Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was struggling to pull something to the top of the dunes . |
| 2 | This accursed recession has blinded us to the fact that we are well placed , vis-a-vis our competitors in Europe , to create wealth . |
| 3 | Want to nail him to the fence you should think he 's not |
| 4 | Well can I bring , say bring it to the meeting and . |
| 5 | Occasionally in the pursuit of profit he has to sacrifice himself to the ordeal of a business lunch with a customer , supplier or business contact . |
| 6 | For a long time it has been content with this unchanging splendour but more recently it has treated itself to a quartier in the most modern style , complete with a magnificent new concert hall , the Corum ( which unfortunately appears to have been built on ground that it is less than stable ) . |
| 7 | She says we do n't want to destroy children 's innocence on the other hand we want to alert them to the dangers . |
| 8 | Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants , then to those of the statistical clerks . |
| 9 | It could also be that for some of you 1988 has also seen some trouble , a bereavement perhaps , that has shaken you to the foundations . |
| 10 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 11 | You were right in saying that the minister Earl of Arran has disappointed me to no end . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've come to escort you to the Academy , ’ Kopyion said . |
| 13 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
| 14 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 15 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
| 16 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 17 | Deuce , a pimp , has added him to a clutch of boys he is taking to a hotel . |
| 18 | There is a dark power to their fastidiously constructed nightmare pounders which has pushed them to the fore of hardcore . |
| 19 | I promised to remember her to the Harvey-Beaumonts ‘ over the water ’ , and we set off once more , along a road that ran beside a demesne wall . |
| 20 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |
| 21 | The feeble God has stabbed me to the heart . ’ |
| 22 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |
| 23 | It was me who cut her ropes and killed the men aboard her , and it 's me who has sailed her to a place where you 'll never find her . |
| 24 | If she lives on her own and poor health has robbed her of a normal social life , it is to be expected that her loneliness may have created such a build-up of unexpressed thoughts , feelings and opinions that she may need to talk herself to a standstill before she is ready to converse with you , and interest herself in anything you have to say . |
| 25 | A stone age management opportunity has revealed itself to the Directors of AIB Bank plc in Britain . |
| 26 | A woman who 's devoted more than twenty years to caring for her disabled daughter has made it to the finals of the ITN Carer of the Year Awards . |
| 27 | Despite the shock that he must have felt as he drove to what he expected to be his hangar on the morning after , he has shown himself to a man of warm priorities : ‘ People and their problems are more important than airplanes , ’ he has commented . |
| 28 | Once man has habituated himself to the world of emotions which is a form of the transcendent , it is possible for him to cross into it at will . |
| 29 | His belief in independence for Scotland has drawn him to the heart of the Scottish National Party . |
| 30 | What on earth does she think has powered her to the top of her sport and put millions of deutschmarks into her bank account ? |