Example sentences of "to [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Murimuth the bestowal of titles on the six earls was followed by the dubbing of twenty-four new knights , and other nobles were rewarded at the same time . |
| 2 | The captain replied that the city was well off , sound , and had no intention of relinquishing its hard-won rights to Monseigneur the Bastard who , as was well known , had usurped the legitimate claims of the true Queen , Carlotta . |
| 3 | From Southwold to Kessingland the path follows the foreshore . |
| 4 | To Hayek the foundation of social theory is that there are orderly structures in existence which , although the result of the action of many people , do not result from any particular human design . |
| 5 | Kleisthenic and post-Kleisthenic Athens , then , owed to Pisistratus the idea of centralizing Attica without draining away deme autonomy ; but in the Kleisthenic arrangements , which lasted until the Macedonians suppressed Athenian democracy in 322 , that principle was used not just in the sphere of religion , but formally and politically , in the arrangements for selecting the 500-strong Council by lot ( for more on this see p. 119 ) . |
| 6 | To Trent the splash was loud as a bomb . |
| 7 | Jacob Cohen had promised to send Charlie over to Chelsea the moment he reappeared in the Whitechapel Road . |
| 8 | Indeed from Pagham eastward to Brighton the development is almost continuous , apart from the river mouths and a 5km. strip west of Littlehampton . |
| 9 | Useful information : From October to March the Tourist Information Office in the Burg ( 44 86 86 ) is open Mon-Sat 9.30am-12.45pm and 2am-5.45pm , closed Sundays . |
| 10 | From December to March the Club meets at Duxford Rectory , and the rest of the year at Duxford Church . |
| 11 | Hugh of Lincoln died in London in November 1200 and on the way back to Lincoln the funeral procession passed through Stamford . |
| 12 | Oldfield excited the crowd with a long run from the halfway line and when he back-heeled the ball to Mills the full-back hit his shot against a post . |
| 13 | Finally , we 've got to bring the players back to earth a bit , but two absolute cracking games to look forward to in the next couple of weeks ; Oldham next week , probably the best footballing side in the second division , and away to Swindon the week after , so still a lot to look forward to although disappointment at going out of the Cup . |
| 14 | The Russian side does not consider the legal circumstances around the removal of the collection from Holland to Germany the fact that the collection was freely sold in 1940 by its previous owner van Beuningen to the Director of the Dresden Gallery Hans von Posse to become part of Hitler 's projected megamuseum in Linz to be fully clear . |
| 15 | He remembered what he had said to Alexandra the night before : ‘ We need n't rush into anything . ’ |
| 16 | To Arnold the term philistine implied the idea of something stiff-necked and perverse in its resistance to light — ‘ and therein it specially suits our middle class , who not only do not pursue sweetness and light , but who even prefer to them that sort of machinery of business , chapels , tea-meetings and addresses from Mr Murphy , which makes up the dismal and illiberal life on which I have so often touched ’ . |
| 17 | Who put an end to Rimeq the Renegade ? ’ |
| 18 | The deal , said by sources to be ‘ very valuable to Pyramid , ’ will also allow ICL to OEM the company 's high-end MIServer ES machines — this follows on from an informal Pyramid-ICL sales teaming that has been operating in the UK for the last few months . |
| 19 | Digiboard is negotiating for IBM Corp 's PowerPC division to OEM the thing . |
| 20 | Subsequently Daniel Morley , a partner mentioned in an a agreement made in the late 1600 's with Roger Fleming , wrote to Roger the letter reproduced below : |
| 21 | To the north they had obtained the county of Maine only to lose it to William the Conqueror , Duke of Normandy . |
| 22 | According to Antony the Devil came to tempt and torture him in a variety of fantastical forms from lascivious women to wild beasts . |
| 23 | The significant features of this meeting were : ( 1 ) the bank 's anxiety ‘ to disembarrass themselves of this unsecured overdraft , ’ i.e. the overdraft on the Dempsey accounts ; ( 2 ) according to Bunn the husband executed a mortgage on his house supporting a guarantee of the overdraft , saying that the property was in his sole name , but that the wife and children were occupiers ; and ( 3 ) again , according to Bunn 's evidence , set out at p. 361 : |
| 24 | Then Malcolm bowled Richards , and after Best fell to Small the tail soon went . |
| 25 | The marquis and Amsterdam had gone to Plymouth the day before , intending to stay the night . |
| 26 | They anticipated the hellenistic taste for theatre : Dionysius I brought his bride from Italian Lokri in a warship decorated with gold and silver ; Plutarch 's Life of Demetrius has a splendid account of the cortège in which the third-century king Antigonos Gonatas brought back by sea to Macedon the funeral casket of his father Demetrius . |
| 27 | In the middle of May they had imprisoned Sir Roger Clarendon , who was , so the common people said , natural son to the great Edward , the Black Prince , and half-brother to Richard the king . |
| 28 | Regardless of the Indonesian investigation , will the Minister tell us exactly what the Government intend to do to convey to Indonesia the message that the international community simply will not tolerate outrages such as last week 's massacre of innocent mourners in East Timor ? |
| 29 | According to Roberts the money was , he tactfully put it , ‘ to have been employed on a special service for the late king ’ . |
| 30 | According to Gregory the division of 561 was in many respects a return to that of 511 ; Charibert I received Paris , Guntram Orléans , Sigibert I Rheims and Chilperic I Soissons . |