Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SOCCER star Darron McDonough , Kevin Keegan 's first signing for Newcastle United , is to stand trial on a drugs charge . |
| 2 | For many programmers , this is their first taste of trying to sell houses in a buyers ' market , of static wages and of finding that demand for their skills no longer outstrips supply . |
| 3 | What this operation can do is to cause havoc with a women 's sexuality , often provoking the very opposite to what was intended . |
| 4 | Trying to keep marines in a 30″ tank |
| 5 | They might be asked to contribute information to a careers programme , or technical expertise to a science lesson . |
| 6 | ‘ To paint Darlington as a jobs blackspot is not just factually wrong , it is also very damaging to the work the council and I are doing to attract new investment . ’ |
| 7 | It is clear from the Act that ‘ proceedings before a judicial authority ’ can be taken to include proceedings before a children 's hearing : a children 's hearing is a ‘ tribunal , body or person holding power ’ under statute ‘ to determine any question affecting the rights , privileges , obligations or liabilities of any person , or to receive evidence affecting or determining any such question ’ . |
| 8 | He turned up at the game with his head shaven , Gazza style , to raise money for a children 's cancer charity as part of Friday 's Comic Relief day . |
| 9 | It has already undertaken to sell off £100m worth of businesses and to raise £150m through a rights issue or by attracting a suitor . |
| 10 | Spence , 57 , of South Shields , Tyneside , contacted a hospital saying she wanted to raise funds for a children 's unit . |
| 11 | Support for the US-installed Endara government fell sharply and its legitimacy was further undermined in December 1990 when US troops intervened to restore order after a police rebellion [ see p. 37912 ] . |
| 12 | A PASSER-BY paid £4 to take part in a police video identification parade of a robbery was given the police photographer 's expensive leather jacket to wear and asked to jog down some steps and round a corner . |
| 13 | Barnes slammed 65 with the bat and then captured 4–32 with his medium pace bowling to steer Caernarfonshire to a 54-runs victory over Anglesey at Bethesda . |
| 14 | They are also planning to renew calls for a Monopolies and Mergers Commission investigation into the electricity generators , National Power , PowerGen and Nuclear Electric . |
| 15 | It needed a superb 65th winner from Kelly to clinch victory against a Wolves side who must halt their recent slide against Bristol City today . |