Example sentences of "[verb] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was necessary in case there were different adherent bacteria on the mucosal surface in disease and controls , and for these experiments faecal fluid was aspirated at colonoscopy and added in 100 µl aliquots to a specimen in the culture system . |
| 2 | As a concession to his mother 's tireless instructions , Jean-Claude allowed her to write to a farmer she had known , to see whether we could rent one of his cottages . |
| 3 | I have n't been brave enough to write to a publication of any sort before , but it is one of my favourite pieces of music , and this is the greatest performance I 've ever heard ( and I mean of anything ) , so thanks for the opportunity . |
| 4 | This guidance often comes in the form of impulses to do this or that — to write to a friend , to read a certain book , to meditate , to go to a meeting , to buy some flowers , to sign up for an evening class . |
| 5 | ‘ Is it any good to write to a Solicitor ? ’ he asked Hooton . |
| 6 | Please verify that there is sufficient disk quota and privilege to write to a file in the supplied working directory . |
| 7 | If you try to write to a file opened for input you will get a " Write protected " error ( error number 252 ) . |
| 8 | 22 year old Katherine Monastyrskaya managed to struggle to a road where she was helped to hospital by passers by . |
| 9 | Her bright tone brought a reluctant smile to Faye 's lips , then she dabbed her swollen eyes with the tissues Belinda gave her and tried to struggle to a sitting position . |
| 10 | For a child too young to make an informed request the information may be disclosed to a parent on his behalf . |
| 11 | He defined trade secrets ( at p425 a-j ) as : ( a ) information used in the trade or business ; ( b ) of which the owner limits the dissemination or at least does not encourage or permit widespread publication ; ( c ) and which if disclosed to a competitor would be liable to cause real or significant harm to the owner of the secret . |
| 12 | It is usual to buy electronic organs ‘ off the shelf ’ , but larger instruments are designed to a customer 's specification and to suit particular buildings . |
| 13 | A social worker was called in and , with a lot of support , Annie moved to a women 's refuge and then to a small flat . |
| 14 | Otherwise , it was a sort of limbo , and it was n't until we moved to a council house in Southall in the outer suburbs of London that the shades of the prison-house began to close . |
| 15 | We moved to a discussion of events at home . |
| 16 | He was then taken in by a Lutheran pastor in Lobetal north of Berlin but moved to a government guest house in late March because of local opposition to his presence . |
| 17 | Shortly after my fourth birthday we moved to a village in Somerset with my father 's employer , a retired lawyer , a bachelor , whose household was presided over by a sister-in-law whose husband had died at about the time of my birth . |
| 18 | Anthea moved to a mirror and smoothed her closely permed black hair before stepping forward with a smile on her lips . |
| 19 | I moved to a school in Herefordshire when my father closed down Avisford and moved to mid Wales . |
| 20 | The package was submitted for approval , and all the DCs moved to a state of ‘ being approved ’ , thereby preventing any further modifications . |
| 21 | Then we moved to a bungalow , marginally out of sight of the rugged coastline . |
| 22 | The cursor will be returned to its original size and moved to a point just outside where the highlight had been depending on the key tapped . |
| 23 | When I was five we moved to a block of tenements in Sylvester Street called Woodstock Gardens . |
| 24 | But yesterday , at 4lb 2oz and 17 inches , he moved to a hospital nearer the family 's Hebden Bridge house . |
| 25 | About three years ago we moved to a farm . |
| 26 | Trevor moved to a farm at Horsted Keynes , Sussex , in 1897 . |
| 27 | I got on well with him and he was partly responsible a year or so later when I moved to a morning paper in Wales . |
| 28 | It had been a heady day when she noticed the photograph no longer in a place of honour , on the chest of drawers , but moved to a shelf where it could hardly be seen , and then face down , and then in the bottom of a drawer . |
| 29 | He moved to a cabinet whose door handles were the long curved tails of dragons . |
| 30 | Around 1835 he moved to a practice in Cork ; after an extended tour of continental universities , he settled in London in 1838 . |