Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why if Jill knowingly leads Jim to expect that she will behave in a certain way she bears a responsibility to prevent harm to Jim as a result of this reliance , and so on . |
| 2 | It was Francis who gave Cantona his foothold in English football by bringing him to Sheffield for a one-week trial last January . |
| 3 | The value of this gadget — known to Kmart as a ‘ remote maintenance unit ’ ( RMU ) — may go beyond its usefulness as a labour-saving device . |
| 4 | You were around because I was going to take you and Chrissy to Hull to a train fair |
| 5 | He entered the merchant service and in 1744 , as a mate of a vessel returning from Virginia to Hull with a cargo of tobacco , was taken prisoner by a privateer . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'll drive you there — you got ta be there , they want you — ; we 'll take you to Hull in a chauffeured car . |
| 7 | He also worked in Walkinshaw Street and Caledonia Works in Johnstone and Paisley ( both now long closed ) before returning to Glenpatrick as a supervisor . |
| 8 | These accusations were denied by the government , the BSP , and the Soviet ambassador , Viktor Sharapov , who at a press conference on Aug. 26 said that his only contacts with the government and the BSP had been official ones at which he had delivered the statement of the State Committee for the State of Emergency ( the Soviet coup leaders ) and Gorbachev 's subsequent repudiation of it , and had discussed the forthcoming visit to Moscow of a Bulgarian economic mission . |
| 9 | In October 1981 , I went to Moscow for a conference on quantum gravity . |
| 10 | The Lithuanians are to make an even more serious challenge to Moscow at a special republican party congress later this month , which is expected to restore its pre-war independence from the Soviet Communist Party . |
| 11 | Nazimov 's enthusiasm for discipline was applied by a new Governor-General to Moscow as a whole . |
| 12 | ‘ To say I am delighted is an understatement , ’ said Wallace , who was tracked down on a business trip to Moscow by a Garryowen club colleague . |
| 13 | But what we can not accept is that those who have been prepared to co-operate thus far with the P.C.A. , now knowing as a result of this court 's widely publicised recent judgment of the grave suspicions presently surrounding the police officers concerned , would truly prefer to remain anonymous and watch these officers prosper in their libel action , than that their statements should be disclosed to C.N.L. with a view to their being proofed and , if necessary , called as witnesses in defence . |
| 14 | After chatting to Davidson for a few minutes longer , he went back to his office . |
| 15 | Avery sat to Minton for a couple of portraits and for a period saw him about once a fortnight . |
| 16 | Mr Murphy had faced charges of causing an explosion and abduction , in connection with the mini-cab bombing in Whitehall last October when terrorists forced a cab driver to drive to Whitehall with a bomb on the back seat . |
| 17 | There was thus some political pressure from Conservative Ministers to ensure that Boards allocated overheads to their contracting activities properly and secured an economic profit , but the contractors ' association director was so politically inept in following this up that Citrine had no difficulty in exposing him to Whitehall as a biased anti-nationaliser who was unwilling to accept a reasonable accommodation . |
| 18 | And Robert Donat can not have been the only one who complained to Korda about a ‘ silly and unproductive attitude towards scripts ’ , which he credited as being at ‘ the root of the failure of so many British films . ’ |
| 19 | Imagine going all the way to Inverness for a pint of milk … |
| 20 | On that afternoon of Tuesday , 31 August , McQueen 's daughter served them tea ; she wore a print linen dress , and had been to Inverness for a year 's education in reading , writing , sewing , knotting , lace- and pastry-making . |
| 21 | Late abed in a sumptuous local B&B , then Martin is off at 6am , to drive to Inverness for a flight to Heathrow . |
| 22 | Three months after having surgery on a brain tumour , Julia Somerville is welcomed back to ITN with a kiss from fellow newsreader Trevor McDonald . |
| 23 | I did n't go to Lourdes for a miracle but Lourdes makes me appreciate each day and thank God for Zoe . |
| 24 | It is possible to go to Lourdes as a tourist without being a pilgrim , and that is all I can decently do here . |
| 25 | He jerked his poncho up , felt about in the pocket of his filthy jeans and produced a screwed-up bit of paper which he handed to Ward with a few muttered words . |
| 26 | Dana had travelled from Berlin to Salamanca on an old motor bike that was to play a large part in our lives both in Spain and in England . |
| 27 | She announced , to my dismay , that she was coming to Salamanca for a week or so . |
| 28 | Though watched by Louis , Gomez held out his hand to Trent in an unspoken plea for absolution . |
| 29 | ‘ Which is perhaps why you can come to Czechoslovakia for a holiday alone , a working holiday , ’ he qualified with some charm . |
| 30 | How do you feel about going to Czechoslovakia in a few days . |