Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [pron] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says she did the Byrd show ‘ because I found her a fascinating part of the underground scene in New York , and I felt somebody should expose her to a bigger market . |
| 2 | They should identify themselves to a responsible official before entering , except in very rare cases where information which ought to be disclosed in the public interest could not otherwise be obtained . |
| 3 | I am very desirous to get all the species of this genus which I can , and am making observations on their flowers and fruit : for Doctor Linnaeus has joined these to his genus of Rhus [ sumach ] , with which all the species of Toxicodendron , which I have yet examined , will by no means agree ; for these are either male and female in distinct plants , or have male flowers in separate parts from the fruit on the same plant , which , according to his own system , must remove them to a great distance from the Rhus . |
| 4 | Bearing in mind that this fish consumes large amounts of vegetation in the wild , you must reconcile yourself to a plantless tank , unless you like the plastic variety . |
| 5 | If the knots wo n't come out with that then she must take him to a professional grooming salon where the knots will be removed safely and painlessly . |
| 6 | But long ago , in 1946 , the questing and the questioning had become almost unbearable , and I knew that to keep my sanity I must force myself to an arbitrary conclusion : I would believe the least terrible of terrible possibilities — that the plane had been shot down over the Channel by enemy action . |
| 7 | Tomorrow , he decided , he must press her to a full disclosure of the grief harboured in her heart . |
| 8 | He should turn it to a profounder end , producing masterpieces in another man 's name . |
| 9 | For example , being born in a neighbourhood may entitle you to a higher place in the queue for housing provided by that local authority . |
| 10 | a doctor who will give advice and treatment and may refer you to a specialist drug-abuse centre for help ; |
| 11 | If you feel that you may be losing too much hair , do see your doctor , who may refer you to a special hair clinic . |
| 12 | And to make up for it I 'll treat you to a slap-up lunch in Haverfordwest . ’ |
| 13 | Her abilities might suit her to a top job in the Civil Service , but she gets such a buzz from being in the private sector , she would hate the very idea . |
| 14 | JEWKES : O , you are very good , sir , very forgiving indeed , but come , I hope you will be so good as to take her to your bosom and that my tomorrow morning you 'll bring her to a better sense of her duty . |
| 15 | Police believe the birds were stolen to order by specialist thieves who 'll sell them to a private collector abroad . |
| 16 | Later when you are satisfied , you might read it to a limited number of people — just one or two . |
| 17 | Either come aboard ship with us when we have the treasure , and we 'll take you to a safe place ; or stay here on the island . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We rejoice that our brother has passed through the valley and is in the everlasting arms of the Saviour ’ might mean something to a Christian but it is difficult for anyone else to understand . |
| 19 | We 'll leave it to a softer Pen : |
| 20 | And Elizabeth says , ‘ I might ask her to a inner . ’ |
| 21 | Instead of giving your mum chocolates ( or cake as they did in those days ) , you could treat her to a special melon basket , which can be prepared the day before . |
| 22 | She fixed her hazel eyes on his and elaborated , smiling , ‘ You could treat yourself to a few trinkets with the change . ’ |
| 23 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |
| 24 | You can then move the data files that you want to keep ( having selected them with Ctrl+click ) onto a disk in drive A. Alternatively you could move them to a different subdirectory on the hard disk . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , by Wednesday I 'm clear of the Committee , and I could take him to a Regional Office . |
| 26 | There had been a time when Julius Landor could reduce her to a whimpering wreck , when his slow-burning but frightening temper roused itself to life . |
| 27 | By Edward 's reign it was usual for the monarch to extract from a newly elected bishop or abbot a pension of about 3 or 5 marks for a royal servant until such time as the prelate could promote him to a suitable living . |
| 28 | Erm and certainly there are belts of woodland there which could screen it to a certain extent . |
| 29 | A study of showing form , or one particular individual may draw you to a particular breeder 's kennel . |
| 30 | Althusser denies the need for a more detailed account on the grounds that ‘ As the formal structure of all ideology is always the same , I shall restrict myself to a single example , one accessible to everyone , that of religious ideology , with the proviso that the same demonstration can be produced for ethical , legal , political , aesthetic ideology , etc . ’ |