Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you want me to done to you ? |
| 2 | He should not intervene in little local difficulties in Cambridgeshire which , sooner or later , will be sorted out when the authority spends its additional resources sensibly by devoting them to raising the quality of education . |
| 3 | " He asked me to met him several times a year , I tried to advise him , to tell him how I saw things in the world . " |
| 4 | Very few studies have sought to position shoplifting within a broader social and political sphere , where women in particular are vulnerable to a consumer fetishism that drives them to lawbreaking … |
| 5 | In the space of a few years , Zurich plans to complete its switch from selling standard products ( such as property , motor and accident insurance ) to anyone who will buy them to fashioning customised insurance packages for specific groups . |
| 6 | It says that the money which it was prepared to commit to training will not meet the pleas of the training and enterprise councils , which are struggling to deliver the training guarantees which the Government have committed them to providing , and which can not go beyond the delivery of that guarantee to extend training opportunities in a serious or significant way . |
| 7 | Even to him it was now barely imaginable , and other eagles he mentioned it to seemed to take it as a lie and untruth , and were angry at him for trying to delude them . |
| 8 | ‘ In the end it 's all about the way you organise all your output and you have to relate it to satisfying the client , ’ Mulvie said . |
| 9 | And Kegan was old-womaning around until he drove me to agreeing to talk to the wretched people . |
| 10 | A headline in the Sun more than hints where the blame should lie — GIRL 'S LUSTFUL TOUCHES DROVE ME TO KILLING . |
| 11 | As is customary , they were paid a fee which committed them to producing pictures to that value for the Imperial War Museum . |
| 12 | As is customary , they were paid a fee which committed them to producing pictures to that value for the Imperial War Museum . |
| 13 | The 137 governments participating agreed a statement which committed them to working towards a legally-binding climate convention , which should be ready for signature at the Brazil conference on environment and development in 1992 . |
| 14 | It is then all the more strange that 1-2-3 for Windows limits you to using only eight fonts per worksheet . |
| 15 | One thing that particularly attracted her to seeking his assistance now was that he , more than any of the other lily-skinned boys she 'd seduced , had been terrified of his family discovering his stealthy dalliance with the poisoner 's wife . |
| 16 | It even drove her to going to see Ned Clarke . |
| 17 | Although it was once thought only Confucian scholars could outwit a kuei , a deterrent popular amongst all Chinese is to set it to solving a riddle . |
| 18 | Its rules restrict it to lending on property which encourages self-sufficiency , the ecologically efficient use of land and the saving of non-renewable resources . |
| 19 | Others likened it to fainting — a dead faint that switched off all the animal 's faculties . |
| 20 | We fully support and endorse the deposit greenbelt boundaries , then I think it 's inescapable that at at some point that is going to lead us to leapfrogging over the greenbelt boundary , at some stage during the the the plan period , there may well be sufficient erm commitment and identified sites to mop up in in the short term , but by the end of of the plan period it 's it 's my belief that there will be a need to address this issue by bringing forward proposals for a new settlement , er which obviously Selby district er full fully supports . |
| 21 | This allows us to built mixed consultancy teams to fit the need and , in many cases , we can provide experimental validation of the software . |
| 22 | Cos it do n't half limit you to having a radiator that length . |
| 23 | She knows a lot of men like that and has heard of more , but it does not reconcile her to having one herself . |
| 24 | Taping Miss I 've got her to saying hello . |
| 25 | Everyone he had shown it to had described it as brilliant , and by all accounts it was ; rejection hurt . |
| 26 | When we got there , we were introduced to several divers who swapped telephone numbers with us and it was suggested that we have a dive with an instructor to re-orient us to diving in this country . |
| 27 | The Maastricht treaty commits them to holding a big treaty-revising conference in 1996 . |
| 28 | A lot of Americans are meanwhile disenchanted with an alliance that commits them to defending a Europe that could do more for itself — especially a Europe that offers America so little , so ungraciously , in return . |
| 29 | He drew their attention to the route map on the opposite wall and set them to counting how long it took between stops , a favourite exercise that was considered by the twins to be the height of intellectual prowess but risked serious brain damage to everyone within hearing distance . |
| 30 | This commits you to examining each word and can be quite tiring . |