Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an excess of enthusiasm I suggested to a GCE examiner that with the help of well-written programmes , we would soon enable nearly all students to pass O-level mathematics . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , I simply told the girl I 'd agreed to leave a large sum of money I owed to a friend . |
| 3 | So when [ named defendant ] , 41 , made sexual overtures for the first time during their five-year friendship she went to a neighbour and cried rape . |
| 4 | I remember during some very intensive rehearsals we were doing for the Ring we came to a passage where the figuration of the accompaniment always comes out too strongly . |
| 5 | In an Aug. 12 interview he referred to a split in the Polisario leadership dating back to 1988 and said that he was " rallying against those who are stubbornly persisting in imposing a disastrous situation on our people … a dead-end solution " . |
| 6 | Patrick is still having difficulties with girls : the married man keeps going to bed with them , not liking it very much and not liking the distress it brings to a wife whom he does like and who is carefully crafted to be likeable . |
| 7 | Starting from the clubhouse on the first day and walking along the edge of the wood we came to a piece of natural grassland studded with patches of purpose tufted vetch and orchids growing among the unmown grass . |
| 8 | Allen asked , and as though to point his question they came to a place where another track came in from the right . |
| 9 | As Liberal Democrat leader John Pugh began to speak on the issue at Southport Town Hall he referred to a note from chief executive Graham Haywood . |
| 10 | On the steps of the City Hall he spoke to a crowd of 50,000 who had waited for hours for his appearance . |
| 11 | And on the last day he led the girl he loved to a shack he had built behind their tiny house and which he called his studio . |
| 12 | Er , but any change you make to a computer system , is likely to introduce bugs into the system , so that it does n't give the right answers any more . |
| 13 | One evening we went to a play — a stage production of an Agatha Christie thriller performed by a local concert group . |
| 14 | And by William Lovett , remember : one of that articulate elite which attended the debates at the Rotunda ; one who , knowing full well how partial , minimal and divisive the Whigs ' proposals were , was compelled by the polarisation of opinion they induced to a course of action contributing much to the great flood of support for them ; one who was a founder of the Chartist Movement formed in the wake of the Reform Act . |
| 15 | They were at the top of the hill now , and by common consent they came to a standstill . |
| 16 | Over the next few days he was never out of the press and in one emotional moment he confided to a journalist that he felt betrayed by Scotland . |
| 17 | Gooch was the leading run-scorer in first-class cricket for the 1980s , with over 21,000 at 49 , and in view of this his Test record -4,724 runs at just under 37 from 73 Tests before the tour began — is something of a disappointment , and illustrates clearly the difference it makes to a player to belong to a successful side . |
| 18 | In the afternoon we went to a barbecue at our son 's house , and then , after a shower and a rest , we were off again to a buffet and reception in the town hall . |
| 19 | On one occasion I went to a hospital in south London to what the police reckoned would be a very rough demonstration . |
| 20 | On journeys , he would study both the red and the green Michelin guides , in search of gastronomy and culture , and sit in the back seat issuing careful instructions to the driver that ‘ in about a quarter of a mile you come to a place to turn right ’ . |
| 21 | And it does seem to me that erm the minute you suggest to a Parish Council who has already complained about illegal encampments on roadsides and laybys that there is a good site in their patch , there is an immediate reaction , and I am thoroughly convinced that this reaction is based on a fear that is actually based on ignorance , and that we have to remember that travellers of any description — and I do n't categorise them like Peter does — travellers of any description are human beings . |
| 22 | Each night she spoke to a waiter to order a meal ; each morning she asked for boiled rather than scrambled eggs for breakfast . |
| 23 | That night we went to a party given by a magazine editor . |
| 24 | At night we went to a restaurant . |
| 25 | In their previous league match two weeks ago , they had travelled to Leicester knowing that a win would all but give them the championship , but that day they slumped to a surprise 3–2 defeat . |
| 26 | Two seconds before he slammed into a tree he braked to a halt , got off the cart and ambled back towards them , grinning with calculated boyish charm . |
| 27 | But soon he is forced by famine to go down to Egypt , and when he is about to cross the border he resorts to a ploy which knocks him straight off any pedestal we might have erected for him . |
| 28 | Midway through the voyage he wrote to a friend , ‘ I often conjecture what will become of me ; my wishes would certainly make me a clergyman . ’ |
| 29 | All this on top of the irony of an innocent request he made to a man with a radio listening to the cricket immediately he arrived in England after spending time with his family in Barbados . |
| 30 | Because this role is impossible to define in terms of its action content it leads to a lack of specificity , difficulties of time calculation and the inappropriateness of contractual obligations — all hallmarks of work in general in our society and all the tools of management and bureaucracy . |