Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friction led to furious rows and the rows led to Willy demanding that he should be allowed to take a room where he could look after himself . |
| 2 | They were expected to take about twenty minutes to sink to the bottom . |
| 3 | Before that , tin extraction followed either from metal ‘ streaming ’ — collecting tin deposits from rivers , the flow of the water doing a reasonable job in separating the heavy tin particles from the soil — or from shovelling up the ore from lodes exposed to the surface . |
| 4 | Tony and I reckon that when Matt goes to heaven he 'll have his nose in an Ordnance Survey Map and he 'll be saying , " If I remember rightly there should be an old bloke around here with long grey hair and a grey beard and a long white nightie on . |
| 5 | It took me about quarter of an hour to sort it all out , and then she asked what train and said she 'd get her mum to agree to ‘ take in this ‘ Vern ’ or whatever his name is ’ and meet us at the station . |
| 6 | When Buck goes to a diner , he sits at a table opposite a creepy woman with a nervous tic who keeps running a grey rubber mouse over her face . |
| 7 | The plans referred to are short-term plans for periods of from one week to one month . |
| 8 | It is sometimes difficult to make the decision referred to in ( i ) . |
| 9 | As we have seen , in the past false biological views led to false reasoning . |
| 10 | His fierce anti-Common Market views led to a challenge to his candidacy for the South Edinburgh seat in 1973 which he successfully fought off . |
| 11 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 12 | The storm builds to a particular intensity . |
| 13 | ‘ A Primary Darkfall is where the storm builds to a pitch and there is one strike . |
| 14 | The new issue market is not a distinct and separate organization within the Stock Exchange , rather it is merely a tag given to the collection of processes by which companies acquire both a listing on the exchange and new equity capital . |
| 15 | The split led to Sankara 's assassination in October 1987 . |
| 16 | Moorcroft 's letter of resignation refers to his ill health , but speaking 40 years later , Coleman said : ‘ I could see no ill health [ in Moorcroft ] at all . |
| 17 | VETERAN rocker Rod Stewart got to grips with fatherhood at last yesterday . |
| 18 | Since institutions tend to be affected in the same way by the same set of factors , share prices will be more volatile than would otherwise be the case . |
| 19 | I 've had a few copies made to be on the safe side : solicitors , banks … you know . |
| 20 | He felt that such ‘ impersonal ’ coverage amounted to a propaganda victory for the IRA . |
| 21 | It might strengthen my case to appeal to apparently neutral , non-political standards but I do not suppose that I would be saying anything useful about the nature of cognition . |
| 22 | I stress the exuberance because most of the literature on anorexia nervosa stresses that anorexics tend to be ‘ good ’ little girls . |
| 23 | Climbers make a great mistake , however , in imagining that each of these groups aspires to the dizzy heights of dangling . |
| 24 | But Laird 's trade unionists are still bitter about the council 's decision to object to the proposed Point of Ayr gas terminal the development that could offer a lifeline to the yard if it wins approval . |
| 25 | In Benjamin 's dualistic conception , allegory refers to bits and pieces of every-day life — often discarded objects , sometimes relics — that together constitute ‘ myths ’ through which individuals in a given historical period understand the social world . |
| 26 | This gives an IR spectrum containing absorptions belonging to methane , ethane , ethylene and three new peaks assigned to the methyl radical . |
| 27 | The codes used are summarised in Fig 11.13 ; internal in this instance referred to any activity within the EPH system model , and external to those of the wider system of interest or surrounding environment , eg the Department headquarters , Area Offices etc . |
| 28 | ( ROS goes upstage : Ideally a sort of upper deck joined to the downstage lower deck by short steps . |
| 29 | ‘ Your Uncle Nathan has wanted her with him in Leeds ever since Christie planned to be married . |
| 30 | The Labour Party ‘ power hoggers ’ David Marquand refers to will strongly resist this approach , as being marginal to the real issues . |