Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun sg] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of the Society for Biophysical Medicine , agency staff conducted the transcribing task themselves , and posted the information to the research project . |
| 2 | The Asian security man unlocked the door to the documentary department office and loped off down the corridor with a distracted smile on his face . |
| 3 | He flung the book to the ground and stormed back towards the house , leaving Melissa open-mouthed . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , yer swine , ’ breathed the young woman as he flung the handbag to the ground . |
| 5 | He passed the message to the duty watchkeeper . |
| 6 | The state medical registration board charged her with failing to conform to accepted standards of medical practice and passed the case to the state Division of Administrative Law Appeals for a formal hearing . |
| 7 | The French Navy passed the problem to the DGSE who at first suggested that the simplest course of action was to tow the Rainbow Warrior out to the test area . |
| 8 | It was at that moment that Mr quigley passed the entrance to the pub garden . |
| 9 | There was the sound of a T.V. programme as we passed the entrance to the first-floor flat ; on the ground floor all was quiet . |
| 10 | She led the way up a flight of stairs , shouting a greeting as they passed the entrance to the ball-scryer 's receiving room on the ground floor . |
| 11 | I passed the information to the shore patrol . |
| 12 | Mr. Philipson addressed an impassioned argument that it would be quite wrong for the court to vary the injunction at the behest of the defendants , seeing that they had flouted Morland J. 's order , as a result of which the documents had come into the hands of the Federal Reserve Board , who had in turn passed the information to the Bank of England ; and that it would be the antithesis of justice that the consequence of this misconduct should be the discharge of the very injunction which had been designed to protect the plaintiffs from these consequences . |
| 13 | Then he applied the lash to the horse 's flank , and we were off at speed . |
| 14 | He went in , struck a match and applied the flame to the gas mantle . |
| 15 | Fig 2 shows what you would end up with if you applied the formula to the chord voicings that were shown in fig 1 . |
| 16 | Mockery glittered his dark eyes and there was a cruel twist to his mouth as he grazed the key to the apartment across her full , expectant lips . |
| 17 | With a wild yell of triumph the Annamese dropped to his knees and plunged the knife to the hilt in the dying Corsican 's chest . |
| 18 | The burden of proof has switched from the Department which made the error to the claimant . |
| 19 | It was not the Faculty that offered to cooperate with the IoT over examinations , but the IoT which made the offer to the Faculty . |
| 20 | Allen placed the steel bow between the stone uprights of the parapet , dropped the hook over it and lowered the rope to the ground . |
| 21 | Bull O'Malley lowered the suit-case to the floor , a fluttering feeling in his stomach . |
| 22 | Slowly he lowered the fork to the plate . |
| 23 | Jimmy lowered the chair to the floor as Duvall fingered the dark bruise on his forehead . |
| 24 | Bill Westland , environmental projects manager for Darlington Council , disclosed the ploy to the authority 's working party on the control of dogs yesterday after announcing there were still up to 50 unregistered dangerous dogs , such as pit bull terriers and Japanese Tosas , being kept in the town . |
| 25 | This paved the way to the ratification of the Soviet and Polish non-aggression treaties with Bonn and to the signature , in December 1972 , of a ‘ Basic Treaty ’ between East and West Germany which , without ending hopes of reunification , accepted the divided nature of Germany and the need for closer personal and commercial ties between the two halves . |
| 26 | When Citrine revealed the proposal to the Area Board chairmen , however , they reacted angrily . |
| 27 | The latter then sold the reversion to the defendant at an auction . |
| 28 | In 1930 the owner of a strip of land fronting a highway sold the land to the council , which contemporaneously leased it back to him upon terms set out in a memorandum of agreement providing that ‘ the tenancy shall continue until the … land is required by the council for the purposes of the widening of ’ the highway . |
| 29 | In Scotson v. Pegg ( 1861 ) 30 L.J.Ex. 225 the plaintiffs had contracted with a third party , A , to deliver a cargo of coal to A or to the order of A. A sold the cargo to the defendant and directed the plaintiffs to deliver it to the defendant as per contract . |
| 30 | The smallpox hospital was sited between the London Road and the railway , and on November 29th , 1873 , the Town Council sold the building to the Board of Guardians for £100 . |