Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
| 2 | If you want to leave it to the last minute you can also bring your items to the Community Centre on the morning . |
| 3 | She wants to send them to the same private boarding school as her other partially sighted son , but her local council has refused . |
| 4 | European Tour , did their best to try to get us to the 1st tee . |
| 5 | I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict . |
| 6 | The doctor looked carefully at her fingernails and neck , then said abruptly , ‘ I want to admit you to the Royal . |
| 7 | We now want to introduce you to an important new initiative under the heading of Tesco Cares . |
| 8 | It had emerged that a recently formed Soviet state co-operative company called ANT , with clearance from at least three government ministries , had bought the tanks as surplus stock from an armaments factory at Nizhny Tagil in the Urals , had arranged to sell them to a Western country ( not officially disclosed , but unofficially reported to be France ) , and had stood to make US$8,000,000 profit on the deal . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've decided to give it to the Royal Horticultural Society as an eastern centre . |
| 10 | was delighted to tell you that we have already received our first nomination for this position in 1992. has been nominated and seconded and , as she is not a current elected member of the Executive Committee , it has been decided to invite her to the remaining Executive meetings as an observer so that she gets used to how the Society functions . |
| 11 | 3 ) In the instruction manual for the BOSS ME-5 it says to take it to a recognised dealer to get the back-up memory battery replaced . |
| 12 | The Sheffield Star , in a piece not destined to endear him to the average Brightside voter , wrote of his ‘ ministerial pin stripes and patrician smooth accent . ’ |
| 13 | Her palette of evocative earth and sea tones also seemed to link her to an English landscape tradition , and her work was included in a group show at the Serpentine Gallery in 1984 entitled Landscape , Memory and Desire . |
| 14 | If the Panel is satisfied that certain information requested at a full Panel hearing is commercially confidential ( such that it would be damaging to reveal it to the other party ) then it may permit the first party to be heard alone . |
| 15 | Film historians have spent a good deal of time debating the significance of the gangster films and attempting to relate them to the whole ethos of the Wall Street crash and the onset of the depression . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's not going to stop the abuse of power , it 's just going to restrict it to the highest level . |
| 17 | Well WE 'RE not … were going to leave it to the strong men … something different too … the first ever weightlifting world cup for the disabled . |
| 18 | The labour group have now agreed to reduce it to a hundred thousand . |
| 19 | I would , therefore , like to invite you to the next meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council . |
| 20 | This is the BBC , and we 'd like to welcome you to a new series of Jackanory , which this year promises to bring you stories about subjects such as homosexuality and Aids . |
| 21 | Erm , I 'd like to welcome you to the Industrial Training Board , I spent about four and a half years with training scheme , and I actually originated in er , engineering , so er , I 've got a long track record , perhaps of training and er , an even long track record working , so I wo n't give you too hard a time . |
| 22 | Well we hope that erm by coming here you 've demonstrated that you do n't live in fantasy land so I 'd like to welcome you to the real world and in the real world we know that open systems despite the progress they 've made still struggle to replace the mainframe . |
| 23 | I 'd like to get it to a safe place . |
| 24 | He had offered to take them to the local dressmaker 's to have them seamed in to a more fashionable line , but Gina would n't even let him do that . |
| 25 | He was going to take me to the derelict château he and Montaine had discovered in a clearing in one of the forests . |
| 26 | I 'm going to take you to a little place that 'll sell us a bottle of scotch in the back room , and nobody any the wiser . |
| 27 | ‘ I think from then on it was fairly clear that he was going to make it to the very top , ’ one retired civil servant recalled . |
| 28 | Now that we 're in the war we 've got to bring it to a successful conclusion in a way which gives the best possible chance of lasting peace and security in the area . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm going to groom her , and then I 'm going to show her to the National Theatre . |
| 30 | But I do n't want to leave it to the last game of the season . |