Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [pers pn] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you have an extremely subtle story , how are you going to set it to music ? |
| 2 | Then I 'm going to give her to mummy yummy for a feed . |
| 3 | Are you going to give it to Cider ? |
| 4 | The other exciting thing was the leeches er because the monsoon had n't finished there were lots of leeches around , and I 'd imagined these huge things that were going to suck me to death , but they 're actually little , like , just very very tiny little worms , about erm an inch long and very thin and what they do is they sit on leaves and things and as you walk by they get flicked on to your boots or your socks and then they wiggle their way in and they , you ca n't feel them there , but what they do is they suck your blood until they explode |
| 5 | I 'm going to get him to bed , that 's what I 'm going to do . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm going to get you to type this on Monday . |
| 7 | I 'm going to take them to court and sue them |
| 8 | Well he does n't know where I live at the but it came up in court that he was going to take me to court for access , making it out as though it was my fault that he had n't seen Ricky , I was stopping him from seeing Ricky when it 's his own fault . |
| 9 | It we he phoned at it was , it was five to six , Jim was going to take me to aerobics because of the weather |
| 10 | ‘ My dear Miss Kyte , ’ said Lady Danby 's voice , interrupting her reverie , ‘ I am certainly going to take you to task for leaving my party so early . |
| 11 | Obviously , the amount you choose to repay each month will determine how long it is going to take you to pay-off any borrowing on your FlexiLoan. but , you can also pay-in a lump sum at any time ( eg. when you receive a bonus from work ) to help reduce the amount outstanding , or to pay it off completely . |
| 12 | afternoon and I was going to ask you to sort of sum up with your views as the sort of |
| 13 | ‘ You 're not going to make it to retirement taking risks like that , ’ Benny chastised him . |
| 14 | ‘ We are going to bring you to heel , boy . |
| 15 | She helped the children with their lessons each morning , then took them for walks and on shopping excursions in the afternoons , finally helping to put them to bed at night . |
| 16 | Erm you would n't have you would n't be releasing Michelle back and losing losing her to testing . |
| 17 | After a while I started to get official letters threatening to send me to prison if I did n't find work . |
| 18 | But if that movement were to succeed and in so doing carry him to power , he promised a systematic cruelty or slaughter as precise , impersonal and ineluctable as a quadratic equation . |
| 19 | not having to take them all , I mean having to take them to court . |
| 20 | But Edward was stunned last week to receive an abrupt letter from the DoE accusing him of ‘ damaging ’ their land and threatening to take him to court . |
| 21 | The pupil builds up the words he wants in a stand , and can test out his ideas without having to commit them to paper yet . |
| 22 | Says Janet : ‘ Our new Ante-natal Assessment Centre allows us to monitor the mother and baby on an out-patient basis without having to admit them to hospital . |
| 23 | so he was dead annoyed with it , all week I 've been struggling to get him to bed |
| 24 | What made me laugh was the Conservative broadcast on Wednesday was real propaganda , trying to frighten you to death that if the Labour got in |
| 25 | I had problems with tutors trying to encourage me to diversity my work and experiment with other styles , but I was quite happy with the direction my work was heading so I stubbornly stuck to it . |
| 26 | I had problems with tutors trying to encourage me to diversity my work and experiment with other styles , but I was quite happy with the direction my work was heading so I stubbornly stuck to it . |
| 27 | and you go up this thing that winds in and out and like there 'd be cockerels sitting on the , on the little fences you have to go round , trying to peck you to death , er I was like only tiny , you know , it was just like |
| 28 | The Scottish chaplains spent several months in trying to convert him to Presbyterianism . |
| 29 | And so , on 9 February , 1950 , to a startled audience of women Republicans in Wheeling , West Virginia , McCarthy raised the favourite bogey : ‘ How can we account for our present situation unless we believe that men high in this government are concerting to deliver us to disaster ? |
| 30 | Well , we 're just trying to get ours to work tonight , it 's broke down . |