Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1336 , as on earlier occasions , a tax of 20s a sack had been agreed by an assembly of merchants , and in 1338 the merchants agreed to increase it to 40s . |
| 2 | Westfields , Virginia-based Genicom Corp reports that Dell Computer Corp has chosen it to be Dell 's preferred printer provider : financial terms were not released , but Genicom said the partnership is expected to be a multimillion dollar opportunity for both companies . |
| 3 | The awful truth of Penny 's childhood and young womanhood is that the abuse never ended — and someone with the right counselling skills has to help her to unburden herself . |
| 4 | Picketing in various forms has shown itself to be one of the most effective forms of industrial action . |
| 5 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 6 | When the heroin shows up in the flour , Gary wants to return it to the mob . |
| 7 | As will gradually become evident , the AEC has proven itself to be an unambiguous success . |
| 8 | This accursed recession has blinded us to the fact that we are well placed , vis-a-vis our competitors in Europe , to create wealth . |
| 9 | Perhaps racism has conditioned us to a greater extent than we expected . |
| 10 | The Legal Aid Board has said itself to be impressed with the contribution of law centres to the provision of legal services in the areas they serve . |
| 11 | 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 : |
| 12 | Hard experience has taught me to be selective in my procrastination . |
| 13 | Occasionally long-term contracts have been used , but recent experience has shown them to be uncertain , given the volatility of currencies . |
| 14 | That 's what Tod has brought us to . |
| 15 | A stone age management opportunity has revealed itself to the Directors of AIB Bank plc in Britain . |
| 16 | The college failed to elect him to the Bye-Fellowship . |
| 17 | I have seen a kingfisher here and a survey of the pond has shown it to be very important for invertebrates as well as amphibians . |
| 18 | LOSERS : The Financial Times , which was slow off the mark in exposing Labour 's tax plans and by declaring for Labour has shown itself to be as pink as its paper . |
| 19 | Labour has committed itself to a wide range of civil-liberties legislation and constitutional reform when it returns to government , to counter what its Deputy Leader , Mr Hattersley , has described as the vulnerability of traditional freedoms to the dual threat of ‘ legal restriction and a cynical partnership between Government and private enterprise ’ . |
| 20 | Hosea has to recall them to Yahweh , their first love , when they have gone and committed adultery , like Hosea 's own wife , with some other ‘ Lord ’ on whom they have lavished their worship and devotion . |
| 21 | Thankfully all men and women returned safely from the Second World War , so a sum of money was given to the hall and a brass plaque erected declaring it to be a memorial village hall . |
| 22 | His crime has brought him to the extremity which Marmeladov was telling him about and tasting at the bottom of his own vodka jug in the opening pages of the novel . |
| 23 | Travis has said nothing to his family about any Leith Everett , so they wo n't have heard your name before . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Once again , Steffi Graf has shown herself to be the best player in the world by far — in more than one sense . |
| 27 | After the Nazi occupation of France in 1940 he escaped to the United States where Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard tried to recruit him to their team at Columbia but were prevented because Washington at that time did not recognise the Free French forces . |
| 28 | One research scientist , a friend of mine said that the setting up of a particularly apt experiment has lead him to a sense of the beautiful . |
| 29 | Then I would tell myself such ideas were unreasonable : why would an American half-poet want to betray me to any government agency ? |
| 30 | The theoretical advantage of this technique is that it deals directly with the oesophageal varices without affecting liver perfusion : a prospective study has shown it to be superior to standard and distal splenorenal shunts in patients with portal hypertension secondary to schistosomiasis . |