Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pers pn] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 2 | The key seems to be shaping it to the particular client . |
| 3 | I 'm taking you to the Jolly Farmers . |
| 4 | ‘ Will you be taking them to the maximum security wing , sir ? ’ |
| 5 | Now they are taking her to the High Court . |
| 6 | The man who ushered in a golden age of middle-distance running , Brendan Foster , was at the peak of his powers and the two men who were to carry it to the greatest heights , Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe , were just beginning to emerge . |
| 7 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 8 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 9 | The second way of considering the tending of the fire is to compare it to the feminine ability to create and sustain atmosphere . |
| 10 | The way I approach anything is to do it to the best of my ability , whatever . |
| 11 | In such a case the judge is not abusing his powers ; he is exercising them to the best of his ability albeit some other court thinks he was mistaken . |
| 12 | The second is to present them to the three million visitors each year in ‘ an educative and enjoyable way ’ . |
| 13 | Soon he was showing them to the leading head-hunters in employment agencies . |
| 14 | A Norwegian freedom fighter who knew the area was to take her to the nearby village , after which she was on her own . |
| 15 | His pole was impaling her to the absolute limit , and she began panting as if she 'd just run the four-minute mile . |