Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pers pn] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason why the shift in emphasis to the broader question of determinism is less helpful than it at first appears is that ‘ the problem of determinism ’ itself lacks a clear formulation , and the difficulty of saying exactly what it consists in is reflected in attempts to relate it to holism . |
| 2 | Loretta and Bridget stood up to join him , bending and stretching their cramped legs to restore them to life . |
| 3 | The recordings of the stories use an interesting variety of voices and sound effects to bring them to life . |
| 4 | It took police 13 years to bring him to justice . |
| 5 | The campaign revolved around the issue of whether negotiations with the drug cartels to end the current violence should take precedence over efforts to bring them to justice . |
| 6 | They did pressure me quite a lot about how I looked , but I never gave in to their attempts to convert me to pink ; I wanted to look different , and in the main I was quite happy with my image . |
| 7 | It can be argued — I think reasonably — that the better the idea , the more justified are attempts to execute it to perfection . |
| 8 | Well , he might have kept one as a spare , but I rather suspect he 'd have handed it to a friend with strict instructions to thrash it to death and to return it in five years ’ time … |
| 9 | No but I mean why did it take three hours to get him to surgery ? |
| 10 | Mr Towndrow left his mother-in-law , a former pianist , at 4pm having been told it would take two hours to deliver her to Mile End , two miles away . |
| 11 | Soldiers loyal to President Gnassingbe Eyadema , who was divested by the national conference in August of all but his ceremonial powers [ see p. 38379 ] , twice stormed the national radio and television station on Oct. 1 , in separate attempts to return him to power . |
| 12 | But the shaming should not be of a ‘ stigmatizing ’ nature which will tend to exclude them from being accepted members of the community ; it should be of a kind which serves to reintegrate them within it , by getting them to accept that they have done wrong while encouraging others to readmit them to society . |
| 13 | It has taken subsequent theoretical work by others to relate them to geography . |