Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They happen to do something where there is an enormous organization geared up to pushing them on to a pedestal . |
| 2 | As I left my GP — he was passing me over to a surgeon — and he shook my hand and wished me luck — that in itself was a bad sign — neither the truth nor the meaning had really sunk in . |
| 3 | Betty had met me at Bellanoch , whisking me off to a venison dinner at her friend 's at Ford . |
| 4 | You use this both to anchor the sledge during a trip , by stamping it into the snow , and at the start of each day to hold the sledge , by clunking it on to a tree trunk . |
| 5 | On the day that Wilson was elected to office , he telephoned me , tracking me down to a restaurant in London , to enquire what to do about the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra . |
| 6 | The inclusion of sculptural elements into a given context makes one more conscious of time , not by slowing it down to a state of meditation , but rather by particularising time through the experience of the work in context . |
| 7 | Old bushes can be brought back to vigorous life by cutting them down to a foot from the ground at the end of winter . |
| 8 | I used to fantasise about tying her up to a bed , together with all her giggling friends , like the woman in the film . ’ |
| 9 | The caravan already has a busy diary for the summer but anyone interested in having it along to a community event , or simply to visit a neighbourhood , should contact their local divisional police headquarters and ask for the crime prevention officer . |
| 10 | Imperials both , they did not follow the local custom of farming him out to a neighbour . |
| 11 | And in the past , the , the nearest we 've got to that is taking them along to a fire station and telling them what sort of people we are , that has been proved in many cases to be counterproductive , because it 's actually an incentive if you wish to set fires from other districts than this . |
| 12 | The commission considered that ‘ no producer should be entitled to rid himself of all responsibility for the waste simply by handing it over to a contractor for disposal ’ , and it recommended that the duty should be enshrined in legislation . |
| 13 | Its declared aim was to preserve a family name by attaching it perpetually to an estate that passed undivided to a single heir . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm showing it tonight to an audience of businessmen , and I always get red-hot when I watch this kind of thing . |
| 15 | The complete task involved lifting a number of panels from their storage racks , loading them on to a jig , clamping them into position , arc welding a seam to join them , and then transferring the welded sub-assembly from the jig to another storage rack so that it could be transported to the next production stage . |
| 16 | The dream-man called Duvall seized Jimmy around the neck in a way which was surely too painful to be a dream and yanked him to his feet , throwing him on to a desk . |
| 17 | Backing her up to a bench , he pressed her down on to it and left her . |