Example sentences of "[vb pp] [det] [noun] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that reference to Hansard was permissible , the taxpayers ' appeal was allowed . |
| 2 | It has been identified as the Alauna of the Ravenna list by Rivet and Smith , although Richmond and Crawford earlier assigned this name to Alchester , which in some ways makes better sense , since its neighbours quoted in the list would indicate that it lies on the road from Silchester to the south Midlands ; nevertheless the derivation of the name of the River Alne from Alauna , and hence the name of the town on or near that river , is an attractive argument in favour of Rivet and Smith . |
| 3 | He 'd organised this expedition to Westminster to present the Prime Minister with his trusty iceaxe , which had helped him in his arctic endeaveours . |
| 4 | He 'd organised this expedition to Westminster to present the Prime Minister with his trusty iceaxe , which had helped him in his arctic endeaveours . |
| 5 | Gail was mated several times to Loki , the offspring proving influential in the development of the breed in Australia . |
| 6 | TWO Kurdish refugees will be deported this afternoon to Turkey — where they say they face persecution and torture — unless they win a last-minute reprieve . |
| 7 | The Spanish Government 's Telecommunications Office , having twice rejected all competitive bids for a national radio-paging licence , has finally granted this honour to Sistelcom Telemensaje , which will offer the first of three national radio-paging services that were envisaged under the National Telecommunications Plan . |
| 8 | It was shortly before the time Luke usually arrived on Fridays , and up until today she would have made some excuse to Florian , but reviviscent pride demanded a gesture . |
| 9 | Applications for the dance leaders ' course must be made this month to Durham City Arts , City Baths , Elvet Waterside , Durham . |
| 10 | Applications for the dance leaders ' course must be made this month to Durham City Arts , City Baths , Elvet Waterside , Durham . |
| 11 | No one ever knew who had fed this line to Kim . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose I 've seen another side to David Markham since I 've been working with him . ’ |
| 13 | The Maxwell Pensioners have made many trips to Westminster to press their case . |
| 14 | Once the hunting season was over he had gone straight off to Ireland to fish , and then , on the outbreak of war , had promptly rejoined his regiment , and as their colonel-in-chief had made several sorties to France during the next three years . |
| 15 | IN recent years I have made several trips to Portugal 's Algarve coast and on my last visit in January this year was presented with a booklet entitled ‘ Cricket in Portugal ’ . |
| 16 | Moorgate Mercantile had not made any representation to Twitchings . |
| 17 | Do n't you think that man has done enough harm to Jennifer as it is without inflicting any more pain on her ? ’ |
| 18 | She had told him she was promised that evening to Charles Harvey , who was taking her to Jeffrey Archer 's party . |
| 19 | Various authors have attributed these emissions to Ti and Mn respectively but , as Walker ( 1985 ) pointed out , the spectral bands are present in highly pure synthetic silica , and it seems certain that emission is intrinsic rather than due to impurities . |
| 20 | Fletcher said he had spoken several times to Ramprakash this winter in an effort to help point the highly talented player in the right direction . |
| 21 | At Eton I had gone each day to Spottiswoode 's bookshop to follow the course of this war in The Times . |
| 22 | He was more upset at having caused this worry to Lachlan than at the near-strangling ; and it had n't once occurred to him to draw his dirk to save himself . |
| 23 | It appeared that The Smiths thought they had given enough exposure to James and that Factory were now taking advantage of the situation . |
| 24 | He could n't fathom why she 'd taken such exception to Eleanor . |
| 25 | As Brazil 's midfield dynamo , Dunga , of Fiorentina , says with a wry grin : ‘ Brazil 1989 would n't have lost that game to Italy in 1982 . |
| 26 | Of course , I could not have expressed this view to Mr Farraday without embarking upon what might have seemed a presumptuous speech . |
| 27 | We have now extended these observations to DP thymocytes in TCR- β transgenic TCR- α mutant , TCR- β transgenic RAG-1 mutant and probably to TCR -α mutant mice . |
| 28 | The UN special envoy , Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Petrovsky , had paid another visit to Libya on May 10-12 [ see also p. 38883 ] , and said on May 14 that the Libyan leader Col. Moamer al Kadhafi would ask the Libyan General People 's Committee to decide on the question of the extradition of the two Libyans wanted in connection with the Lockerbie bombing — a process which Petrovsky said would take four or five weeks . |
| 29 | I hope you will not mind me having circulated this letter to Wales four MEPs , since I am sure they will be concerned to hear of these difficulties . |
| 30 | Naturally , she had never mentioned these doubts to Brian . |