Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then transports them to earthly space for human use . |
| 2 | Such cynical behaviour and insincerity is a waste of parliamentary time and contributes nothing to democratic government . |
| 3 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
| 4 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
| 5 | In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators . |
| 6 | O God give me the strength to be victorious over myself , for nothing may chain me to this life . |
| 7 | The hallway and various passages off it were full of visitors helping pyjama-ed relatives in and out of chairs , plumping cushions for them or fetching magazines from a well-stocked rack , or encouraging them to that last little drop of cocoa from what seemed to be a standard issue purple mug . |
| 8 | The TV producer led them to one of the last suites on the left and a young man in pullover and jeans swung round on his chair . |
| 9 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 10 | Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two . |
| 11 | Again , the would-be reformers ' interpretation of the 1980s led them to this conclusion . |
| 12 | Captaining Jamaica for the second successive season , he not only led them to Red Stripe Cup triumph ( their third in five years ) , but , with the ball , he broke the tournament record with 36 wickets at 11.30 . |
| 13 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 14 | I do n't suffer from ex-hatred myself , assuming that my partner must prefer me to any of her previous lovers or else she would be with one of them . |
| 15 | Do you prefer them to those ones ? |
| 16 | I mean nothing to either of them . |
| 17 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
| 18 | It will thus be dusted with successive batches of pollen as they mature and will deliver them to other flowers on different individual plants elsewhere in its territory . |
| 19 | There was a very long and comfortable settee in front of the window which had a view of the River Thames which mesmerized me to such an extent that I could scarcely tear myself away to go to bed . |
| 20 | The present research involves making extensive video recordings in the homes of eight carefully selected families and submitting them to various forms of analysis . |
| 21 | Processing items as soon as possible after soiling and/or submitting them to preliminary treatment . |
| 22 | After my return to England I was able to continue my interest in Burma 's future , for when General Aung San and his colleagues came to London for consultations with the British Government , Mr Attlee asked me to 10 Downing Street to introduce the various members to him . |
| 23 | ‘ I want to test one set of certainties by opposing them to another . |
| 24 | Parents may feel suspicious of these , or resentful , and will need help in using them to best advantage . |
| 25 | One other scheme allowed for one-to-one tests but left the decision about including them to individual teachers . |
| 26 | According to bogus sexologist Dr John R Brinkley , goat glands held the secret to combating male impotence and over a period of twenty years he amassed a fortune of more than $12 million administering them to 16,000 men worried about their sexual inadequacies . |
| 27 | ‘ The aim is to encourage public awareness about the value of the buildings around them and to get owners who no longer want the properties , to sell or lease them to new people . ’ |
| 28 | I want to take you through the thinking that led me to that conclusion , and then to concentrate on one of the keys to securing that future — the whole question of advancing the cause of children 's books . |
| 29 | That got me to thirty-and-five . |
| 30 | In the time I was there she did pencil out a few passages , and got me to red ink a lot more . |