Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [pron] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crowds of people would line the banks through the little villages , never tiring at the sight of their own local natural phenomenon , until the great waves finally smashed themselves to extinction against the weirs of Gloucester City . |
| 2 | As a screen Englishman , he felt it his duty to volunteer for the Royal Navy when war broke out and was amused to find that his newly-developed persona automatically promoted him to officer class . |
| 3 | And Evan even stirs himself to encore with a heart-breaking solo shimmy through The Shirelles ' ‘ Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow ? ’ , the latest addition to Lemonheads ' litany of unlikely , gorgeous cover versions . |
| 4 | The ethos of the force therefore lends itself to gender differences in police work , and so popular are beliefs about the different capabilities of policemen and women , that some policemen shy away from handling these sorts of cases on the view that they are less able than women colleagues , and many policewomen adopt these notions as self-typifications . |
| 5 | The founding brothers never entrusted anything to paper , fearing that rituals and their interpretation of them might fall into the wrong hands . |
| 6 | Dis poetry nar put yu to sleep |
| 7 | This four-weekly experience always sent him to bed with a migraine for the rest of the day . |
| 8 | TV star Bill Cosby comes second with almost £200 million but even singer Michael Jackson only makes it to No 7 , according to black newspaper The Weekly Journal . |
| 9 | There is a wealth of revealing evidence on the attitudes that affect reading : ‘ His daddy always takes him to bed , and he says ‘ Can I have a story ? ’ said an engineer 's wife , ‘ but he 's been told now that he 's getting a bit too old for stories ’ ’ [ ‘ He ’ is four ] ( Newson and Newson , 1968 , p.274 ) ; ‘ Then I read her a story , ’ said an actor 's wife , ‘ and Rupert listens , and then I show Rupert his little book ’ ’ [ Rupert being sixteen months old ] ( ibid . |
| 10 | Rosemary Conley she of the hip and thigh diet now wants you to Shape Up For Summer . |
| 11 | First , because the Barclays ( Asia ) allegations are so old — and so unnecessarily old — that it would be an abuse of process now to bring them to trial . |
| 12 | Mr Martin immediately took him to task , reminding him that , in an earlier statement to the police , he had informed them that he had not left the cinema until six . |
| 13 | Prometheus tried to rival a God called Zeus by stealing fire from heaven then giving it to Earth which is similar to Frankenstein 's actions because he stole the secret of life and proposed to give this to humans until it went disastrously wrong . |
| 14 | Some vegetables , like beetroot , carrot , endive and winter lettuce varieties , should be sown now , but covered with cloches later to protect them to maturity . |
| 15 | Realising that she had not loved him , Boris then starved himself to death . |
| 16 | This orang-utan actually made it to rehabilitation centre , but the Taiwan Ten — after a jubilant send-off , — were treated less like freed captives than parole-breakers . |
| 17 | John Neville 's inactivity in the face of Edward 's advance surely owed something to awareness that he could not rely on duchy support . |
| 18 | John Neville 's inactivity in the face of Edward 's advance surely owed something to awareness that he could not rely on duchy support . |
| 19 | The subsequent improvement in the balance of payments clearly owed something to devaluation but its effect is impossible to disentangle because of the general improvement in world markets . |
| 20 | So clueless and misguided are these sorry types — so lacking in insight , intent and , bloody hell , a sense of humour — that if a great comedy show ever makes it to TV List magazine it can only be DESPITE the pony-tails whose job it is to shepherd these things to a laff-hungry public . |
| 21 | There were many complaints that cattle infested roadsides , and their search for food often took them to rice fields and gardens . |
| 22 | Just recalling the incident , the feel of those capable brown hands roughly dragging her to safety , made her stomach twist , her breasts tense with reaction . |
| 23 | The young Gedge steadfastly applied himself to school work throughout the constant shifts . |
| 24 | Prosperity eventually drove him to expenditure , acquiring servants and carriages , and building Highfield House , with its billiard-room , library , ornamental gardens , and lodge . |
| 25 | She was vaguely conscious of passing through occasional stations but she did n't wake up until a soft shaking of her shoulder gently brought her to life . |
| 26 | Scribe across the panel then saw it to size and nail in the margin . |
| 27 | However , the company 's far greater resources of baksheesh soon restored them to liberty . |
| 28 | Rosheen immediately waved him to silence . |