Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] to the [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 | ‘ I 've decided to give it to the Royal Horticultural Society as an eastern centre . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's not going to stop the abuse of power , it 's just going to restrict it to the highest level . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I would , therefore , like to invite you to the next meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He was going to take me to the derelict château he and Montaine had discovered in a clearing in one of the forests . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm going to groom her , and then I 'm going to show her to the National Theatre . |
| 21 | But I do n't want to leave it to the last game of the season . |
| 22 | Upon wiping away the icy incrustation from the face , the countenance was immediately recollected ; but , the frame appearing lifeless , assistance was procured to convey it to the first house upon the skirts of the village , when , a pulsation being observed , every possible means was instantly adopted to promote his recovery . |
| 23 | The glass was bullet-proof , sky-proof , sea-proof , plant-proof , stone-proof , everything-proof and he refused to come out of it , not even when the Headmaster threatened to throw him to the giant eel for being so cowardly . |
| 24 | An alpha version of NuTcracker is scheduled to make it to the outside world by the end of June followed by a beta by the end of July . |
| 25 | There 's nothing to inspect and without my words the photographs are useless unless Mitch decided to sell them to the national Press . |
| 26 | Just what routes will logic produce to lead me to the complete knowledge of the nature of a flea ? … |
| 27 | Moslems in Bosnia on Sept. 9 detained Milan Martic , the " Defence Minister " of the ( Serb ) " Krajina Republic " , together with three JNA officers but Bosnia 's Moslem President Alia Izetbegovic decided to release them to the federal authorities after Serbs threatened to attack the town . |
| 28 | Do they still own the name or do we have to change ours to The Screaming Yellow Cassettedecks ? |
| 29 | We are told who sits for what , where , what our majorities are and the swing needed to return us to the real word and gainful occupation . |
| 30 | Because we try to relate it to the real world . |