Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let's go and have a drink , then you can treat me to a celebratory dinner ! ’ |
| 2 | Would you trust him/her to a permissive relationship with contemporary television ? |
| 3 | And this is gon na introduce you to a new word called psychographic and psychographic , you think you 've got , you can break it in two you 've got the psychological aspects and the graphic or mapping , the mapping of the psychology . |
| 4 | Her abilities might suit her to a top job in the Civil Service , but she gets such a buzz from being in the private sector , she would hate the very idea . |
| 5 | As the bulbs begin to swell , expose the tops to the sun to help ripen them to a golden colour . |
| 6 | Kings led them into battle for the land ( e.g. 2 Kings 8 ) and prophets pointed them to a righteousness that would bring them to a new highway , a land where mountains would be levelled , rough places smoothed ( Is. 40.4 ) , and the Prince of Peace would establish his kingdom . |
| 7 | Jesus our pioneer restores all things and will bring them to a glorious fulfilment . |
| 8 | If you feel that you may be losing too much hair , do see your doctor , who may refer you to a special hair clinic . |
| 9 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |
| 10 | Fifteen years later a man of 76 , thinking he would like to try satellite television , collected the requisite number of newspaper coupons which would entitle him to a 30-day trial of a satellite dish . |
| 11 | Should any fellow be passing by , he must refuse their invitation or else they will dance him to a watery grave . |
| 12 | Clearly Parliament would last its full five years and the Government could not bring it to a premature end . |
| 13 | Already the only preserved railway to be operating a regular commercial freight contract jointly with British Rail , the present proposals would lift it to a new level of national importance . |
| 14 | Surgeons used long syringes to extract marrow from her pelvic bones , while a motorcycle courier waited outside to rush the refrigerated marrow to the plane that would carry it to a Dutch hospital . |
| 15 | And to make up for it I 'll treat you to a slap-up lunch in Haverfordwest . ’ |
| 16 | To allow them to live out their natural life-span it is necessary to slowly convert them to a marine environment as they reach a body length of 5cm . |
| 17 | I am very desirous to get all the species of this genus which I can , and am making observations on their flowers and fruit : for Doctor Linnaeus has joined these to his genus of Rhus [ sumach ] , with which all the species of Toxicodendron , which I have yet examined , will by no means agree ; for these are either male and female in distinct plants , or have male flowers in separate parts from the fruit on the same plant , which , according to his own system , must remove them to a great distance from the Rhus . |
| 18 | You can then move the data files that you want to keep ( having selected them with Ctrl+click ) onto a disk in drive A. Alternatively you could move them to a different subdirectory on the hard disk . |
| 19 | The shark can not suddenly twist them to a vertical position to act as brakes . |
| 20 | Most train stations hire out cycles and you can return them to a different station — look out for sign Velo am Bahnhof . |
| 21 | A study of showing form , or one particular individual may draw you to a particular breeder 's kennel . |
| 22 | Tab will move you to a different part of the |
| 23 | It will provide a map of your directory structure but wo n't transport you to a chosen sub-directory . |
| 24 | We have set very clear targets which will return us to a basic level of performance in the next two years . |
| 25 | Police believe the birds were stolen to order by specialist thieves who 'll sell them to a private collector abroad . |
| 26 | Ted , who has lived for over thirty years in Yorkshire , will guide you to a different beauty spot every day . |
| 27 | Tomorrow morning may I invite you to a complimentary breakfast of tinned yam , tinned pineapple , tinned paw-paw , Belgian coffee , German rolls , Swiss sugar and English butter processed and packed in Kenya ? |
| 28 | Just a few minutes will take you to a sandy beach . |
| 29 | We will also take you to a traditional silk factory , kindergarten and the local ‘ free ’ markets . |
| 30 | ‘ After our celebration I shall take you to a solemn service , ’ he said , gripping my left ankle between his shoes . |