Example sentences of "subject [pers pn] to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then he 'd maybe see two small boys holding hands , and the Holy Spirit would be forgotten while he hauled the bewildered pair out in front of the rest of the class and subjected them to a blistering rain of sarcasm . |
| 2 | the pretty girl victim … four months after The Fox subjected her to a three-hour sex ordeal — and forced her brother and her boyfriend at gunpoint to perform degrading acts with her — the girl crawled into an airing cupboard in a bid to shut out the memories . |
| 3 | The jury at Oxford Crown Court found the married father of two guilty after hearing that he 'd tied the woman 's hands hands behind her back in the city 's New Road and subjected her to a terrifying ordeal , during which she 'd feared for her life . |
| 4 | Desmond subjected her to a spectacular hug . |
| 5 | A YOUTH of 15 who broke into a young mother 's house in the middle of the night and subjected her to a two-hour rape ordeal while her children slept was yesterday given a life sentence . |
| 6 | The rapist approached the 17-year-old waitress in a bus station at Holmfirth , West Yorks , and subjected her to an hour-long ordeal . |
| 7 | Morse subjected him to a long unblinking stare before saying : ‘ There was no will in the safe and , according to the lawyer , it is unlikely that my father-in-law made one . ’ |
| 8 | This problem can be overcome by subjecting them to an external force , strong enough to alter their spatial distribution by a significant amount in a short time . |
| 9 | Nor have I the slightest intention of subjecting you to a close examination of my emotions . ’ |
| 10 | There was strength and an inner confidence reflected in those steady grey eyes that she suddenly realised were subjecting her to a thorough appraisal . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't see any sense in subjecting him to a hard race in the Gold Cup when I know that his blood has been wrong , ’ he explained . |
| 12 | But , Himmelfarb ( 1968 p 78 ) argued , its designer was not concerned by the building 's intrinsic potential for despotic control : " To Bentham … if it was in the interest of society to confine them in a Panopticon , to subject them to an absolute master , to exploit their labor … [ then ] it was necessary and proper that all this be done . |
| 13 | Burning and looting the countryside as he went , Edward took Caen and subjected it to a brutal sacking . |
| 14 | A centralized revolutionary organization , created and directed by the intelligentsia , might ‘ run ahead ’ of the peasantry , or even develop ambitions contrary to those of the masses and subject them to a new form of oppression . |
| 15 | The chlorine will irritate their skin and gills , disrupt some of their metabolic functions and subject them to a huge amount of environmental stress — and stress is the number one killer of fish . |