Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Instead of a rate for carrying oil throughout to Bedale we just got a rate for bringing it to Middlesbrough for trans-shipment to road , which was illogical to me . |
| 2 | They 're not actually that im they 're not important about bringing them to faith . |
| 3 | They were arrested after chaining themselves to cranes which were loading logs on to barges in the port of Kuala Baram . |
| 4 | Brian Clough , whose side are bottom of the Premier League after six successive defeats , wanted Fozzie back — three years after selling him to West Ham for £750,000 . |
| 5 | It also sort of encourages them to farm as much land as they can to presumably rent more out . |
| 6 | In mediaeval times ditches were dug around these woods to prevent deer from entering them and also to hinder those who ma have inclined towards helping themselves to underwood . |
| 7 | The idea of bringing him to justice . |
| 8 | ‘ I was n't thinking of bringing him to justice . |
| 9 | When it has done its work there still remains the task of relating it to aspects of the context which are particular and can not of their nature be accounted for in advance . |
| 10 | Hong Kong 's transport authority is seriously interested in such a scheme , and the DOT here is collaborating , with the implied idea of applying it to London . |
| 11 | How else , short of applying it to humans , could one test whether a particular extract contained the carcinogenic material ? |
| 12 | Some entrepreneurial showmen then decided they would try to make money out of his popularity and they caught him with the hope of transporting him to London to put on display . |
| 13 | The utterance ‘ I sentence you to death ’ performs the function of sentencing someone to death , and this function is only performed ( within certain legal systems ) by this utterance . |
| 14 | Why kill the one man capable of leading him to Bernard ? |
| 15 | Woodie also spoke of getting someone to anti-foul his hull , so that it would be as clean as Lord Jim 's . |
| 16 | It occurred to me that the minions Kruger had entrusted with the task of feeding me to Heckle and Jeckle had been careless . |
| 17 | The duke 's London residence was Essex House , the property of his brother-in-law , Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex [ q.v. ] , another of Rose 's employers , who encouraged him to the extent of sending him to France for the first time , probably early in the 1640s . |
| 18 | And that , I I was , my hus , during the time mother was ill , my husband took ill , now this is where authorities do n't give you any back up , instead of sending him to hospital which was fifteen minutes by bus , I could have visited him every day they sent him to the other side of the county which only allowed a visit once a week , and meant I had to leave at twelve o'clock and get home at six ! |
| 19 | As control of pests and diseases consists basically of subjecting them to conditions or substances that are harmful to them , we have to recognize that , as they have all evolved defences of one kind or another — and very successfully too , which is why they are still on this Earth and contending with us for our roses — somewhere in their life cycles are periods and stages when they are more exposed and vulnerable . |
| 20 | Her own grandfather had regarded doctors as tradespeople and would not have dreamed of asking one to dinner , but most people below the rank of bank manager treated doctors with awe and respect , calling them ‘ Doctor ’ all the time . |
| 21 | We really should sort of take him to football , do n't you ? |
| 22 | I was so afraid of losing you to Maria Luisa , dreading her return , then it was just too terrible when I thought you were the father of her baby . ’ |
| 23 | Did not get the job — dear , former [ xx ] Manager , drove me up there ( 6 miles north of Perth ) and then on to Dunkeld where he insisted on giving me lunch — he had originally thought of taking me to Gleneagles , but I had to get back to the outplacement people — and did so , only to find ‘ my ’ counsellor had , for the third time , failed to keep an appointment with me . |
| 24 | And we had a sort of desperate broken conversation , Caliban trying to get out of taking me to hospital , I insisting that he must . |
| 25 | He had toyed with the idea of taking her to Dublin anyway , but they had had a rocky road enough already and perhaps she would be better at home . |
| 26 | The kitchen window was still open and I climbed in after crushing another handful of lavender with the intention of taking it to bed with me for an invigorating sleep , if such a thing is possible . |
| 27 | For some unaccountable reason the horses drawing the cart stopped just inches short of crushing him to death . |
| 28 | The officials who were entrusted with the task of putting him to death behaved with as much humanity as possible . |
| 29 | ‘ Me father dreamed of putting it to rights , ’ said Rory . |
| 30 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |