Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The labour group have now agreed to reduce it to a hundred thousand . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'd like to get it to a safe place . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She insisted that hospitalization was necessary and threatened to commit him to a private mental hospital unless the university hospital took him as an in-patient . |
| 9 | In 1925 the ship was bought by a Glasgow shipowner who planned to convert her to a nautical museum . |
| 10 | As an example of what is meant by ‘ assignment ’ , we might say that a botanist who discovers an unusual plant will try to assign it to a known species ; if this is found impossible , it will be decided that a new species has been discovered , and that future examples of this plant will be assigned to this new species . |
| 11 | It measured up to precisely what he felt himself and he decided to put it to a higher power . |
| 12 | Presumably I 'll have to transfer them to a separate tank first , but should it be planted or bare ? |
| 13 | To have any chance of raising the fry to a reasonable size , you will have to transfer them to a separate aquarium . |
| 14 | Charles had recently met a number of community cities , made such perfect sense and was so inspirational that he felt compelled to bring it to a wider audience . |
| 15 | They are driven to cunning in order to buy the materials they need for their work … they are vain , envious and antagonistic to writers ‘ who are really their best friends , who control the public and try to bring it to a greater state of culture which will offer the artists great subject for their work … |
| 16 | In an ensuing fight around Christmas time 1896 the police had swooped and arrested twenty-eight youths some of whom were found to be in possession of pistols , which was taken to link them to a young girl 's death — although this was some months later . |
| 17 | The conclusion was that it would be better to destroy the larger animals humanely than to attempt to move them to a safer place . |
| 18 | I have four sons and can not afford to take them to a first team game ( £10 each to get in ! ) |
| 19 | The most difficult aspect of a merger is trying to put a team together of people who come from different business cultures and trying to adjust them to a different end . |
| 20 | Truisms like ‘ the world is full of things that have what it takes to be in the world ’ are trivial , almost silly , until we come to apply them to a special kind of durability , durability in the form of lineages of multiple copies . |
| 21 | ‘ One would have shuddered to send him to a public school , ’ said the lady , who had in fact sat long and agonized in calculation of the cost of doing so . |
| 22 | Then I had to take him to a big detached house divided into flats . |
| 23 | We certainly welcome this collaboration and wish to bring it to a successful conclusion . |
| 24 | And her husband Steve , who had been planning to treat her to a new look for her birthday , wholeheartedly approved of her dramatic transformation . |
| 25 | Technical yeah the technical people but you have to ensure do n't you that with with your audience that you understand who they are but if you do n't then you have to keep it to a common denominator . |