Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 2 | He took charge of his third club in almost as many months after Alex Ferguson recommended him to St Mirren . |
| 3 | It ends : ‘ Will the tight budget bring us to a grinding halt ? |
| 4 | My enthusiasm transmitted itself to Malc and he left at the end of visiting time a happier man . |
| 5 | How many uplifts should I use , and do I need special adaptors to connect them to the filter ? |
| 6 | Nor does it seem to be the case that the notorious reluctance of the Masai to accommodate themselves to the modern world was to any significant extent the result of administrative protection from it . |
| 7 | However , the prior hypothesis led us to the finding in the rural high oil worker category ( table II , both for all ages and the 0–4 age group . |
| 8 | Acheson , as acting Secretary of State , may not have gone so far ; although just before the war began , when it looked as if Moffat was going to meet Ho in Hanoi , Acheson asked him to ‘ keep in mind Ho 's clear record as agent international communism , absence evidence recantation Moscow affiliations … and support Ho receiving [ from ] French Communist Party . ’ |
| 9 | Preferences bring us to Regan who is rightfully critical of the counter-intuitive implications of Frey 's blanket denials of beliefs , desires , perceptions , emotions , and so on to animals and is at great pains to stress their similarities of behaviour to that of human beings . |
| 10 | Robins has so far scored seven goals after Ferguson sold him to Norwich for a cut-price £800,000 on the eve of the season . |
| 11 | Are Oxford for the drop , can Swindon make it to the premier league play-offs ? |
| 12 | Harvey led me to a room which he unlocked with a key . |
| 13 | MacDonald read it to the members of the Cabinet ( imposing further conditions before a loan would be given ) . |
| 14 | The web tangled and clung mawkishly around her reasoning as Fernando lowered her to the bed . |
| 15 | His talents , his wealth , and the changing times raised him to the court of assistants of the Levant Company from 1644 to 1648 , and in 1645 Parliament appointed him to the Goldsmiths ' Hall committee , through which Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions . |
| 16 | It could be simply a difference of opinion where conflicting views bring us to an impasse . |
| 17 | Sotheby 's , determined to protect Irises ’ ‘ most expensive ’ tag , repossessed it , and in March sold it to the Getty museum , probably for $40 to $45 million . |
| 18 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 19 | She confessed that the bitter jibes and over-exposure led her to the precipice . |
| 20 | People within enterprises who are designated to engage in environmental scanning ( and similar ) activities do not of course restrict themselves to that part of the total external information resource that happens to be publicly available at a specific point in time . |
| 21 | Whether you decide on a honeymoon at home or you 're planning a trip abroad it 's a wonderful excuse to treat yourself to a couple of new outfits for the beach and it 's essential to look after yourself and protect against the sun 's more harmful rays . |
| 22 | At noon , the exhausted Pack gathered together and Brown Owl led them to a shady area . |
| 23 | She 'd have to take off her thick blue jersey soon , and she could n't remember how many buttons had come off the shirt underneath , and it was sleeveless , and she had n't shaved her armpits since Philippa asked her to supper last week . |
| 24 | This device consists of a corrosion-proof , non-toxic probe which sits in the tank water , and a two metre cable to connect it to an earth point , in your cable tidy or elsewhere . |
| 25 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |
| 26 | Did the name de Courcy mean anything to them ? |
| 27 | Biff lowered him to the ground , and untied the rope . |
| 28 | Secondly , existing paper documents could be scanned into the computer enabling them to be further processed without the necessity of reproducing the original . |
| 29 | His Mum helped herself to peas and poured him lemonade . |
| 30 | William shouted something to Grace but she could not hear him — the sounds of the wind and the sea were too loud , too terrible . |