Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr. Welch recommended them to the committee , who noted the report but took no further action . |
| 2 | In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators . |
| 3 | In the Middle Ages , when the French adjudged them to be alien , difficult and heathen , they were held to have descended from Scotsmen transported to Spain by Julius Caesar . |
| 4 | An RAF helicopter spotted their craft drifting about 10 miles off Aberdovey and winched them to safety . |
| 5 | ‘ They expected me to be a lawyer too . |
| 6 | What I discovered at this point , was that they , my Thai co-workers , also expected me to be the teacher for this newly organised project ! |
| 7 | She expected them to be ready , mounted , properly turned out and willing . |
| 8 | She would cook them all a good breakfast and make it clear that she expected them to be at the table on time . |
| 9 | The danger is that they might turn out to be entirely different from how you expected them to be . |
| 10 | He also advocated the appointment of prison inspectors and made it clear that he expected them to be as thorough as he himself had been , probing every corner and speaking with every prisoner . |
| 11 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 12 | Hunter , Joyce , and Redruth were told what was happening , and were less surprised that we expected them to be . |
| 13 | Not that I really expected them to ; I could hardly expect the Umpire to side with me so soon . |
| 14 | I never expected them to , I 'll tell you the truth , but then again at that age you do n't think they ever will or it 'll ever happen to you do you ? |
| 15 | But EMAP said yesterday that by cutting overheads , it expected them to be profitable this year . |
| 16 | You know , they told me , and the they were on , and they were like they really expected them to just make up and they started having a fight ! |
| 17 | When he entertained them to dinner , they travelled to his apartment at Buckingham Palace , not the other way around . |
| 18 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 19 | Anderson captained Ireland on their short tour of France , led them to an unexpected victory over a French XV and keeps the job now but age and waning powers put a question-mark over his selection for the team at all . |
| 20 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 21 | It was precisely their erudition , their cultivation , their financial security , their disdain for the mediocre that led them to the gas chambers . |
| 22 | At the top of the staircase various Chamberlains , dressed in gold embroidered jackets , welcomed the guests and led them to the Grand Master of Ceremonies . |
| 23 | Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two . |
| 24 | Again , the would-be reformers ' interpretation of the 1980s led them to this conclusion . |
| 25 | Rough was lucky to miss out on one of Scottish football 's most infamous scandals , when he missed the taxi that whisked five if his international team-mates to the notorious bender in Copenhagen which led them to being banned for life . |
| 26 | The choice of Natal is strange as captain Craig Jamieson , the man who led them to the Cup in 1990 , is still very much involved in rugby . |
| 27 | One of the crooks was picked up half-a-mile away and he led them to the tot who was sitting unhurt on a pedestrian walkway . |
| 28 | They had a vaporised block that led them to an idée fixe about test-tube fusion being real . |
| 29 | The ad led them to Jennifer Vettel , who told the magazine that when her husband objected to her bike , she sold it . |
| 30 | Talbot led them to the wardroom and gestured them to their seats . |