Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various items get gulped up into my mouth , and after skilful massage with tongue and teeth I transfer them to the plate for additional sculpture with knife and fork and spoon . |
| 2 | But by the time I tell you her story I want you to be prepared : that 's to say , I want you to have had enough of books , and parrots , and lost letters , and bears , and the opinions of Dr Enid Starkie , and even the opinions of Dr Geoffrey Braithwaite . |
| 3 | With my best caricature British accent I reduce him to a fit of stifled giggles . |
| 4 | When my mother and a friend came to visit me at Wolverton I brought them to Cambridge and , with the confidence of inexperience , I took them punting on the river . |
| 5 | I carried mine , then I put it in my pocket and further along the route I gave it to someone in the crowd . ’ |
| 6 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
| 7 | Thing was in fairness Martin er er it 's actually the sociability side er both both of you talked about the house did n't you and how , how long you came here and of course I changed it to how , the directions er which you gave me now |
| 8 | ‘ Although when I approach a part I link it to someone I 've observed in real life , with drawing this observation is a much closer examination . |
| 9 | They are given in alphabetical order , and from my own experience I know them to be absolutely reliable . |
| 10 | With deliberate irony I took him to Lock 's in St James 's Street , the most aristocratic hat-maker in London . |
| 11 | I wish it was Friday I want it to be the weekend man . |
| 12 | I did n't approve of what he was doing , but if I refused his money I would be more and more visible , so I took it , and when he had gone off in relief back towards the dining car I gave it to the barman . |
| 13 | Members are given a discount card which entitles them to 10% of all yarn and haberdashery purchases from the shop and they also have the opportunity to sell their garments through the shop on a commission basis . |
| 14 | ‘ In a matter such as this , the reasoning which led them to their opinion is a vital piece of information which should not be withheld from the House of Commons . |
| 15 | Firms are assumed to have unbounded capacity for working out strategies and payoffs , and for working through the abstract chains of reasoning which lead them to non-co-operative equilibrium strategies . |
| 16 | But there is a more immediate aim for striker Ian Wright who is fighting a fitness battle to return in the live Sky TV game against the club which sold him to Highbury less than a year ago and show he is still the man England need . |
| 17 | Ten years of Reagan armament which allowed it to , also bankrupted it ; without the USSR as enemy , not even the United States will permanently keep up this level , and if they wanted to , they could no longer afford it . |
| 18 | The car which took us to the station drove as sedately as a Daimler in a royal procession although the people of Amsterdam were on their way to work and provided admirable subjects for baiting . |
| 19 | Just as importantly , he is possessed of a generosity of mind which allows him to be calmly judicious about the merits of writers who can advocate militant homosexuality and drug-taking ( such as Thom Gunn ) , sympathise with feminism ( Elaine Feinstein ) or adhere to some variant of Marxism ( Hugh MacDiarmid ) . |
| 20 | The winner on the day was Francois Lombard — a result which took him to third place overall in the championships . |
| 21 | His uncle 's wealth , the chauffeur-driven limousine which brought him to and from school , cut him off as securely as did his own past . |
| 22 | A vast impenetrable openness which froze him to the spot where he was as if he was caught in ice . |
| 23 | My mind is full of dark thoughts and evil yearnings , terrible images which move me to wickedness , as if to some obscure crime which perhaps I have committed already — ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Let me come to England with you , to see your parents , to give your sister that interview which brought you to me , and … ’ |
| 25 | Sections on Calligraphy , Illustration , Typography and Book Design make way for a commercial break which introduces us to 28 first editions of Penguin paperbacks . |
| 26 | There is also a degree of ambiguity in Doisneau 's finest pictures which allows them to be interpreted in a variety of ways . |
| 27 | By its very nature the trial is a passive form of review which confines itself to an examination of the finished product of the police investigation . |
| 28 | She and her husband were met at the station by a small open carriage which took them to the palace . |
| 29 | Although all felt that they had found a means of living which enabled them to be open to this reality , they nevertheless say that it was experienced as a gift and a grace beyond anything that could be achieved by conscious effort . |
| 30 | Leaving aside the Prologue and the short Un-accompanied duet for Peter and Ellen which links it to the first act proper , each of the three acts is prefaced by an orchestral " interlude " , and there are three more of these interludes separating the scenes within the acts . |