Example sentences of "[noun] 's [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the year to February America 's narrow-money growth quickened to 1.9% , Japan 's increased to 0.7% and Britain 's accelerated to 6.4% . |
| 32 | In looking at overall trends , Sotheby 's pointed to the strength of the decorative arts and jewellery , while noting an improvement in results at Impressionist and Modern sales . |
| 33 | A second London orbital road 's expected to be built between the M3 and M40 . |
| 34 | Guy's/St Thomas 's Hospital could become the second major centre , although it faces competition from the Royal Brompton/Chelsea and Westminster for the provision of paediatric cardiac services , and from St George 's linked to the Royal Marsden ( Sutton ) for cancer services . |
| 35 | So Lemmy 's taken to America , but how did the Americans take to Lemmy ? |
| 36 | Barbara 's written to Auntie Flo about the cake . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ Pool 's used to sensory deprivation , ’ he said . |
| 38 | In fact , the Gallery has extended the show 's run to eight months so that school children can see it this autumn and has moved the scheduled second venue , Detroit , to the end of the tour . |
| 39 | Then , if you like , you can do a little pantomime routine where you look behind you for the ghost but it follows you around until you finally find it , and then you can do a brief activity with the ghost , like walk around the room in ‘ follow my leader ’ style or sing a song such as ‘ My kneebone 's connected to my thigh bone ’ . |
| 40 | Meanwhile Doug Robertson 's resigned to life without Rabina . |
| 41 | ‘ All the woodland 's leased to the forestry people . |
| 42 | That being so , the Capriati 's turned to Slozil , who had been in tear when Steffi presented him with a gold watch to mark their parting after five mostly triumphant years . |
| 43 | The baby 's navel 's attached to the mother , not the mother 's navel to the baby . ’ |
| 44 | ‘ We have as many as fifteen GP 's attached to this Home because our residents like to see a doctor they know . ’ |
| 45 | ‘ It 's just an hour 's run to the turn-off , ’ Bertha had assured her . |
| 46 | The law states that if the insured driver 's held to be just one per cent responsible , then his insurers have to pay . |
| 47 | Squadron 's transferred to Rosières . |
| 48 | But he 'd made it swallow a hook beforehand — ( Serafine opens her mouth and wiggles her little finger inside , and both Xanthe and Miranda squirm at the sight of her soft tongue , imagining the laceration , the capture. ) — And this little hook 's at the end of a thread , and the thread 's attached to a trapeze of sticks hanging above . |
| 49 | Then she got up , took off her hat and danced too , her dancing awkward as a buffoon 's compared to Silly-Willie 's complicated steps . |
| 50 | Geoffrey Clifton-Brown 's used to all-night sittings , but in the chamber of the House of Commons , not the streets of SW1 . |
| 51 | Christie 's looked to Old Master pictures ( up 23% ) , furniture ( up 18% ) , Oriental works of art ( up 20% ) and books ( up 42% ) . |
| 52 | The NSF 's earlier decision to abolish the death penalty had been confirmed by Iliescu in his New Year 's broadcast to the Romanian people on Jan. 1 , " in order to stress the profoundly popular and humanist character of the new regime " and in compliance with students ' proposals that " the two dictators [ i.e. Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena ] were the last persons who deserved this fate " . |
| 53 | the bird 's delivered to an echo of itself |
| 54 | McDonald 's agreed to a two-board sponsorship , estimated at £11 million . |
| 55 | The factory 's moved to Southampton — part of our diversification . |
| 56 | ‘ Oh , your servant 's seen to that . |
| 57 | However , Derek was actually seen at his best when playing in the ‘ sweeper 's ’ role , which grew to prominence while he was at the Palace , or when lining up at centre-half alongside Ian Evans in Palace 's run to the FA Cup semi-final in 1976 . |
| 58 | The other son 's converted to Mohammed and they say George is going the same way . |
| 59 | Celebratory events were taking place all over the Soviet Union ; but none was more extraordinary , in its modest way , than Charsky 's promised to be . |
| 60 | When the Lawrence Girls arrived , John 's tended to be considerably older , having had to work their way up through their hierarchy before being allowed into the promised land of show business . |