Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reid continued to leave him out and eventually sold him to Chelsea . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've been slowly starving us to death , ’ they said . |
| 3 | However , although at this stage the inner reaches of PCF life , the practical realities of daily party cultural work , were slowly revealing themselves to Nizan , his intellectual and ideological development was still very much dominated by sectarian rhetoric and abstract , idealised images of a better future destined to arise from the overthrow of capitalism . |
| 4 | They later intervened on his behalf when he was investigated for criminal fraud , thereby opening themselves to allegations of having accepted bribes . |
| 5 | Arnulf achieved his goal , thereby opening himself to charges of duplicity . |
| 6 | Rose shut herself into her office , grimly applying herself to routine . |
| 7 | Finally Ayatollah Khomeini had reclaimed his mantle as the most radical of the Imams by proclaiming a fatwa against Rushdie in February 1989 , effectively condemning him to death . |
| 8 | not sending him there , rather send him to Judge |
| 9 | To the north they had obtained the county of Maine only to lose it to William the Conqueror , Duke of Normandy . |
| 10 | While the shame of the public defamation felt by the typical Nazi lawyer was allegedly almost enough to drive him to suicide , reactions of astonishment , disbelief , anxiety , and criticism can be read between the lines of the responses from judges and the justice administration , and the most outspoken reaction was that the Führer had been badly misinformed and his ‘ wholly unexpected attack on justice ’ much ‘ discussed and criticized ’ . |
| 11 | In the wild most of the eggs or fry of this type of spawner are eaten , but just enough make it to adulthood to keep the population steady . |
| 12 | His youth had perhaps exposed him to charges of being too much under the control of guardians ( bajuli ) but none is documented after Atto in 838 . |
| 13 | Otherwise , some people would indeed quite literally eat themselves to death — in fact there have been a few cases of disturbed people doing just that in recent years . |
| 14 | One focus is Jesus , who reveals the love of God for us , and so reconciles us to God , ; the other is the spiritual and ethical community which he founded . |
| 15 | After apparently driving it to France , Roche nonetheless assured everyone that the dioxin was safe — up until two weeks ago , when it started offering to retrieve it ‘ if it is not ’ . |
| 16 | I do n't want to stifle discussion , but had n't we better confine it to matters within the competence of this committee ? |
| 17 | In August , an acquaintance gave him the address of a London representative ‘ who will apparently introduce me to Noël and Oliver and Bobby ! ’ |
| 18 | " You 'd better send yourself to Hoggatt 's if you want to get there by eight-thirty . |
| 19 | " Better send it to Hoggatt 's " . |
| 20 | Dis poetry nar put yu to sleep |
| 21 | I 'd only send him to Wincanton if a new jockey comes into the equation , and needs to get to know him . ’ |
| 22 | And Y ? is the reason I can not find a genuinely happy ending to this story ; there seems to be a choice between adding poisonous chemicals and not — both of which apparently lend themselves to doom and disaster for the earth and its creatures , rather than sweetness and happiness ever after . |
| 23 | What Nanette has said has been an important introduction and if yo , if what sa you have prepared altogether is legible then perhaps give it to Eileen and it can go out in the Synod papers that will be helpful . |
| 24 | Essentially it is the ultimate perfection — a hostile critic might say ‘ emasculation ’ — of Netherland polyphony , its florid elements pruned , its dissonances disguised or mollified by preparation and other devices which so lend themselves to codification that ‘ the style of Palestrina ’ has become the ideal model for students of sixteenth-century composition . |
| 25 | ( b ) that some parts or aspects of a topic naturally lend themselves to comparisons or joint treatment . |
| 26 | Er basically stuffing yourself to excess for two weeks . |
| 27 | In these commentaries — on Solomon 's rebuilding of the Temple , on Esras and Nehemiah , especially on Samuel — he constantly addressed himself to passages about kings . |
| 28 | If I may my Lord there is an issue that was raised in my learned friends reply er which er was a new point er and where I do take issue with him and this concerns the issue of the relevance of the directive here the , the issue relating to er whether or not the er Lloyd 's Act and the society have got any relevance in respect of the directive , his submission as I understood it , was that under article one , eight , nine the directive only addressed itself to states , to the British Government and that therefore the reliance on the directive by the society and in relation to the Lloyds Act was er a misconceived er reliance . |
| 29 | To be sure we are seeing it in a grotesquely parodied form , but what leads to Celia being nearly raped is nothing less than the prevailing structures of patriarchal and heterosexual authority : it is after all her hitherto paranoidly jealous husband who has literally dragged her to Volpone 's bed . |
| 30 | Erm yeah I did mention earlier actually there was one or two ways that you could perhaps help me er one was erm I hope , I 'd like to think that obviously my service has been of value to you erm I 'd also like to think that you can perhaps recommend me to people you know er you did actually mention earlier erm was it Peter you work with , was it |