Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The EC can neither reverse current trends nor bring them to a halt . |
| 2 | At one time , the officers if they saw the girls soliciting , used to arrest them , bring them to a police station , they 're finger print , photographed and dealt with . |
| 3 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 4 | To report on my own experience , I have found a surprising number of English people outside the academic world who have lived with the Sonnets , have taken them into their own experience , can quote with ease ‘ To me , fair friend , you never can be old ’ , or ‘ Shall I compare thee to a summer 's day ? ’ , or ‘ When , in disgrace with Fortune and men 's eyes ’ , or ‘ Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediment ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I was really lucky because I had a really great mother who would expose me to a lot of really great things . |
| 6 | The junior led them to a trooper lying plastron up some distance from the others . |
| 7 | That led them to a Kamalian whose secretions matched the saliva found at the scene of the crime . ’ |
| 8 | Quickly he led them to a table , produced menus and wine , but deep in her despairing heart Alex was convinced that it was the surprise of someone seeing a customer who had already been in once that evening . |
| 9 | He led them to a dugout canoe half a mile downstream , and they poled slowly across to the other bank . |
| 10 | You can bloody well treat me to a couple of Cokes when the shops open . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd found some bunches of violets that were n't much good , but I thought I might sell them in the pub , or that some kind gent might treat me to a sandwich . |
| 12 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |
| 13 | ‘ Jeff told me you promised your parents that you 'd treat them to a holiday this autumn in celebration of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary — but that now you 're starting to worry about how you 're going to pay for it . |
| 14 | Both types have snap-on terminals used to connect them to a detector in a similar way to a PP3 . |
| 15 | So it 's not too ridiculous to compare them to a cross between Marc Almond , Nick Cave and The Chameleons . |
| 16 | Harvey led me to a room which he unlocked with a key . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll call back at noon , ’ he said to the buttons on her breast pockets , and she led me to a changing room full of paper nighties before turning to greet the next chicken on the conveyor belt and rewinding the tape to : ‘ Hi there , welcome to Surgicentre . |
| 18 | Instead of going over to Pyke , Terry led me to a corner table among the old men who drank alone every night , and there he calmly sucked his roll-ups as we sipped our usual pint with a whisky chaser . |
| 19 | Well that got me to a lot of good for warmth ! |
| 20 | Raise them to a power , then you do multiply . |
| 21 | Add them when you 're multiplying , times them when you raise them to a power , so we do n't want to start changing this to one over and things , because we 'll lose that easy way of doing things . |
| 22 | ( She kept the combings and sold them to a wig-maker when there was a suitable quantity , because the texture of her hair and its being pure white made it especially suitable for his work . ) |
| 23 | ESSENTIALLY a cutesy platform romp , New Zealand Story ( Master System ) tells the tale of a rather dodgy walrus who has kidnapped loads of kiwi chicks and sold them to a zoo in New Zealand . |
| 24 | The result was that all New York fares could now be reduced , bringing them to a level only slightly above that of Virgin 's competing New York fare , and fares on the Boston route were adjusted to match the New York level . |
| 25 | ‘ Fits me to a T. I suppose I could n't keep it , could I ? ’ |
| 26 | In substance and spirit there is much in her portrayal that coincides with the stereotype of woman found in medieval antifeminist literature : lascivious and insatiable , alluring to men , drawing them to a fall — e.g. tempting the monk to sin , and befooling her husband ( or , more seriously , tempting him to indulge in sexual intercourse for its own pleasure and indeed for its cash value ) . |
| 27 | Zack took them and passed them to a man in the passage behind him . |
| 28 | They 'd be sorry for me , they 'd give me whisky and aspirins and send me to a psychiatrist . |
| 29 | A dolphin caller would go into a dream where his spirit went out of his body and sought the dolphin folk in their home under the western horizon and invited them to a dance , with feasting , in the village . |
| 30 | We invited them to a service on Remembrance Sunday evening at which their loved one would be mentioned by name . |