Example sentences of "to the [noun prp] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government White Paper , Policy for the inner cities ( 1977 , Cmnd 6845 ) proposed to revamp existing inner city programmes , transfer Home Office initiatives to the DOE and expand the programme brief to include not only social projects but also industrial , environmental and recreational matters . |
| 2 | The UGT confederation is a socialist union with close historical and organizational ties to the PSOE that go back about a century . |
| 3 | It 's a contemplative thing and what I would recommend you is go to The Tate and sit in the middle of the Rothgo Room there , which is actually a series of canvasses , as you probably know , of a sort of reddish hue , entirely abstract , and you are surrounded by these in a small , fairly dimly lit room , and spend half an hour there and see perhaps whether they work on you . |
| 4 | Westmorland and a few followers were lucky : after joining with the reivers in attacks on the English Marches , they ultimately fled to the Netherlands and lived there as pensioners of Catholic Spain . |
| 5 | The only street fell steeply down towards the secondary gateway to the Manor and had about fifteen cottages on the east side of the road . |
| 6 | The brewery at St. James 's Gate reverted to the Rainsfords and went dark for ten whole years . |
| 7 | Similarly , Margaret Thatcher 's reaction to the Brixton and Toxteth riots captured the public mood far more than the analysis of the Opposition . |
| 8 | I guess he heard Barbara and me discussing the good time we had with you , and he kind of picked up on it , and he wondered why he could n't come down to the Bahamas and isolate himself from drugs . |
| 9 | And then on 10 April 1544 came Henry 's chilling order to his brother-in-law Edward , earl of Hertford , to put all to fire and sword , burn Edinburgh town , so razed and defaced when you have sacked and gotten what ye can of it , as there may remain forever a perpetual memory of the vengeance of God lightened upon ( them ) for their falsehood and disloyalty … and as many towns and villages about Edinburgh as ye may conveniently , sack Leith and burn and subvert it and all the rest , putting man , woman and child to fire and sword , without exception where any resistance shall be made against you ; and this done , pass over to the Fifeland and extend like extremities and destructions in all towns and villages whereunto you may reach conveniently , not forgetting among all the rest so to spoil and turn upside down the Cardinal 's town of St Andrews , as the upper stone may be the nether , and not one stick stand by another , sparing no creature alive within the same … |
| 10 | We see him depicted as a young boy in Luke 2 , obedient to his parents , going up to the Temple and spending time with the learned men asking questions . |
| 11 | I decided to delay informing him of my visit to the Orne and speaking to the Artillerymen who were sending the shells over our heads . |
| 12 | This means that all users who may be affected by the SPR are notified of its existence via the Mail System , and that a particular user is nominated to respond to the SPR and informed of this responsibility via the Mail System . |
| 13 | He urged Vincent to go back to the Borinage and continue with his work there , though without promising to intercede . |
| 14 | After her marriage Signor Cantoni 's mother had seemed unable to bear a child so she took a large bunch of carnations to the Madonna and asked her for the gift of a baby . |
| 15 | Several NATO representatives suggested that " NATO could lend material support or even troops to the CSCE if needed and if agreed by our member countries " , in the words of the Dutch Foreign Minister , Hans van den Broek . |
| 16 | I asked him about going to the Highlands and seeing the wonderful colours there and he just looked at me and said ‘ too amorphous ’ . |
| 17 | He will be badly injured but will return to the Highlands and live for many years . ’ |
| 18 | The danger , as Andrei Gavrilov hints at elsewhere in this issue , is that the large emigration of musicians to the West that has taken place since restrictions were relaxed may mean that Russian musical life will lose those very qualities that not only made it technically of such high standing but that also gave it its unique flavour . |
| 19 | Protestors want to restore free dentistry and eye tests to the NHS and reduce the cost of NHS prescriptions . |
| 20 | She had been less fortunate with the driver , who was not at all sure of the route to the Hook and had to rely on friendly passers-by to give directions . |
| 21 | recognised that the situation might well have been different if , instead of the defendants simply threatening to ‘ black ’ the broadcast they had gone to the B.B.C. and said ‘ We wish it to be established as part of our conditions of employment that we are not required to work on broadcasts to South Africa . ’ |
| 22 | Earlier Mr Garber told the tribunal : ‘ If a male member of staff belonged to the Chippendales and brought in photos I would have done the same . ’ |
| 23 | Now in the early thirties this was too much for the troops to take , so they took their problem to Shaw who then went to the NAAFI and bought all the cups for a penny . |
| 24 | He spoke to the Feldwebel and looked at me . |
| 25 | I wanted to go up to the Feldwebel and shake his hand . |
| 26 | He said something to the Feldwebel and went out of the room . |
| 27 | The day before , Fiver 's warning had troubled him , and he had spoken in anger to the Threarah and left the Owsla . |
| 28 | So Tracy went back to the Griff and said oh share in with the supper . |
| 29 | The government not only gave the second TV channel to the BBC but slapped the excess profits levy onto ITV . |
| 30 | Nothing seems to happen here , remote from the rest of the world , yet one of the houses supplies weather reports to the BBC and achieves for the community a frequent mention . |