Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [conj] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | His father owned a record shop in Baltimore and before he went to university he had become the buyer for the shop , a job which provided an unlikely education . |
| 2 | Thierry Millerand , Sotheby 's head of French furniture , remarks on the extreme rarity of the Louis XVI ormolu-mounted and painted satinwood and mahogany commode ( est. $1.2–1.6 million ) that is the top lot of the Ortiz-Patiño offering of French furniture : ‘ The commode is one of the very few surviving examples of French eighteenth-century painted and veneered furniture ’ and adds , ‘ We are certain that it was executed by Joseph Baumhauer and that it belonged to a great collector , Nicolas Beaujon , in the eighteenth century ’ . |
| 3 | Walter had been friendly with David in England and when he came to Scotland , David granted him lands in Ayrshire , Renfrewshire , Argyll , Bute and the Lothians . |
| 4 | they go on about Shakespeare and Chauce Chaucer but if you spoke to them the way Chaucer used to speak they would n't understand a word you were saying . |
| 5 | I wanted to find someone to help Mrs Hobbs but as I went to the desk , she was already being carried through the door . |
| 6 | Behind the HQ building , to the right of what Waters called the Paddock but before you got to the Wood , was a small black circle quite close to the boundary fence . |
| 7 | The most crucial aspect is whether we want our currency to be locked into a stable currency in Europe or whether we want to be able to devalue our currency in the hope of averting unemployment . |
| 8 | We achieved good wins in and around Montreal and when we moved to Ottawa our lead had increased to 150 shots . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's steelworks on one side of Wollongong and as you get to the other side , where we 're closer to , it 's all tropical rain forest and beach . |
| 10 | Tixier-Vignancour emerged from this period of enforced reflection with a deep loathing for General de Gaulle and when he returned to politics in 1955 he was one of the architects of the revival of the extreme right , using the popular cause of ‘ Algerie Francaise ’ as a rallying point . |
| 11 | What is striking about it is that he is the first Anglo-Saxon king known to have abdicated to go to Rome and that he went to Rome not as a baptized Christian but to seek baptism . |
| 12 | Greg glanced uncertainly from Rachel to Nina but as he turned to the door Rachel stopped him . |
| 13 | I taped Louise and and they had to be . |
| 14 | ‘ Two men to get out of a van down there in a minute 's time and tell my father that Sean Walsh is a criminal wanted for six murders in Dublin and that he has to be handcuffed and out of there this instant . ’ |