Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] to [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a mind , why ca n't I use it to some good in a way that will give me satisfaction if nothing else ? |
| 2 | I treated myself to some dried dates — very ‘ more-ish ’ so they have been guzzled by this Sunday evening ! |
| 3 | I recommend it to all new mothers . ’ |
| 4 | Newton spent more time and energy on alchemical speculations than on the scientific discoveries which galvanised the Western world : Storr reconstructs the neurotic drive which impelled him to heroic intellectual feats . |
| 5 | Linking the Midlands manufacturers to London by canal undoubtedly assisted the sending of goods to the capital , but conversely the canals which linked them to other major ports sometimes removed their need to send as many goods through London . |
| 6 | Any account of political conflict , however , which confined itself to these limiting cases of rational persuasion on one side and the use of physical force on the other , would be seriously incomplete . |
| 7 | He dared himself to say it to each new person . |
| 8 | Its troopers wear black and white , a combination which lends itself to bold parti-coloured divisions , broad stripes , checks and diamonds . |
| 9 | Which brings us to one final ugly matter . |
| 10 | Which brings us to one vital and final point on the matter of taking our fauna aloft and then casting them off to the winds not knowing exactly where they are going to land . |
| 11 | ‘ If you mean anything to this young man , I 'm sure he will understand . |
| 12 | Could you direct me to that old ship — what 's it called ? — they dragged it up out of the — ’ |
| 13 | It attracts those who seek it to large structured organizations and into programmed , structured jobs . |
| 14 | It 's an ex exercise in their atr attribution y'know if you feel angry now and you attribute it to some abusive incident which you may remember from your childhood um that 's er that 's an accomplishment . |
| 15 | Why was she subjecting herself to this penal state of solitary confinement ? |
| 16 | Its sponsor was Count Nostic who leased it to various theatrical societies from the end of the 18C for the performance of Bohemian drama . |
| 17 | Somehow , and from somewhere , a beautiful young woman appeared — this was no imagined vision — and she took them to some hot springs where they all ended up naked . |
| 18 | There are , though , a number of waves on a reach and as long as you limit yourself to three distinct pumps with a clear pause before the next set you should be alright . |
| 19 | I wanted you to make it to that goddamned fourteenth floor just as much as you did ! |
| 20 | I booked half-board and every night in the ‘ EL PATIO ANDALUZ ’ , we helped ourselves to delicious hot or cold food , washed down with free wine or soft drinks . |
| 21 | ‘ … I think we owe it to that pathetic creature in there . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We showed it to some professional scriptwriters and they could n't believe what they were reading . ’ |
| 23 | Why do n't we take it to some safe place a hundred miles away and dump it at the bottom of the deep blue sea ? ’ |
| 24 | Wherever you travel in England we invite you to some unforgettable places in history . |
| 25 | In our own society we leave it to certain specialised people to decide , in practice , who is alien to the species and where the alien should be put . |
| 26 | Let me take you to one twentieth-century Christian who seems to me to express this so vividly . |
| 27 | Callahan had advised me to devote myself to one simple and perhaps impossible mission : to discover the etymology of the word cowabunga . |
| 28 | And it depends on what they want if they want it to three decimal places with this |
| 29 | They committed themselves to simple pro-rata savings rather than a re-ordering of priorities , reflecting the changing demand for the education and social services . |
| 30 | The Fabians inherited both the positive scientific spirit and a conception that progress follows natural laws from the evolutionists , but they adapted it to French sociological positivism based on the principle of social solidarity . |