Example sentences of "[vb pp] i to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants , then to those of the statistical clerks . |
| 2 | The feeble God has stabbed me to the heart . ’ |
| 3 | That dialogue has lead me to the point of issuing a joint statement with Mr Addams . |
| 4 | Our family were constant visitors , of course , and many friends — the same , dear kind people who had so readily transported me to the hospital for the nightly visiting . |
| 5 | That should have alerted me to the fact that Dr Tom Courtney was not as he seemed . |
| 6 | As with so many worldly matters , it was Lawrence who had introduced me to the gravel and grain method of 241 humane culling , but only the theory of it ; I 'd never yet tried it in the field . |
| 7 | Once he 'd introduced me to the Princess , he never said another word . ’ |
| 8 | Northumberland has , of course , great beauties , but foul and interminable rain endured there on the Tuesday and in Chester-le-Street , with a lesser downpour in Darlington the next day , have reduced me to the shuddering , feverish condition in which this is being written at the Wheatsheaf , Sandbach . |
| 9 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
| 10 | That experience , which has brought me to the province so often , has given me a very deep sense of admiration for the resilience and warmth of the people . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But that 's not what 's brought me to the crossroads . ’ |
| 12 | Those amiable but blatantly incompetent buffoons have brought me to the wrong fucking airport ! |
| 13 | And it was indescribably eerie — so that I almost began to wonder if Posi had brought me to the right planet . |
| 14 | Now that my hon. Friend has brought me to the matter , it is right to put on record the comments of the chairman of British Coal in the press release . |
| 15 | My experience at the Fiesta Club had led me to the conclusion that , on average , a ‘ star ’ lasts about three years before fading to a nonentity and I intended to earn as much as possible in that time and retire — unhurt — with enough capital for a business . |
| 16 | My experience in England has led me to the conclusion that most people are unable to see me whole . |
| 17 | My own experience has led me to the conclusion that at the present stage of development of comprehensive education , a purely individual-based approach to support teaching is likely to prove counterproductive for a combination of three reasons : |
| 18 | I want you and I believe you owe me , but wanting you has n't unbalanced me to the extent you seem to believe . |
| 19 | We always said that someone at the office called Jenkins had taken me to the local wine bar after work and we 'd run into some old girlfriend of his and Gillian who knew this girl vaguely was with her and we sort of got on immediately and made another date . |
| 20 | I was eleven years old , and I honestly believe that I was too young to cope , that my father should never have taken me to the game , that if he had been a responsible parent he would have recognized the potential for trauma that the afternoon contained . |
| 21 | I I heard the other day what I thought was one of the best advertisements not to have an animal for Christmas very emotive , er I think it was for the R S P C A , and I I 'm told I do n't think you 've heard it but it b basically it 's it 's er the sound of a er well it 's a human pretending to be a dog really and saying you know , Well this is nice my my er family have taken me to the vet , I did n't think I was ill but never mind . |
| 22 | These poor folk , whose lack of privilege is just one of the many thrusting reasons that have sent me to the bosom , not to mention the buttocks , of today 's quite heavenly Labour Party , may find that my pronunciamentos become somewhat impenetrable once past the ninth , tenth , or even twenty-third of their constituent subordinate clauses , so that the very juicy and surprisingly supple points that I make are lost amidst their attendant persiflage . |