Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Put me down , ’ she whispered through dry lips , and only after what seemed an eternity did he slowly lower her to one side . |
| 2 | Captaining Jamaica for the second successive season , he not only led them to Red Stripe Cup triumph ( their third in five years ) , but , with the ball , he broke the tournament record with 36 wickets at 11.30 . |
| 3 | In their defensive exchanges , they ceased to value what had first so attracted them to each other . |
| 4 | But I swear , I only mentioned it to one person , and he 's the most trustworthy person I 've ever met . |
| 5 | So far as talking is concerned , they can only do it to each other . |
| 6 | But even if we 're not involved directly , I mean are you saying then that we perhaps put it to one side , it 's happening somewhere else ? |
| 7 | The trouble is we never stop long enough to put them to good use . |
| 8 | There is a possibility that transient UOS relaxations may be unusually easy to trigger in some subjects and so predispose them to oesophagopharyngeal reflux . |
| 9 | Cricket , an old and complex game , naturally lends itself to statistical analysis . |
| 10 | Because the terrain so lends itself to visual spectacle , the grand prix races draw crowds from Vienna , Salzburg and Innsbruck like no other . |
| 11 | She saw him pick up the sweater her parents had bought her for her birthday , then carelessly throw it to one side . |
| 12 | Another popular cheat is to quote last year 's rates , only raising them to this year 's the day after the form is posted to us . |
| 13 | Later , she could hardly remember what the issues were that had so roused them to mutual abuse . |
| 14 | I was dead happy there and then , all of a sudden , they came one day and just moved me to another home . |
| 15 | He had already committed himself to more work than he could handle because he was inexperienced at making deals and having to turn down work . |
| 16 | Um so erm I did have some I did have some references on this which erm unfortunately I I put to one side and I 've succeeded in losing so erm I did n't get the chance to put them on the handout but erm I 'm just alerting you to that area of debate and that area of enquiry . |
| 17 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 18 | The way he went away hurts me to this day . |
| 19 | Is he aware that the Institute of Housing has recently reported that it does not believe that competitive tendering in housing management is a sensible option , saying that it does ’ not easily lend itself to competitive tendering ’ ? |
| 20 | ‘ Just get me to this place and then I can phone a garage . |
| 21 | But at the end of the discussions between the project coordinator and the client , when you have actually helped him and led along , you could have this , or you could have that , or perhaps we could just take it to this stage , cost some options out and give you a recommendation . |
| 22 | ‘ If there 's any problems we do n't just leave it to one member of staff , we try to sort it out together . |
| 23 | Architectural historians have already raided it to good effect , notably Mark Girouard for his book on the sixteenth-century architect Robert Smythson and Jill Lever , the curator of the collection , for the book she wrote with Margaret Richardson , The Art of the Architect . |
| 24 | Whilst such an attitude to life is clearly desirable for hunters depending on highly unreliable food resources which would soon reduce them to chronic anxiety if they were to take a less prodigal view of things , it is evidently less suitable for seasonal hunters who must store food if they are to avoid starvation . |
| 25 | Secretary reports that he has already put it to good use . |
| 26 | And Prozac did the trick for me , erm it wo n't work for everybody , it 's not a happiness pill , it just restores you to some sort of normality . |
| 27 | ‘ I can understand your reluctance to talk about what 's happened but you ca n't just push it to one side . |
| 28 | By 1960 , the American space programme had launched a number of ‘ Mercury ’ spacecraft , and the first of their manned spacecrafts was launched in the early part of 1961 , once again with the Russians just beating them to that objective . |
| 29 | He would be going out soon , but an umbilical cord would still tie him to this house of death . |
| 30 | I think she felt awkward , because she quickly helped me to more raspberry-fool . |