Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [conj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been so miserable thinking the letter had gone to Richard and that the damage was done and could n't be undone ! |
| 2 | Scotland have claimed pushover tries against the Welsh on their last three visits to Murrayfield and though the Welsh front-row emerged with considerable scrummage plaudits from their tussle with England , I have observed before in these columns that Martin Bayfield is not in the same league as Paul Ackford as a scrummaging lock ; Jason Leonard , too , hardly seems to be at the peak of his powers following the bone-graft operation in his neck during the close season . |
| 3 | Mr Cairns , a former Ulster teacher now lecturing in Japan who is home on a study project , said : ‘ They went for a meal to McDonalds and when the girls said they would take a taxi back to the Young Women 's Christian Association the boys told them not to take a black taxi because they were too expensive . |
| 4 | It was clear to Alexei that if the Merkuts did not wish to see Jehana given in marriage to Artai , there were reasons which had nothing to do with the suitability of the match . |
| 5 | It has been suggested by revisionist historians that Truman 's policy in the Far East in the summer of 1945 was governed by his hostility to Russia and that the atomic bomb was deployed against Japan in part at least to persuade the Soviet Union to follow a less abrasive policy in eastern Europe . |
| 6 | Following the river , it is almost 1,000 miles from Wadi Halfa to Khartoum while as the crow flies it is less than 500 . |
| 7 | After being measured against a second string of acceptability criteria — and assuming the UN takes to Morris and that a seat on the board becomes available — there would be a ballot , though no movement on this front is expected until next year . |
| 8 | And then it occurred to Cathy that although the old man was lying exactly as she had seen him , something had changed . |
| 9 | Mercedes 's offices have recently been searched by state prosecutors , acting on anonymous tips that Daimler illegally exported weapons-carriers to Iraq and that a senior manager had evaded tax . |
| 10 | The above results indicated that the 47 kDa polypeptide in crude extracts corresponds to CREB and that the 43 kDa polypeptide is similar or identical to ATF1 . |
| 11 | Thomas explained to the Commission how the Grand Junction had started a scheme of improvement to form a through route from Nottinghamshire to Derbyshire to London and that the money expended by 1906 was £86,000 . |
| 12 | And Preston knew that William knew what the rest of them had known , or suspected , for some months : that he and his mother were never going to America and that the Master Sergeant was never coming back . |