Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , bright children usually expect to succeed , hence success and praise do not surprise them or necessarily raise them to new levels of performance . |
| 2 | Captaining Jamaica for the second successive season , he not only led them to Red Stripe Cup triumph ( their third in five years ) , but , with the ball , he broke the tournament record with 36 wickets at 11.30 . |
| 3 | The trouble is we never stop long enough to put them to good use . |
| 4 | And then : oh , please , if there have to be more lies , at least let me only tell them to other people , not to myself any more . |
| 5 | There is a possibility that transient UOS relaxations may be unusually easy to trigger in some subjects and so predispose them to oesophagopharyngeal reflux . |
| 6 | Later , she could hardly remember what the issues were that had so roused them to mutual abuse . |
| 7 | In the Nicaraguan setting all motivations became elemental , and their very primitiveness — together with their drama — perhaps commended them to dramatic and imperfectly democratic Americans . |
| 8 | The statistically ‘ typical ’ rapist — the man who rapes one woman he knows — does not make it to front-page coverage , let alone fifty-nine pages across thirteen newspapers over ten days . |
| 9 | They do not repeat : ’ Do not bring us to the test , but save us from the evil one ’ , or , ’ Do not bring us to hard testing . ’ |
| 10 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 11 | ‘ It is offensive of the company to give an assurance to hourly-paid staff , but not extend it to white-collar workers . ’ |
| 12 | The Labour party 's role should be to bring those matters under democratic control and not to surrender them to remote , unaccountable central bankers . |
| 13 | The more recent stress has been on identifying values in the curriculum , and not limiting them to religious or moral education classes . |
| 14 | It is just that he will not apply it to future pension rights because he is not in the least interested in defending workers ' pension rights . |
| 15 | Their patronage may not launch you to instant international attention , but they might help to raise the takings at your next gig in the junior Common Room or village hall , simply by listing the date , time and place . |
| 16 | The self-authenticating nature of their experiences meant that neither of them was able to doubt them , yet the similarities must not blind us to certain differences . |
| 17 | Architectural historians have already raided it to good effect , notably Mark Girouard for his book on the sixteenth-century architect Robert Smythson and Jill Lever , the curator of the collection , for the book she wrote with Margaret Richardson , The Art of the Architect . |
| 18 | At least he states his beliefs as they really are , and does not mould them to electoral advantage . |
| 19 | Finally , from within psychoanalytical criticism but from outside the Anglo-American paradigm , Gertrud Koch has drawn attention to a different theorisation of the gaze , one that does not link it to voyeuristic ( peeping through the keyhole ) pleasure but rather to the earlier , pre-symbolic stage in which the small child gazes openly at the world and at its mother : ‘ We may in fact owe the invention of the camera not to the keyhole but to the baby-carriage ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ This did not endear me to certain people at BRM . |
| 21 | Hopefully we have not left it to late . |
| 22 | Whilst such an attitude to life is clearly desirable for hunters depending on highly unreliable food resources which would soon reduce them to chronic anxiety if they were to take a less prodigal view of things , it is evidently less suitable for seasonal hunters who must store food if they are to avoid starvation . |
| 23 | Secretary reports that he has already put it to good use . |
| 24 | And if you give her , just stick her to small amounts for the next couple of days |
| 25 | As a patient , I would like to think that the presence of a doctor 's name on the list would also offer me some sort of guarantee that he or she would not subject me to unnecessary or unjustifiably harmful treatment — whether that treatment be labelled alternative or mainstream , labels that serve only to confuse the issue . |
| 26 | A vomitoxin can be absorbed through the skin , causing a soldier to remove his mask to vomit and thus exposing him to other toxic agents , through his respiratory system . |
| 27 | Skimping on the sun filter will not help you to brown any quicker but can leave you sore and damaged . |
| 28 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 29 | He was always inviting me to little supper parties and so on , and it became so noticeable that other people began to make snide comments . |
| 30 | ‘ People are always comparing us to Bogshed ’ , slurs Carl in the band van after the third encore and the obligatory dressing room conversation with two fully grown men with Baldrick haircuts , plastic carrier bags , tatty combat jackets , thick lensed NHS glasses and lots and lots of badges . |