Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.

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1 Many ageing people need to understand and accept the changes in their sexuality in order to continue enjoying it to the full .
2 This accursed recession has blinded us to the fact that we are well placed , vis-a-vis our competitors in Europe , to create wealth .
3 Want to nail him to the fence you should think he 's not
4 Well can I bring , say bring it to the meeting and .
5 She says we do n't want to destroy children 's innocence on the other hand we want to alert them to the dangers .
6 Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants , then to those of the statistical clerks .
7 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 .
8 Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move .
9 ‘ I 've come to escort you to the Academy , ’ Kopyion said .
10 He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather .
11 I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't .
12 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 .
13 SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough .
14 There is a dark power to their fastidiously constructed nightmare pounders which has pushed them to the fore of hardcore .
15 I promised to remember her to the Harvey-Beaumonts ‘ over the water ’ , and we set off once more , along a road that ran beside a demesne wall .
16 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 .
17 The feeble God has stabbed me to the heart . ’
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 But Olsen has got you to the WC94 , so he must be doing something right ; - )
21 Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time .
22 His belief in independence for Scotland has drawn him to the heart of the Scottish National Party .
23 What on earth does she think has powered her to the top of her sport and put millions of deutschmarks into her bank account ?
24 ANDY SINTON last night revealed he plans to quit QPR — just days after he helped steer them to the top of the Premier League .
25 For example , an employer who has allowed all his employees access to information or has entrusted it to the least skilled may find the court unsympathetic .
26 That dialogue has lead me to the point of issuing a joint statement with Mr Addams .
27 And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive !
28 The War Office has raised you to the status of a 4/ — wife [ the daily allowance ] ; what fun , darling !
29 If women 's careers and position in society generally con fine them to the home , they will have less opportunity to commit crimes which are associated with work , such as fraud .
30 I 've even considered reporting it to the health people
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