Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants , then to those of the statistical clerks . |
| 2 | We have educated them to the fact of their own power . |
| 3 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 4 | The cool threat chilled her to the bone . |
| 5 | The very prospect of her life being picked over like some succulent titbit chilled her to the bone . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The purpose of this and of other victim studies was to elicit from respondents whether they had been the victim of a crime , and if so , which types of crime and whether they had reported it to the police . |
| 8 | The attack happened 2 weeks ago , but the victim was so distressed she has only just reported it to the police . |
| 9 | At Holly 's request Rosie had added it to the list of diary items Rain would offer at the afternoon conference . |
| 10 | Over the past year the bank has managed to raise its provisions from 30% to 50% of its loans to poor countries while rivals have hiked theirs to the 70% level . |
| 11 | The feeble God has stabbed me to the heart . ’ |
| 12 | There is a dark power to their fastidiously constructed nightmare pounders which has pushed them to the fore of hardcore . |
| 13 | In Ancient Rome they 'd have chucked him to the lions . |
| 14 | Man of the match Smith admitted he would not have been surprised if Hick had pipped him to the award . |
| 15 | My visit must have alarmed him to the extent that he decided to check again to ensure he had n't left any clues . |
| 16 | The man was a demon and he had disturbed her to the depths of her being . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | That eruption of passion had blinkered her to the risks she was taking , letting herself get involved with a man like this … |
| 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 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |
| 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 | The railways had done it to the canals and now it was to happen in turn to the railways . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | The other car , the other De Dion we had , burst its radiator , but we are very resourceful ; we went and bought thirty foot of garden hose and connected it to the engine and sent the water round and round the car and that acted as a radiator , and we drove it for a week like that . |
| 29 | At home I might have fed it to the fish , but here I felt sorry for it and watched until it was time to move on . |
| 30 | They have already said it to the Wilson Committee : we are doing our best to preserve the value of the funds entrusted to us , and any attempt to force us to invest in projects offering sub-optimal returns for ‘ social ’ reasons is an attempt to make us break faith with our customers . |