Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the work so far has limited itself to scientific and technical problems , neglecting political and legal issues . |
| 2 | ‘ He has forbidden me to fast or even keep the days of abstinence . |
| 3 | Keep it up and I 'll consider promoting you to Lance-corporal unpaid . ’ |
| 4 | Your own haiku can have ‘ movement ’ as its subject , ‘ my town ’ , ‘ Spring ’ or whatever has moved you to powerful feeling . |
| 5 | Though Coronation Street , a downmarket soap , has lots of viewers , Granada , the firm that makes it , has to sell it to other ITV companies for a mere £100,000 per episode . |
| 6 | I want to help them to enlightened self-expression , and to develop their imaginations — to rid themselves of repressions through self-expression . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've done some nursing and I want to put it to good use , ’ she added . |
| 8 | Some companies have sought mergers , others have sold off their defence factories or tried to convert them to other work ; some have simply shut them down . |
| 9 | We want to address ourselves to concrete problems in today 's world . |
| 10 | In terms of his career , Bristol Rovers ' FA Cup tie at Aston Villa on Saturday is Allison 's last ride on a footballing roller coaster that has delivered him to gravity-defying heights and suicidal lows . |
| 11 | Most of the money for the campaign has come from the central government and the United Nations , but it seems to be Marxist enthusiasm that has put it to good use . |
| 12 | There really can be no doubt as to the fact than an employee is expected to adapt himself to new methods and techniques introduced in the course of his employment … |
| 13 | I feel frustrated rather than embarrassed , because I want to prove myself to Celtic fans . |
| 14 | But her urgency seemed to provoke him to lazy slowness . |
| 15 | Basic salary is based on the expatriate 's home salary with a number of allowances added to adjust it to local living conditions . |
| 16 | In Britain , for instance , Waste Management International , Shanks & McEwan and Severn Trent/Biffa are enraged that the government has decided to postpone the introduction of the landfill standards in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act , and refuses to apply them to existing landfills . |
| 17 | The company is already using Concurrent Object-Oriented C in-house , and plans to offer it to public and private research centres and universities across Japan by September . |
| 18 | Priene was rebuilt near the mouth of the River Meander about 334 B.C. Because the town was not of great importance under the late Roman rule , few alterations were made to adapt it to Roman needs , so much of the Hellenistic building has survived . |
| 19 | The new wording , insisted on by the US government , which is refusing to commit itself to specific targets , refers to the reduction of emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000 as merely a " guideline " target . |
| 20 | I mean , as I said to my hubby later on , we did n't scrimp and scrape to send her to Hutchy Girls so she would grow up to give us grandweans saying merr , flerr and sterr . |
| 21 | It 's not as if ( shouting in anger ) as she says , black people are going to change you to bad . |
| 22 | Well he does that on every questionnaire , but he still has got to get someone to double check it . |
| 23 | They went mad , they told us that we 'd got to take it to National Tyres , took it there , twenty three pound fifty it cost us . |
| 24 | Reports of ‘ untoward occurrences ’ — anything from an allegation of assault to a staff member having a cold — were not going directly to Mr Thomson , who was legally bound to report them to social services within 24 hours . |
| 25 | Ignoring the traditional possessiveness of the Home Office towards the content of the criminal law as well as its administration , the Law Commission declined to confine itself to civil law matters . |
| 26 | ‘ And all the money your dad spent sending you to public school , ’ said Constance . |
| 27 | He began to take her to antique shops , sought out trade exhibitions of fabrics and contemporary furniture , bought her books on design — on Bauhaus , which brought him back to his own youth , on the Viennese Secession with its decorative flights and insistence on utility . |
| 28 | Always remember to return them to non-working position after completing the woven fabric . |
| 29 | A Department of the Environment report on the condition of local authority housing in 1985 said that in England alone almost £19 billion needed to be spent to restore it to good condition . |
| 30 | Otherwise ( the point is surely an obvious one ) he would have limited himself to verbal argument . |