Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we set the scene , we look good , we have n't crushed them to death and he 's gon na take us into one or two areas |
| 2 | The rout of 1987 , when they lost more than half their seats north of the Border , had inured them to disaster . |
| 3 | Pearl 's transfers by Attwell , Wells and Haynes have safely committed them to CD . |
| 4 | They were his words and as soon as he said them , she knew she had won him to freedom . |
| 5 | In all the desperate , toiling years she had been in Canada , neither her husband nor her son had ever made themselves a meal , except on one or two occasions when illness had confined her to bed . |
| 6 | She had shown him with pride to both her mother and grandmother and had carried him to bed more deeply satisfied than at any time since she had been weaned from Phoebe 's now forgotten breasts . |
| 7 | Take tonight , for example — and just to turn the screw she had wound him to fever pitch before letting O'Shea in ! |
| 8 | Those peasants who continued to own draught animals had lent them to relief organizations at the height of the Famine , but by the spring of 1922 they refused to do this any longer , since they now found many profitable uses for them . |
| 9 | You could n't simply ignore the fact that he had sentenced you to death , but it was important to let him know that you were n't rattled . |
| 10 | He 's alleged to have stabbed him to death following a lengthy legal dispute over access to children . |
| 11 | And she 's done it to spite me Rosie . |
| 12 | I think , I think that last erm break in has done it to death has n't it ? |
| 13 | Pursuing this theory , we attributed to him some great and unhappy love , and then surmised that he had only ever confessed it to Madame , perhaps in the days of his terrible drunkenness . |
| 14 | So you 've finally made it to manhood ! |
| 15 | As the enemy closes in , the hero , safe in the knowledge that his comrades have made it to safety , shoots himself so that the enemy may not take him alive . |
| 16 | Captured — and he had almost made it to safety . |
| 17 | Umpire Ken Palmer had no more chance than any other human being of seeing to the inch whether Gooch had made it to safety in those split-seconds . |
| 18 | His third nephew Ted had made it to family specifications in his forge in the village of Moulden . |
| 19 | An election candidate has made it to Number 10 — in the pop charts with Evapor-8 . |
| 20 | As I see it Chapman might just have made it to number ten , but I doubt it . |
| 21 | You have definitely stirred us to action . ’ |
| 22 | Most of these also have children , and studies have shown them to number more than 100,000 in any single year . |
| 23 | Nothing would have induced me to part now except an overwhelming sense that the course of action which has been pursued has put the country- and not merely the country , but throughout the world , the principles for which you and I have always stood throughout our political lives-in the greatest peril that has ever overtaken them . |
| 24 | lots of people think well I 've got them to school that 's it then no more children |
| 25 | Er I honestly ca n't remember what the the breakdown on the figures are but er even by moving that inner route direction er we were unable er within the traffic model to actually er encourage so much re as much relief on the A sixty one what the actual figures were I have n't got them to hand sir at the moment . |
| 26 | Psychology has dissected him to death . |
| 27 | You have awakened her to passion and taken her virginity . |
| 28 | Sukova , who had lost all four previous hard court matches she had played against Sanchez , said her fourth-round Wimbledon victory over the Spaniard this summer had helped her to victory . |
| 29 | The author displays a perfect mastery of his subject ; his legendary library has helped him to single out a wealth of comparable material , and his practical knowledge of specific features of construction and style extends to such details as , for example , Riesener 's handmade steel screws . |
| 30 | They were never united in their opposition to the king , and they never found a leader comparable to Hereford and Norfolk in 1297 or Thomas of Lancaster in 1310–11 ; but their opposition reveals the fragility of the political settlement Edward had achieved after 1330 , and the danger that his close associates who had helped him to power might now be seen as a new court clique , the king 's familiares . |