Example sentences of "to [noun] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next morning orders came through that the able-bodied were to begin the trek to India and the rest get to Myitkyina to take the chance of a plane . |
| 2 | The witch-hunt then moved on to try to unseat the editor of Borba and it is clearly the intention of the Serbian nationalists , who have seized control of the Serbian Party , that they should control all newspapers and journals published in Belgrade , even if they are federal organs such as Borba . |
| 3 | Roadside checks have been carried out to try to discover the identity of a baby found dead in a ditch . |
| 4 | During the first visit , when Graham was just 13 months old , countless tests were carried out to try to find the cause of the illness . |
| 5 | STEVE DAVIS won the world title for the first time in 1981 and the following year we went back to Sheffield to show the world what a class act we were . |
| 6 | In many cases , because they are unemployed , they are deterred from seeking the vital certificate because of the cost involved in having to travel to Grampian to undertake the training at the Robert Gordon institute of technology . |
| 7 | He did study law and acquired all the necessary qualifications but he became increasingly depressed — a condition which was not conquered until , at the age of 28 , he went back to university to study the science subjects he so loved . |
| 8 | Egerton name change : Egerton Trust , the housebuilder and property developer , has changed the names of six of its subsidiaries to Egerton to reflect the exposure of the group . |
| 9 | I shall ensure that the message that he has asked me to convey is conveyed tomorrow , when I go to Barrow to mark the roll-out of the first Vanguard submarine . |
| 10 | Sub-classify stocks in the balance sheet or notes to accounts to show the amounts held in each of the main categories in the standard balance sheet format . |
| 11 | Robert Strauss , the new US ambassador to the Soviet Union sworn in Washington on Aug. 20 , was sent to Moscow to judge the situation , and instructed to visit Yeltsin but not to present his credentials to acting President Yanayev . |
| 12 | Macmillan himself early in 1959 embarked on a reconnaissance to Moscow to appraise the mood and intentions of the Kremlin . |
| 13 | Mr Kozyrev cut short a trip to Finland , returning to Moscow to read the president 's address to the commonwealth . |
| 14 | Then on Friday they would stream back to Cork from all over the province of Munster to clean themselves up , don their best clothes , and go to synagogue to greet the Sabbath . |
| 15 | From D F Malan , trained nav students go down to Langebaanweg to take the back-seat ( literally ! ) in Atlas Impala jet trainers for further instruction . |
| 16 | We are going to go to parliament to ask the men in power there to force those wicked plantation owners to give up their slaves ! ’ |
| 17 | And having voted for party candidates , the electors expected the members returned to Parliament to support the program offered by their leaders at the election . |
| 18 | It was probably the affairs of the East India trade that propelled him into politics ; with the ‘ old ’ East India company still in existence , many members of the ‘ new ’ company sought election to Parliament to protect the company 's interests . |
| 19 | In practice , many States seem willing to adopt a generous view of the scope of the Convention , responding to requests to obtain the results of blood-grouping tests ( at least where the subject is willing ) and to provide copies of public documents or of entries in registers of civil status . |
| 20 | High-flying Currie has completed a course in parachuting , and he 's due to make a charity jump at Garvagh today , when he hopes to raise up to £1,000 to help the fight to save the South Tyrone Hospital 's maternity unit from closure . |
| 21 | If the risk of this happening leaves the prosecutor up a gum tree , it is apparent that the Crown Prosecution Service may have an interest in ensuring that something has been done prior to trial to remove the need for a dock identification , whether the police can see a use for one or not . |
| 22 | The World Bank has extended a $246 million loan to Czechoslovakia to improve the efficiency of its power plants . |
| 23 | A SERIES of unprecedented all-ticket public meetings has been called to hear overwhelming opposition to plans to downgrade the infirmary in Arbroath — home of the health minister , Lord Fraser . |
| 24 | There was also fierce local opposition in June to plans to build the world 's largest nuclear waste facility near Krasnoyarsk . |
| 25 | Oil and petroleum workers threatened industrial action in support of demands for a 310 per cent salary adjustment , for an end to plans to privatize the state oil company PETROBRAS , and the reinstatement of 800 colleagues dismissed in government cutbacks . |
| 26 | This is what those opposed to plans to privatise the forestry commission fear they will lose . |
| 27 | Give the flower to Mum to win the game . |
| 28 | An incentive to creditors to hold the SDR is provided by interest charges on users of SDRs transferred to creditors . |
| 29 | Dr Hursthouse came to Somerville to do the B.Phil in Philosophy . |
| 30 | Earlier , a minibus had been sent to Eton to collect the Tavistocks ' youngest son Lord James Russell , and some of his young friends including Viscount Lumley , whose parents the Earl and Countess of Scarborough were staying in the houseparty at Woburn , as were Viscount and Viscountess Chelsea . |