Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prince wants me to go to a bloody ball . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ They want me to go to a mental hospital , Mum . ’ |
| 3 | It 's also good for them to come to a new school and know at least one face there . |
| 4 | The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , K. O. P. M. Karunanidhi , was given the responsibility of talking to the various Tamil groups to persuade them to come to a peaceful settlement after the withdrawal of the IPKF . |
| 5 | Had Aldous Huxley introduced a sub-plot into Brave New World , where the remains of a dead man were cannibalised to save the lives of 50 strangers , only for them to succumb to a lethal virus hidden in his tissues , his readers would have been impressed by the fertility of his futuristic imagination . |
| 6 | I repeat a proposition that I made to a previous Leader of the House . |
| 7 | I mean to a certain extent I have just said them . |
| 8 | At one time a business proposition came up and , thinking it would help him kick his habit , I agreed to a joint overdraft . |
| 9 | After a TOPS course I got a full-time job in computing and I moved to a different part of London . |
| 10 | I moved to a different phase and involved myself in witch-like pursuits , looking for a special spell ( they had already told me what it was to be ) . |
| 11 | Then I moved to a different teacher to get some more , you know , experience . |
| 12 | In the grounds of the Elgin Cathedral , I mentioned to a passing man , a local , with whom I had fallen into conversation , ‘ Dr Johnson had a meal here , that was so bad he could n't eat it . ’ |
| 13 | while directly above I bend to a bottom drawer |
| 14 | So , when at last I came to a small village with a large church , I decided that perhaps the priest might be the best person to tell me where these prehistoric pagans buried their dead . |
| 15 | I had already gathered from the groom that Sir John had not left so , when I came to a small copse of trees , I took my horse deep inside , hobbled it and sat on a boulder . |
| 16 | Open pastureland succeeded the neglected wood as I walked on , and soon I came to a rough circle of boulders on a mound — Lisheen , the little fort , home of fairies . |
| 17 | Soon I came to a strange place where the river divided , one part of it compressed as a hurling white torrent between steep artificial banks , the other part let into a tranquil canal that entered Galway from the countryside . |
| 18 | At nine o'clock , after twelve miles , I came to a slippery escarpment , a cascade of sand tumbling five hundred feet to a plain which , in spite of a slight haze , I could see stretching some sixty miles south and west . |
| 19 | Separate from my parents in another country , I came to a new knowledge of me as a self apart . |
| 20 | Five hours later , after I had passed beneath a crudely-lettered blue notice board that welcomed travellers to the unpeopled jungle vastness of Darién , I came to a wooden sign that said simply ‘ Sante Fé ’ . |
| 21 | On the contrary , the older I get , the greater priority I give to a loving relationship . |
| 22 | I raced to a private home and called the Associated Press office . |
| 23 | The fact of the matter is , as far as the erm and I accept to a certain degree what Jack has just said , that the power for schools lies with the Governors , and it lies with the Governors because the Conservative Government has enacted legislation to allow that to happen . |
| 24 | I turned to a medium natural to me when dealing with emotional occasions — versifying . |
| 25 | Idly I turned to a 1975 profile of Dr Arabella Melville . |
| 26 | At least that was what I had intended to say ; owing to a tonal error I declared to an astonished audience ‘ Excuse me . |
| 27 | Despite the fact that I succumbed to a mild form of food-poisoning through eating at the cheapest restaurants — a meal could he obtained for ten ( old ) francs or less , but less meant the more chance of prostration — I have never known Paris so surpassingly beautiful as that year . |
| 28 | Cos I I did n't sort of go by fairs and things like that , I belonged to a different generation . |
| 29 | I refer to a legal framework that protects without stigmatising , which recognises and takes account of the needs of society in general , the needs of the families and carers , and the needs of the individual and which provides as equitable a balance as possible between the individual 's rights of autonomy and liberty and the right to have access to the best possible treatment , rehabilitation and care . |
| 30 | I refer to a parliamentary answer that was given to me by the Under-Secretary of State for Employment , the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire ( Mr. Forth ) . |