Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doyle twitched and flexed his fingers , trying to communicate to Bodie in the only way possible . |
| 2 | Now Rotherham coroner Stanley Hooper is to write to President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine . |
| 3 | There she stood , in a dove-grey suede dress , looped and hung with a dozen necklaces of amethyst and rock crystal and pearl , her thick black-grey hair piled heavily , pinned with silver , attending a party in the very house where as patient she once in many hour-long sessions had disclosed to Liz on the ground floor the very secrets of her murderous mother 's heart . |
| 4 | The business was set up in one upstairs room in premises on High Row and moved to Priestgate in the early 1900s where it still practises , on a much larger scale , with a staff of more than 50 . |
| 5 | She moved to London after the break-up of her marriage and became a prison visitor some time after Teamwork Associates was swallowed into a larger body . |
| 6 | Jane Barker 's first poems were written for a small coterie including many Cambridge scholars , along the lines of the ‘ Society of Friendship ’ of her literary model Katherine Philips [ q.v. ] ; and when she moved to London in the 1680s , some of these poems were published in the unauthorized Poetical Recreations ( 1688 ) . |
| 7 | They began life together at Cheam and moved to Wimbledon in the 50s with their children , Terry , who now lives in Nevada with her husband and four girls and son , Richard , who is based at Toddington near Luton . |
| 8 | Brannen , born on a farm at Sadberge and raised at first Long Newton and then Yarm , moved to Stoke at the age of 20 partly to study a sports and recreation degree at North Staffordshire Polytechnic but mainly to train under the guidance of Jim Talbot , the national decathlon coach . |
| 9 | Charles Sweeny , born of wealthy parents at Scranton , Pennsylvania , on 3 October , 1909 , moved to Britain in the late 1920s with his younger brother , Robert ( Bobby ) , who was to become briefly engaged to the Woolworth heiress , Barbara Hutton . |
| 10 | Cheyney moved to Venice in the 1840s , where he lived at the Palazzo Soranzo-Piovene on the Grand Canal . |
| 11 | Alone , she sank into a chair and covered her eyes with her fingers , moved to tears by the way her staff had reacted to the bad news . |
| 12 | Helen Brotherton moved to Dorset after the end of the Second World War and has lived there ever since . |
| 13 | But when Wedgwoods moved to Barlaston before the Second World War , the place became a steel works , and all the old buildings and kilns have since been demolished by the British Steel Corporation . |
| 14 | Among the issues discussed was compensation for the 800 Volhynian Czechs who moved to Czechoslovakia after the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 [ see pp. 34460-62 ] . |
| 15 | Then he moved to Bordeaux for the winter , before returning to Orléans and Paris . |
| 16 | With her parents , she moved to Wales at the age of 14 and served in the RAF — briefly — as a nurse . |
| 17 | Being unfit for service , and to escape the danger of bombing , Firbank moved to rooms in the High Street , Oxford , in October 1915 , and remained there until September 1919 . |
| 18 | Mabbott moved to Dublin during the summer of 1661 , surrendering the office to the Crown in June 1664 for £4,800 . |
| 19 | If you had been an out-of-work farm hand near Inverness , or near Dumfries , why might you have been one of many who moved to Glasgow in the last century ? |
| 20 | BP was among the many leading companies and other organisations that contributed to deliberations of the committee . |
| 21 | And in general terms they 're something of the order of twenty five and a half thousand swellings committed to development in the county , together with three and a half thousand erm in in in draft local plans . |
| 22 | We think it would be a mistake to try and establish any ‘ consensual ’ version of feminism or of feminist philosophy because we are committed to exploration of the beliefs and views we hold , even the ones which at present seem indisputable . |
| 23 | ( b ) An executor or administrator for trespasses committed to goods of the deceased after his death but before probate is granted to the executor or before the administrator takes out letters of administration . |
| 24 | It was also something of a reassurance to conservative waverers frightened of political radicalism ; the Council was committed to evangelization of the Christian gospel . |
| 25 | On Europe , as has been seen , Labour was by 1989 much more committed to developments within the Community . |
| 26 | When an influential purity deputation petitioned the Home Office , Herbert Samuel , then Under-Secretary of State , expressed himself personally committed to legislation in the interests of national honour , but he refused to pledge the government to introduce proposals in the house , or even to support them publicly . |
| 27 | One adviser and one professional development teacher questioned whether arts HMI were genuinely committed to cooperation across the arts implicit in the concept of an aesthetic domain within the curriculum . |
| 28 | With the Supreme Court committed to ruling on the constitutionality of one such law , passed in Pennsylvania , there was every chance that the 1973 precedent could be overturned in its entirety . |
| 29 | We are committed to building on the lead we have and increasing chemical and process engineering resources to drive the various projects associated with fluidics . ’ |
| 30 | We know that there is a limit to what Britain can achieve alone and we are committed to building in the wider world the sort of society we strive for at home , founded on mutual cooperation , political liberty and shared prosperity . |