Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [art] [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 Because it rained all the next week , Mary went to talk to Colin every day instead of visiting the garden .
3 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 .
4 From Southwold to Kessingland the path follows the foreshore .
5 And I have to talk to Marcus every day . ’
6 But to Montana every game is a challenge , and he would dearly love to prove that San Francisco have made a terrible mistake .
7 But to Montana every game is a challenge , and he would dearly love to prove that San Francisco have made a terrible mistake .
8 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 .
9 The problem of planning a display in a carpeted room with no piano presented many difficulties — however the visit itself proved to ben an occasion to remember .
10 He took the second , whose number he had memorized three weeks earlier and dictated to Zack an hour before .
11 During the trial , Lord Maclean heard a taped confession where MacIver admitted that he suggested which lorry to hijack and drove to Inverness a week before the robbery to check the vehicle 's routine .
12 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 ) .
13 As she could not afford to keep a nanny or an au pair , having permanently available a woman who had borne and reared ten children , together with a woman who had been one of them , had been to Scarlet a godsend .
14 To Trent the splash was loud as a bomb .
15 Jacob Cohen had promised to send Charlie over to Chelsea the moment he reappeared in the Whitechapel Road .
16 Indeed from Pagham eastward to Brighton the development is almost continuous , apart from the river mouths and a 5km. strip west of Littlehampton .
17 Thousands of people carry firewood on their heads to Ranchi every day from nearby villages .
18 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 .
19 From December to March the Club meets at Duxford Rectory , and the rest of the year at Duxford Church .
20 Hugh of Lincoln died in London in November 1200 and on the way back to Lincoln the funeral procession passed through Stamford .
21 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 .
22 Erm and this is the reason why I brought this tape recorder , and I was saying to Bernard a moment ago , one of the most embarrassing things that can happen erm when talking to a group like this is when you pressed a button er whether it 's a , a tape recorder a video machine or whatever , you pressed a button full of confidence in all the latest technology and there 's an embarrassing silence .
23 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 .
24 Still , in a spirit of stoic resignation , we would head off to Weston-super-Mare every couple of years .
25 When David came back to Hawkers a week or so later , he found on his desk a very large can of tomato juice .
26 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 .
27 He remembered what he had said to Alexandra the night before : ‘ We need n't rush into anything . ’
28 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 ’ .
29 Who put an end to Rimeq the Renegade ? ’
30 These successes encouraged de Gaulle to press ahead with a more ambitious operation , which he had proposed to Churchill a month earlier .
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