Example sentences of "[pron] [vb pp] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were I inclined to a sense of responsibility , this factor alone would go no small way towards vitiating it . |
| 2 | I was seven and I was I went to a neighbour 's house and as it happened I was looking through the blooming window when the funeral went past so I was no better off you know . |
| 3 | Michael Caine stars as cat burglar Henry Clarke , a master jewel thief who has himself committed to a sanatorium for alcoholics to gain the confidence of a multi-millionaire . |
| 4 | Hoare himself moved to a villa on Clapham Common , built for him by Flitcroft , where he died 8 September 1785 . |
| 5 | What displaced it was a sense of outrage that a man as kindly and compassionate as Edwin Frere should find himself shackled to a vixen . |
| 6 | Mr Charsley begins by pointing out that a Martian who found himself invited to a wedding would imagine that the whole affair had been laid on to honour the cake ( the question as to who would invite a Martian or to which side of the church the ushers would show him or why best men seem to turn into Martians when it comes to speeches , he quite wisely avoids ) . |
| 7 | Bunny had got himself invited to a party down in Fulham at a house rented by four air hostesses who worked for Cathay Pacific . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , something other than sex gets you aroused to a passion , ’ she said with unaccustomed acidity . |
| 9 | Are you used to a peat fire ? ’ |
| 10 | Have you talked to a nurse recently ? |
| 11 | In 1978 , he told five youths who tied up a 14-year-old boy as a target for their catapults : ‘ What is the best sentence for you really would be to have you tied to a tree and everybody throw stones at you . |
| 12 | The TUC itself contributed to a mood of defensiveness . |
| 13 | I said oh Pat just , just , I said have you spoken to a nurse recently ? |
| 14 | ‘ Mum , have n't you listened to a word I 've said ? ’ |
| 15 | Now you may think the budget was today 's big story , but for the people of one town it was nothing compared to a row over a much-loved local landmark . |
| 16 | Seldom a telegram came and nobody liked to see one come to a house . |
| 17 | Grandson or ‘ outside grandson ’ ie. one born to a daughter now married and by definition a part of her new family ? |
| 18 | Never are we invited to a reading of ‘ The Beast in the Jungle ’ in which that figuration is followed to what seems to me its logical conclusion . |
| 19 | The Capricorn will often find him or herself attracted to a partner born under the sign of Virgo , as both signs are complementary to each other . |
| 20 | The mute teenager has also drawn herself bound to a bed being forced to take part in a ceremony , and slumped on the floor , with her mother holding a syringe and a key . |
| 21 | The mute teenager has also drawn herself bound to a bed , being forced to take part in a ceremony . |
| 22 | What was her daily rationale but to keep herself tuned to a pitch , taut as a bowstring ? |
| 23 | The psychologist , herself married to a bullying husband , is played by Miss Streisand . |
| 24 | After a spell at the rehabilitation centre , Guy 's parents realized it was a mistake , and tried to have him transferred to a specialist stroke rehabilitation centre in London , even though this was a long way from home . |
| 25 | Another prisoner wrote to me recently , and I am now seeking to get him transferred to a prison nearer his home in Liverpool . |
| 26 | Poppy visiting the feeding station , set up to get her used to a routine . |
| 27 | The adventure on which he had embarked , which was to give a sort of permanence to the past , was the one thing that kept him anchored to a chair and table all day , and often into the night . |
| 28 | When Russell pulled up , the two White Mountain Apaches with him slowed to a walk and came up on either side of him . |
| 29 | At sixteen they had her married to a cousin who lived about a mile away . |
| 30 | then all of a sudden er you 're , you 're they went to a psychiatrist or a whatever , therapist |