Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [to-vb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE owner of a derelict boarding house was accused yesterday of killing a friend who had allegedly helped him to set fire to the building in an ‘ insurance job ’ . |
| 2 | Years later one of Cahiers ' most influential critics , Jean-Luc Godard , admitted that none of them had really believed in the theory , but had used it to draw attention to themselves . |
| 3 | She replayed in her mind every detail of the night before , every provocative movement that had unconsciously invited him to make love to her . |
| 4 | Mr Johnson said that on a previous occasion , Mr Chittenden had asked him to deliver flowers to her in her office . |
| 5 | It was she who had begged him to make love to her , she recalled , not the other way round , and , although he had n't been exactly reluctant , what man was going to turn down such a blatant offer ? |
| 6 | He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the |
| 7 | HERBERT Blaize , a courtly politician of a bygone Caribbean era , believed God had chosen him to restore democracy to Grenada after 7,000 US troops invaded his island in 1983 to overthrow its marxist rulers . |