Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had registered for my classes , and Professor Ruiperez had shown me my lecture-rooms , where I had introduced myself to large classes of students , mixed men and women , with a preponderance of women , as is usual in foreign arts faculties . |
| 2 | I can look back with pride on recalling how well I had adapted myself to this trade , and all aspects involved . |
| 3 | You must be the fifth person I 've explained it to this month . |
| 4 | I 've given them to that solicitor that |
| 5 | I 'VE committed myself to one of the most dubious business deals of the year by investing £25 in a square yard of Doncaster Rovers ' football pitch . |
| 6 | Since January 1991 I have committed myself to full time study of the language , history and culture etc and have made a further four visits . |
| 7 | That 's the reason I have brought you to this quiet garden , not to some tavern where I would drink myself senseless . |
| 8 | This , admittedly , is a hard saying , and may well stir a first inkling that there must be something fundamentally wrong with the approach which has brought us to this point . |
| 9 | We have erm there have been certain decisions made over time which has got us to this position and whether erm you agree or anyone agrees or not the the the right next step is to specify a location , nevertheless it 's embodied in what 's gone on so far , a series of steps towards making the decision . |
| 10 | It belonged to another College , which had let it to one of its fellows . |
| 11 | The displacement looked to be of considerable extent , much larger than the chunk of 2020 which had brought me to 1816 , or the chunk of some mysterious medieval land which had arrived earlier on my front doorstep . |
| 12 | The private-eye story has even taken , not one huge lateral leap , but a series of hops which have brought it to British shores . |
| 13 | She was always a busy , tidy little girl , going around the house at night making sure all the curtains were drawn and tucking up the zoo of small furry animals which crowded her bed — she has kept them to this day . |
| 14 | None has led me to that dangerous conclusion that we were doing it better over there than here . |
| 15 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 16 | Everything was peaceful — everything but the man who 'd brought her to this place . |
| 17 | Could she have treated him to similar displays of ill will as she showed her daughter ? |
| 18 | So all I 'm arguing is that all such a gene for penis envy would have to do would be to promote the reproductive success of the little girls who 've had it to that gene eventually to become established throughout the entire female population , just as the gene for oedipal behaviour , or phallic behaviour , would become selective in males . |
| 19 | It 's I who 've brought him to this ! |
| 20 | Once you 've committed yourself to that theme , the route 's discreet wealth unfolds , and its names are movement and texture . |
| 21 | You 've brought us to this , you conniving old bastard . ’ |
| 22 | Confronting Nubenehem with his problem , she had introduced him to another customer of the City of Dreams , an elderly papermaster with flaccid skin and a bald pate ringed with long , dank hair . |
| 23 | She had resigned herself to that . |
| 24 | His attitude has changed from being one of someone superior punishing someone who had insulted him to that of him being a bully and chasing down a poor wretch . |
| 25 | It was probably natural that the community they set up was so convinced of its own religious ideals that it thought toleration was harmful , but it was also natural that the strong-minded people who had committed themselves to this Atlantic crossing were not able to agree among themselves what was the true religion to which they were so committed . |
| 26 | A glance around the London hotel scene shows examples of plenty of exceptional women who have made it to general management ; Madelon Boom , at the age of 26 , at Hyatt 's Lowndes Hotel ; Dagmar Woodward at The May Fair Inter-Continental ; Doreen Boulding at The Conrad Chelsea Harbour , etc . |
| 27 | I can say to my honourable friend , the member for Rydale who takes such a close interest and is so well informed er on these matters , er I 'm very grateful to him for the welcome he 's given for the orders here , he 's absolutely right to say that we have gone beyond er what restrictive called for by Bingham , we have extended it to other sectors in the financial we welcomed the honourable gentleman from Edinburgh Central that these er orders are in some way timid , they are what was called for by the treasury select committee , they are what was proposed er by Bingham and we have er introduced them er here tonight . |
| 28 | We have used them to great effect from boats or for getting baits in under trees or undercut banks where casting has been impossible but the wind has helped to carry the bait into inaccessible areas often inhabited by pike . |
| 29 | The date on it used to be 1623 , but I see they 've changed it to 1610 , though I do n't agree with either of those dates . |
| 30 | And they 've converted it to two flats . |