Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Brown is parading this tacit Jackson support in an effort to draw blacks away from Mr Bill Clinton , the Democrats ' front-runner whose solid black support helped him to big victories in the South and Mid-West . |
| 2 | I do n't know why my search drew me to that part of the house , except that Curtis was the only soul in it other than myself and Leon . |
| 3 | Partly because these changes have been seen as shifts in design philosophy to be applied incrementally to new housing areas or to rehabilitated inner city districts , there has been no attempt to apply them to established residential areas . |
| 4 | On that one day he notched up five kills although Fighter Command downrated them to four ‘ probables ’ . |
| 5 | They carry on average only 2.5 grains each and , as the corollas fall in the morning , they ny back up to the canopy , where they effect pollination , any slight wind drifting them to other trees . |
| 6 | Mountain lifts : The Valluga Peak cable car takes you to 9,220 ft and a magnificent view . |
| 7 | But Christine , 37 , insisted on going home for a snack before an ambulance took her to Royal Hallamshire hospital . |
| 8 | A mile 's drive south in the car took us to all that remains of Clare 's beloved heath land . |
| 9 | Their search took them to six countries , with the contract finally going to Toronto-based Lovat . |
| 10 | There should be no attempt to shorten it to newspaper-headline form . |
| 11 | Nurses claimed she had waited most of that time for an ambulance to take her to another hospital . |
| 12 | Bennett , the original owner of a Jaguar car entrusted it to one Searle for some repairs to be carried out . |
| 13 | Great Britain , for their part , will be looking to recapture the many admirable qualities which brought them that improbable victory after Steve Hampson 's early dismissal reduced them to 12 men . |
| 14 | ‘ When the judge sentenced him to five years I felt like shouting out ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Kate Connolly . |
| 15 | The wind was tugging at her hair , the setting sun turning it to false and fleeting gold . |
| 16 | A 49 after a safety exchange took him to 4–4 , but Hendry reeled off three successive breaks of the highest quality to put daylight between them . |
| 17 | Although a breach of contract claim is based upon common law rights , remember that the Consolidation Act entitles you to minimum pay during your statutory notice period . |
| 18 | But while this ‘ violence ’ is to be expected within the family , it 's not acceptable when your child does it to other children she encounters . |
| 19 | Yesterday her husband Alan Atkinson , 47 , called on Darlington Council to move them to another house . |
| 20 | I 've imagined myself in situations like this , made up speeches in my head , speeches about truth and freedom and protection of sources , speeches I imagined delivering from the witness box just before the judge sentenced me to ninety days or six months or whatever for contempt of court , but I was kidding myself . |
| 21 | This figure of the diaspora returns us to one of the most important aspects of Levinas ' formulation of the relation of the ethical to the political , that is the connections which he makes between the structure of ontology and Eurocentrism , the latter ‘ disqualified ’ , as he puts it , ‘ by so many horrors ’ . |
| 22 | The task Gomez envisages for the black lesbian returns us to radical humanism , and both Fanon and Gide as important points of reference . |
| 23 | Failure led him to mass manipulation and an attempt to revolutionize British politics from outside the system . |
| 24 | Our admission charge rations us to one programme . |
| 25 | His wrathful imagination led him to grotesque ideas … |
| 26 | Although Pepper v. Hart is the initial formulation of the relaxed exclusionary rule , the ambiguities which it contains and the failure to relate it to other aids to statutory construction are perhaps less deserving of a welcome . |
| 27 | Gandhi dissociated himself from this development and withdrew from politics until 1939 , when the outbreak of the Second World War stirred him to political action again . |
| 28 | Rain reduced it to 37 overs a side and the home team were soon rattling along . |
| 29 | It would be a criminal waste to give it to most women . ’ |
| 30 | Another proof of her social status among the hawkers is her working spot : it is so well located that she if she decides to move she could ‘ sell ’ the right to use it to another vendor . |