Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [det] [prep] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Mirror has read a transcript of the 2year-old recording and found much of it to be inconsequential gossip . |
| 2 | At the stroke of a pen they removed hundreds of thousands of needy youngsters from the benefit system and condemned many of them to a life of mendicant poverty , many also slipped into prostitution . |
| 3 | Like a lion with her cubs , they lick their own wounds and show little of themselves to outsiders . |
| 4 | Like a lion with her cubs , they lick their own wounds and show little of themselves to outsiders . |
| 5 | Flake the tuna and add most of it to the bowl , together with the beans . |
| 6 | What makes it appropriate right now to recognise the great promise of the Orbital engine is Ford 's bold decision to manufacture 60 prototype two-stroke Fiestas and lend some of them to high-mileage users . |
| 7 | If the linguistic side of our University Schools of English could be persuaded to give rather less of their attention to the roots of the English language and to devote more of it to the leaves it has put forth so abundantly since 1500 there would be far more data for literary scholars like Mr. Bateson to work upon . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's remarkable that , in addition to playing 11 cities around the country , the educational programme played to over 5,000 kids and brought many of them to the main theatre in their local cities for the first time in their lives , on subsidised tickets . |
| 9 | Edward promised further help , and a force of almost 5,000 men under the Earl of Salisbury was mustered in March 1373 ; but du Guesclin invaded the duchy and subjected much of it to a French military occupation . |
| 10 | I fetched more glasses and dealt some of them to the Lorrimores who were an oasis of silence in the chattering mob and paid me absolutely no attention : and from then on I felt I had indeed chosen the right role and could sustain it indefinitely . |