Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't reach Downing Street by pretending you 've travelled the road to Damascus when you have n't even left home . ’ |
| 2 | She added : You do n't reach Downing Street by pretending you 've travelled the road to Damascus when you have n't even left home . ’ |
| 3 | This problem involves two issues : ( i ) whether there is a contract between Pickwick and Podder , resulting in a debt owed by Pickwick to Podder ; ( ii ) whether Podder has validly assigned the debt to Mrs Jingle . |
| 4 | The delay in publication of the original book would probably have been much longer had Medvedev not given the manuscript to Andrei Sakharov to read in October 1988 . |
| 5 | He landed on the person 's head who had given the ring to Tim in front of him and was sent to court at Newgate . |
| 6 | ‘ But when could Mr Pipkin have given the poison to Sir Thomas ? ’ asked Auguste reasonably . |
| 7 | Immediately — before Edmund 's soliloquy , Edgar , still in disguise , has given the letter to Albany ( 40–50 ) , and for the first time the forces of good have a superior knowledge over the hypocrites . |
| 8 | His father had given the cross to Lepkin . |
| 9 | Your Mr may have explained the position to Joe of Samuel McCauls Limited when he was over in Northern Ireland last September , but Joe did not inform me of your company 's position . |
| 10 | He 'd relayed the news to Harry , hoping it would put his fickle sister out of his friend 's mind once and for all . |
| 11 | A huge gap appeared in the heart of the Forest area and Giggs simply squared the ball to McClair and invited him to score . |
| 12 | The events described had already formed the backdrop to Guinness I , and two unfinished sequels . |
| 13 | Seb should have been overjoyed at the news that Anna was not to marry the educated young gipsy , but he knew that unless Boz explained it to her — preferably in a more diplomatic way than the manner with which he had just broken the news to Seb — she would be devastated . |
| 14 | Sir Bryan himself had broken the news to Stephen Bonnard . |
| 15 | Oxfordshire rally driver , Francis Tuthill has won the London to Sydney Car Marathon . |
| 16 | The Empress had ordered her to do whatever was necessary in order to leave with fitzAlan , and if she had n't been so angry and confused that she had forgotten the threat to Edmund she would have complied . |
| 17 | Senior Chinese officials have blamed the damage to Hong Kong 's confidence variously on Hong Kong people themselves , for daring to demonstrate ; and on the British , an astonishing claim which was made by China 's principal representative in Hongkong , Xu Jiatun , the director of the New China News Agency , who said that the responsibility for restoring confidence in Hong Kong rested with London . |
| 18 | She also knew that she should have reported the foul to Mike , who would then make an official complaint to the umpire , but she was too angry . |
| 19 | The eunuch had made a cursory search and then had reported the matter to Prince Narouz . |
| 20 | Pava Barisic , head of the local Red Cross , said the army had cancelled the convoys to Belgrade and the Croatian port of Split even although the departure of about 6,300 refugees already had been approved . |
| 21 | Saturday 's last day of the season open on the middle Swale proved an anticlimax as three foot of cold water chilled the Maunby to Ainderby reaches spoiling what had promised to be a chub bonanza . |
| 22 | The early running was made by the 100–1 outsider City Scandal , who after two furlongs conceded the lead to Shikampur , with Pinza in about sixth place and Aureole unable to take up a handy position . |
| 23 | Someone had thoughtfully turned the page to March and now the glossy colour photograph showed the Riot Squad drawn up in full battle gear in front of their armoured personnel carriers . |
| 24 | The Convention not only transferred the Crown to William and Mary , but also laid down certain terms for the new rulers in the document known as the Declaration of Rights , and if the offer of the Crown was not strictly speaking conditional upon William and Mary 's acceptance of these terms , it was clear that everyone expected that they were to abide by them . |
| 25 | Powell sold out to Richard Rolleston the following year and he , in turn , transferred the land to Richard Cope who by 1619 had sold most of it to Michael Obins . |
| 26 | Over supper Gardiner and Foxe explained how a few days earlier Cardinal Campeggio , the Papal Legate had refused to take a decision on the King 's petition for a divorce from Queen Catherine of Aragon and had transferred the case to Rome . |
| 27 | He germinated the spores in dishes containing agar jelly , then transferred the spores to Kilner jars which contained rye grains . |
| 28 | That might possibly have done the damage to Valesios head , at close range . |
| 29 | That might possibly have done the damage to Valesio 's head , at close range . |
| 30 | He 's moved the story to Russia , sent the Prince on army manoeuvres where he joins a boys ' boozy night out , has the swans massacred by a power-mad crippled usurper and the corpses piled obscenely in a heap . |