Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to an [adj] [noun] " 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 | Lucy spent just three days in intensive care before doctors moved her to an ordinary ward at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital . |
| 5 | His sudden smile transformed him to an astonishing degree , revealing the man behind the remote consultant . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The prosecutor may decide to terminate the case , treat it as délit or , exceptionally , send it to an examining magistrate . |
| 8 | The primary task of monetary policy is to fight inflation , keeping it to an acceptable level . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The wicked Dr Mamuk has stolen the secret plans for a virtual reality chamber and is trying to sell them to an alien race . |
| 12 | Despite this , on the marshy peat fens , even limited traffic reduced them to an impassable morass for long periods of the year . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ( 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | To lead you to an overwhelming question … |
| 17 | The rapist approached the 17-year-old waitress in a bus station at Holmfirth , West Yorks , and subjected her to an hour-long ordeal . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Liberal set-back in 1895 cost him his seat , and his chronic hay fever directed him to an urban constituency . |
| 21 | I shall ascribe it to an imaginary person whom I shall call the attitudinist . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | There were no roads direct from the station to where the world began , but the carriage drivers , squatting over their breakfasts , directed us to an abandoned railway line which cut across country . |
| 25 | If you are under 60 but your husband has reached 65 and is retired , he may be able to claim a dependency addition of £32.55 for you , provided he pays it to you or is maintaining you to an equivalent amount . |
| 26 | Her employers had been in general the aspiring mothers of young daughters of tradesmen — the honest working citizens whom her father would have disparagingly stigmatised as ‘ cits ’ — hoping that a little of Theda 's quality might rub off on their uncouth girls to help them to an advantageous marriage . |
| 27 | ( Harry Chapman was no longer with the club , ill health forcing him to an early retirement . ) |
| 28 | The boy or girl was not ‘ a blank piece of paper on which the teacher should write ’ , and it was in this liberal spirit that he condemned drill : ‘ Military drill fashions him to an approved standard as part of the machine ; whereas the aim of Scouting is to develop his personal character and initiative . ’ |
| 29 | Long before New York 's Whitney Museum mounts its own assessment in 1994 , the present exhibition introduces him to an European audience . |
| 30 | The Bishop took off his mitre and handed it to an adjacent altar-boy . |