Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This accursed recession has blinded us to the fact that we are well placed , vis-a-vis our competitors in Europe , to create wealth . |
| 2 | ‘ When I 've been away my wife has posted it to me . |
| 3 | Hard experience has taught me to be selective in my procrastination . |
| 4 | She sits and watches , and they do not even realize that she has provoked them to it . |
| 5 | Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants , then to those of the statistical clerks . |
| 6 | The Commander has assigned me to you . |
| 7 | And she has assigned them to me . |
| 8 | er for the time being and if you ask Dave about this thing you 've missed and also about what this business about erm cos he has explained it to me but I 'm not quite sure about it , this business of keeping a , a sort of l record of all the practicals for this term |
| 9 | It could also be that for some of you 1988 has also seen some trouble , a bereavement perhaps , that has shaken you to the foundations . |
| 10 | I 've got this feeling that she has given it to Sophie |
| 11 | This has committed it to an inevitable struggle with the Palestinians for control of policy on the Palestine question and , by extension , for control of Jordan itself . |
| 12 | You were right in saying that the minister Earl of Arran has disappointed me to no end . |
| 13 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
| 14 | It was at this place last year that Gabellah found the touch with God which has carried him to his present leadership . |
| 15 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 16 | Deuce , a pimp , has added him to a clutch of boys he is taking to a hotel . |
| 17 | ‘ He has forbidden me to fast or even keep the days of abstinence . |
| 18 | There is a dark power to their fastidiously constructed nightmare pounders which has pushed them to the fore of hardcore . |
| 19 | The arguments , as he has presented them to me both on earlier occasions and tonight , are , indeed , seductive . |
| 20 | The Judge has sentenced them to be detained at Her Majesty 's pleasure for ’ very very many years ’ . |
| 21 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |
| 22 | The feeble God has stabbed me to the heart . ’ |
| 23 | It was me who cut her ropes and killed the men aboard her , and it 's me who has sailed her to a place where you 'll never find her . |
| 24 | Your own haiku can have ‘ movement ’ as its subject , ‘ my town ’ , ‘ Spring ’ or whatever has moved you to powerful feeling . |
| 25 | I think , I think that last erm break in has done it to death has n't it ? |
| 26 | An election candidate has made it to Number 10 — in the pop charts with Evapor-8 . |
| 27 | Apple Computer Inc chairman and chief executive officer John Sculley 's name has made it to the short list to be Secretary of Commerce in the Clinton Administration : if he takes the cabinet post , Apple 's likely to look outside for a replacement . |
| 28 | A woman who 's devoted more than twenty years to caring for her disabled daughter has made it to the finals of the ITN Carer of the Year Awards . |
| 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 | Occasionally long-term contracts have been used , but recent experience has shown them to be uncertain , given the volatility of currencies . |