Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerald fought to the bar for a couple more glasses and generously shared the bottle . |
| 2 | The negative views B. S. Johnson expresses above are fairly widely shared : Malcolm Bradbury points to the existence of a general critical assumption that after the work of the modernists , the ‘ experimental tradition ’ in Britain may simply have lapsed ( Bradbury 1973 : 86 ) . |
| 3 | The range of options offered at Napier contributes to the breadth of course curriculum and provides a necessary flexibility in choice of subjects studied . |
| 4 | Mr Niachos belongs to the ‘ art as woman ’ school of collectors . |
| 5 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 6 | Botswana goes to the polls on Saturday , when seven parties will contest 34 seats in the country 's single chamber . |
| 7 | Jerome crept to the foot of the steps , and there halted , baulked , rather , like a startled horse , drew hard breath and assayed to mount , and then suddenly threw up his arms to cover his face , fell on his knees with a lamentable , choking cry , and bowed himself against the stone of the steps . |
| 8 | Thus the mental horizons of labourism ( by which Nairn refers to the tradition of independent working-class representation ) were severely circumscribed . |
| 9 | Laquer refers to the Reformation because of certain similarities between the problems caused by the Reformation and the Cold War . |
| 10 | Three years after his return from Aden , Nizan got to the heart of his dilemma when he proclaimed : I came very close to being a bourgeois … |
| 11 | In response , however , Polycarp turns to the crowd in the amphitheatre and shouts out the words which the Proconsul has invited him to repeal as if they applied to the audience in the arena . |
| 12 | Jenkins refers to the origins of new songs as ‘ cultural mutations ’ . |
| 13 | His response to the captain 's surprised question , 'so you came to Czechoslovakia to go to the football match , Professor ? " ( p. 71 ) is , initially , to violate the maxim of quality ( " Certainly not " ) and then to imply that this is not entirely the case by violating the maxims of quantity and relevance when he provides three excuses for not attending all the sessions of the Colloquium instead of admitting the truth . |
| 14 | Duvall collided with him in the rush , nearly flinging him to the corridor floor , but Cardiff clung to the door knob and swung himself back again as Rohmer and Gilbert hurtled past him . |
| 15 | Well the last the last time when Sunderland got to the Final in seventy-three er there were five of us in the , in my house and I 'd made red and white rosettes |
| 16 | In a review of Jean-Richard Bloch 's essay , Naissance d'une culture , Nizan refers to the issue of the " legacy of cultures and the invention of a new culture " as the major problem confronting the contemporary writer , intellectual , artist.38 Nizan signals his agreement with Bloch that bourgeois humanist and individualist culture , optimistic , progressive and outward-looking in its origins , degenerated during the latter part of the nineteenth century into a solitary , self-preoccupied and defensively reactionary activity . |
| 17 | Tony Yates applied to the licensing committee to extend his music licence until 12.30am at Brannegans and 2.30am at Club Lucy . |
| 18 | Czechoslovakia goes to the polls this month in the first democratic election since 1946 . |
| 19 | The standard form analysed by Professor Tetley refers to the individual carrier 's contract of carriage as follows : |
| 20 | Lisa got to the office early and went straight to Vass 's door . |
| 21 | Finally , in the treasury of the sanctuary is the Cross of Chiaravalle , a processional cross from the Abbey of Chiaravalle given to the church in 1296 by Ottone Visconti , Archbishop of Milan . |
| 22 | The headmen councilled , and on 19th June the Nez Perce re-crossed to the Salmon River 's west bank . |
| 23 | Head of state : King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva succeeded to the throne in 1972 . |
| 24 | Ms Radice got to the crux of the matter when she told The Washington Post , ‘ To me , when the obvious sexual nature … is the only thing you see or the first thing you see or the overwhelming thing that you experience the American public has given us a lot of guidance on this , and Congress has given us a lot of guidance , saying they do n't want us to spend money on that particular type of art ’ . |
| 25 | There 's a story of a Hercules which left Ascension Island to go to the Falklands . |
| 26 | Truman points to the fact that the group process excludes a variety of social groups unable to participate in it , a feature of pluralism emphasised by Schattschneider 's discussion of the ‘ mobilisation of bias ’ . |
| 27 | Mr Morse points to the ageing and unpleasant sanitary point where boat users dump their waste next to the town 's bus station . |
| 28 | Born fourteen years after Mary Leapor , Woodhouse lived to the age of eighty-five . |
| 29 | Rubbish Fadeev clung to the world championship lead despite falling on a tripe loop in yesterday 's original programme . |
| 30 | Although most of the adjustments Valuev proposed to the statutes of emancipation appeared to favour the gentry at the expense of the peasantry , one of them , the abolition of the peasant commune , might have had the opposite effect , and none of them was designed to turn the clock back . |