Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I could choose not to do an album , but when they asked me to an album that was exciting to say yes . |
| 2 | ‘ The warder came and told me to dress and led me to an officer of the court , ’ the small , self-effacing lawyer recalled in an interview on Saturday . |
| 3 | Or will you also turn your back and walk away , condemning me to an eternity of silence ? ’ |
| 4 | Members of Leuchars mountain rescue team , who were on an exercise in the area , went to his aid and moved him to an area accessible for the helicopter . |
| 5 | As Guthrie foresaw and wrote to me after attending an early performance : I feel confident that Gloriana will survive and be considered a great work … that disastrous miscalculation of opening it to an audience and on an occasion that required an all-star Iolanthe will set it back twenty years . |
| 6 | In the face of such evidence it was a little difficult for at least some of the non-poor to accept that such conditions should continue and that free enterprise could bring them to an end largely unassisted . |
| 7 | And when the great gentleman detective got hold of the village postman and subjected him to an interrogation which ranged from what he had eaten for breakfast to whether or not he possessed a wireless set and if so what he had listened to on the previous morning , Sergeant Bramble maintained a stoic countenance . |
| 8 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 9 | When they put it to an expert they received the bewildering reply : ‘ Bird 's eye figure is formed as a result of local suppressions in divisions of cambial tissue that cause indentation to develop . |
| 10 | Troy logs the information for research purposes , then retransmits it to an inventory distribution centre , where more computers decide what restocking is needed at Auburn Hills . |
| 11 | Where the value of the intangible asset is at an all-time low , it may be possible to sell it to an IOFC operation and realise a capital loss in the selling location . |
| 12 | And she directed us to an examination cubicle adjacent to the great man 's room . |
| 13 | You may even convert them to an ally . |
| 14 | The sense of outrage on the part of both Marx and Braverman at the crippling effects ( physical or spiritual ) on many workers of the division of labour within capitalist enterprises is fully justified , but their unitary and rationalistic conception of the total subordination of labour to capital leads them to an overestimation of the role this division of labour must play in the formation of social collectivities : the extraction of any ‘ skill ’ content from labour for the mass of workers ; the homogenisation of ‘ simple labour ’ in all branches of production ; the cheapening of labour power ; increasingly intolerable oppression — these tendencies are bound to overwhelm any secondary differentiation of the workers by branch or by enterprise and lead to the formation of a revolutionary proletariat . |
| 15 | I bred him and love the horse , and I 'm delighted to have sold him to an owner who will look after his interests . |
| 16 | His fascination leads him to an agency which administers mental implants , so that he can have the vicarious experience of interplanetary travel injected into his memory . |
| 17 | The order form will help us to trace your purchase and link it to an ad in What Personal Computer . |
| 18 | He 'd got it to an art — |
| 19 | We expected handshakes all round , the departure of the PM to affairs of state , and an aide leading us to an ante-room for ginger snaps and coffee . |
| 20 | While the Australian and Pakistan examples quoted above serve to illustrate the variety of provisions and problems which may emerge under the rubric of ‘ rural education ‘ , Sher 's thinking leads us to an awareness of the uniqueness of the situation in a country school whatever its location . |
| 21 | The natives are amenable for all their savage state , and impart their wisdom to us in exchange for fribbling items : a mere hairpin will set them to an ecstasy of delight , for they are like to children and have no metals . |
| 22 | They hung it to an almond tree in the square by its ankles so that everyone could see it , and when it began to rot they burned it in a bonfire , for they could not determine whether its bastard nature was that of an animal to be thrown in the river or a human being to be buried … |
| 23 | People living under oppression can not go to the British embassy and seek an entry clearance document , present it to an airline office , take a plane to this country and then seek political asylum . |
| 24 | Having found this macro we want to assign it to an icon but this entails designing an appropriate one . |
| 25 | Then a helicopter pilot flew them to an area of bare ice studded with dark rocks near the Allan Hills ( 76°S ; 156°E ) . |
| 26 | And yet , tonight , some demon that she did n't understand had driven him to an act she was sure he was now bitterly regretting . |
| 27 | Five neighbours of Darlington man Ray Hubbard alerted him to an article in the newspaper appealing for him to contact the pal he last saw in 1953 . |
| 28 | She guided him to an armchair and sat herself on the edge of a Victorian sofa . |
| 29 | It is also possible to collect learning data and feed it to an instructor either on-line or off-line . |
| 30 | The evaluators noted the grudgingness of teachers to admit to changes in their own beliefs or practices and ascribed it to an unwillingness to accept the implied criticism that previous practice had , even unintentionally , discouraged girls . |