Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This accursed recession has blinded us to the fact that we are well placed , vis-a-vis our competitors in Europe , to create wealth .
2 Want to nail him to the fence you should think he 's not
3 Well can I bring , say bring it to the meeting and .
4 She says we do n't want to destroy children 's innocence on the other hand we want to alert them to the dangers .
5 Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants , then to those of the statistical clerks .
6 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 .
7 Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move .
8 ‘ I 've come to escort you to the Academy , ’ Kopyion said .
9 He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough .
13 There is a dark power to their fastidiously constructed nightmare pounders which has pushed them to the fore of hardcore .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 The feeble God has stabbed me to the heart . ’
17 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 .
18 His belief in independence for Scotland has drawn him to the heart of the Scottish National Party .
19 What on earth does she think has powered her to the top of her sport and put millions of deutschmarks into her bank account ?
20 ANDY SINTON last night revealed he plans to quit QPR — just days after he helped steer them to the top of the Premier League .
21 That dialogue has lead me to the point of issuing a joint statement with Mr Addams .
22 And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive !
23 The War Office has raised you to the status of a 4/ — wife [ the daily allowance ] ; what fun , darling !
24 If women 's careers and position in society generally con fine them to the home , they will have less opportunity to commit crimes which are associated with work , such as fraud .
25 I 've even considered reporting it to the health people
26 But though the jungle morass has gripped him to the knees
27 But his choice of verse form has condemned him to the weakness which mars all attempts to match the Horatian strophe with the English quatrain — the weakness of expansion .
28 After the kick is executed , he returns the leg that has kicked it to the ground and immediately follows up with a roundhouse kick off the opposite leg , using the front leg as a support .
29 Now that my hon. Friend has brought me to the matter , it is right to put on record the comments of the chairman of British Coal in the press release .
30 That experience , which has brought me to the province so often , has given me a very deep sense of admiration for the resilience and warmth of the people . ’
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