Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Want to nail him to the fence you should think he 's not |
| 2 | She says we do n't want to destroy children 's innocence on the other hand we want to alert them to the dangers . |
| 3 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've come to escort you to the Academy , ’ Kopyion said . |
| 5 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
| 6 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 7 | I promised to remember her to the Harvey-Beaumonts ‘ over the water ’ , and we set off once more , along a road that ran beside a demesne wall . |
| 8 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |
| 9 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 10 | Having found this macro we want to assign it to an icon but this entails designing an appropriate one . |
| 11 | Now they want to invite us to a football match at the next sales conference at Brighton in January . |
| 12 | We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about . |
| 13 | I want to kiss you like a butterfly on mescaline , all over in a flurry of delirium , I want to bite you to the bones , to be so close to you there materialises a planet called us . |
| 14 | I refer to your letter of 30 October 1992 but will need to direct you to the District Council Planning Department for much of the information that you seek . |
| 15 | His talent for imaginative lying helped to elect him to the Senate after the war as ‘ Tail Gunner Joe ’ . |
| 16 | Obviously a testimonial of this kind was not designed to endear me to a number of critics . |
| 17 | When the heroin shows up in the flour , Gary wants to return it to the mob . |
| 18 | And my mum thinks a home she wants to take me to a psychiatrist or something . |
| 19 | I asked her , " Would you mind if I have a boyfriend ? " and she said " It depends " and I said " What if I said somebody wanted to take me to the pictures ? " and it was , " If a boy wants to take you to the pictures , he 's only alter one thing . |
| 20 | IN 1900 Tiller had an idea for a routine which excited him so much he could hardly wait to show it to the public . |
| 21 | ‘ After I 'd talked to Sue , another member of staff helped to introduce me to the residents . |
| 22 | This is the favourite place for Romanians who want to make it to the West . |
| 23 | ‘ We want to make it to the restaurant some time this century ! ’ she heard him informing her . |
| 24 | Those of us who live and work in Northern Ireland would say that the feeling on the part of the community about bringing these matters to an end is not the result of any war-weary or defeatist feeling but because we want to bring them to an end and restore peace , and it is a very strong feeling . |
| 25 | " We want to bring it to the attention of communities that they can do something about the rubbish in their streets , " said UNEP 's Richard Lumbe , launching the campaign in Nairobi . |
| 26 | With machine knitting we tend to restrict it to a maximum of three stitches over three stitches because the machines are supplied with triple transfer tools . |
| 27 | To Etienne , this could only be one person — the blanc who had threatened to betray him to the President in the conversation which Etienne now interpreted with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 28 | To extend a statute to a regrettably omitted case looks like legislation , whereas refusing to extend it to a casus male inclusus is more like imposing a provisional fetter on legislation ( provisional , because Parliament can always come back and include the case expressly if it wants to ) . |
| 29 | Auntie Nellie only came to visit on special occasions so I expect Dad must have written to invite her to the wedding . |
| 30 | He told reporters he was overwhelmed by the unexpected prize and said he plans to donate it to the Prison Fellowship . |