Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , these activities are interactions between students , and as such may fail to alert them to the choice and ordering of information produced by native speakers .
2 Det Insp Brian Welfare , of Sussex CID , said that he had met the university 's residential advisers to alert them to the risk to other students .
3 The telephone rang at 8a.m. this morning to alert me to the fact that you were to be broadcasting on Radio 4 … 't was a friend of mine to whom I had mentioned your future plans …
4 Bosses were warned yesterday that secretaries have the power to banish them to the back of aircraft or even give them a poor hire car .
5 When I go skiing I want dozens of fast tows to whisk me to the top of runs and ensure I do n't have to queue for 20 minutes behind a junior racing team , trying to unclip each other 's bindings and seeing how far they can spit .
6 Both types have snap-on terminals used to connect them to a detector in a similar way to a PP3 .
7 How many uplifts should I use , and do I need special adaptors to connect them to the filter ?
8 So it 's not too ridiculous to compare them to a cross between Marc Almond , Nick Cave and The Chameleons .
9 But when they reached the dock and were waiting for the boat to carry them to the camp , Seth snatched the van 's keys , nearly breaking two of Suzy 's fingers in the struggle .
10 You were n't allowed to have a hearse , you had to carry them to the church , and er er we used to b bury them by lamp light .
11 There were commercial laundries in the 1920s and the large linen hampers that took two people to carry them to the laundry van show that this was a luxury enjoyed by the inhabitants of the Dolls ' House .
12 The King of this country ( which was called Lilliput ) had ordered his people to carry me to the capital city , about a kilometre away .
13 I asked Stephen — one of the two hapless fathers and himself reduced to a mulberry-eyed basket case — if he still had enough marbles to drive me to the station at Orvieto .
14 I reported promptly , and his secretary appeared almost at once to conduct me to the presence .
15 Clinton ordered agencies with facilities that release toxic pollutants , including military bases and research laboratories , to develop a plan to reduce their output by half by 1999 , and to report them to the public as private companies are now required to do .
16 Roger Martyn , churchwarden of Long Melford in Suffolk , for example , kept the reredos , organ , clocks , and bells of Holy Trinity Church in his own home , in the hope that his heirs would be able to restore them to the church sometime in the future .
17 Fairly detailed criterion statements are considered in order to relate them to the test questions used , which themselves are derived from the foundation list topics .
18 An alternative explanation for price rises , for example , has been to relate them to the amount of money in circulation or the bullion value of the coinage .
19 He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather .
20 In traditional manner Rolle treats the gifts of the Holy Spirit listed as Wisdom , Understanding , Counsel , Might , Knowledge Piety and Fear of the Lord in Isaiah 11 in the inverted hierarchical order Counsel , Understanding , Wisdom to relate them to the process of withdrawal from the world and achievement of that inner discretion which is the ground of contemplation ; he then deals with strength , piety , knowledge and the fear of the Lord itemised as forces which stimulate man to self-knowledge and help the soul to endure against sin , all aspects of a more active spirituality .
21 So I would , I and a couple of the fellas went to pull them to the aeroplane graveyard .
22 ‘ How I loathe people who raise one 's hopes , only to dash them to the ground ! ’
23 It was he who went on to train me to the point where I could begin to set in motion a way to extract revenge from the blanc nations , and ensure that no one would so betray us again .
24 She turned away , shutting her eyes to adjust them to the darkness , and then with no further hesitation she was going down the rope hand over hand , her feet and knees checking at each knot .
25 A policeman told me I should pay a policeman to escort me to a taxi . ’
26 Whenever I found time to break away from my books , she could always manage to supply a spare young officer to escort me to a concert , a play , even the occasional regimental dance .
27 Beware of dangerous situations — take a taxi rather than late-night lifts home , never stay late at work alone with a male colleague , or accept an offer to escort you to the door of your hotel room ;
28 ‘ I 've come to escort you to the Academy , ’ Kopyion said .
29 Please ring me at the above number and I will meet you in Paris to escort you to the hospital .
30 I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't .
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