Example sentences of "[pron] to a [adj] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with any other area of living , we need to commit ourselves to a Christian world-view and not be tempted to borrow from secular philosophy . |
| 2 | At another level this also happens when we commit ourselves to a particular religion or ideology . |
| 3 | After designing an architect 's dream , he will then have to try and make it functional , having committed himself to a particular shape and size . |
| 4 | An order may require the child to comply with any directions given by the supervisor : ( i ) to live at a specified place or places for certain periods of time ; ( ii ) to present himself to a specified person or persons at times and places as specified ; ( iii ) to participate in specified activities at certain times ( para 2 ) . |
| 5 | He opened the freezer and helped himself to a cold beer and the last of the chicken drumsticks from the packet he had bought earlier in the week . |
| 6 | The team may have resigned itself to a fixtureless season but there is some small consolation . |
| 7 | By the time the PAC had returned to the negotiating table in April , after boycotting an earlier round of talks within the framework of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa , it had adopted a highly equivocal stand on violence , committing itself to a negotiated settlement but asserting its right to continue the ‘ armed struggle ’ . |
| 8 | So the process that you have to carry out , then is to find a way of transferring your literal translation once you 've worked out word for word what is being said , into terms which mean something to a modern reader or , listener . |
| 9 | I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen . |
| 10 | They took me to a secret prison and raped me over and over again by forcing the barrel of a gun into me . |
| 11 | Transfer them to a small tube or box containing a few leaves from the same plant and take them home . |
| 12 | This is particularly important if a ‘ traditional ’ training has kept them to a limited understanding and repertoire . |
| 13 | This memory draws them across several hundred miles of ocean , brings them to a particular bay and , as the scent gets stronger and stronger , up one special river and into one particular stream . |
| 14 | to show his students the ways by which great art creates its effects , leading them to a finer appreciation and fuller response , and to help them appreciate more fully the authors ' insights , so often deeper than our own [ sic ] , contribute towards our understanding of ourselves , our community , and life itself . |
| 15 | Meredith-Lee waved them to a comfortable sofa and sat down in an armchair opposite . |
| 16 | He helped them to a waiting car and drove to nearby St Thomas 's Hospital . |
| 17 | Or give them to a nearby playgroup or primary school , which will welcome any old cards that the children can cut up for collages . |
| 18 | My mother then gathered them up and put them in a container , and I took them to a nearby stream and let them go with goodness knows what effect on the environment . |
| 19 | Dad drove them to a big hotel and Jane and Mike were there already waiting for them . |
| 20 | Thus if a bailee negligently allows goods in his charge to be destroyed the plaintiff 's loss is just the same as if the bailee had wrongfully sold them to a third party but there is no conversion because the negligent ( as opposed to deliberate ) destruction is not an assertion of any rights in the goods . |
| 21 | Allen , in turn , took Coleridge to Balliol to introduce him to a young radical and poet called Robert Southey , who was then almost twenty years old . |
| 22 | Fill him up with food and booze , direct him to a warm room and then pray hard . |
| 23 | He said arrangements should have been made to actually take him to a medical officer and said he should not have been allowed to leave Comber and Newtownabbey RUC stations when he called that day . |
| 24 | When Donald examined his wire in the last stages of the illness it might be necessary to lead him to a medical textbook and steer those calm , grey eyes in the direction of the chapter headed ‘ The Guillain-Barré Syndrome ’ . |
| 25 | She propelled her to a low wall and sat her down beside her suitcase . |
| 26 | Taking her hand , Roman steered her to a right-hand fork and she stumbled after him . |
| 27 | He led her to a waiting taxi and , as he held the door for her , for a brief instant their eyes met . |
| 28 | When the villains were unable to get the caravan up a small incline , they hitched it to a stolen vehicle and wheel-spun their way onto the road . |
| 29 | But I was advised to imagine I was telling it to a good friend and not worry about what other people might think . |
| 30 | In fact the members took it to a European court and spent a lot of their own money — twenty five thousand pounds — to try and get a discrimination judgement out of the European court , which failed at the last hurdle really , we think on political grounds really . |