Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is illegal to import it , send it through the post or display it to the general public . |
| 2 | The putting of the city to the ban , or devoting it to the Lord , as the RSV puts it , is part of Joshua 's final orders to the people on the seventh day , and receives no mention in God 's initial instructions to him . |
| 3 | He seemed more likely to blow a kiss than to throw a punch ; to be at a dinner-table than to be down in the dives ; to be rubbing shoulders than to be shoving or sticking it to the comfortable ( I almost said to the bourgeoisie . ) |
| 4 | Control the interview or lose it to the candidate ? |
| 5 | The purchaser of a completed development , for example a factory , who intends to use the development for his or her own trade purposes or lease it to a person using it for trade purposes may be able to claim capital allowances . |
| 6 | How might such processes be affected in female readers ' responses to stories about males , which concern traditionally male interests and which frequently exclude them altogether or restrict them to a passive role ? |
| 7 | Persons of inferior degree rarely owned more than a single parcel , irrespective of whether they lived on it themselves or let it to a tenant . |
| 8 | In this sense one is neutral only if one can affect the fortunes of the parties and if one helps or hinders them to an equal degree and one does so because one believes that there are reasons for so acting which essentially depend on the fact that the action has an equal effect on the fortunes of the parties . |
| 9 | It came as something of a shock to the Poles to realise that the Kaszubians saw no difference between selling their land to a Pole or selling it to a German . |
| 10 | Or give them to a nearby playgroup or primary school , which will welcome any old cards that the children can cut up for collages . |
| 11 | She would n't help him ; he was weak and unsteady , but she would n't take his arm or guide him to the bed . |
| 12 | I mean , I might have had to shove the split match heads under Carol 's fingernails , or tie her to a tree and subject her to psychological warfare by , say , reading Hemingway aloud to her . |
| 13 | The holder can not cash the cheque , but only pay it in to a bank account , or savings bank , or assign it to a third party . |
| 14 | Whether this device would , in a crisis , have served to drive people away or draw them to the spot seems not to have been put to the test . |
| 15 | In the early stages it was finding them a deal , or moving them to the next level up . ’ |
| 16 | Additionally the ADC-10 can perform many functions that are only currently available on expensive digital storage oscilloscope such as saving waveforms to disk , or sending them to a printer . |
| 17 | The right thing is for the two counties to get together and to make a joint decision and , if necessary , to have a public inquiry or to leave it to the Minister to call the scheme in if he is not satisfied . |
| 18 | If the last counter-offer came from the buyer , then the seller will signify acceptance ( depending on the type of goods and the nature of the transaction concerned ) when he ei ther appropriates goods to the contract , puts their manufacture in hand , or delivers them to the buyer . |
| 19 | If you have already developed osteoporosis , they may be able to treat it or refer you to a specialist . |
| 20 | If you have already developed osteoporosis , they may be able to treat it or refer you to a specialist . |
| 21 | To refer the case back to the same solicitor who has reported that the case can not now be won , or refer it to a different lawyer ? |
| 22 | They can either discharge the case , or refer it to the Sheriff for Proof . |
| 23 | In addition , protestant — loyalist politics has always been a zero-sum activity : one either has a monopoly of power or concedes it to the opposition . |
| 24 | There were no brakes , and if I had stumbled , then the bar that ran between the shafts behind me would have caught me in the back and either dragged me along or knocked me to the ground . |
| 25 | Or delivered him to a house in that vicinity ? |
| 26 | Even without the element of uncertainty , however , potential plaintiffs may be reluctant to inflict on the company the disruption that an action against a director can involve , or expose it to the unfavourable publicity that might result from airing its difficulties in public . |
| 27 | Ms. Quant confided to delegates that she often jollied Plunkett ( her husband , entrepreneur Alexander Plunkett-Green ) into helping her dye her pubic hair some fantasy shade , or to trim it to a neat heart shape . |
| 28 | They will either deal with your enquiry or direct you to the appropriate department in the University . |
| 29 | We argue out the whys and wherefores of putting our aged relatives in geriatric homes , taking early retirement , buying a pet for the children , or taking them to the circus . |
| 30 | Well , as no-one 'ad bought any of me violets or treated me to a sandwich , and me near dyin' of starvation , with no job and no lodgings , well , I was so desperate I went up and grabbed the wallet , which Blackbeard was wavin' about at Dan Pearson . |