Example sentences of "[noun] 's to " in BNC.
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| 1 | BUNDLES of cash and no borrowings are the orders of the day at Burberry 's to Kay 's Catalogue retailer Great Universal Stores . |
| 2 | A study 's to be carried out to see whether it 's feasible for trains to travel along the Great Western line at a hundred and fifty miles an hour . |
| 3 | Although the two men rode together to Granada , Rodrigo made the mistake of pitching his tents closer than Alfonso 's to the walls of the city . |
| 4 | LAURA WITH HER FIRST CHILD , JANE , BORN IN 1953 , OUTSIDE THE FRONT ENTRANCE 'S TO THEIR FLAT IN ST GEORGE 'S SQUARE , GATHERING ENERGY BEFORE MOUNTING THE NINETY-NINE STEPS TO THE TOP . |
| 5 | Eventually , it was agreed and confirmed at a mass meeting held at the Stadium in Liverpool on 6 October that the seaman 's wage on all foreign-going ships should be raised to £pound11 and the fireman 's to £pound11 10s and that the national wage board should determine a national port wage within four weeks , the award to be paid retrospectively . |
| 6 | I expect some of us will be moving off soon , going to the places where summer work 's to be found . |
| 7 | ret there were differences between the attitude of W. H. G. Kingston to his heroes and Marryat 's to Peter Simple or Jack Easy in adult novels , differences reflecting the special constraints on fiction written specifically for young readers . |
| 8 | The entire novel is written in a series of letters : Celie 's semi-literate ones to God ( the only confidante she can find ) which tell of her ugly sexual experiences as a child and wife , her separation from her beloved sister Nettie and ultimately her triumphant love for her husband 's beautiful lover ; Nettie 's letters to Celie ; and finally Celie 's to Nettie . |
| 9 | Moreover , my colleague Christine d'Andlau-Hombourg is French and multilingual which will also help to introduce Colnaghi 's to our Continental clients . |
| 10 | Birmingham and the Fitzwilliam 's watercolours have been to Japan , the Victoria and Albert 's to East Germany , and the British Museum 's to Cleveland and North Carolina , a tour which resulted in the book under review . |
| 11 | We would expect Mrs Reynolds 's to be present . |
| 12 | After a discussion she and Kim 's GP decided to refer Kim 's to the social services on 7 September . |
| 13 | He gathered rocks , but found a dredge such as the Hudson 's to be a crude sampling tool . |
| 14 | ‘ It seems Ebert 's to be appointed General . |
| 15 | ‘ So we have to hand over the reins of Chester 's to a man whose only interest is money for money 's sake ? ’ she persisted in a low , intense voice , ‘ when anyone can see all the company needs is a re-think of direction , a bit of diversification … ’ |
| 16 | Did this mean Guy Sterne did n't consider the crisis at Chester 's to be that big a crisis , after all ? |
| 17 | I 'm going home , you can get on with your profligate lifestyle , marry Nicola Schreider , nip out to St Lucia for sex with the adoring Tara when you get bored , sell off Chester 's to Farthingdales and rake in your hefty slice of profit , and then you can go to eternal hell , for all I care ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I accused Guy of selling off Chester 's to our rivals , but it appears he was planning the opposite … ’ |
| 19 | Of the amercements for offences in the Forest of Dean , for example , Brooke 's and Wynne 's penalty was reduced in 1636 to £12,000 , and Sir John Winter 's to £4,000 . |
| 20 | Phil 's to Gary |
| 21 | ‘ I would n't have expected any relation of Caro 's to be such an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy . |
| 22 | Papa 's to her : a camera . |
| 23 | Sometimes there is no use of quotation marks , in which case the transition from author 's to character 's voice has to be deduced purely from the wording . |
| 24 | My alternative account , a minimal one , seeks among other things to give fewer hostages than Brentano 's to philosophical fortune , or anyway to philosophical doubt . |
| 25 | Oliver poured orange juice , drank half of it in the kitchen while looking very thoughtful and then carried Rain 's to the bedroom . |
| 26 | In early times the fashion was to cut the two shields in half down the vertical axis ( the ‘ pale ’ line ) and join the dexter half of the husband 's to the sinister half of the wife 's , thus making in many cases a very strange ‘ design ’ indeed — such as the front half of a lion joined to the right-hand portion of a spread eagle . |
| 27 | She wanted harshness , remote ritual , a difficult kind of virtue ; what she got was an upholstered smile and an approach like a cosy London policeman 's to a well-bred drunk on Boat Race night . |
| 28 | Furthermore , since the Crown had earlier inherited Hatfield subject to the maintenance of rights of common , it was not entirely the king 's to either sell or drain . |
| 29 | The Reader is desired to take notice , that as , the Date of the License witnesses , this Booke , should have been Printed long agoe , and there has been a mistake in the bot-tome of the Title Page , where the Year 1680 has been put instead of the Year 1679. in which it was really Printed off , though not publickly expos 's to Sale , til the beginning of this Month of January . |
| 30 | Helped in the crucial early years by Brian Close , his — and Garner 's — loyalty to their adopted country became every bit as great as Clive Lloyd 's to Lancashire . |