Example sentences of "that [verb] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Playing tunes that bring a smile to my face and a sentimental tear to my eye , for the last time that I heard them was the day of the first Gittel 's wedding . |
| 2 | the Far East , including Japan , Australasia and South America are among the areas that bring a gleam to his eye when he talks of the future . |
| 3 | It 's a little bit unfair I think as well to generalize , on sponsored members of parliament because , you know as well as I do , on some of the issues that have been very very important to us , not the sort erm , er the sexy issues that head , hit the headlines , but issues that mean a lot to our members , our sponsored members generally do work very , very hard . |
| 4 | It is an answer to institutes in West Germany and Japan that pose a threat to American technological supremacy in some areas of industry . |
| 5 | erm it seems to me that the marriage that has an interest to your occupation , let's say , in the man 's hands |
| 6 | Try Mary Love 's delicious ‘ You Turned My Bitter Into Sweet ’ , Lowell Fulsom 's ridiculous ‘ My Aching Back ’ ( poor Lowell is as good a lover as any younger man , he moans in pain ) and the Brilliant Corners ' ‘ Three Lonely Guys ’ , a record that owes a fiver to Sam Cooke 's ‘ Another Saturday Night ’ . |
| 7 | Both solos are played in a mild , ‘ find yer head ’ style and tone that owes a lot to '60s rhythm and blues . |
| 8 | This is a story of a misunderstanding that reduced a man to suicide , also the love affair that fell foul of the postal system and tragic circumstances , the combined forces of fate culminating in the tragedy . |
| 9 | Here is one group that hired a mini-bus to St Pierre ( Chepstow ) in the mid-1970's . |
| 10 | Partial meanings become more clearly comprehended and relationships are articulated in a way that allows a work to be ‘ unpacked discursively ’ ( ibid ) . |
| 11 | They were expressions sometimes of pique and envy and sometimes of an essential regenerative process that caused a return to a stricter and more austere way of life and observance . |
| 12 | He could not have endured the clamouring siren bells that marked an alarm and that caused A area to be sealed down , passage in and out of the Citadel suspended until the malfunction was located . |
| 13 | But something emerged from the deeds of the estate that put a stop to this development . |
| 14 | So that put an end to that … no more dances down at Cotherstone for me . |
| 15 | Remembering all that put an end to her peace . |
| 16 | In a recent insolvency case before the Court of First Instance , it was claimed by an applicant that disclosing an agreement to a national authority would irreparably damage that party 's relations with its own national government . |
| 17 | The European Court of Human rights held that extraditing a person to a State ‘ where substantial grounds have been shown for believing that the person concerned , … faces a real risk of being subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in the requesting country ’ engages the responsibility of the sending State . |
| 18 | Now discussion is limited normally to one and a half hours and even that possibility disappears if the Commons has other urgent business that requires a sitting to be extended beyond the normal closure at 10 p.m . |
| 19 | Here we had a man who we knew had serious problems that constituted a danger to himself and others , and we sat back , simply because we were waiting for him to admit he had a problem . ’ |
| 20 | He knew how things worked in London , where to go to obtain what he wanted or needed , had contacts with the underworld , was smart enough and experienced enough not to make mistakes of the kind that draw a visitor to the attention of the authorities . |
| 21 | As The New York Times informed its readers , ‘ The doctors said the penis contained a tiny hydraulic system that permitted a fluid to be pumped from a reservoir in the abdomen into the penis to cause erection . ’ |
| 22 | Jackson had been in Singapore since Saturday , giving two concerts and enjoying a final day of relaxation that included a visit to the zoo and a meeting in his hotel with six orang-utans . |
| 23 | The delegation has just finished a Gulf tour that included a visit to Iran . |
| 24 | And that meant a lot to me at the time because all the paintings I was doing were subjects from my childhood years . |
| 25 | Brancazio suggests that sensors in the inner ear may be providing the information that sends a fielder to the right spot , not doing it well to begin with , but improving with experience . |
| 26 | It was a soft , arrogant assertion that sent a shiver to the centre of her body . |
| 27 | The river we had crossed was to our left and was not , as we first thought , melt water from the spout ; that formed a river to our right . |
| 28 | It was this school versus community dispute that formed a backdrop to Valerie Way 's interview with this initial dispute between the two deputy head teachers . |
| 29 | A further objection to ‘ know ’ is that knowing a proposition to be true is independent of viewpoint , so that there would be no possibility of an imperative ‘ Know ’ proving like ‘ Be aware ’ to be relevant to morals . |
| 30 | creates conditions that induce a return to the emotional relationships of childhood . |