Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have educated them to the fact of their own power . |
| 2 | You were right in saying that the minister Earl of Arran has disappointed me to no end . |
| 3 | If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp . |
| 4 | Deuce , a pimp , has added him to a clutch of boys he is taking to a hotel . |
| 5 | Her natural passivity , encouraged by her religion and perhaps by the fact that she was pregnant , committed her to a mood of acceptance that was sweetly and hermetically selfish . |
| 6 | The cool threat chilled her to the bone . |
| 7 | The very prospect of her life being picked over like some succulent titbit chilled her to the bone . |
| 8 | She got an answer soon enough — the city 's mayor confined her to a lunatic asylum . |
| 9 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
| 10 | At Holly 's request Rosie had added it to the list of diary items Rain would offer at the afternoon conference . |
| 11 | For a breathspace he saw his own body ; he thought that Taliesin and Fribble had carried it to a settle beneath a window , and he wanted to grasp at them , for they had been dear , good friends , and the knowledge that he would never see them again was scarcely to be borne . |
| 12 | In The Possessed , the conspirators have enticed their victim to a dark remote spot where nothing will be seen or heard , and have done the deed and tied two heavy stones to the body so that it is sure to sink , and have carried it to a pond and thrown it in : then , ‘ With extraordinary carelessness ’ they overlook that cap which has no doubt fallen off in the struggle , and which the police will soon find . |
| 13 | The feeble God has stabbed me to the heart . ’ |
| 14 | There is a dark power to their fastidiously constructed nightmare pounders which has pushed them to the fore of hardcore . |
| 15 | It was me who cut her ropes and killed the men aboard her , and it 's me who has sailed her to a place where you 'll never find her . |
| 16 | Man of the match Smith admitted he would not have been surprised if Hick had pipped him to the award . |
| 17 | My visit must have alarmed him to the extent that he decided to check again to ensure he had n't left any clues . |
| 18 | The weight in his heart seemed to have tethered him to the pavement , and he had to force himself to turn away , and some seconds after she had disappeared through the doorway . |
| 19 | He could see that whatever was agitating his friend had pushed him to the limit but he judged it better to let him get it off his chest than keep it bottled up . |
| 20 | We have further developed the ‘ flooding dose ’ technique for measurement of tissue protein synthesis in normal and pathological tissues in man , in vivo , and have now applied it to the study of normal and diseased colorectal tissue . |
| 21 | In her turn she came to the Sister , who extracted a folder with Orton , Stephanie Jane , EDD 13. 4.54 on it , from a pile on her left , transferred it to a pile on her right and permitted Stephanie to sit on a brown canvas and metal tube chair for another half hour . |
| 22 | Anna picked up the saucepan into which she had been putting potatoes and transferred it to the stove . |
| 23 | Your shopping 's transferred it to the pantry . |
| 24 | After a pause for calculation , he added : ‘ And then I 'd have tethered it to the ground . ’ |
| 25 | But I 'd never done it to a policeman before . |
| 26 | And he had done it to a woman who had done nothing to him , simply been a little rude and overbearing , not unlike The Fat Controller himself . |
| 27 | You would n't ha you would n't have done it to a dog though . |
| 28 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 29 | The stresses set up by the effects of heat and cold on the glass could have weakened it to the point that it may fracture under pressure in the aquarium . |
| 30 | ‘ And when I make it to the charts , then I 'll have to admit that I will have owed it to the world 's greatest entertainer ever — Elvis the King of Rock . ’ |