Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] to an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wicked Dr Mamuk has stolen the secret plans for a virtual reality chamber and is trying to sell them to an alien race . |
| 2 | To lead you to an overwhelming question … |
| 3 | Her employers had been in general the aspiring mothers of young daughters of tradesmen — the honest working citizens whom her father would have disparagingly stigmatised as ‘ cits ’ — hoping that a little of Theda 's quality might rub off on their uncouth girls to help them to an advantageous marriage . |
| 4 | Peter Wood 's brief is to guide us to an acceptable quality management system that genuinely reflects our practices . |
| 5 | But , Himmelfarb ( 1968 p 78 ) argued , its designer was not concerned by the building 's intrinsic potential for despotic control : " To Bentham … if it was in the interest of society to confine them in a Panopticon , to subject them to an absolute master , to exploit their labor … [ then ] it was necessary and proper that all this be done . |
| 6 | But despite her appalling injuries , her parents have fought to send her to an ordinary school . |
| 7 | Your son 's teacher should be able to refer him to an educational psychologist who 'll try to find out why he acts as he does , and how he can be helped . |
| 8 | Ken tried to rid himself of the guests , so that he could get away to the theatre , by telling Pat to call him to an imaginary telephone call . |
| 9 | It was now clear that this was because an atom in its ground state has nowhere else to go , unless it can be given the rather large amount of energy necessary to lift it to an excited state with n greater than I. |
| 10 | If you do not know what documents you have and how they relate to one another , your priority should be to put them in order rather than to transfer them to an electronic system . |
| 11 | Her palette of evocative earth and sea tones also seemed to link her to an English landscape tradition , and her work was included in a group show at the Serpentine Gallery in 1984 entitled Landscape , Memory and Desire . |
| 12 | Coughlin says North 's only constructive contribution to Waite 's Lebanon mission had been to introduce him to an undercover agent working in Lebanon for British and American intelligence . |