Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun prp] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we do n't do well in the exam , if we do n't get anything here , ’ Sheila blurted out , as they said goodbye outside the front garden while Moran waited with the engine running to drive Maggie to the station , ‘ you may see us in London soon enough . ’ |
| 2 | But Flanagan said : ‘ I had no hesitation in advising the board to promote Nigel to the job — and his results have proved me right . |
| 3 | The 1958 war is remembered now not so much for the vicious sectarian battles that occurred in Beirut but for the arrival of the US Marines , who stormed ashore only to find the beaches occupied not by militiamen but by bikini-clad ladies and street urchins who were merely waiting to sell Coca-Cola to the country 's latest rescuers . |
| 4 | For the time being , western governments are voicing outrage over the threats to church and Chihana , and are threatening to use the aid weapon to open Malawi to the region 's wind of change . |
| 5 | John Major 's taking a break from the hard grind of political life here to sell Britain to the Japanese . |
| 6 | Christina had offered to drive Stephen to the airport , but he had refused her offer in favour of James Morris 's , saying they had a lot to talk about . |
| 7 | THE traded-options market in London could be about to play Lithuania to the stock exchange 's Russia . |
| 8 | A special international award was given to Alexey Yablokov , Russian President Boris Yeltsin 's special environmental adviser , for his willingness to alert Yeltsin to the extent of Russia 's ecological problems . |
| 9 | After the war , he decided to cede Sarawak to the Crown , and returned there from England in February 1946 , to inform the people of his decision . |
| 10 | Perhaps lent the final impetus necessary for successful reception by the proximity of the area of stimulus to that of cognition , this hair-pulling signal finally seemed to awaken Gavin to the perception that there might be something else going on in his immediate area other than the video , undeniably captivating though it was . |
| 11 | They were all , save Winston Spencer Churchill , trying to give India to the fuzzy-wuzzies , and the cuts in arms spending would leave us quite defenceless . |
| 12 | At one stage no less a person than Bobby Kennedy , soon to accompany Josie to the grave , had offered to help Roth gain his freedom . |
| 13 | Now the family has enough money to send Craig to the centre for two years . |
| 14 | But it was not enough to commend Stanley to the City of Worcester Conservative and Unionist Association . |
| 15 | In the morning they decided Oliver was to lure Tim to the flat with offers of breakfast and a shower . |
| 16 | Their objective was to lure Beatty to the scene so that they might trap and destroy some small portion of the British Fleet before retiring to sanctuary in their harbours on the German mainland . |
| 17 | Microsoft Corp may be planning to port NT to the PowerPC like Computer Reseller News suggested last week but in sounding out the Motorola people on the subject it did n't seem like anything was imminent — and they want all the key operating systems on the thing . |
| 18 | The principal teacher of remedial education at the school agreed to accompany Tony to the assessment centre after school in order to get the arrangement off the ground . |
| 19 | De Gaulle 's diplomatic objective was to restore France to the circle of great powers to which she had historically belonged . |
| 20 | ‘ Of course , ’ Fabia replied , and from then until it was time for her to drive Cara to the airport she listened intently to all her sister had to impart . |
| 21 | Their aim was to fight for full independence , and to restore Italy to the rights that had been established under Henry V , Lothar III and Barbarossa 's immediate predecessor Conrad III . |
| 22 | He lowered the horse 's left foreleg and came back to lift Isabel to the ground . |
| 23 | FitzAlan dismounted and reached up to lift Isabel to the ground . |
| 24 | I would like to welcome Frances to the team and to thank her for ‘ volunteering ’ to promote the Johnson Matthey Mac Challenge personal fund raiser ! ! |
| 25 | Charles had not wished to invite Ivan to the party . |
| 26 | On 20 November / 2 December 1854 Austria , Britain and France signed a treaty on the basis of the Four Points which was designed to force Russia to the conference table by the end of the year . |
| 27 | A room which served Coleridge in a different way stood at the back of the house on the first floor : this was Tom Poole 's vaulted bookroom , created by him early in 1795 and filled with a wide-ranging library which helped to reconcile Coleridge to the loss of his frequent visits to the City Library in Bristol . |
| 28 | It now seems to be a tradition and a very pleasant one , to welcome Rita to the summer training day . |
| 29 | But the larger questions of how to anchor Germany to the West or watch it turn towards Central Europe , went unanswered . |
| 30 | Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this . |