Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the algorithms for correction of the above four types of spelling errors were to be applied to our system , it is unlikely that applying them to the highest-rated allowable string ( if there are any allowable strings ) is going to find the intended word . |
| 2 | This makes them rather like Health Maintenance Organisations ( HMOs ) in the United States , which receive a fixed annual sum of money to provide health care for enrolled patients ; the system subjects them to the same financial incentives and may lead to the same adverse effects . |
| 3 | A longer length of rope was circled around her shoulders and under the table , then over her gorgeous breasts and downwards until her rib cage was completely covered in coiled rope , which fastened her to the hard wooden table . |
| 4 | A tramp had found her freezing and near to death on the doorstep of a gin palace near the Elephant and Castle and he had carried her to the local Catholic church . |
| 5 | And send it to the given stamped envelope . |
| 6 | A bridge joins it to the old Lusignan palace . |
| 7 | Mr Major argued that as good Europeans we should tie it to the strong German mark to lick inflation and sustain recovery . |
| 8 | I turned to my nearest fellow browser , intending to ask her politely but firmly to lead me to the nearest padded cell , but it came out wrong . |
| 9 | If he wants anybody to lead him to the so-called English plotters , it 's the very best possible way to go about it . |
| 10 | If your complaint is about the actual treatment you have received from a doctor or dentist — a clinical complaint — the officer may refer it to the Regional Medical Officer for you . |
| 11 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 12 | ‘ We 'll take two pieces of bone from your pelvis and wire them to the top two vertebrae and your skull , ’ he said.d . |
| 13 | Incoming values are stored by adding them to the appropriate linked list . |
| 14 | A single simulation is made by generating random numbers from these probability distributions and adding them to the observed geographic coordinates ( defining point , line or area features ) with these random values . |
| 15 | More fundamentally , anchoring the pound to the ERM would , it is argued , link it to the successful anti-inflation policies of the Bundesbank , ensuring low inflation in Britain . |
| 16 | Some have attributed it to the old French torques in reference to Turkey by way of which the stone reached Europe , and others to the Persian word piruzeh . |
| 17 | Recently , experimental work has investigated the use of the programmed technique in what is now called computer-assisted learning , where the programmes are fed into the computer ; the machine can then , if the initial preparation has been thorough enough , monitor the responses of a great many students at a time , switching them to the appropriate branching sequence as their responses demonstrate the need . |
| 18 | If you have more than one suspended instantiation of BBCBASIC(Z80) , pressing |
| 19 | ‘ I 've decided to give it to the Royal Horticultural Society as an eastern centre . |
| 20 | The hobbyist 's name ‘ Quetzal ’ compares it to the Central American bird of that name almost legendary for its fabulous colours . |
| 21 | Our lucky couple will fly with USAir to Las Vegas where a limousine will take them to the sensational medieval-style Excalibur Hotel for their six-night stay . |
| 22 | She wants to send them to the same private boarding school as her other partially sighted son , but her local council has refused . |
| 23 | ‘ I kept sending the demands back and when I went in I was told not to worry , they had to send them to the last known address . |
| 24 | I pulled out some money and laid it on the bar , followed by a pair of black leather driving gloves with the tops of the three middle fingers cut off the right hand , a tube of mint-flavoured lip salve and a metal hip-flask engraved with the words : ‘ I am not a diabetic ; in case of accidents please rush me to the nearest public house . ’ |
| 25 | Those amiable but blatantly incompetent buffoons have brought me to the wrong fucking airport ! |
| 26 | Today 's journey will take you to the Royal Chitwan National Park for two nights at the Gaida Lodge . |
| 27 | She sports a high-riding mini-skirt — which scarcely endears her to the strict Hasidic sect . |
| 28 | Salt shook her shoulder and when that made no difference , dragged her to her feet and propelled her to the small book-lined room known as the study . |
| 29 | An ad in the Sevenoaks Chronicle led him to the white 1988 Sierra Sapphire 1.8 LX , advertised at £3750 . |
| 30 | Three more hours of paddling and bailing , bailing and paddling , brought them to the second expected rendezvous , but in the great troughs and high seas the submarine lookouts could miss the torch signal or RG beam from a 16-foot ( 5m ) canoe . |