Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the time I was there she did pencil out a few passages , and got me to red ink a lot more . |
| 2 | Write your answer on a postcard and send it to Good Food Competition , TODAY Features , 1 Virginia Street , London E1 9BS , to arrive by Monday November 9 . |
| 3 | Write your answers on the back of a postcard or envelope no bigger than 5in × 6in — please include your boot size , the size of jacket , fleece or T-shirt you 'd like , and your size for waterproof pants — and send it to Outdoor Action Adidas Competition , . |
| 4 | By adopting such beliefs and applying them to contemporary society both found sustenance in elitist moral and ethical beliefs which were far removed from contemporary reality . |
| 5 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 6 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 7 | Peter founded the navy out of virtually nothing , recruiting officers and sailors in the same way as for the army , and used it to good effect against the Swedes . |
| 8 | He has a weasel face and subjects me to piercing scrutiny . |
| 9 | London local authorities had delayed hearing petitioners ' cases and put them to considerable inconvenience . |
| 10 | On balance , the GDR , Hungary and Bulgaria have shown themselves able to absorb Western technology and put it to effective use ; but Romania and , more conspicuously , Poland , have combined high levels of dependency with ill-conceived investment decisions and the worst adaptation problems of the kind discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 11 | Mike Woodhead studied soil-science in Holland and put it to good use when he purchased his wine estate . |
| 12 | The individual experiences of recovery are so varied and the learning opportunities so diverse that there is a general maxim , " Where you are is where you are meant to be " , which implies that one can learn from any experience and put it to good use in recovery . |
| 13 | Previously they used corn-cob husks and bits of walnut shell to remove the carbon dust and oil that build up in large motors and cause them to short circuit . |
| 14 | They were all out in the courtyard , and the evening sun was slanting low golden shafts of colour from the west , catching the windows of the ancient palace and turning them to molten copper . |
| 15 | The purpose of this chapter is to outline the elements involved in resource management in schools and to apply them to current practice . |
| 16 | Eastern Stearman are able to completely rebuild a basic airframe , fit new wings , a re-lifed engine and finish it to individual specification and colour scheme . |
| 17 | Trace the shape in figure 1 and transfer it to thin cardboard . |
| 18 | Even whilst developing the modern immaterialist notion of consciousness , the eighteenth-century empiricists and others were attacking the dignity of intellect and assimilating it to sensory activity by treating thoughts as mere images . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll nip in and try and get the number and give it to Brown Owl , ’ she decided . |
| 20 | The viking army also would not let the giantesses rest , but sailed away with them and set them to grinding salt ; they ground so much that the boat sank and the mill with it , though still ( adds folk-tradition ) in the Maelstrom the giantesses grind their magic quern . |
| 21 | What is envisaged here is a ‘ pincer movement ’ for democratising the operations of large multidivisional enterprises and subjecting them to popular accountability . |
| 22 | But that is another way of saying the ring can not be seen , measured , touched or heard by picking up the bell and sniffing it , weighing it and subjecting it to chemical analysis . |
| 23 | The unpopularity of the planned change , however , led Kim Young Sam to reverse his position and exposed him to subsequent attack by DJP supporters within the ruling party , who leaked his role in the memorandum agreement to the press . |
| 24 | John has also become quite adept at treating fish and he has bought several with faults and restored them to full health . |
| 25 | Walkden & berry ( 1984 ) correlated CL zones in overgrowth cements from the Upper Dinantian of northern Britain , and ascribed them to cyclic replenishment of vadose and shallow meteoric water tables in calcretized marine limestones . |
| 26 | With the lines stretched out , have a friend apply tension on the ends to be prepared and scissor them to equal length . |
| 27 | ‘ If one excludes bacon/ham and offal and confines it to red meat plus poultry , then the figures rise to 35pc , still some way short of the 44pc mentioned . ’ |
| 28 | Intrigued by the idea the RAC drew up some rules and submitted them to other car manufacturers . |
| 29 | Alright , what 's happening now , is that we 're taking resources away from those efficient sectors and giving it to inefficient agriculture . |
| 30 | Stewart , who managed England 's Test side for six years and steered them to successive World Cup finals , said : ‘ When I was brought up during the war , serving Queen and country meant a lot to my generation . |