Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then transports them to earthly space for human use . |
| 2 | He offers them to his friends . |
| 3 | Doody notes that Leapor picks up Swift 's characters or anti-characters and turns them to her own purposes . |
| 4 | An interesting aspect of any ‘ counter-revolution ’ is that it takes the terms of the ‘ revolution ’ and turns them to its own purposes . |
| 5 | Telling their own story from childhood to an interviewer is for most people an intimate experience which encourages them to be remarkably open about themselves . |
| 6 | Between 60 and 70 per cent of Salisbury 's clergy wives now work , and the church hierarchy encourages them to . |
| 7 | Certainly the education system encourages them to , by valuing only the Standard in most territories . |
| 8 | It also sort of encourages them to farm as much land as they can to presumably rent more out . |
| 9 | At once she bereaves me to money and cunt . |
| 10 | Anita drives me to Twickenham Clinic at seven . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And the society investigates them , and if they are deserving , either refers them to some appropriate charity or grants them relief or refers them back to us with a note of recommendation . ’ |
| 14 | For ants , matricide is an act of special genetic madness and formidable indeed must be the drug that drives them to it . |
| 15 | Very few studies have sought to position shoplifting within a broader social and political sphere , where women in particular are vulnerable to a consumer fetishism that drives them to lawbreaking … |
| 16 | The concretion of the Christian religion drives them to its edge ; indeed makes them wonder whether there is a place for them within it . |
| 17 | As these animals roam around their home ground , any unaccustomed mark alerts them to the passage of a stranger . |
| 18 | " The very thought of it chills me to the bone . " |
| 19 | And so , through the link , I receive an impression of Ace 's thoughts , if Pool channels them to me . ’ |
| 20 | It points me to the verse numbered twenty-one , and the line is : ‘ And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death . ’ ’ |
| 21 | The central figure points me to a single chair , placed opposite . |
| 22 | ‘ Fits me to a T. I suppose I could n't keep it , could I ? ’ |
| 23 | If the spiritual realisations become bogged in the mud of the stagnant pond , materials stagger about pulling this way and that on the lead that joins them to their master . |
| 24 | They have to compete for telescope time , to make sure that no one beats them to crucial measurements . |
| 25 | The farmers see a danger that their products will become uncompetitive ; the road freight carriers have similar fears about what will happen if 1992 and the advent of the European single market exposes them to competition from foreign firms unfettered by the restrictions and burdens imposed on the Dutch . |
| 26 | For instance , it softens the shells of crayfish , and exposes them to disease . |
| 27 | Thus ministers no longer feel that the doctrine exposes them to special risks in the House but , by confining all the advice of the departments to ministers , it does ensure that they are so much better informed and briefed than their critics . |
| 28 | The reproductive role of women exposes them to many health problems , including diseases associated with malnutrition , infections and diseases brought on by inadequate prenatal care . |
| 29 | But even people who are concerned about me say things which seem to be complimentary ; a teacher remarks that I have become ‘ a sylph ’ lately , Mum defends me to my grandma as ‘ naturally slender ’ , and Dad makes jokes about my skinny legs — reassuring jokes , the sort he used to make when I was little , before I became ‘ a young woman ’ and embarrassing to him . |
| 30 | The mind puts together certain things and deems them to be of the same kind . |