Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is sometimes difficult to make the decision referred to in ( i ) . |
| 4 | The storm builds to a particular intensity . |
| 5 | ‘ A Primary Darkfall is where the storm builds to a pitch and there is one strike . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The split led to Sankara 's assassination in October 1987 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He felt that such ‘ impersonal ’ coverage amounted to a propaganda victory for the IRA . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ( ROS goes upstage : Ideally a sort of upper deck joined to the downstage lower deck by short steps . |
| 15 | These students , like Fang himself , were part of the technocratic elite referred to earlier , but their better prospects and opportunities apparently failed to compensate for other sources of discontent . |
| 16 | The presidents agreed on a number of points relating to the 10-year-old civil war in El Salvador and the sanctuary given to Nicaraguan contra rebels in Honduras . |
| 17 | He was living with his third wife , the ice goddess Veronica , in an LA mansion , surrounded by the gifts of a lifetime — a six-foot , hand-carved tiger given to him by Deng Xiaoping , a robe given to him by Elvis Presley . |
| 18 | An argument at Formby 's works between a boy , John Carter , and a horse driver led to what the local paper called " A brutal attack upon the boy " . |
| 19 | I suppose it will be said that it is the height of romanticism to cling to the idea that universities can remain largely publicly funded and that students will not inevitably have to pay fees . |
| 20 | to transfer the lump sum so that that income goes to the one with the . |
| 21 | In a part of Chile where half the region 's income goes to 10 per cent of the population and a quarter of all the people regularly do n't have enough to eat , the day to day problems of scraping together an income are common . |
| 22 | China also ‘ could not tolerate ’ the award given to the Dalai Lama in Paris , and ‘ condemned ’ France for permitting the exiled democracy campaigner , Yan Jiaqi , to ‘ conduct activities against the Chinese Government ’ . |
| 23 | China also ‘ could not tolerate ’ the award given to the Dalai Lama in Paris , and ‘ condemned ’ France for permitting the exiled democracy campaigner , Yan Jiaqi , to ‘ conduct activities against the Chinese Government ’ . |
| 24 | President , colleagues , I am so proud and honoured to receive this gold badge , more so because this is the award given to me by you President , I do want to thank a number of people I also want to thank the regional secretary , Steve , who thank you , Steven , for your support and guidance . |
| 25 | There is no automatic award given to its . |
| 26 | In Spain , we took Hal Hambra from a loss to a profit and the award of the Albanta Prize by the Spanish government and this is an award given to the best new text book in , in the Spanish educational system each year . |
| 27 | Firstly , and I return to this point which I have mentioned again and again in debates such as this and that 's the the question of the lack of there being a central agency er in existence to see to the enforcement of these matters . |
| 28 | ON December 14 TODAY warned of the threat posed to women by the dangerously short sentence given to the multiple rapist Dr Thomas Courtney . |
| 29 | The four-month jail sentence given to Christopher Hart for mowing down nine-year-old Sharon Townsend was a disgrace . |
| 30 | OF course TODAY is pleased that the Attorney General is now looking into the sentence given to Dr Thomas Courtney , the multiple rapist . |