Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the shaming should not be of a ‘ stigmatizing ’ nature which will tend to exclude them from being accepted members of the community ; it should be of a kind which serves to reintegrate them within it , by getting them to accept that they have done wrong while encouraging others to readmit them to society . |
| 2 | In the case of Alan Charlton , he has these six very fine grey panels , by very fine I just mean they are handsomely proportioned , they are very carefully coloured to a very precise , not just colour but also weight of colour and brightness and so on , but the way they 're shown in the Royal Academy Exhibition , and this is part of it 's stupidity , is , well I got the feeling it was intended to kill them to stone dead by putting them next to something very loud , very elaborate , very expressionist , a vast canvass by a very good painter by Mutter . |
| 3 | A fun solution is to treat them to finger food . |
| 4 | Eventually their father came to some arrangement with the Education Authority and he was able to afford a small car to drive them to school . |
| 5 | Somebody phoned an ambulance and was told that it would take between an hour and an hour and a half to arrive , so Derek volunteered to drive me to Casualty at Freedom Fields Hospital in Plymouth , forty-five miles away . |
| 6 | Chris was a learner driver at this time , and he used to drive me to hospital ; driving practice for him , but a great relief for me not to have to drive myself . |
| 7 | Loretta and Bridget stood up to join him , bending and stretching their cramped legs to restore them to life . |
| 8 | In the next section , we shall bring together the models of welfare and levels of prevention which have been expounded in this paper so far , and attempt to relate them to child care policy and practice . |
| 9 | It has taken subsequent theoretical work by others to relate them to geography . |
| 10 | The government also planned to distribute areas of forest to families among the Thai and Hmong hill tribespeople in order to encourage them to farm one area of land continuously rather than using traditional " slash and burn " methods . |
| 11 | I had problems with tutors trying to encourage me to diversity my work and experiment with other styles , but I was quite happy with the direction my work was heading so I stubbornly stuck to it . |
| 12 | I had problems with tutors trying to encourage me to diversity my work and experiment with other styles , but I was quite happy with the direction my work was heading so I stubbornly stuck to it . |
| 13 | What made me laugh was the Conservative broadcast on Wednesday was real propaganda , trying to frighten you to death that if the Labour got in |
| 14 | and you go up this thing that winds in and out and like there 'd be cockerels sitting on the , on the little fences you have to go round , trying to peck you to death , er I was like only tiny , you know , it was just like |
| 15 | Remember that it is better to kill the reader with kindness by selecting information for him than to batter him to death in a flurry of factual blows ! |
| 16 | If it was agreeable with Ellie , he would be delighted to escort her to dinner and the opera on Saturday . |
| 17 | GUIL : ( Jumps up savagely ) You do n't have to flog it to death ! |
| 18 | In the next few years no one would try to temper this vision or even to relate it to reality . |
| 19 | One reason why the shift in emphasis to the broader question of determinism is less helpful than it at first appears is that ‘ the problem of determinism ’ itself lacks a clear formulation , and the difficulty of saying exactly what it consists in is reflected in attempts to relate it to holism . |
| 20 | Ted has now branched out into making clocks in the shape of different countries , and formed a small business to sell them to ex-pat communities around the world . |
| 21 | My dad used to tease me to hell , warbling that song . |
| 22 | An eleven year old boy has been held at gunpoint by armed raiders and forced to lead them to money and jewellery at his family home . |
| 23 | The alert sergeant catches them in the act , and with the help of the vintners , tries to lead them to prison . |
| 24 | When the horses , being bridled to lead them to safety , panicked and lashed out in the dark , threatening to do worse harm to the buildings than the wind would , it was his father who forced his way between them and dragged out the pair who were causing most trouble . |
| 25 | ‘ One is enough to lead them to Landfall . ’ |
| 26 | YOUNG Darren Ferguson 's ability persuaded his dad Alex not to sell him to Forest — and now he 's the bright spot in United 's poor start to the season |
| 27 | Police were alerted and a member of the Redcar crew , an offduty police Inspector David Cammish and a psychologist tried to talk him to safety . |
| 28 | Police were alerted and a member of the Redcar crew , an off-duty police inspector , David Cammish , and a psychologist tried to talk him to safety . |
| 29 | This is why Jesus could forgive a woman caught in adultery , when the legalists were ready to stone her to death . |
| 30 | But if you have an extremely subtle story , how are you going to set it to music ? |