Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And my father was her shepherd so nobody asks us to their houses , so I never met people like this before and Aunt Emily is trying to bring me out and she 's so sweet , so generous . |
| 2 | Mrs Currie says she does not agree with the ‘ dual mandate ’ — politicians sitting both at Westminster and Strasbourg , and intends resigning her Westminster seat if she makes it to Strasbourg . |
| 3 | The command PRINT ‘ Hello World ’ is an instruction to print the message ‘ Hello World ’ on the screen but Qbasic does n't obey this command until you tell it to . |
| 4 | But to begin with this assumption is to by-pass , rather than explain , the mystery of perception as it presents itself to us if we assume that perception occurs because the perceived object impinges directly or indirectly upon the nervous system . |
| 5 | ‘ However , your bravery will do you no good when we take you to the Avenue Foch , where there will be no kind Obersturmfuhrer to hinder our work . |
| 6 | ‘ I hope Wilmot can handle this , ’ said Holly anticipating the lawyer 's reproach when she explained herself to him . |
| 7 | Angry Brian Reatus , 44 , allegedly foamed at the mouth as he pinned him to the wall . |
| 8 | They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers . |
| 9 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 10 | Yeah , but he did n't need the modulator so he gave it to because he 's got a monitor , right ? |
| 11 | No one should underestimate Ian 's determination to be part of the England scene if we make it to America for the finals in 1994 . |
| 12 | George Watson , responding to this proposal , asserted that such topics were inappropriate for a course leading to a degree called " English " , and in any case dismissed both marxism and structuralism as outmoded " intellectual dinosaurs " : " No doubt a university is the place to study discredited intellectual systems ; but we risk derision if we propose them to the exclusion of others . " |
| 13 | ‘ did use ( or keep ) ’ A person ‘ keeps ’ a vehicle if he causes it to be stationary on a road when not in use . |
| 14 | While I put my purchases on the sliding counter he kept patting the inside of my thigh until it drove me to desperation . |
| 15 | The Mitchells were granted permission to burn charcoal from coppiced timber at Hangman 's Wood if they returned it to this state of management . |
| 16 | This garden ( protected from the road on one side by huge , untidy gum trees , in a permanent state of reptilian slough , leaving the discarded bark hanging from the newly emerged , silvery trunks ) has for me so powerful a charm because it returns me to my childhood , with a complete collection of odours , insects , fragrances , ponds and over-vigorous plants . |
| 17 | In his letter to shareholders introducing the Enhanced Scrip Dividend Alternative , JM Chairman David Davies said : ‘ Your Directors are recommending this proposal because they believe it to be in your interests as well as those of the company . |
| 18 | The council have objected to the proposed replacement dwelling because they feel it to be ‘ disproportionate ’ in size to the original building . |
| 19 | I only got Rosie 's help because he put it to you ; of course , it would be in a very nice way , that I was too tired to give him his rights . ’ |
| 20 | She would be seated in front of his desk before he allowed himself to be near her ; then he would lean against the same side of the desk as she . |
| 21 | This is a good activity for small group project work as it lends itself to the pooling of information and sharing different elements of the task . |
| 22 | His hands dangled over the sides of the wheelchair as they took him to the salon to meet the Bishop . |
| 23 | Miss Giles had earlier told Wells Street magistrates that she had not considered the film to be ‘ a very hot potato ’ and had not realised she was breaking the law when she showed it to about 120 people last April . |
| 24 | The court then went on to apply the law as it saw it to the facts of the case . |
| 25 | They stepped off the kerb and Nicolo slipped his arm around Caroline 's waist as he guided her to the other side of the street . |
| 26 | No doubt it is open to the objection that it presupposes the very point in issue , namely the law which is to be applied , but such a solution seems just as sensible in this context as the rule that the law governing the validity of a contract is determined by the law which would govern the contract if one assumed it to be valid . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's too bad , Claudia , because I 'm going to be your second skin until you lead me to Garry . ’ |
| 28 | It causes no pollution , either in terms of fuel consumption or noise , yet finding yourself suddenly cowering in the shadow of a huge coloured parachute at the top of a hill where you imagined yourself to be alone , bursts the illusionary balloon of solitude and remote wilderness for me . |
| 29 | Raymond Lully featured among them , though in apocryphal form , as the subject of a singular conversion experience : inflamed by illicit passion for a married woman , he would brook no denial until she took him to her house and there , in the presence of her husband , bared to Raymond 's astonished eyes a breast almost entirely devoured by cancer . |
| 30 | We wo n't feel obliged to put you under the microscope unless you force us to , but , if we do , we 'll find something nasty , take if from me . |