Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The college failed to elect him to the Bye-Fellowship . |
| 2 | It heralded the end of the session , as Danny 's mood seemed to transmit itself to the others and they too became restless . |
| 3 | His talent for imaginative lying helped to elect him to the Senate after the war as ‘ Tail Gunner Joe ’ . |
| 4 | The fairness of the poll tax was that every adult had to contribute something to the upkeep of the neighbourhood instead of enjoying ( or destroying ) everything for free . |
| 5 | Her mother was n't at home , and her father wanted to see her to the car , which was parked in the street . |
| 6 | The glass was bullet-proof , sky-proof , sea-proof , plant-proof , stone-proof , everything-proof and he refused to come out of it , not even when the Headmaster threatened to throw him to the giant eel for being so cowardly . |
| 7 | We are told who sits for what , where , what our majorities are and the swing needed to return us to the real word and gainful occupation . |
| 8 | Men set off in a local bus commandeered to take them to the factories on the edge of the town . |
| 9 | Eventually a man from the tower arrived , and a little bus came to take us to the aircraft . |
| 10 | The harsher the clause , the greater the effort needed to bring it to the attention of the buyer ( see Interfoto Picture Library v. Stiletto Visual Programmes , paragraph 7–03 above ) . |
| 11 | Editor , — An important reason why paracetamol-methionine is rarely prescribed is that when Sterling Winthrop introduced it in 1986 under the brand name Pameton the Department of Health refused to add it to the list of medicines prescribable within the NHS because it saw ‘ no clinical need . ’ |
| 12 | It was nothing to do with me if the porter wished to bring himself to the notice of Shaitan . |
| 13 | Hubert Molland was an unpractised driver and his nervousness seemed to communicate itself to the big car , which juddered and groaned alarmingly . |
| 14 | This was not a principle calculated to endear him to the Inland Revenue or the men from Customs & Excise . |
| 15 | But a nice undertaker with a very smart 1950S hearse agreed to take them to the next town . |
| 16 | ‘ Sometimes , he would lose his temper and start breaking the furniture ; and his family decided to send him to the maison de santé at Gheel . |