Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young Gilbey 's passion was cars and he skipped going to university to move to the bright lights of London . |
| 2 | In sharp contrast to his ‘ enthusiasm ’ of 1792 , in 1806 Fox introduced the abolition resolution by reminding the Commons what was owed to its own reputation after its 1792 decision for gradual abolition was not carried through ; he appealed to the memory of Pitt and the arguments of Burke ; he looked to parliament to speak for the nation on ‘ a question in which party feelings , arising out of political connections , can have no share ’ . |
| 3 | My youngest son , Joseph , is very interested in history , and we are going to Hue to look at the Imperial City and watch the emperor perform the traditional ceremonies of Tet . " |
| 4 | They offered very favourable rates to industry to move into the area , and the whole venture enjoyed massive success . |
| 5 | When he found himself in charge of a famous school he seized his opportunity and set to work to instil in the offspring of the ruling classes the personally desirable and politically vital sense of sin . |
| 6 | Once Clifford had departed Palmer set to work to wring from the central government a series of concessions which , had he succeeded in obtaining them all , would have converted Northern Nigeria into a separate state . |
| 7 | They were invited to court to perform for the Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I. |
| 8 | There were , how ever , considerable practical problems for the Central Authority in disciplining this instinct by devising measures of performance alternative to the profit yardstick , The Area Board barons liked to keep the Central Authority distant from their own fiefs , but they did come to court to bargain on the issues which had to be resolved between them ; and when they did this personal and political factors could be as important as commercial or economic ones . |
| 9 | We th , do then have a toner , but you do n't necessarily have to use the toner because you 've used to water to cleanse off the cleanser . |
| 10 | There 's also a exhibition by the tactical communications wing which has sent three men to yugoslavia to help with the United Nations airlift of emergency aid . |
| 11 | When she woke she found her hand covered with blood which she could not wash off until she went to church to confess to the priest . |
| 12 | The new European Industrial Charter must create incentives to capital to invest in the peripheral regions of Europe , by creating the right environment for modern industries . |
| 13 | At obstructions , like the bath side , cut cladding to size to fit between the dado rail and the top of the bath . |
| 14 | And the worst thing is she was trying to tell a coloured person that there was n't any prejudice , and that you only come to school to learn about the European way of life . |
| 15 | With customs and police officers deployed on shore Vigilant put to sea to patrol off the Kent coast . |
| 16 | Like the aristocracy , therefore , the Church could count on its urban mob , and in the riots of 1766 the Orders were accused of releasing this urban clientèle against a reforming administration ; Aranda , the most conspicuous of Charles III 's anti-clerical ministers , called to power to deal with the rioters , seems to have planned a serious attack on poverty precisely because he feared the influence of a Church with a monopoly of outdoor relief . |
| 17 | The same old commentators are wheeled from channel to channel to comment on the same snippets of film . |
| 18 | So quite apart from the need to make new vaccines against flu from time to time to deal with the problem of antigenic shift , individuals have to be vaccinated against flu every year and even then the vaccine may not protect more than 80 per cent of them . |
| 19 | But some forest landowners were able from time to time to obtain from the Crown a grant of partial exemption from this supervision . |
| 20 | There was a mixture of the formal and the informal about it ; the Keeper of Zoology in the 1810s was wont from time to time to leap over the stuffed animals . |