Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Lords has concluded that our Sunday trading laws are unclear and has therefore referred them to the European Court of Justice to clarify whether they are compatible with European law . |
| 2 | But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river . |
| 3 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 4 | Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants , then to those of the statistical clerks . |
| 5 | Whereas Catherine the Great had confined them to the western and southern borderlands of the empire and Alexander I had encouraged them to consider economic diversification and cultural assimilation , Nicholas intervened in their lives more dramatically . |
| 6 | We have educated them to the fact of their own power . |
| 7 | But perhaps he could not have attracted them to The Other Story . |
| 8 | You were right in saying that the minister Earl of Arran has disappointed me to no end . |
| 9 | If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp . |
| 10 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 11 | Deuce , a pimp , has added him to a clutch of boys he is taking to a hotel . |
| 12 | Her natural passivity , encouraged by her religion and perhaps by the fact that she was pregnant , committed her to a mood of acceptance that was sweetly and hermetically selfish . |
| 13 | The cool threat chilled her to the bone . |
| 14 | The very prospect of her life being picked over like some succulent titbit chilled her to the bone . |
| 15 | She got an answer soon enough — the city 's mayor confined her to a lunatic asylum . |
| 16 | A tramp had found her freezing and near to death on the doorstep of a gin palace near the Elephant and Castle and he had carried her to the local Catholic church . |
| 17 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
| 18 | This has committed it to an inevitable struggle with the Palestinians for control of policy on the Palestine question and , by extension , for control of Jordan itself . |
| 19 | The purpose of this and of other victim studies was to elicit from respondents whether they had been the victim of a crime , and if so , which types of crime and whether they had reported it to the police . |
| 20 | The attack happened 2 weeks ago , but the victim was so distressed she has only just reported it to the police . |
| 21 | At Holly 's request Rosie had added it to the list of diary items Rain would offer at the afternoon conference . |
| 22 | In The Possessed , the conspirators have enticed their victim to a dark remote spot where nothing will be seen or heard , and have done the deed and tied two heavy stones to the body so that it is sure to sink , and have carried it to a pond and thrown it in : then , ‘ With extraordinary carelessness ’ they overlook that cap which has no doubt fallen off in the struggle , and which the police will soon find . |
| 23 | For a breathspace he saw his own body ; he thought that Taliesin and Fribble had carried it to a settle beneath a window , and he wanted to grasp at them , for they had been dear , good friends , and the knowledge that he would never see them again was scarcely to be borne . |
| 24 | He had addressed it to the Chief Accountant personally , and a letter so addressed , in his distinctive handwriting would stand out a mile when the letters were spread across Steve Pyle 's desk . |
| 25 | Over the past year the bank has managed to raise its provisions from 30% to 50% of its loans to poor countries while rivals have hiked theirs to the 70% level . |
| 26 | The feeble God has stabbed me to the heart . ’ |
| 27 | There is a dark power to their fastidiously constructed nightmare pounders which has pushed them to the fore of hardcore . |
| 28 | ‘ The Soviets have now transferred him to a Labour Camp . ’ |
| 29 | It was me who cut her ropes and killed the men aboard her , and it 's me who has sailed her to a place where you 'll never find her . |
| 30 | In Ancient Rome they 'd have chucked him to the lions . |