Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been telling myself I would n't let this happen , ’ he rasped , ‘ but there 's something about you that drives me to the edge of my control . ’ |
| 2 | In the different sense of the priest ‘ representing ’ the people to God in worship the role is more that of an intermediary or go-between — a role more akin to that of a Member of Parliament who understands the needs of his constituents and represents them to the Government in Parliament . |
| 3 | As these animals roam around their home ground , any unaccustomed mark alerts them to the passage of a stranger . |
| 4 | " The very thought of it chills me to the bone . " |
| 5 | The central figure points me to a single chair , placed opposite . |
| 6 | It points me to the verse numbered twenty-one , and the line is : ‘ And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death . ’ ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Fits me to a T. I suppose I could n't keep it , could I ? ’ |
| 8 | To undertake strategic research , which takes the new ideas coming out of basic research and develops them to the point where the possibility of commercial application can be identified . |
| 9 | The accused agrees to transfer shares to the victim but before doing so he transfers them to a third party . |
| 10 | At this stage , he was firmly opposed to federation ; ‘ Federation is harmful because it sanctions segregation and alienation , elevates them to a principle , to a law . ’ |
| 11 | anybody then he wants me to the Thursday and I said yeah that 's alright . |
| 12 | This makes them rather like Health Maintenance Organisations ( HMOs ) in the United States , which receive a fixed annual sum of money to provide health care for enrolled patients ; the system subjects them to the same financial incentives and may lead to the same adverse effects . |
| 13 | ‘ That it is Joan de Warenne rather than the lady Anne who accompanies you to the Tower , must be a close-kept secret , ’ Elizabeth Woodville told him , her mind working rapidly . |
| 14 | An exception is made in this instance because the policeman 's task in maintaining law and order exposes him to a greater risk of attack than other members of the public . |
| 15 | Alternatively , a person may place himself in a dangerous position which exposes him to the risk of involvement in the accident in which he is harmed . |
| 16 | Stonehenge still has a very special air in spite of the official attempts to destroy the place ; York Minster has it , and Chartres has it to an incredible extent . |
| 17 | The first phase of the research compares the way that expertise is learned in the normal way , with the way that a ‘ knowledge engineer ’ elicits an expert 's knowledge and transfers it to a computer programme . |
| 18 | I have carried out several privatisations in my time in commercial and industrial departments , and my understanding of the word privatisation is that one takes something currently managed in the public sector and transfers it to the private sector — the last such transfer in which I was engaged involved British Steel . |
| 19 | We do not have to specify what it is we want to any analyst who in turn specifies it to a programmer who then writes a program . |
| 20 | When two businesses are both buying from and selling to one another the outstanding accounts between them can be offset and the net balance paid by whoever owes it to the other . |
| 21 | If a doctor offers a risky and as yet scientifically unproved treatment the GMC surely owes it to the public either to stop the doctor offering that treatment ( outside scientifically valid trials ) or to stop the doctor practising at all . |
| 22 | Does not the Prime Minister think that he owes it to the country to say exactly which other taxes he would put up to pay for his bribe ? |
| 23 | The Labour party owes it to the House and the country to tell us freely , frankly and openly where it stands . |
| 24 | A bridge joins it to the old Lusignan palace . |
| 25 | My conception of sport elevates it to the realms of art , where the producer finds room to express himself and the consumer studies and appreciates ; both seek satisfaction . |
| 26 | But Poulantzas argues that the attribution of the power to manipulate to the ruling class elevates it to the status of a subject — an agent who does things — and thereby reintroduces the idea of collective intensions which cry out for individualist explanation . |
| 27 | If it does catch it , it knocks it to the ground and then grabs its throat in its strong jaws , killing it by suffocation . |
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| 29 | However , their architecture — a connectionist network — limits them to a small vocabulary of 211 words . |
| 30 | In this sense one is neutral only if one can affect the fortunes of the parties and if one helps or hinders them to an equal degree and one does so because one believes that there are reasons for so acting which essentially depend on the fact that the action has an equal effect on the fortunes of the parties . |