Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [pers pn] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This accursed recession has blinded us to the fact that we are well placed , vis-a-vis our competitors in Europe , to create wealth . |
| 2 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
| 3 | There is a dark power to their fastidiously constructed nightmare pounders which has pushed them to the fore of hardcore . |
| 4 | The feeble God has stabbed me to the heart . ’ |
| 5 | His belief in independence for Scotland has drawn him to the heart of the Scottish National Party . |
| 6 | What on earth does she think has powered her to the top of her sport and put millions of deutschmarks into her bank account ? |
| 7 | That dialogue has lead me to the point of issuing a joint statement with Mr Addams . |
| 8 | The War Office has raised you to the status of a 4/ — wife [ the daily allowance ] ; what fun , darling ! |
| 9 | But his choice of verse form has condemned him to the weakness which mars all attempts to match the Horatian strophe with the English quatrain — the weakness of expansion . |
| 10 | After the kick is executed , he returns the leg that has kicked it to the ground and immediately follows up with a roundhouse kick off the opposite leg , using the front leg as a support . |
| 11 | Now that my hon. Friend has brought me to the matter , it is right to put on record the comments of the chairman of British Coal in the press release . |
| 12 | That experience , which has brought me to the province so often , has given me a very deep sense of admiration for the resilience and warmth of the people . ’ |
| 13 | At times the loneliness of her position has brought her to the edge of despair , so much so that she has made a number of suicide attempts , some more half-hearted than others . |
| 14 | His crime has brought him to the extremity which Marmeladov was telling him about and tasting at the bottom of his own vodka jug in the opening pages of the novel . |
| 15 | So what has brought the best known boxer on the unofficial circuit , the best known bouncer in town , the man who has inspired film scripts and tall tales in the snooker halls , once one of the six people in Britain said to be able to bench-press 500 pounds , what has brought him to the dock in front of Judge Richard Lowry and to the possibility of spending the rest of his life locked up with robbers and rapists ? |
| 16 | Hello there … this week summer sport has brought us to the south coast to take a look at a sailing revolution that 's being pioneered from the heartland of Central South … we 're going out on the solent to sea test a boat which is reckoned to be the formula one of the water |
| 17 | First of all erm he justified his view on environmental considerations as as considered by the City Council , I think we would say , the County Council , that one of the main considerations that has brought us to the conclusion that we have are environmental considerations , the environment of York and its immeding immediate surroundings , the protection er of the York greenbelt , environmental considerations have been er at the most er in our minds . |
| 18 | Conrad ( 1971 ) has shown that this has a developmental pattern and Baddeley ( 1979 ) has linked it to the development of reading . |
| 19 | Stephen Thomas says the ordeal has driven him to the brink of suicide . |
| 20 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a brilliant performance , ’ enthused Toby Mullins , the ladies ' coach who has led them to the championship in his first season in charge . |
| 22 | My experience in England has led me to the conclusion that most people are unable to see me whole . |
| 23 | My own experience has led me to the conclusion that at the present stage of development of comprehensive education , a purely individual-based approach to support teaching is likely to prove counterproductive for a combination of three reasons : |
| 24 | Thus , a consideration of earlier work on DMVs has led us to the conclusion that the settlement patterns we actually see on the maps and in the landscape consist of a range of settlements , at various stages of development at all periods ; everything , in fact , from surviving medieval villages to totally abandoned farm sites . |
| 25 | You have been so successful as a branch manager that the company has promoted you to the position of regional manager in charge of twenty shops all of whose managers work under the conditions outlined in situation 3 above . |
| 26 | This makes sense when taken together with IBM Europe 's statement that it has excess manufacturing capacity : rather than close the plants straight away , it has thrown them to the market — they will get business from IBM but only as long as they can provide products at the going market rate . |
| 27 | But he has thrown it to the wind which will swirl round Windsor Park tonight by naming no fewer than THREE centre forwards in his side to face Latvia . |
| 28 | And it may be that the extent to which the bank has left it to the husband to procure the wife 's consent and to explain the transaction to her will be a critical feature of the case . |
| 29 | The word ‘ aquatint ’ has begun to obtrude itself , and it is worth taking space and time for this particular form of illustration , because of its particular beauty and because fashion , in this case probably rightly , has elected it to the aristocracy , if not the crown royal , of the illustrated book world . |
| 30 | Your shopping 's transferred it to the pantry . |