Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was struggling to pull something to the top of the dunes . |
| 2 | Want to nail him to the fence you should think he 's not |
| 3 | Occasionally in the pursuit of profit he has to sacrifice himself to the ordeal of a business lunch with a customer , supplier or business contact . |
| 4 | She says we do n't want to destroy children 's innocence on the other hand we want to alert them to the dangers . |
| 5 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've come to escort you to the Academy , ’ Kopyion said . |
| 7 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | She bent her head so he could n't see her blush at the thought that he meant their own relationship , and pretended to do something to the heel of her shoe . |
| 13 | The observer has to submit himself to the way things are . |
| 14 | He wants to do something to the camp . |
| 15 | But he wants to do something to the camp . |
| 16 | If you want to leave it to the last minute you can also bring your items to the Community Centre on the morning . |
| 17 | She wants to send them to the same private boarding school as her other partially sighted son , but her local council has refused . |
| 18 | We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about . |
| 19 | I want to kiss you like a butterfly on mescaline , all over in a flurry of delirium , I want to bite you to the bones , to be so close to you there materialises a planet called us . |
| 20 | Erm we 'll need to isolate separately the wages on that cost Lynne because we 'll need to add it to the |
| 21 | I refer to your letter of 30 October 1992 but will need to direct you to the District Council Planning Department for much of the information that you seek . |
| 22 | European Tour , did their best to try to get us to the 1st tee . |
| 23 | His talent for imaginative lying helped to elect him to the Senate after the war as ‘ Tail Gunner Joe ’ . |
| 24 | All right , I 'll put a sling on that arm , and if the pain gets worse you must promise to take yourself to the hospital . ’ |
| 25 | Out of the corner of her eye , she saw the casual intimacy as Luke bent to say something to the girl , felt the cruel , jealous twist in her body , as she saw his mouth meeting hers in a lazy kiss . |
| 26 | When the heroin shows up in the flour , Gary wants to return it to the mob . |
| 27 | I asked her , " Would you mind if I have a boyfriend ? " and she said " It depends " and I said " What if I said somebody wanted to take me to the pictures ? " and it was , " If a boy wants to take you to the pictures , he 's only alter one thing . |
| 28 | Tell her you 've come to take her to the ol the pensioners ' club on her , on your bike . |
| 29 | I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict . |
| 30 | IN 1900 Tiller had an idea for a routine which excited him so much he could hardly wait to show it to the public . |