Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ) . |
2 | Deuce , a pimp , has added him to a clutch of boys he is taking to a hotel . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | One research scientist , a friend of mine said that the setting up of a particularly apt experiment has lead him to a sense of the beautiful . |
6 | ‘ I would ask you to stay longer , but His Majesty the King has invited me to a masque at Richmond . ’ |
7 | " Who has invited you to a dance ? " |
8 | Steady progress over the last four decades has brought us to a point where much of what happens in primary education is a source of pride . |
9 | Shelford was in Wales last October to watch Neath beat Toulouse , a result which has led him to a conclusion similar to Wyllie 's : ‘ From the performance Neath put on that night , Welsh rugby is in pretty healthy hands . ’ |
10 | I am , by nature , one of the latter , but I yearn to be one of the former , and many years of travelling has led me to a kind of uneasy compromise . |
11 | At the opposite extreme , an English philosopher has tamed it to a position of common-sense moderation : |
12 | This time a secretary answered , saying that as her employer ‘ has a large backlog of books to read , he found the addition of another one rather an embarrassment … he has passed it to a friend in a London hospital . ’ |
13 | Now as the city of Manchester goes all out to win the race to host the Olympic games … our own town of Banbury has beaten them to a gold medal … the local boatbuilding firm of Laser will be racing at the next Olympics and to celebrate they 're having a water sports week |
14 | I 'd got my toast and strawberry jam , I 'd treated myself to a doughnut as well , and I 'd got my bag and my money and my dreams back . |
15 | He 'd invited me to a supper dance after the show on Christmas Eve . ’ |
16 | ‘ but he was wearing a collar and I 'd tied him to a lamppost . ’ |
17 | He 'd taken her to a pub — The Crumpled Horn — before walking to the park . |
18 | Penry was tactful enough to leave her to her own devices once he 'd directed her to a chemist . |
19 | He told her to drive to him immediately , and when she arrived treated her to a breakfast of kippers and Chablis . |
20 | She would have given herself to a man for whom she was nothing but another short-term conquest , and in a year , or six months , or however long it took him to tire of her , she would have found herself alone again . |
21 | If you half-closed your eyes and looked at it you might have likened it to a string of coloured beads . |
22 | If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp . |
23 | His final decision is in favour of whichever proves stronger , but the stronger for perhaps no more than the brief spell of fullest awareness in which he decides , afterwards to be panic-stricken at having committed himself to a choice which none the less he still knows in his heart was right . |
24 | You would n't ha you would n't have done it to a dog though . |
25 | Well , he might have kept one as a spare , but I rather suspect he 'd have handed it to a friend with strict instructions to thrash it to death and to return it in five years ’ time … |
26 | ‘ He could n't have sold it to a Jew . |
27 | Love will have raised him to a place far above human strife . |
28 | Having waved them to a table , he flourished two wine glasses , which he filled to the brim with an excellent Chianti , before heading for the kitchen . |
29 | I could have directed you to a loch that is right by the side of the road where you would have caught nothing all day . ’ |
30 | Police team manager David Rees said : ‘ We should have switched him to a Saturday afternoon shift . |