achieve social promotion in the Church : if a few bishops were sons and brothers of kings or great lords , many more owed their position to talent and service , not to birth . |
| 16 | Some of the non-Slav peoples within the present Yugoslav borders can trace their ancestry back to settlers who entered their present homelands in the centuries before the area was divided between the Ottoman and Habsburg empires , but many more owed their settlement to colonisation sponsored or tolerated by the imperial rulers . |
| 17 | Many floating voters may have finally decided which party to back later on Wednesday or even on Thursday — and have voted disproportionately Tory . |
| 18 | If he had accepted her invitation to supper she would have taken it for encouragement ; he would simply have put off the evil day . |
| 19 | Other sections of the revolutionary intelligentsia proclaimed their loyalty to Marxism but tended in fact towards mere reformism . |
| 20 | Within less than two generations they had transferred their faith to socialism . |
| 21 | Occasionally he saw Primaflora who , from serving Carlotta , had turned her training to attendance on the King 's mother . |
| 22 | Having tackled software distribution , Novell Inc , Provo , Utah has turned its attention to software licensing . |
| 23 | One of Stephanie close colleagues has been under gun guard , police guard for a week following death threats on the alleged kidnapper , as the net closed on him he phoned estate agent Jane the girl who helped prepare the second artist impression , Jane had met him face to face when he called at the office in Great Bar Birmingham days before the kidnap to collect details on several houses for sale , her blood ran cold when she picked up the phone on Wednesday February the twelfth to hear his voice again |
| 24 | The 15 homes in the first phase are all sold and occupied and now he has turned his attention to phase two , which will comprise 14 homes . |
| 25 | Now was the time to say no , to deny him while the pressured timbre of his voice still echoed in her mind , threatening whatever barriers had withstood his onslaught to date . |
| 26 | In competition with other small businesses , the archetypal ‘ little man ’ had clawed his way to success through clinging to such beliefs . |
| 27 | After all , just because she had been unaccompanied at Emma 's house , just because she had accepted his invitation to dinner , did not mean that she was unattached . |
| 28 | In the 1930s one elderly man made his way to church through Bachelor 's Walk on winter Sunday evenings by the light of a hand-lantern . |
| 29 | When them bastards have stabbed our brother to death ? ’ |
| 30 | It 's so easy to just write the slip and say I 've sold my car to mister so and so . |