Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] to an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anderson captained Ireland on their short tour of France , led them to an unexpected victory over a French XV and keeps the job now but age and waning powers put a question-mark over his selection for the team at all . |
| 2 | Typically then they operate to defeat the title of the unpaid seller ( let us call him C ) who has entrusted his goods to a buyer who , without paying C , has in turn sold them to an innocent purchaser . |
| 3 | Mr. Wall argued that the exercise of the discretion which arises as a result of the finding of ‘ acquiescence ’ made by the Court of Appeal , is limited to considering the nature and quality of the acquiescence itself and would not entitle the court to take into account ‘ welfare ’ considerations relating specifically to the children unless the court were able to find that there had been established a grave risk that the return of the children would expose them to an intolerable situation under article 13 ( b ) . |
| 4 | Unsatisfied , he helped himself to an old issue of Penthouse ( his brother , a window cleaner , had kept every issue of the magazine ) and , turning the pages at random , discovered Amaranth Wilikins spread languorously over three of them . |
| 5 | In terms of laws governing dress , the nude bather on a public beach , the ‘ streaker ’ at a sporting event and the ‘ flasher ’ who exposes himself to an unsuspecting individual are subject to official punishments of varying severity . |
| 6 | His undoubted talents never blossomed in public life , and he devoted himself to an immense rebuilding and renovation programme at Chatsworth House , Derbyshire , where he loved to spend many hours in the library . |
| 7 | Lucy spent just three days in intensive care before doctors moved her to an ordinary ward at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital . |
| 8 | His sudden smile transformed him to an astonishing degree , revealing the man behind the remote consultant . |
| 9 | Stonehenge still has a very special air in spite of the official attempts to destroy the place ; York Minster has it , and Chartres has it to an incredible extent . |
| 10 | The prosecutor may decide to terminate the case , treat it as délit or , exceptionally , send it to an examining magistrate . |
| 11 | The primary task of monetary policy is to fight inflation , keeping it to an acceptable level . |
| 12 | This has committed it to an inevitable struggle with the Palestinians for control of policy on the Palestine question and , by extension , for control of Jordan itself . |
| 13 | In Sybil he had rejoined his past but he transplanted it to an artistic suburb of London which had been the haunt of legendary highwaymen , was now the roost of exiles and writers and only fifteen minutes from the West End theatre . |
| 14 | George Hurst , the son of a curate , was born in 1800 and was apprenticed to a silk mercer at the age of 13 , at the end of which time he applied himself to an energetic programme of self-improvement and became a schoolteacher . |
| 15 | The wicked Dr Mamuk has stolen the secret plans for a virtual reality chamber and is trying to sell them to an alien race . |
| 16 | Despite this , on the marshy peat fens , even limited traffic reduced them to an impassable morass for long periods of the year . |
| 17 | In this sense one is neutral only if one can affect the fortunes of the parties and if one helps or hinders them to an equal degree and one does so because one believes that there are reasons for so acting which essentially depend on the fact that the action has an equal effect on the fortunes of the parties . |
| 18 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |
| 19 | Following my economically truthful pronouncements on the local meteorological trends ( I had already been for a pee ) , he reluctantly committed himself to an extended struggle with frozen boots and gaiters , muttering foul oaths about his much vaunted , but now soaked , pair of newly customised salopettes . |
| 20 | Gusev likened himself to an industrious spider , sitting at the heart of a complicated web , pulling a thread here , tightening one there , until finally he began to see a pattern . |
| 21 | ‘ May I refer you to an unimpeachable authority : Mr John Camden Hotten , author of a biography of Dickens , and also , he paused impressively , a life of Thackeray , refers to it in 1870 as Bleak House . |
| 22 | To lead you to an overwhelming question … |
| 23 | The rapist approached the 17-year-old waitress in a bus station at Holmfirth , West Yorks , and subjected her to an hour-long ordeal . |
| 24 | He was a file-grinder by trade , sitting astride a roaring belt-driven stone wheel , breathing in dust for eight hours a day until chronic bronchitis and pneumoconiosis drove him to an early retirement . |
| 25 | Simmons signalled her to an empty chair on the fringe of the disputatious group , and walked round the back of the table to take a chair opposite . |
| 26 | The Liberal set-back in 1895 cost him his seat , and his chronic hay fever directed him to an urban constituency . |
| 27 | I shall ascribe it to an imaginary person whom I shall call the attitudinist . |
| 28 | Let y be the percentage of list votes given to that party , i.e. the votes that will entitle it to an identical percentage of all the seats , constituency and list , in the region . |
| 29 | He likened it to an intermediate era between the collapse of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D. and the re-birth of classicism in the Renaissance ideals of the fifteenth century . |
| 30 | The two sides to the civil war which had raged in the capital , Mogadishu , since mid-November committed themselves to an immediate ending of hostilities at UN-sponsored peace negotiations in New York on Feb. 14 . |