Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doody notes that Leapor picks up Swift 's characters or anti-characters and turns them to her own purposes . |
| 2 | An interesting aspect of any ‘ counter-revolution ’ is that it takes the terms of the ‘ revolution ’ and turns them to its own purposes . |
| 3 | The author 's failure to capture Brown 's dynamism probably owes something to his apparent lack of interest in the substance of issues . |
| 4 | He re-introduces us to his perfect plan and purpose for us . |
| 5 | In the 1629 session he told the Commons that ‘ religion offers itself to your first consideration at this time ’ , and reproached the Speaker for undue readiness to obey the king 's orders . |
| 6 | This leads me to my only criticism of Potter 's version , its extravagance . |
| 7 | And that really leads me up er leads me to my final point which I think it is essential to plan for success with this new settlement . |
| 8 | When this government talks about safety nets for those in need , I tend to look six inches below ground level to find it often the G M B is the only safety net above the ground which leads me to my second word we do this because we care we care about our country our economy , and our people . |
| 9 | Six recently appointed health and safety reps passed with flying colours a course that introduces them to their basic responsibilities and duties as reps . |
| 10 | We explained how the enjoyment of reading helps to develop children 's imaginative and aesthetic lives , enriches their use of language , introduces them to our cultural heritage and gives them opportunities for cultural analysis . |
| 11 | God introduces us to our true selves , so that we come to recognize ourselves , and our God for the first time . |
| 12 | Colas sees them there and ties them to his own crook . |
| 13 | A short scramble over the rocks takes you to our secret spot , Mermaid 's cove , this is truly a place of magic and tranquillity ideal for that really quiet swim or sunbathe . |
| 14 | A runaway horse takes her to her ancestral home , and her past unfolds . |
| 15 | The worker then reduces it to its proper thinness by putting its head in the cells on either side of the wall and shaving off layers from the face of it . |
| 16 | A trio of rickety buses takes us to our floating hotel , the Hatshepsut . |
| 17 | This guidance has been given very simply through your own voice which talks to you , admonishes , guides , cajoles , takes away your fears , explains and , with infinite care and tenderness , dedicates itself to your daily encounters with life . |
| 18 | The romantic grave on that rocky promontory ; the great man lying there , his head pointing out to sea , listening for all eternity to the comings and goings of the tide ; the young writer , with stirrings of genius inside him , kneels by the tomb , watches the pink drain slowly from the evening sky , reflects — in the way young men are wont to do — on eternity , the fugitive nature of life and the consolations of greatness , then gathers a flower which has rooted itself in Châteaubriand 's dust , and sends it to his beautiful mistress in Paris … |
| 19 | This is the ‘ psychic trailing ’ phenomenon , when a cat that has been left behind by its owners follows them to their new home . |
| 20 | This moves me to my second point , the desecration of creation . |
| 21 | When the young are older , able to run with her , the vixen shepherds them to their new home , induces them to move in and somehow makes sure that they are disciplined enough to stay underground in this new home even when she is not with them . |
| 22 | It is the subtlety of this insidious process which blinds us to its true power — which is the power of advertising , of education , of good or bad parenting . |
| 23 | She sells them to me fifty pence a packet . |
| 24 | At the start of your diving day , just press the face button once and watch the bar graph around the perimeter of the display countdown while the DataMax Sport zeroes itself to your current altitude , checks all internal functions and battery power . |
| 25 | But that is only how we perceive it , how it registers itself to our physical senses , and not how it really is . |
| 26 | This manuscript , it emerges , has been placed in the hands of a Californian academic , Jonathan Pons , by the ‘ master of Latin American realism ’ , Valentin Sadaba , whose dismissal of it as possibly ‘ one more sad attempt by an Englishman to emulate the Latin storytellers ’ alerts us to its dubious status and authorship . |
| 27 | The announcement was welcomed by Malcolm Ingham , wildlife officer for Wirral Borough Council and based at Wirral Country Park , who breeds barn owls and returns them to their natural habitat . |
| 28 | The artist uses images from the archaic tradition but adapts them to his new purpose . |
| 29 | And that brings me to my good friend , Ian Adamson . |
| 30 | Additionally , the texts would have become more lucid had the book been adequately illustrated , which brings me to my second qualm . |