Example sentences of "'s [noun] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposed measures would reorganize the management of Codelco by restricting presidential appointments , limit the company 's operations exclusively to copper and privatize some service operations . |
| 2 | Fitt 's decision not to back Labour at the moment of crisis received the full backing of his SDLP colleagues . |
| 3 | His strong and aggressive displays were a feature of Palace 's progress back to Division Two , but his playing career was brought to a premature end by a troublesome eye complaint and his final match with us was the 6th round FA Cup-tie against Leeds ( 0–3 ) on 10 March 1965 . |
| 4 | HOUSEWIFE Joan Carey brought daughter Nina 's goldfish back to life with … a swig of scotch . |
| 5 | Evan points to a hoist that 's slowly lowering the band 's gear down to ground level : ‘ When we played here last year , we were riding up and down in that thing . |
| 6 | Scheer resolved to use Vice-Admiral Franz von Hipper 's battlecruisers again to bombard towns on the east coast of England ; this , he judged , would bring Beatty and his battle-cruisers down from their anchorage at Rosyth . |
| 7 | I was confused by Nigel Harris 's article Halfway to liberation ( Trade wars NI 204 ) . |
| 8 | Coetzee puts Harms 's obtuseness down to class differences . |
| 9 | ‘ How your mob have murdered a teacher , and thrashed the Duke 's servants nearly to death . |
| 10 | Bleach sound like they 've benefited from their month of gigging in America — with Salli Carson 's voice back to full-strength ( after she 'd lost it in Boston two days earlier ) . |
| 11 | First , Le Bel 's predecessor up to Easter 1761 , A.B . |
| 12 | I went through the drill that I had taught many times to my students , and with a little sideslip brought John 's creation back to earth . |
| 13 | Yet , despite Maine 's hostility both to utilitarianism and legal positivism , J. S. Mill was an early admirer of Maine 's work . |