Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun sg] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year they were given permission to go to Israel . |
| 2 | I had heard Mum say to Grandma that it was n't healthy for a brother and sister to share , and it seemed to be true because Davey had n't caught my cold . |
| 3 | Jim has previously arranged football trips to England , Blackpool and Plymouth — but this one is special to him . |
| 4 | He had expected weakness to yield to strength . |
| 5 | But they have been eroded in recent years , and it is likely that this erosion will continue although , as before , it will have varied impact according to issue and ( geographical ) place . |
| 6 | According to some reports , seven people died in street riots the same day , when pro-Koffigoh demonstrators were reported to have attacked property belonging to Eyadema 's entourage . |
| 7 | She could n't do much yet , and was certainly not fit to take a job — otherwise she would have made Breeze go to Edinburgh , and gone down to Penzance herself . |
| 8 | In fact , Coetzee has just been granted immunity to return to South Africa for three weeks : he will give evidence in support of the Mxenge family 's case against the Minister of Law and Order , which begins on April 15 . |
| 9 | I 've seen a grown man torn to pieces . |
| 10 | But after reading reports magistrates were told the youth had had difficulty coming to terms with his father 's recent death . |
| 11 | He died 4 December 1304 at his manor at Wolvesey , close to his newly founded college dedicated to St Elizabeth of Hungary , and was buried on the north side of the choir of his cathedral church . |
| 12 | I 've had occasion to talk to men who have committed appalling crimes and sometimes I swear I 've felt it there in the room with us , wickedness . ’ |
| 13 | The boy who began to convert souls while our future rectors and curates were deep in criticism , history and examination subjects , and who has never had time to go to school or university since , is not impeccable in taste . |
| 14 | But parents throughout Northern Ireland have been campaigning for the new test to be revamped or at least postponed until pupils have had time to get to grips with the new format . |
| 15 | Last month a structured settlement awarded to a brain damaged child amounted to £4.8 million . |
| 16 | Personality based depression happens to people with poor self-image , or to someone who is heavily dependent on others for emotional support . |
| 17 | The bridge had been removed but the wooden platform and building were visible from the road below ; there was a roofed stairway leading to platform level , every step was either missing or rotten , so the bottom of the staircase was made completely inaccessible with barbed wire criss-crossed right up to the old roof beam . |
| 18 | The government had reportedly reached an agreement on Oct. 4 with 200 armed former contras who had seized land belonging to Sandinista co-operatives , and whose occupation of the northern town of Waslala had resulted in five deaths and seven people reported wounded . |
| 19 | In early 1990 Chatichai had allowed Manoon to return to Thailand from exile and had appointed him to a high-level post within the Defence Ministry . |
| 20 | Sun Microsystems Inc pulled off another recruiting coup last week enticing MIPS vice president Chet Silvestri into the Sun fold as vice president , technology sales , a newly created slot reporting to Joe Roebuck , SMCC 's vice president of worldwide field operations . |
| 21 | An example of such a qualification might occur where the manufacturer promises to refund the purchase price ‘ provided the goods are first returned carriage paid to manufacturer . ’ |
| 22 | ICJ transit was assessed by finding the geometric centre ( weighted average ) of counts over the five ileal segments , caecum , and colon with an adaptation of a previously published method used to measure intestinal transit in rats . |