Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learned that even if you pay the mortgage on your home and your husband contributes nothing to bills , you can not legally lock him out of the matrimonial home . |
| 2 | So I say nothing to Anna ; instead I quietly join her family for a meal . |
| 3 | Be that as it may , our source notes that Spring has been written from scratch , is not Unix and owes nothing to AT&T 's code . |
| 4 | Of the distance drew nothing to momentum |
| 5 | We want to see Grand Met send someone to Darlington to a meeting which would include all the licensees affected by the rent rises and the new leases . ’ |
| 6 | Elizabeth had had a baby to the duke and Georgiana bore one to Charles , Earl Gray , a member of the famous tea family . |
| 7 | She 's since made a complete recovery and Mona 's consultant says she ows everything to Janet . |
| 8 | William shouted something to Grace but she could not hear him — the sounds of the wind and the sea were too loud , too terrible . |
| 9 | Oh they were kicking up an awful fuss and I thought to myself now a cat 's tearing one to pieces , that 's the way it , what it sounded like , or two and they were , I could n't see quite out of the window but they were making a fuss on the wall by Diane 's |
| 10 | If I send one to grandma , one to you and Amy , and then I 'll write one to grandma Lincolnshire , but I 'll wo n't send it off , it 'll be to expensive wo n't it ? |
| 11 | If I send one to grandma and granddad , if I send one to you then send to . |
| 12 | What , you want something to sort of take off do n't you ? |
| 13 | Ronni saw her say something to Jeff and point . |
| 14 | Oliver had his own ideas on this , which he could hardly put to Mrs Figgis-Hewett ; they involved her dramatic appearance before the dinner began when he had worked out she could have added something to Sir Thomas 's drink in the confusion . |
| 15 | Some of Faraday 's experimental results were independently achieved , sometimes before him , by Joseph Henry in the USA , and by William Sturgeon in Manchester , for example ; and his theory of point atoms owes something to Newton , and more to Roger Boscovich ( an eighteenth-century Jesuit ) and to Joseph Priestley . |
| 16 | Jean Packman concludes by showing that new policy embodied in future legislation owes something to child care research studies in recent years . |
| 17 | On the other hand , the stage represented by the gens in The Origin , a stage which owes something to Morgan and something to Engels , represents the coming together of the rhetorical and the historical . |
| 18 | Reiterlied with words by Herman Lons was written when Weill was 13 , an essay in typical German song , vaguely in the style of Brahms , the later , more sophisticated Das schöne Kind owes everything to Richard Strauss . |
| 19 | And and er say send something to William George , or something involving the magistrates cos he was chairman of the of the er of the er |
| 20 | It made the readers share in the horror it described and thereby so disgusted , shocked and outraged them that instead of tending to encourage anyone to homosexuality , drug-taking or brutal violence it would have precisely the reverse effect . |
| 21 | I do not think that the Labour party has anything to crow about , because Labour-controlled local authorities have the most empty homes available and have the highest community charges . |
| 22 | In so far as Hartman 's book wants to be read as a form of fiction , one can make the adverse literary-critical point that the prose is dense and cloyingly arch , with a crooning , caressing quality about it , suggesting the tone of a man talking quietly and earnestly to himself rather than trying to communicate anything to others . |
| 23 | He had said nothing to Jenna except his recent comment that they were almost there . |
| 24 | Yeah , I ai n't said nothing to Wayne |
| 25 | They trundled in , promising that they would do nothing to distress or intimidate poor little Miss Harker . |
| 26 | Erm I only want to say it is very important that we must do nothing to sort of prejudice the outcome of the consideration of the planning application environment cases sub committee , erm at a later erm stage . |
| 27 | Alternatively , the attempted rescues may be supposed to have owed nothing to ideology , but as having been purely a misjudged essay in job-preservation . |
| 28 | He says nothing to Amade' . |
| 29 | ‘ After the judge condemned someone to death , the unfortunate man was hanged with that rope . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The American way of doing things is to have an idea and then persuade someone to back it . |