Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pers pn] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 , . |
3 | London local authorities had delayed hearing petitioners ' cases and put them to considerable inconvenience . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Mike Woodhead studied soil-science in Holland and put it to good use when he purchased his wine estate . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Trace the shape in figure 1 and transfer it to thin cardboard . |
10 | ‘ I 'll nip in and try and get the number and give it to Brown Owl , ’ she decided . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | With the lines stretched out , have a friend apply tension on the ends to be prepared and scissor them to equal length . |
13 | Government orders forbade anyone to show the natives how to use such weapons , yet inevitably they did on occasion obtain them and use them to deadly effect , though their culture might be basically Stone Age . |
14 | Social institutions , including that of education , are set up to counteract the shortcomings of nature , to control and exploit it and turn it to human advantage . |
15 | Many non-Western cultures use a type of music , not used in the West , which has symbolic meaning to the members of the culture ; an attempt should be made to understand this symbolism and turn it to positive selling advantage . |
16 | Huron is designed as a completely integrated system that enables users to develop applications , run them in production and adapt them to changing business requirements . |
17 | Cheer and uphold them with the knowledge of your love and restore them to full health . |
18 | Cheer and uphold them with the knowledge of your love and restore them to full health . |
19 | Cheer and uphold them with the knowledge of your love and restore them to full health . |
20 | Cheer and uphold them with the knowledge of your love and restore them to full health . |
21 | Cheer and uphold them with the knowledge of your love and restore them to full health . |
22 | Cheer and uphold them with the knowledge of your love and restore them to full health . |
23 | Cheer and uphold them with the knowledge of your love and restore them to full health . |
24 | Cheer and uphold them with the knowledge of your love and restore them to full health . |
25 | Because of the doubt attached to their estimates , they want all governments to publish their inventories and submit them to international supervision . |
26 | That has been contradicted by the Labour spokesman on Treasury matters , who has said that his party would take money from British farmers and divert it to regional policy . |
27 | I mean , I might have had to shove the split match heads under Carol 's fingernails , or tie her to a tree and subject her to psychological warfare by , say , reading Hemingway aloud to her . |
28 | If the Brigade was still around the village and things got a bit quieter I would keep that date , and treat them to British steak and kidney , etc . |
29 | Unable to offer economic inducements , the pomeshchiks relied increasingly upon sheer force to keep their peasants , exploit their labour , drive them deeper and deeper into debt , and reduce them to servile status . |