Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Brown is parading this tacit Jackson support in an effort to draw blacks away from Mr Bill Clinton , the Democrats ' front-runner whose solid black support helped him to big victories in the South and Mid-West . |
| 2 | I do n't know why my search drew me to that part of the house , except that Curtis was the only soul in it other than myself and Leon . |
| 3 | They carry on average only 2.5 grains each and , as the corollas fall in the morning , they ny back up to the canopy , where they effect pollination , any slight wind drifting them to other trees . |
| 4 | Mountain lifts : The Valluga Peak cable car takes you to 9,220 ft and a magnificent view . |
| 5 | But Christine , 37 , insisted on going home for a snack before an ambulance took her to Royal Hallamshire hospital . |
| 6 | Their search took them to six countries , with the contract finally going to Toronto-based Lovat . |
| 7 | There should be no attempt to shorten it to newspaper-headline form . |
| 8 | Nurses claimed she had waited most of that time for an ambulance to take her to another hospital . |
| 9 | Bennett , the original owner of a Jaguar car entrusted it to one Searle for some repairs to be carried out . |
| 10 | Great Britain , for their part , will be looking to recapture the many admirable qualities which brought them that improbable victory after Steve Hampson 's early dismissal reduced them to 12 men . |
| 11 | ‘ When the judge sentenced him to five years I felt like shouting out ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Kate Connolly . |
| 12 | Although a breach of contract claim is based upon common law rights , remember that the Consolidation Act entitles you to minimum pay during your statutory notice period . |
| 13 | But while this ‘ violence ’ is to be expected within the family , it 's not acceptable when your child does it to other children she encounters . |
| 14 | Yesterday her husband Alan Atkinson , 47 , called on Darlington Council to move them to another house . |
| 15 | I 've imagined myself in situations like this , made up speeches in my head , speeches about truth and freedom and protection of sources , speeches I imagined delivering from the witness box just before the judge sentenced me to ninety days or six months or whatever for contempt of court , but I was kidding myself . |
| 16 | The task Gomez envisages for the black lesbian returns us to radical humanism , and both Fanon and Gide as important points of reference . |
| 17 | Failure led him to mass manipulation and an attempt to revolutionize British politics from outside the system . |
| 18 | Our admission charge rations us to one programme . |
| 19 | His wrathful imagination led him to grotesque ideas … |
| 20 | Although Pepper v. Hart is the initial formulation of the relaxed exclusionary rule , the ambiguities which it contains and the failure to relate it to other aids to statutory construction are perhaps less deserving of a welcome . |
| 21 | Gandhi dissociated himself from this development and withdrew from politics until 1939 , when the outbreak of the Second World War stirred him to political action again . |
| 22 | Rain reduced it to 37 overs a side and the home team were soon rattling along . |
| 23 | It would be a criminal waste to give it to most women . ’ |
| 24 | Another proof of her social status among the hawkers is her working spot : it is so well located that she if she decides to move she could ‘ sell ’ the right to use it to another vendor . |
| 25 | The Flack team restored her to pristine condition as G–FURY , and she made her first flight at Elstree in June 1980 . |
| 26 | Thereafter rain restricted them to one-day games and half of a four-day game , so they went into the first Test in Trinidad very under-prepared . |
| 27 | Blair 's job took him to troutless Humberside , but after two years , good fortune posted him back to Aberdeenshire . |
| 28 | Associated Tunnelling Co Ltd the Employment Appeals Tribunal ( EAT ) held that the tribunal had correctly concluded that there was an implied term in Mr Jones 's contract of employment to the effect that his employer had the right to transfer him to any site within reasonable daily commuting reach of his home . |
| 29 | I told the spaceship to take us to New Earth , the planet of the Star Council . |
| 30 | It may be that his partner also loves the outdoors but feels a need to limit it to small doses . |