Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 61 | But the scream seemed to go on and on , rooting them to the spot . |
| 62 | How many uplifts should I use , and do I need special adaptors to connect them to the filter ? |
| 63 | Sir David Wilson , in his annual address to the Legislative Council in October 1989 announced that the government was to embark upon a £10,000 million development project to build a new airport , to expand its container port facilities and to construct extensive transport links to connect them to the urban and industrial areas . |
| 64 | In the first two weeks I sat down , worked out the six major things I needed to do and tabled them to the group executive within six weeks . |
| 65 | That 's that 's the way we do fractions that 's the way you do adding up fractions or taking away fractions you change them to the same . |
| 66 | However it is a very difficult and time-consuming operation to read through the evaluations and to compare them to the original project document . |
| 67 | It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition . |
| 68 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 69 | Mrs Aboud led me to the balcony from where it was evident that many of the surrounding buildings — like those elsewhere in the Arab quarter — had been devastated , their roofs smashed in and their windows punched out of their frames . |
| 70 | My searches even led me to the absurdity of being directed to the deep freeze in one newsagent when I asked for Spare Rib . |
| 71 | I checked my hexagram against the index , which led me to the pages headed Ta Kuo : Preponderance of the Great . |
| 72 | And her white Reeboks screeched at the marble as she turned and led me to the waiting forms . |
| 73 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 74 | She frowned for a moment , then picked up my hand and led me to the window . |
| 75 | Although this is an isolated example it is typical of the problems I encountered and which led me to the conclusion that the product simply is n't ready for release into the market in its current form . |
| 76 | But he raised his left hand again , this time to silence me ; took my arm and led me to the edge of the colonnade . |
| 77 | The sad consequence on the children 's lives of the circumstances of their birth led me to the conclusion that pregnancy in elderly women might not be appropriate and the whole programme was stopped . |
| 78 | Of course , this consequence follows because the building society is in effect attracting funds from the public sector and channelling them to the borrowers that we identified in section 4.1.1 . |
| 79 | He says that at the end of the Laws of Moses one finds the following words : " Moses , having heard the words of God , transmitted them to the Jews . " |
| 80 | ‘ The William S. Paley Collection ’ ( 28 February-16 May ) consists of eighty-four mainly intimate-scaled early modern works acquired by the late founder of CBS , and bequeathed to a foundation that in turn conveyed them to the Museum of Modern Art in New York , where Paley was chairman emeritus at the time of his death in 1990 . |
| 81 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 82 | I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny . |
| 83 | Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants , then to those of the statistical clerks . |
| 84 | But when they reached the dock and were waiting for the boat to carry them to the camp , Seth snatched the van 's keys , nearly breaking two of Suzy 's fingers in the struggle . |
| 85 | There were commercial laundries in the 1920s and the large linen hampers that took two people to carry them to the laundry van show that this was a luxury enjoyed by the inhabitants of the Dolls ' House . |
| 86 | You were n't allowed to have a hearse , you had to carry them to the church , and er er we used to b bury them by lamp light . |
| 87 | From time to time we still had meat , for cattle still had to be slaughtered and there was little transport , because of the fuel shortage , to carry them to the wholesale market . |
| 88 | The King of this country ( which was called Lilliput ) had ordered his people to carry me to the capital city , about a kilometre away . |
| 89 | And I 'm really proud that the men in the tank recommended me to the jailers to be the trusty . |
| 90 | The regular vet — a friend of mine — has gone to live in Australia and he recommended me to the zoo as his replacement . |