Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This accursed recession has blinded us to the fact that we are well placed , vis-a-vis our competitors in Europe , to create wealth . |
| 2 | Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants , then to those of the statistical clerks . |
| 3 | It could also be that for some of you 1988 has also seen some trouble , a bereavement perhaps , that has shaken you to the foundations . |
| 4 | This has committed it to an inevitable struggle with the Palestinians for control of policy on the Palestine question and , by extension , for control of Jordan itself . |
| 5 | You were right in saying that the minister Earl of Arran has disappointed me to no end . |
| 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 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 8 | Deuce , a pimp , has added him to a clutch of boys he is taking to a hotel . |
| 9 | There is a dark power to their fastidiously constructed nightmare pounders which has pushed them to the fore of hardcore . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The feeble God has stabbed me to the heart . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Apple Computer Inc chairman and chief executive officer John Sculley 's name has made it to the short list to be Secretary of Commerce in the Clinton Administration : if he takes the cabinet post , Apple 's likely to look outside for a replacement . |
| 14 | A woman who 's devoted more than twenty years to caring for her disabled daughter has made it to the finals of the ITN Carer of the Year Awards . |
| 15 | But Olsen has got you to the WC94 , so he must be doing something right ; - ) |
| 16 | She 's bitterley disappointed that the council has sold it to a local businessman who wants to use the premises to repair binoculars . |
| 17 | His belief in independence for Scotland has drawn him to the heart of the Scottish National Party . |
| 18 | What on earth does she think has powered her to the top of her sport and put millions of deutschmarks into her bank account ? |
| 19 | For example , an employer who has allowed all his employees access to information or has entrusted it to the least skilled may find the court unsympathetic . |
| 20 | One research scientist , a friend of mine said that the setting up of a particularly apt experiment has lead him to a sense of the beautiful . |
| 21 | That dialogue has lead me to the point of issuing a joint statement with Mr Addams . |
| 22 | The War Office has raised you to the status of a 4/ — wife [ the daily allowance ] ; what fun , darling ! |
| 23 | But though the jungle morass has gripped him to the knees |
| 24 | But his choice of verse form has condemned him to the weakness which mars all attempts to match the Horatian strophe with the English quatrain — the weakness of expansion . |
| 25 | After the kick is executed , he returns the leg that has kicked it to the ground and immediately follows up with a roundhouse kick off the opposite leg , using the front leg as a support . |
| 26 | ‘ I would ask you to stay longer , but His Majesty the King has invited me to a masque at Richmond . ’ |
| 27 | " Who has invited you to a dance ? " |
| 28 | Their desperate League form this season has consigned them to a similar predicament , while Chelsea are on the crest of a wave . |
| 29 | Perhaps racism has conditioned us to a greater extent than we expected . |
| 30 | She wants to send them to the same private boarding school as her other partially sighted son , but her local council has refused . |