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Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.

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1	Scientific research is usually carried out by a team of scientists , often from several disciplines who work together , each of whom contributing something to the whole .
2	Now clearly there are , you know , methodological issues here , who replied on the questionnaire and so on , but there are clearly a very large number of replies , a very large number of students up in the , you know , several hundreds , who perceive themselves to be being sexually harassed .
3	He would flirt with the girls who sold them to him and pretend they were a present for his mother .
4	Swinton , who sold him to Widnes for only £7,500 in January last year , would like him back .
5	Once before I told you something that Angela Thirkell said , and you sold me to Edna [ E. Box , the painter ] , who sold you to Olivia , who told someone else , who straightway wrote it in a letter to Angela herself .
6	These early payments are used to clear up the cost of setting it up — and in particular the commission of the agent who sold it to you .
7	It was then acquired by Wally McDonnel of Mojave , California , who sold it to Elmer Ward in the mid 1970s .
8	All it says is if you do buy something from a shop and realize it 's faulty , what you should do is take it back to the shop who sold it to you , together with your receipt if you 've still got it or some other proof of purchase .
9	If you find some if you realize you 've bought something and it 's faulty return it to the shop who sold it to you as soon as you can .
10	Oddly enough , I had been interested in it three or four years ago when it was on the market prior to being bought by the lady who sold it to me .
11	In National Mutual General Insurance Association Ltd. v. Jones ( 1988 H.L. ) the issue was whether the sections could operate to defeat the title of someone much earlier in the chain of events than C. Thieves had stolen a car and sold it to A who sold it to C ( a car dealer ) who sold it to D ( another car dealer ) who sold it to Jones .
12	In National Mutual General Insurance Association Ltd. v. Jones ( 1988 H.L. ) the issue was whether the sections could operate to defeat the title of someone much earlier in the chain of events than C. Thieves had stolen a car and sold it to A who sold it to C ( a car dealer ) who sold it to D ( another car dealer ) who sold it to Jones .
13	In National Mutual General Insurance Association Ltd. v. Jones ( 1988 H.L. ) the issue was whether the sections could operate to defeat the title of someone much earlier in the chain of events than C. Thieves had stolen a car and sold it to A who sold it to C ( a car dealer ) who sold it to D ( another car dealer ) who sold it to Jones .
14	Before completing her payments and therefore before the car was hers , she sold it to B. B sold it to C , who sold it to Kingsway Motors , who in turn sold it to Butterworth .
15	‘ Members of this tribe were by no means ready to work for any European who asked them to ’ , wrote Elspeth Huxley ; ‘ They were very particular and only entered the service of men whom they liked . ’
16	Who asked me to ?
17	Harry Herbert , the son of the Queen 's racing manager , the Earl of Carnarvon , James Boughey , a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards , farmer 's son George Plumptre , who asked her to the ballet the day she got engaged , the artist Marcus May and Rory Scott , then a dashing lieutenant in the Royal Scots Guards , often came to call , along with Simon Berry , Adam Russell , and James Colthurst .
18	Auntie Lou had friends in the town who asked her to tea sometimes but she never dared ask them back .
19	It is clear that this change is highly evaluated in Belfast in terms of social class hierarchy and status , as it is the more prestigious groups that tend to adopt it and the more ‘ advanced ’ ( generally female and younger ) group who introduce it to the conservative inner-city communities ( which are characterized by dense and multiplex network ties that tend to resist innovation and maintain conservative forms ) .
20	Inside the Globe with the people who bring US to YOU .
21	This The Waste Land did , but when Eliot writes elsewhere that any modern poet who applied himself to the drama would be an extremely conscious poet , using the historical imagination , it is clear that around the time of The Waste Land he was also considering writing plays .
22	The doomed one was fragile and childlike between the tall stoic guards who led her to her fate .
23	Victor Mature it was , no less , who led him to the Lord .
24	The choice of Natal is strange as captain Craig Jamieson , the man who led them to the Cup in 1990 , is still very much involved in rugby .
25	And members are still less than enamoured with their district council group leader , Coun John Richardson from Willington , who led them to the disastrous defeat .
26	( There ) ‘ we were met by the Viscount Walsh ( Chamberlain of the Emperor ) who led us to the apartment of the Baroness de Pierres ( ex Miss Thorne of New York ) who is now a lady-in-waiting to the Empress ’ .
27	While still in his teens , and with an audacity that marked his whole career , he made himself known to the officers conducting the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain , who recommended him to an MP for county Mayo , Ireland , as capable of providing the Mayo grand jury with an accurate county map .
28	He put himself into the hands of a psychiatrist who passed him to another psychiatrist , Leonard Browne .
29	Characters who make it to the top of the hill see a brilliant flash of sunlight , experience momentarily the scent of a summer day abundant with wild flowers and the taste of sweet wine and nectar- and then find themselves standing in a corridor , with their backs to the west wall , opposite the door to the scribe 's room ( location 59 ) .
30	For those who make it to lab director , about 1 out of every 25 or 30 technicians , there is also the opportunity to move to a bigger , richer hospital .