Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] you to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keep it up and I 'll consider promoting you to Lance-corporal unpaid . ’ |
| 2 | Your own haiku can have ‘ movement ’ as its subject , ‘ my town ’ , ‘ Spring ’ or whatever has moved you to powerful feeling . |
| 3 | If you do something at speed , it 's really the accumulation of everything that 's gone before that has got you to that point . |
| 4 | May I through the Journal , say thank you to all my friends and colleagues who contributed to my retirement present [ camcorder ] — a gift that 's much appreciated and will always remind me of my 32+ years at JS . |
| 5 | Now I said Mr Nichol I 'd to take you to that erm but the only thing is it 's after the so I do n't know how you feel if you 'd if you would rather see a performance before the exam , or you would rather see that one after the exam , or two . |
| 6 | Erm there 'll be seven lectures on this subject and that 's a fair number of course but it 's not enough to cover the full range of things that I 'd want normally to talk to you about and so what I 'm going to do is to aim to introduce you to some of the central concepts of foreign policy , of ways of analysing it , of the models that are used , the ideas erm er surrounding foreign policy and also to illustrate these with examples . |
| 7 | Right , we 're going to hold you to this . |
| 8 | It 's not as if ( shouting in anger ) as she says , black people are going to change you to bad . |
| 9 | I can hardly see that a mere frigate is going to inconvenience you to all that extent . |
| 10 | But of course if we 're going to do that we need somewhere to start and where we 're going to start is that I 'm going to ask you to each to make a presentation , a very short presentation . |
| 11 | ‘ No , I do n't want to put you to any bother . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You 've been so kind to me that I do n't want to put you to any trouble . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't want to put you to any trouble . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I would n't want to put you to any more trouble . |
| 15 | I would n't want to put you to any trouble . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ And all the money your dad spent sending you to public school , ’ said Constance . |
| 17 | I 'd actually prefer to send you to that than go to it myself , because I think that would be a better use of time . |
| 18 | ‘ Or they should have sold you to some terrible household where you 'd have been treated like a dog . |
| 19 | I would n't wish to put you to any trouble . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll have to re-allocate you to another job soon , Chief Inspector , unless you can show some progress . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And , being the modern-day equivalent of Casanova , I decide to add you to this impressive circle of conquests ? ’ |
| 22 | Your interest in works like the B minor Mass of Bach , Beethoven 's Missa Solemnis , and such semi-sacred works as the Bruckner Fifth Symphony was said not to have endeared you to certain Party officials . |
| 23 | Fancy taking you to that tired old love nest . |
| 24 | My wife and family and I were very shocked by what happened and I would just like to say thank you to that man . ’ |
| 25 | I am a recipient of Public Lending Right and I have come to the House tonight to say thank you to honourable members who were here in 1979 , when the legislation was passed . ’ |
| 26 | As usual the Dinner was used as an opportunity to say thank you to those from outside Convocation who had discharged some service . |
| 27 | But you want to say thank you to some people do n't you you said . |
| 28 | That 's the reason I have brought you to this quiet garden , not to some tavern where I would drink myself senseless . |
| 29 | Kylie wanted to personally say thank you to all the kids who have bought her records and for it to be worthwhile you need to have kids within twenty feet of her . |