Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [noun prp] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attention has catapulted Singleton to the fore of the newwave of black film-makers and he has been taking full advantage of the limelight , running off his mouth on issues of Black America and the worldwide struggles of the oppressed , with a revolutionary fervour that threatens to eclipse even his hero and mentor , Spike Lee . |
| 2 | Davies has helped Cardiff to the top of the Heineken League First Division with some commanding displays and deadly goalkicking , and gets his chance in the West Wales line-up owing to Stephens 's knee injury . |
| 3 | The technology has brought Britain to the forefront of speech recognition in nine months — thanks to a team of three researchers , Dr Roger Moore , of the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment , says . |
| 4 | A £215m fraud has since been discovered at ISC which has brought Ferranti to the brink of collapse and is likely to cost the group its independence . |
| 5 | The response was to start an unbeaten run of 19 games which has swept Wigan to the verge of a third consecutive double or , as John Monie , their coach , put it , ‘ halfway towards another successful season ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ That he wants to recruit Devlin to the cause , sir . ’ |
| 7 | Head , who with Don James led Sudbury Town to Wembley in the final of the FA Vase in 1989 , has managed Harwich to the final of the Essex Senior Trophy where they play Essex Senior League club Southend Manor |
| 8 | When Roderigo , ‘ this poor trash of Venice ’ , leaves , Iago tells us that his plan is still vague , but that he intends to bring Othello to the point where surface and reality are so inverted that he will ‘ thank ’ Iago for making him an ass , In the event , Iago succeeds in making Cassio drunk , proceeds to ‘ put ’ him into an ‘ action ’ that — just like the tribunes ' manipulation — degrades him yet ‘ approves my dream ’ ( II.iii.58ff. ) — his fantasy or plan of success . |
| 9 | He does not mention this book , but he does quote Lewis to the effect that ‘ nearly all our older poetry was written and read by men to whom the distinction between poetry and rhetoric , in its modern form , would have been meaningless . ’ |