Example sentences of "[noun prp] [Wh pn] [verb] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oleg Kalugin , a former major-general in the KGB who had come to public prominence recently for alleging continuing KGB abuses of power , was elected to the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies in a by-election in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar on Sept. 2 . |
| 2 | The navigator was a young sergeant named Mike Sadler who had emigrated to Rhodesia before the war and who was arguably the best at finding his way around the Libyan desert . |
| 3 | , Elizabeth Phillipps ( 1851–1925 ) , teacher and organizer , was born in Carmarthen 22 June 1851 , the eldest of three daughters and second of five children of John Hughes , surgeon of Carmarthen , and his wife Anne , the daughter of a Jewish banker of Haverfordwest who had converted to Christianity and changed his surname from Levi to Phillipps . |
| 4 | After his wife 's death he married a Miss Drayton who had gone to Jamaica as a single woman missionary teacher . |
| 5 | Mr Bowen replaces David Newton who has returned to Britain to become group chief operating officer . |
| 6 | Paul Collins , the new captain , moves over to number 8 in the absence of international Brian Robinson who has returned to his native Ballymena . |
| 7 | Dorothy had glared phlegmatically around and said that would teach the silly little wretch to wander off on his own ; it was Helen who had rushed to and fro and eventually found Edward , white with shock , cowering beside one of the tills . |
| 8 | Eileen came home on leave at Christmas and Stephen who had returned to Newcastle also came home . |
| 9 | The official news agency Tanjug reported on Aug. 13 that nearly 90,000 people had left their homes in Croatia since the start of the clashes , quoting Red Cross figures of 48,161 Serbs who had fled to Serbia and 30,651 Croatians to Croatia plus some 10,000 people who had fled to Bosnia . |
| 10 | He was just a butcher 's son from Ipswich who had risen to be Lord Chancellor and leading churchman of England . |
| 11 | For a few years a lean-to building stood against the remaining old wall which sheltered the homeless and I have spoken to one old inhabitant of Halling who remembers coming to the village as a young child and whose parents , being unable to afford other accommodation , sheltered there . |
| 12 | Unlike the kings of Israel who had aspired to the title of ‘ Son of Yahweh , Jesus displayed utter trust in his heavenly Father though the outlook was black as night ; utter obedience to his Father , even though it would take him to a cross ; and utter readiness to suffer — in bloody sweat there and then , and the blood , sweat and hell of crucifixion thereafter . |
| 13 | He was wondering wildly what had happened to Auguste who had promised to be at his side when , as he fully expected , glasses of this revolting potion were flung over his head by the irate tasters . |
| 14 | As the American Protestant layman Thomas Howard has said ‘ Jews and Christians worship the God who has gone to vast and prolonged pains to disclose himself to U8 as he not she , as King and not Queen , and for Christians as Father not Mother , and who sent his Son not his daughter in his final unveiling of himself for our eyes . |
| 15 | I have a friend fishing in Ardrishaig who has taken to making his own deliveries to Dieppe , thus cutting out the middle man . |
| 16 | Grimwood was half supporting Steve who had clambered to his feet , making their way further along Greenway Gardens . |
| 17 | Ms Watson succeeds Toireasa McCann who has moved to Cork , Eire , to study traditional Gaelic music . |
| 18 | It may even be that it was done to make possible the appointment of this particular scholar , a native of Bosnasarayi who had taught to the level . |
| 19 | In May 1788 , immediately after Pitt had persuaded the Commons to agree the slave trade would be debated in the next session , the mainly Quaker members of the London committee , accompanied by Thomas Walker and Thomas Cooper from Manchester who had come to the capital to inspire urgency , formed a deputation to prepare MPs for the forthcoming discussion . |
| 20 | But other NATO leaders , especially Charles de Gaulle who had returned to power in France , supported Adenauer 's desire for firmness . |
| 21 | Caroline who had moved to a new area was asked by a neighbour to join a committee planning the local summer carnival . |
| 22 | Unstated was the belief that the American Central Intelligence Agency had a hand in the downfall and death of Lumumba who had appealed to the USSR , and thereby upset the United States and also Britain ( Macmillan wrote ‘ our long-term interests would best be served by … a Congo Government … largely depending on American rather than Russian aid and support ’ ) . |
| 23 | The same is true for those Caribbeans who have moved to London , with the additional complication that they will accommodate to a greater or lesser extent to the norms of London English , as shown by J.C . |
| 24 | Caribbeans who have come to Britain from abroad have probably always brought with them their own distinctively Caribbean varieties of language ; yet it is only in the last two or three decades that educators and policy makers — and to some extent , the general public — have taken an interest in " Black English " ( also called Creole or Patois ) in Britain . |
| 25 | The Census , which until ten years ago existed only on index cards and photographs in the Warburg 's Photographic Collection , seems to have had its origins in a project allocated by Fritz Saxl to Alfred Scharf who had come to London as a refugee from Vienna around 1935 . |
| 26 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 27 | At the same time the Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent Society was reported to be dealing with 8,000 Ossete refugees who had fled into North Ossetia , and up to 3,000 Georgians from South Ossetia who had fled to Georgia proper . |
| 28 | On this occasion Cooke led a delegation to see O'Neill who had responded to pressure from a Unionist MP , Austin Ardill , to meet the men . |
| 29 | Grants totalling £150,000 over three years are being made to voluntary organisations for projects aimed at dissuading young Scots from drifting to London without making adequate preparation for housing and employment , assisting those in London who want to return to Scotland and supporting the young homeless in Scottish cities . |
| 30 | In particular , it appears there was a specific leader at Colossae who had come to a position of authority . |