Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a court in Nottingham hears how a taxi driver sexually assaulted a female passenger after driving her to a secluded spot in Park . |
| 2 | A court in London has heard how a taxi driver sexually assaulted a female passenger after driving her to a secluded spot in Clumber Park . |
| 3 | It is supplied on a single disk and the Install program deletes the Easy Project data from it after translating it to a blank data disk in the second drive , leaving the A disk as systems disk . |
| 4 | From a technical point of view the superiority of nephrite over the stones plentifully available for everyday tools would hardly justify the increased cost of ensuring adequate supplies or the enormously greater cost of shaping it to the correct form . |
| 5 | Cutting the glass is simply a matter of scoring it to the required size with a glass cutter . |
| 6 | Furthermore , even if a surplus of wool was produced , there was perhaps more hope of selling it to the developing cloth industry than of disposing of grain which was not required , as a demand for clothing can be more flexible than one for food when men have additional purchasing power ( 59 ; 62 ) . |
| 7 | Erm he 'll erm if they accept it it 'll it 'll stand a chance of getting them to the main group . |
| 8 | There had been talk of sending me to a special school , but my family were not ready to accept such an open acknowledgment of my disability , and the excuse was again made about academic standards . |
| 9 | Nor have I the slightest intention of subjecting you to a close examination of my emotions . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Well , exactly — ’ she hrumphed some more — ‘ I said she was still going to be in Maidstone for a few days though we were thinking of moving her to a private hospital . |
| 11 | How could he think of abandoning her to the malevolent clutches of this voracious monster ? |
| 12 | Nurses can help all patients by talking with them , keeping in mind the objective of orienting them to the new environment and routine . |
| 13 | The magistrate decided whether to try a case summarily or to set in motion the process of committing it to a superior court . |
| 14 | This shows an irony that although Saint Francis gave all he had to the needy , the church is spending its money on building magnificent and expensive structures instead of giving it to the poor . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're thinking of taking it to the European Court of Human Rights ’ , she says . |
| 16 | Yes , he 'd bring Ma to the fête , by way of introducing her to the new life . |
| 17 | They even put him in the coffin and shipped him home instead of leaving it to a local undertaker . |
| 18 | Once out of the village they picked up speed and took a road that would zigzag through five hamlets before bringing them to the only cart track that wound up the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 19 | The instructor smiled as he went to each man in turn and pulled out two full arm lengths of cord from their parachutes before attaching it to the static line . |
| 20 | He made imprints of the keys in bars of soap before returning them to the sleeping prison officer . |
| 21 | First , the practice of grazing calves from May until late July on permanent pasture , then moving these to hay or silage aftermath before returning them to the original grazing in late autumn . |
| 22 | Again , apart from alerting you to the likely development of a problem here , such inspections will help to ensure that even with a painful condition , the dog will have sufficient confidence to allow you to treat it without attempting to snap or simply pulling its head away repeatedly . |
| 23 | De Gaulle was more interested in exploiting the process of change ( in the interests of France and of his regime ) than in forcing it to a fixed end-point . |
| 24 | When refloating a herd , it is important to hold the rescued animals together until the entire herd is assembled before releasing them to the open sea . |
| 25 | Helen Gardner was aware of the problem , observing that the pursuit of image patterns , or of the ideas in a poem , can be useful to the interpreter , but can not ‘ be more than auxiliary in leading us to the true ‘ meaning' ’ of the work , which is the meaning which enlarges our own imaginative life . ’ |
| 26 | We weakened the signal in several ways , one of which was by damaging the cells of the polarizing region with high doses of X-rays before grafting it to the anterior margin . |
| 27 | He had also torn off the copyright mark from the greeting card before sending it to the Italian artisans who made the sculptures . |
| 28 | ‘ I ca n't see any sense in subjecting him to a hard race in the Gold Cup when I know that his blood has been wrong , ’ he explained . |
| 29 | The remaining operating staff had to work long hours preparing and implementing an evacuation programme for school children , an exercise in which the trams played their part in getting them to the main line railway stations on the first part of their journey away from London . |
| 30 | She glared at him , waiting until he had stopped the car outside her house before treating him to a cold smile . |