Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This presumably posed a risk to airline uniforms ; was likely to distract passengers ( the male ones at any rate ) at a time when they should have been paying attention to the cabin staff for rather different reasons ; and carried the ultimate danger of the implant exploding . |
| 2 | Father Moore is only a brief visitor ; he has called in crisply to pay his respects , exchange a few words of banter with Patsy ( also a brother-in-law of somebody ) , and to inform Siobhan that next year he will be personally heading a pilgrimage to Knock so as to ward off any unfortunate flukes of the road . |
| 3 | To the credit of both Hortense and Le Bas , it was agreed that Louis-Napoleon should be enrolled in the High School at Augsburg , a move which it was hoped would not only remove a tendency to idleness and day-dreaming but would also give him a chance to make friends with other boys of his own age . |
| 4 | By paying this amount to the short , the long gets a yield to maturity of 9 per cent on his holding of Treasury 12' per cent 2003 05 as required by the futures contract . |
| 5 | Erm he , he then obviously goes on to erm to erm talk about peasant bans and prohibitions erm and for some incredible reason the peasants suddenly take a disliking to gaming , gambling and opium smoking , three things that I could n't think of anything I 'd like to do more , erm |
| 6 | Plainly , there will be a very close connexion between the rules of change and the rules of recognition : for where the former exists the latter will necessarily incorporate a reference to legislation as an identifying feature of the rules , though it need not refer to all the details of procedure involved in legislation . |
| 7 | SNI may well be involved at this stage too — it already has a licence to HP 's SoftBench as it is implemented in Informix 's ToolBus , going back to June this year ( UX No 388 ) . |
| 8 | But even two apples a day may not keep Ciba-Geigy away and unless we act fast the prayer ‘ Give us this day our daily bread ’ could soon become a prayer to Shell Oil . |
| 9 | Age no longer breeds a commitment to conformity . |
| 10 | From watching Isobel and her husband he had discovered that there was much more to sex than just taking a girl to bed or being uneasily married to a frigid , grasping woman . |
| 11 | TOMORROW 's moonstruck but musically unaccomplished lover may soon get a chance to serenade with the help of a computer . |
| 12 | well I 'm not gon na ask Chris cos I 'll just write a cheque to Society . |
| 13 | Nearly all the canine members of the police dog section are former unwanted pets donated by families who for a variety of reasons found the could no longer offer a home to man 's best friend . |
| 14 | I finally ran a copy to earth , with some difficulty , at Penguin 's own bookshop in Covent Garden , and telephone enquiries to a selection of London 's larger booksellers indicated that two out of three had at least one copy on their shelves . |
| 15 | The wood should be allowed to air dry slowly to avoid a tendency to surface cracking and distortion , but it kiln dries well with little degrade and is stable in service . |
| 16 | The sunk costs involved in building a strong market position may additionally become a barrier to entry , even if the intention was ‘ innocent ’ competition rather than a deliberate strategy to exclude potential competitors . |
| 17 | Some of them have not been found guilty , and albeit they have been charged with horrendous crimes they are still innocent people and it does n't matter even if they are not innocent people , the Government still has a responsibility to life and limb and really I ca n't see any case at all for not storming . |
| 18 | Did you in your time ever send a man to execution ? |
| 19 | But this fact alone would hardly entitle a beneficiary to execution in rem against a third party : to allow that would be to indulge in a breach of fundamental principle and equity . |
| 20 | Jacob Bright MP , dismissed Acton as probably the most illogical man who ever put a pen to paper . |
| 21 | The leadership formally reaffirmed a commitment to socialism , but accepted criticisms of its own past authoritarian practices , and criticized the lifestyles of some comrades which had " contrasted with the difficult conditions the majority of our people faced " . |
| 22 | Liza had always had a tendency to wildness . |
| 23 | If I ever get a chance to git even , I would n't think twice now . |
| 24 | Always having a calculator to hand ( is n't that what you bought a computer for ? ) and an instantly accessible notepad are probably the two essential elements . |
| 25 | We sat and watched not the coldness and menace of evil but a pantomime dame who was obviously too stupid and incompetent ever to pose a threat to goodness . |
| 26 | The album has its moments , and some people — forever willing a return to greatness from Dylan — will no doubt say it 's a masterwork . |
| 27 | ( Which brings to mind notions of whether Sun will ever offer a cross-licence to Unix System Labs for some reason or another . ) |
| 28 | ‘ The Americans always have a tendency to bolt off the blocks , and we had to go with them . |
| 29 | Justin : You can always find a scientist to back any position , no matter how absurd . |
| 30 | Anglers who take this path — usually young , relatively inexperienced anglers who have been drawn into the cultish scene — rarely devote a lifetime to angling , as do most all-round anglers . |