Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes the form partly of encouraging them to relate to the personal and subjective while boys begin to grapple with the impersonal and objective . |
| 2 | THE Hampshire Playing Fields Association have just launched a £250,000 public appeal to enable them to respond to the ever-increasing demands for support of sport and recreational projects throughout the county . |
| 3 | If someone is going to put off a lot of their own money in order to get into parliament , we can , then we can hardly trust them to look to the general interests once they 're there , they 'll want a return on their investment of some sorts . |
| 4 | The obligation of the bath Mrs Webster never failed to observe , though she did not trust me to keep to the statutory four inches , but ran the water in for me , adding , in spite of my protests , a most nauseous soap powder . |
| 5 | Ten thousand pounds will build you the highest column in the world , and will produce an astonishing effect ; fifty thousand pounds would not serve to erect an arch , and when it was erected you would have doubted which , it or the Royal Exchange , was the more magnificent object ; therefore I exhort you to keep to the columnar form . |
| 6 | Now distance receptors provide information about a possible event in the immediate future such that , through neural connections to innate movement controllers , an animal may make ‘ precurrent ’ reactions enabling it to adjust to the new information , for example , by approaching prey , or by preparatory behaviour for escape in relation to possible alarming stimuli . |
| 7 | If we told them to point to the empty box they would do so ; but would revert to pointing to the baited box again on the next trial . |
| 8 | Episcopal persecution , however , drove them to flee to the relative anonymity of London at the end of the 1620s . |
| 9 | In the Australian bush in the early 1930s , my mother-to-be was the daughter of a locomotive driver who watched her like a hawk and forbade her to go to the crasser ends of town . |
| 10 | Ludens told her to go to the British Museum and the National Gallery , which she did , though declining his offer to ‘ show her round ’ . |
| 11 | In the period broadly spanning the years 1948 to 1975 , central governments of both parties gradually extended local authorities ' social service powers , or encouraged them to use to the full powers they had already been given — achieving secondary education for all , creating a national pattern of further education , developing services for the elderly , sustaining a substantial housing programme . |
| 12 | And she would like me to go to the well women 's clinic every Wednesday it 's run . |
| 13 | Someone has to experience it to know to the full how you feel . |
| 14 | A victory for Taunton would enable them to return to the National League after relegation last year . |
| 15 | Suppose your work requires you to move to the other end of the country , and you need to sell your home but ca n't find a buyer ; should you let it instead ? |
| 16 | Do n't we want write and in fact get him to come to the next meeting then |
| 17 | And then Sue tell her to go to the giro place . |
| 18 | It can be used in either mono or stereo ; a guitar can be plugged in to access the onboard tuner and allow you to play along with a drum pattern ; it 's MIDI compatible , and with a Yamaha FC4 or FC5 footswitch you can start and stop the machine , tell it to drop in a fill pattern , or tell it to advance to the next pattern or song . |
| 19 | It can be used in either mono or stereo ; a guitar can be plugged in to access the onboard tuner and allow you to play along with a drum pattern ; it 's MIDI compatible , and with a Yamaha FC4 or FC5 footswitch you can start and stop the machine , tell it to drop in a fill pattern , or tell it to advance to the next pattern or song . |
| 20 | This will force them to progress to the fifth stage of the information process . |
| 21 | He urged him to go to the local hotel , only twelve miles in the wrong direction . |
| 22 | However , the baby is equipped with mechanisms which allow it to respond to the physical difficulties of birth — the breathing response etc. — and it is probable that mechanisms also exist to cope with the circumstances of being thrust into a new world . |
| 23 | Her parents and sisters were sympathetic but expected her to conform to the existing status quo . |
| 24 | Trust him to go to the other extreme . |
| 25 | Her firm stance enabled her to speak to the Russian government with greater authority also . |
| 26 | Ian and Barbara use it to return to the 1960s at last , leaving Vicki and the Doctor to depart in the TARDIS . |
| 27 | Why did he tell us to go to the front stairs ? ’ |
| 28 | He would have liked to join them as he was tired of being a lurking Briton but his sense of loyalty would not allow him to defect to the other side . |
| 29 | He had been put under the tutelage of Sergeant Bragg , a great bear of a man , a man whose principles would not allow him to stoop to the self-serving tactics of his superiors . |
| 30 | ‘ A pity you did n't get him to attend to the little bitch before , ’ commented Rachel . |