Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart . |
| 2 | He has a computer brain , controlling the pneumatics inside that bring him to life . |
| 3 | Because when you do that then that encourages you to , oh yes , well we can , you know , that went quite well but we ought to have done that and that and then you immediately , you , you 're eager to do other things and people get used to splitting up and tackling things in a focused way . |
| 4 | If we are alert to textual detail — and all studies of the reverberations of imagery in the Miller 's Tale tell us that it is a tale that encourages us to be so ( see below ) — then we can also find a suggestive parallel between Absolon 's inability to detach himself entirely from the vulgarities of the human world and the Host 's failure to impose an elegantly hierarchical structure on the tale-telling competition . |
| 5 | I did n't want her to give herself over to the view of life that underlay all this , the philosophy that pinned her to the shadow-corners of the world . |
| 6 | It had begun to rain : the kind of damp , penetrating drizzle that chills you to the bone . |
| 7 | And over all hummed and shimmered the warring coloured adverts for Spiderglass and Madreidetic and Usines du Rhône with a dozen others belting out music and olfacts that dizzied her to nausea . |
| 8 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 9 | He thought of Alan Millet … did n't know why , could n't place the trigger that led him to Alan Millet and a pub in the Elephant and Castle south of the Thames . |
| 10 | I scrambled up to find a rather nervous photographer who had not enjoyed the path that led him to that spot . |
| 11 | I want to take you through the thinking that led me to that conclusion , and then to concentrate on one of the keys to securing that future — the whole question of advancing the cause of children 's books . |
| 12 | It was precisely their erudition , their cultivation , their financial security , their disdain for the mediocre that led them to the gas chambers . |
| 13 | They had a vaporised block that led them to an idée fixe about test-tube fusion being real . |
| 14 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 15 | Networks operating on this principle perform an operation that is likely to be extremely important for the neocortex , and it was actually the search for a mechanism that would do this that led us to the suggested modification rule : the modifiable interconnections tend to make the representative elements become uncorrelated , and thus to signal independently of each other . |
| 16 | The United States , faced with an allocation problem , began a review of its defensive commitments that led it to the conclusion that in the event of a military confrontation with the Soviet Union in Europe , the resources it could commit to the fledgling NATO alliance would be insufficient . |
| 17 | A useful outcome is the third ingredient , for what would be the point of skills that led you to a useless outcome ? |
| 18 | It is recommended that this error log is never allowed to grow so large that typing it to the screen takes a significant amount of time . |
| 19 | the most important time aspect of a planation surface is from the latest possible time of initiation of the cycle that produced it to the earliest possible time that it ceased being shaped ( i.e. its terminal date ) because of either burial or uplift ; |
| 20 | I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny . |
| 21 | Ties that bind us to mother |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | For ants , matricide is an act of special genetic madness and formidable indeed must be the drug that drives them to it . |
| 24 | 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 … |
| 25 | Well that got me to a lot of good for warmth ! |
| 26 | The first thing you 've go to do is you 've got to provide services that mean something to everyone at work . |
| 27 | The Labour party has learnt nothing about the deep-seated wish of the British people for local government structures that reflect what they feel about their local communities , and units of government that mean something to them and are not imposed on them . |
| 28 | After such training a given element will , when the stimulus is applied , be the target both of external input and of internal input by way of the associative links that connect it to other elements . |
| 29 | As some of the old Orkney words and expressions fall in to disuse , links in the valuable heritage that thurls us to our Viking ancestry are broken . |
| 30 | Devolution was seen by heads as a process that lent itself to a more collaborative style of management . |