Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , the activity all around him was reassuring , for every yard was another step nearer a payment to him . |
| 2 | 3.4 Thereby after a regrading to GS3 and replacing NEw Technology Allowance with a PErsonal Allowance staff would suffer the following consequences . |
| 3 | Shell Expro 's main office at Altens and the head office of Elf Caledonia at Bridge of Don also had to be cleared after a warning to the police that bombs would go off at the four sites at 9am . |
| 4 | Shell Expro 's main office at Altens and the head office of Elf Caledonia at Bridge of Don also had to be cleared yesterday after a warning to the police that bombs would go off at the four sites at 9am . |
| 5 | Among the restaurants is the Savini , Milan 's most prestigious , where opera-goers congregate after a performance to while away the rest of the evening in expensive surroundings . |
| 6 | The 21-year-old from Redruth , Cornwall , was arrested on Christmas Eve after a tip-off to police . |
| 7 | After a tip-off to police the baby was recovered and he was reunited with his mother at a West Midlands hospital four hours after he was taken . |
| 8 | His luck ran out in the early hours of March 4th when French Customs controls identified Sea Rover homing in towards French waters at Ushant after a passage to North Africa for another cargo . |
| 9 | He told them they were in for a terrific all singing , all dancing , all laughing evening in the company of a galaxy of West End stars , and he informed them , after a bow to the front row where the CO and his wife sat among the senior officers of the Battalion : |
| 10 | Mr Pell issued the report after a trip to Pakistan in August and talks with Pakistani leaders and leaders of the US-Pakistan-backed provisional government . |
| 11 | It was only after a trip to Italy in early 1932 , to see how fascism operated there , and with the support of Lord Rothermere and the Daily Mail , that Mosley renewed his efforts to form a new party designed to instil discipline into the nation , to generate a ‘ classless brotherhood ’ and to meet the challenge of communism . |
| 12 | Then this summer his condition deteriorated after a trip to Cyprus . |
| 13 | Gerard had returned to his home in the Catholic area off North Queen Street after a trip to the local swimming baths with friends . |
| 14 | Steve Tomalin says : I started last year after a trip to the Alps . |
| 15 | Time is the final significant factor since karren developed under a relatively humid climate may survive for a period after a change to a more arid climatic regime . |
| 16 | Just after a quarter to one , I came to the pipe and waited quietly in its shadow . |
| 17 | Smoke and flames were spotted shortly after a quarter to six at the house in Girdlestone Road , Cowley . |
| 18 | While I was in the Gulf , one of our teachers vanished temporarily after a call to a colleague in which he had made disparaging remarks about members of the local royal family . |
| 19 | But after a call to ICC chairman Sir Colin Cowdrey he settled on an £850 fine . |
| 20 | He pointed to the green roll and after a pause to the navy . |
| 21 | A visit due to be made to Suva by Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans in November 1990 was cancelled by Mara after a speech to the UN General Assembly in which Evans derided the new Constitution . |
| 22 | • After a flight to a new time zone our life-style can become muddled . |
| 23 | After a flight to the east , your body is behind the new local time and to adjust to it you will have to advance your body clock . |
| 24 | ‘ He needed to be in a docile mood after a show to be able to talk . |
| 25 | In 1979 he voted for Margaret Thatcher , backing her again at the last election after a switch to the SDP in 1983 . |
| 26 | After a letter to the Home Secretary in 1934 complaining that the IFL speakers had stated at these meetings that they would clear all Jews out of the country , and if this was not possible they would starve them and murder them , Special Branch reported that a Mr Pipkin and a Mr Smith of the IFL , both about twenty-one years of age , had made reckless and rash statements at such occasions . |
| 27 | I had not long returned to England after a visit to my old mission of Cameroon on the West coast of Africa . |
| 28 | The farm , organically cultivated since the 1940s , can support all the family and gives employment to local people , says Judy Steele , after a visit to Borth . |
| 29 | On a day when Mr Kinnock was storming Southampton with helicopter and balloons , Prof Plant was quietly having lunch at home after a visit to his department . |
| 30 | On a day when Mr Kinnock was storming Southampton with helicopter and balloons , Prof Plant was quietly having lunch at home after a visit to his department . |