Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He wanted me to pass on a message to the police . |
| 2 | In the meantime , the Government have attempted to pull together a solution to the dilemma that arises as a result of the different views that are held by various groups . |
| 3 | In 1880 , this had already been discerned , but most men gave a growing acceptance to democratic institutions because they seemed to provide not a threat to , but a guarantee of , liberal standards . |
| 4 | Mike , who lives nearby , crawled under the floor to rig up a supply to a glass-washing machine . |
| 5 | I 'm going to spell out a warning to the aeroplane pilot by making you all into letters . |
| 6 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 7 | ( It is possible to set up a system to gradually add your tank water while discarding the shop water but this should not be necessary ) . |
| 8 | Habitual criminals were also required to report once a month to a police station after they were released . |
| 9 | It comes in a long roll of 20m , and has a neat perforator which enables you to tear off a strip to the correct length . |
| 10 | Attempts to accommodate both a sensitivity to difference and a commitment to the universalistic claims of post-Enlightenment liberalism became increasingly convoluted and forlorn . |
| 11 | The Bishops ' Conferences of England and Wales , and of Scotland are asked to draw together a response to the Lineamenta after consultation with the Catholic community . |
| 12 | It 's such a great book we decided to give away a copy to every new subscriber to Outdoor Action . |
| 13 | Instead of having to cancel a trip to the Blue Mountains , she 'd had to put off a trip to the Blue Danube . |
| 14 | God , it 's simple to understand , a child could do it , but old Mike has to put up a resistance to everything . |
| 15 | Why would he find it in his interest to ratchet up a challenge to a foreign power that has , after all , an impeccable legal position in Panama and a considerable military position ? |
| 16 | Ally McCoist 's fitness will determine who plays up front and yesterday Roxburgh said that the improvement in the player 's hamstring injury was such that he would now be ‘ disappointed ’ if the scorer of 41 goals for his club this season did not play on the ground that has yet to give up a goal to Scotland since they became tenants at Ibrox . |
| 17 | ‘ Princes will cede towns , even provinces , but all the ability of the most adroit negotiators can not persuade them to give up a rank to which they believe themselves entitled . ’ |
| 18 | Others have progressed rapidly in the beginning , only to experience considerable difficulty in overcoming the final hurdle — almost as though the mind was loath to give up a fear to which it had been clinging for years . |
| 19 | He believed that he would have to give up a career to which he was deeply committed and which had promised to be highly successful . |
| 20 | I felt a little ashamed that I had never cared enough for any of my father 's relatives to give even a thought to their reactions to the prospect of an irregular addition to the family . |
| 21 | Now he recalled how , on the second night after his mother had left home , he had climbed out of bed in the late evening and slipped unnoticed from the house to run over a mile to Bournemouth Central Railway Station to catch a train to nearby Christchurch , where his mother had gone to live with her sister . |
| 22 | Once you have decided to go the kit route , your first step is to send off a request to several manufacturers for illustrated brochures ( you will find a list of the major manufacturers at the end of the article , and it is also worth checking the Yellow Pages for firms operating in your area ) . |
| 23 | She had ladders and broomsticks and poles for the broomsticks and had to climb up a ladder to the top of the roof to get the cobwebs and everything down . |
| 24 | Now , instead of a day walking on the estate 's 50,000-acre grounds or picnicking on the heather-clad hills , the Queen and the duke are likely to send out a summons to Andy and Fergie , who are staying close by . |
| 25 | ‘ But then he avoided the congratulations of his team-mates to run quite a distance to the Middlesbrough fans . |
| 26 | But since we 've won in Barcelona , we 've had to go around a lot to dinners and appearing on television shows like A Question of Sport and Blue Peter . |
| 27 | His gaze was fastened on his daughter 's last careful steps down the stairs , as if he could barely restrain himself from running forward to hold out a hand to her . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're only envious , and you know you were the most concerned when he had to lose almost a year to that fever . |
| 29 | After Hugh 's dismissal in 1172 Louis VII kept the office vacant for some years : Hugh had been too great a man for it to be wise or safe to raise up a successor to him . |
| 30 | Because there is so little drag on crossing two stitches every four rows this is one time when you will not need to take down a stitch to either side of the cable . |