Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either you tip the dustmen to take it away or you take it to the tip yourself . |
| 2 | Like when we go to the laundrette , or she takes me to the swimming baths to have a hot shower . |
| 3 | ‘ Either we terrorise them into submission , or we abandon them to the vacuum of a permissive existence . |
| 4 | The larvae then migrate through the tissue of the mouth ( cheeks , tongue , and pharynx ) to the stomach , where they attach themselves to the stomach lining . |
| 5 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
| 6 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 7 | ‘ And I think it 's going to be very important that I sell it to the Congress and the American people , and that we have a partnership here . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Good afternoon , ladies and gentlemen , it is with great pleasure that I introduce you to the magic of television … ‘ |
| 9 | I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime . |
| 10 | Although it was late and Mr Edgar was tired after his journey , Joseph insisted , so I took him to the master 's room . |
| 11 | Rather than you selling it to the boss and then all the trouble . |
| 12 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 13 | Kathy Rooney had to leave me one night when we were dining at the Kensington Hilton , so she took me to the porter to arrange for him to take me upstairs to my room when I was ready . |
| 14 | She ran out and tried to send me away but I pretended Sabine was expecting me , so she took me to the studio . |
| 15 | I am recommending that we take her to the hospital immediately . ’ |
| 16 | Det Chief Supt Ken John , co-ordinating the murder inquiry , said : ‘ We feel that we owe it to the gay community to go out to the community and warn individual practising homosexuals who are frequenting various pubs , restaurants and bars in London to be aware that somebody who is prepared to attack their community is about in the city . |
| 17 | What they 're actually asking for is that whether we would be able to help them by arranging for a loan on their behalf , they would service the debt at this time , so I might suggest chairman that we revert it to the finance committee for |
| 18 | By this meeting Nigel had come up with a further solution : rather than abolish SERPS , he suggested that we modify it to the point that it could be afforded . |
| 19 | Our tiny underground Church was too small , so we invited everyone to the main hall of Munster Road School . |
| 20 | B. Hunslett claims the Service Crew were the first élitist group to travel the country with the casual look , and that they brought it to the attention of the general public . |
| 21 | ‘ They spent a fortune developing the place , ’ the Maggot said , ‘ but the rich folks never came , so they sold it to the rich dickheads instead . ’ |
| 22 | They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers . |
| 23 | Reg. v. Grant and Hewitt , 12 J.L.R. 585 , although it adds nothing to the established principles , is an example of inconsistent previous statements wrongly withheld by the Crown at the trial but properly , if belatedly , disclosed on appeal , so that a conviction depending on evidence of identification was quashed for want of a fair trial . |
| 24 | Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed . |
| 25 | He makes it repeatedly clear that he addresses himself to the Greeks who have little knowledge of Roman institutions ; but on the other hand he refers to Roman readers ( 6.5 1 .3–8 ) and is quite obviously looking at them over his shoulder . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | The veal in the clingfilm had now thawed out so he consigned it to the wastebasket . |
| 28 | He 's mad on polo so he takes me to the Hurlingham Club to watch him play . |
| 29 | The bronze statue of Boadicea , in her chariot , which can be seen on the Thames Embankment at Westminster Bridge , is the work of Hamo Thornycroft , R.A. , who had a studio in Holland Park , but it proved too small , so he removed it to the ‘ tin tabernacle ’ which Sir John Isaac Thornycroft , F.R.S. , had built as a workshop in the gardens of Walpole House on Chiswick Mall , during the last decade of the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | Once he said it to the answering service . |