Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] to [noun] " 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 | It has also exposed them to explosions and radioactivity . |
| 3 | It was he actually whom Simon had asked to be the co-respondent — bogus co-respondent — when they were concocting their divorce , it was about him that the judge had scolded her and given me to Anna . |
| 4 | Er I 've done the slips and given them to Margaret to be . |
| 5 | I had given them to Menna when he first left to take up his post . |
| 6 | His father would have given them to Oxfam , or to a jumble sale . |
| 7 | After his death Mona had found the keys on the floor in the secretary 's room and given them to Maureen . |
| 8 | The rout of 1987 , when they lost more than half their seats north of the Border , had inured them to disaster . |
| 9 | Pearl 's transfers by Attwell , Wells and Haynes have safely committed them to CD . |
| 10 | Devastated … he 's completely smashed me to bits , she thought , just as I knew he would . |
| 11 | She 'd aroused suspicion in some member of the staff and they 'd reported her to Brückner 's widow . |
| 12 | And , while her mother had recommended her to Romano de Sciorto , she knew that he 'd run a thorough , ruthless check on her credentials through his London contacts . |
| 13 | I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for not having torn him to pieces already ! ’ |
| 14 | They were his words and as soon as he said them , she knew she had won him to freedom . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Take tonight , for example — and just to turn the screw she had wound him to fever pitch before letting O'Shea in ! |
| 18 | ‘ Whilst I appreciate the trouble it 's caused you , you could have reported it to Bamford station and not rung me up , you know . |
| 19 | The Law Commission proposing the offence had confined it to situations where the alarm or distress experienced was " substantial " but this requirement was dropped from the Act itself . |
| 20 | The Soudley site subsequently came into the hands of notable local iron master , William Crawshay who , in 1838 , re-leased it to Hewlett . |
| 21 | Poor torn it to bits cor . |
| 22 | But she said they 've let it to people and they 've just wrecked the inside of it ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ He sent a message to the governor explaining that the thefts continued to take place at a time when the firm had transferred me to England for a period of six months . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've scratched me to bits . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Her desperation to flee seemed faintly ridiculous now , but she stiffened her failing resolve with the reminder that he had tracked her to Glenshee , giving her no say whatsoever in the matter . |
| 28 | He 's alleged to have stabbed him to death following a lengthy legal dispute over access to children . |
| 29 | We have therefore developed a computer based technique for the quantification of bowel uptake and have applied it to images of the distribution of Tc-99m HMPAO lavelled leucocytes . |
| 30 | And she 's done it to spite me Rosie . |