Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [noun] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several , including Taki , returned from exile to contest the elections . |
| 2 | Perhaps too much emphasis was given in hyper-Calvinism to God the lawgiver ? |
| 3 | So when Scotland Yard sent us photographs of criminals that we were dealing with , we used to have to take this descriptive form and photograph to Walters the photographers in Plane , and he charged sixpence to copy the photograph . |
| 4 | They brought the colt to Jesus the animals and Jesus got on . |
| 5 | I would have like to see some attempt to error-trap the data input routine , but help with record location is good and editing is easy , so reliance on the good sense of the computer operator should be a feasible proposition . |
| 6 | A misguided attempt to bombard the Castle with rocks conveyed by magically controlled Wyverns failed spectacularly in 1513 , while demonstrating the accuracy and numbers of the undead archers within the towers of the Castle . |
| 7 | Right , and stem the bleeding if you can see where it 's coming from attempt to stem the bleeding , bung the hole up , okay ? |
| 8 | This was Watson 's first known attempt to short-circuit the information filters that build up as organisations get larger . |
| 9 | Having proved he can hurt everyone , Clinton then has to do the Democrat thing , and attempt to fine-tune the economy . |
| 10 | Biya had announced the holding of the elections , originally scheduled to take place in March 1993 , in early September , in a move regarded by many observers as an attempt to wrong-foot the opposition . |
| 11 | Since all four windings in one stack must be excited concurrently it is common practice to interconnect the windings to form one phase . |
| 12 | The customer sold the car to X. The finance company rejected the offers . |
| 13 | The book says if you keep yawing the aircraft from side to side the wheel may release . |
| 14 | It gives me the greatest pleasure to second the nomination of Chris as the Honorary Treasurer . |
| 15 | Ma'am , may I have er pleasure to second the adoption of the accounts ? |
| 16 | Another booklet said that the mental health programme was a Communist-Jewish conspiracy to brain-wash the USA . |
| 17 | The 9 others in the dock face a combination of charges ranging from conspiracy to pervert the course of justice to assault . |
| 18 | The 9 others in the dock face a combination of charges ranging from conspiracy to pervert the course of justice to assault . |
| 19 | In the middle of May they had imprisoned Sir Roger Clarendon , who was , so the common people said , natural son to the great Edward , the Black Prince , and half-brother to Richard the king . |
| 20 | It 's great fun going out straight from work to dance the night away or for a hot date . |
| 21 | On his return to Ireland the party split . |
| 22 | 4.33 Similarly , when lost earnings have meant that on return to work the plaintiff is free of tax for a period , having fallen below the level of earnings on which tax is payable , the tax that he has escaped during that period is a compensatory gain that must be taken into account in the assessment of his lost earnings ( Brayson v Wilmot-Breedon [ 1976 ] CLY 682 ) . |
| 23 | On his return to England the SRS was expanded , becoming 1 SAS Regiment , with Mayne promoted to lieutenant-colonel , forming part of the SAS brigade . |
| 24 | On her return to England the Stillmans settled in Surrey , where her husband died in 1901 . |
| 25 | At 18.30 a special evening train was behind 2857 in order to give visitors the chance to experience night steam , and on return to Toddington the loco was positioned in front of the station building to provide photographic opportunities . |
| 26 | The mission remained for six years in Abyssinia and after its return to Portugal the chaplain , Francisco Alvares , wrote his famous account of the country , A true relation of the lands of the Prester John . |
| 27 | The probe map can easily be edited manually with a text editor to modifiy the positions of misplaced probes using additional information ( e.g. genetic map ) . |
| 28 | Perhaps most important of all , the RHA was not anticipating that there would be any serious opposition to the proposal to rundown the asylums . |
| 29 | A further paragraph in this message in which the State Department gave its views on the proposal to hand-over the Cossacks we shall come to in Chapter Six , but in respect of the Yugoslavs the State Department was ruling that , whether they were Chetniks or not in conformity with agreed allied policy they should not be handed over and the Supreme Allied Commander was to be left in no doubt of the State Department 's view . |
| 30 | It says any proposal to decommission the hospital will first have to go out to public consultation . |