Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then transports them to earthly space for human use . |
| 2 | Such cynical behaviour and insincerity is a waste of parliamentary time and contributes nothing to democratic government . |
| 3 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
| 6 | Processing items as soon as possible after soiling and/or submitting them to preliminary treatment . |
| 7 | In the time I was there she did pencil out a few passages , and got me to red ink a lot more . |
| 8 | Tories in Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd 's constituency have given nothing to Conservative party funds over the past year . |
| 9 | Tories in Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd 's constituency have given nothing to Conservative party funds over the past year . |
| 10 | The doors are tough and durable , and they require almost no maintenance , a quick wash down being all that is required to restore them to pristine condition . , , . |
| 11 | Obliquely flattering his readers by introducing them to boys near their own age involved in surprising and exciting events , he also invited them to wishful thinking , if not to identification , by emphasising the youth of his heroes and underplaying the responsibility and enforced maturity belonging to midshipmen in the early and mid-teens in reality . |
| 12 | He trained them to regular confession , and whenever any one of them was dying would prepare them for death , and be thankful when they died in penitence , peace and hope . |
| 13 | By adopting such beliefs and applying them to contemporary society both found sustenance in elitist moral and ethical beliefs which were far removed from contemporary reality . |
| 14 | He has a weasel face and subjects me to piercing scrutiny . |
| 15 | Labour proposes to get rid of Trust status hospitals , returning them to local authority control and substituting for the internal market a series of performance agreements boosted by incentives . |
| 16 | Gestures of this kind were part of the vocabulary of politics ; an astute politician like Philip used them to great effect . |
| 17 | ‘ Especially as once we start , we can never confine ourselves to just kissing , ’ Luke quipped with harsh humour , and paused . |
| 18 | In 1877 his father had heard the American evangelist D. L. Moody in London , and had sold his racehorses and devoted himself to personal evangelism . |
| 19 | It was completed a few months after its companion piece ( the G major Quartet Op. 106 and subsequently the composer devoted himself to programmatic tone poems and operas . |
| 20 | During the Second World War |
| 21 | For the greater part of the 1830s and 1840s Nicholas I dedicated himself to international peace . |
| 22 | Labour committed itself to immediate acceptance of the Maastricht social charter , with implications for low pay and for women , and to meeting the UN 's target for aid as a percentage of GNP within five years . |
| 23 | Much of the overall improvement owes itself to improving fertilizer prices and better productivity . |
| 24 | That regrettable reminder that people existed outside the Casa Pinar had cooled everything to fast-freeze point . |
| 25 | So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed ; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study . |
| 26 | Although he had recently been converted , it was Paisley 's conservative attack on unreliable unionist leaders which first drew him to Free Presbyterianism . |
| 27 | Houghton 's wife reported him to naval security for being in possession of large sums of cash . |
| 28 | But her urgency seemed to provoke him to lazy slowness . |
| 29 | He agreed to a televised debate , hosted by Dan Rather , with Cameron Nielson Sr. Farnham was still feisty on the show , but Cameron Nielson , looking younger now than his son , was as skilled as a great matador , and finally evened the score with his former tormentor , driving him to tearful contrition . |
| 30 | Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth . |