Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah recruiting , dog shitting on their street etc etc etc that we do our best to deal with in the yer know time honoured tradition of a policeman and a and we 're police officer sorry , sorry Trace , er and er we just you know I think it 's more a P R O thing than er anybody , but I do n't expect you to man it , I do n't expect Jenny or Ann or or Jane to man it |
| 2 | The exercise of her bent for administration , and her own newly acquired peace of mind , sent Charity , no less than Clarissa to bed happy . |
| 3 | The election of Paraguay and Bolivia to membership , along with " area presidents " to represent Central American countries and the Caribbean , brought membership to 13 . |
| 4 | And when she had helped Carole to put Emma and Sophie to bed she had n't been able to prevent tears coming to her eyes while she had listened to them solemnly saying their prayers . |
| 5 | Well , erm , Adrian goes on a Mondays and Tuesdays to nursery , and on a Wednesdays and Fridays to his dad , and Tiffany goes on a Tuesday and Thursday and Friday to nursery . |
| 6 | The one the Federation produced is very good , but a lot of reading in it , so , we wanted one we could hand out to people and the the intention is that we , we go on the market next week Thursday and Friday to hand out that leaflet , also to advertise the meeting on the tenth , erm , so that really is as far , and obviously the meetings that , that Lilly just said that Kathy 's coming , that would be an opportunity to erm you know , discuss it further with her . |
| 7 | Most people who made the pilgrimage found it well worth their while , not only for the quality of the music-making but also for a quality of staging and design that pointedly bypassed the often musically ruinous fads of post-war directors ' opera in order to re-establish contact with an older and still valid tradition that goes back , with a passing glance at the work of Wieland Wagner , through Gründgens and Reinhardt to Roller and Mahler and , in some respects , Wagner himself . |
| 8 | He said ‘ In future you 'll wear pyamas and Kamiz to school , and I have heard that you do n't cover your head , though you have been asked to . |
| 9 | The Arab-Israeli peace talks have been suspended since Israel deported the 415 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Gaza to south Lebanon . |
| 10 | It continued a remarkable run for McEvoy , who led Great Britain and Ireland to victory in the Eisenhower Trophy in Sweden last season , claiming the individual honours , then played a big part in winning the Walker Cup for Great Britain and Ireland at Peachtree . |
| 11 | Under the Bill , responsibility for the administration of funding for nurses ' education will be transferred from the national boards of Wales , Scotland and England to health authorities and health boards . |
| 12 | A total of £1.5 million has been invested in new premises , plant and equipment both in Abu Dhabi and Dubai to service valves , wellheads , high speed rotating equipment and heavy frame turbine components . |
| 13 | That was the fourth time they 'd had Michael and Helen to dinner . |
| 14 | The Trade Secretary recently quashed a scheme by P & O and Sealink to pool services on short routes , but the proposal may surface again . |
| 15 | Bar and Lindsey to university . |
| 16 | Turkey announced on Dec. 19 that it had decided to raise the representation in Ankara of both Israel and Palestine to embassy status . |
| 17 | The princess , who seemed relaxed away from the pressures of marriage problems , had taken sons William and Harry to Playscape for an earlier visit . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , sources contend that the commitment of IBM and Hewlett-Packard to commitment to WABI is fairly weak . |
| 19 | Brenda was going to a college where there was an excellent women 's hockey team , and Belinda to university to read English literature . |
| 20 | Nowhere to the west of the Wallace Line can be found the giant Cassowary , Birds of Paradise or marsupials of Australasia , and nowhere to the east of it are found the tigers , elephants , primates and early man which crossed the land-bridge once connecting Java , Sumatra and Borneo to mainland Asia . |
| 21 | Beatrice Hastings commented on it obliquely in her column and the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz , who used to invite Max Jacob and Modi to lunch when he could afford it , found himself warmly advised to embrace the faith . |
| 22 | They did not see that the rampant nationalism that had brought Presidents Tudjman and Milosevic to power would so fan the flames of separatism and so reawaken the enmities of 50 years or more , that the compromise that might well have been possible earlier this year and which the European Foreign Ministers have since tried to impose has now become impossible . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ I had wondered whether a piece so drenched in Anglican chant ( running from Gilbert and Sullivan to Morning Prayer and back ) could rise and sail . ’ |
| 24 | After the referendum government sources stated that the Cordillera Administrative Region , formed in July 1987 [ see p. 35324 ] , would cease to exist , with Abra , Benguet and Mountain Province returning to Region 1 ( Ilocos ) and Kalinga-Apayao to Region 2 ( Cagayan Valley ) . |
| 25 | I have learnt that the sun and the stars are eternally good , and that my body leaps in contact with this sparkling world and everything that it contains from the minds of Beethoven and Shakespeare to food and drink and a soft night 's sleep . |
| 26 | It is therefore necessary to turn to public law to see whether it provides a solution by enabling the rules of the SIB and SROs to impact on the respective obligations and rights of firms and their customers under fiduciary law . |
| 27 | THE Great Plains of the United States cover a huge swathe of land , about 600 miles wide , stretching some 2,500 miles south from eastern Montana and western North Dakota through parts of South Dakota , Wyoming , Nebraska , Colorado , Kansas , New Mexico and Oklahoma to west Texas . |
| 28 | Composite eighteen G M B Scotland and London to second . |
| 29 | That was the fourth time they 'd had Helen and Michael to dinner . |
| 30 | BP is to sell its refining and marketing activities in West Africa and Tunisia to Elf Aquitaine . |