Example sentences of "[indef pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ So here the plaintiffs left everything to the defendant 's husband ; … and they must take the consequences of his having obtained it without explaining to her or her understanding what she was signing . |
| 32 | But that 's the same as if you willed spouse had died before you for instance , and you were the second of two to die and she had n't or she might have everything to the children and you still got a hundred and sixty thousand pounds , you ca n't avoid the inheritance tax in those circumstances . |
| 33 | It was better to leave everything to the police , who with superior training and equipment must stand a greater chance of uncovering crime . |
| 34 | Now , returning across the Hungerford Bridge , those same thoughts came to haunt him a little as the overhead lights stained everything to the colour of dull old parchment . |
| 35 | Wycliffe returned everything to the drawer . |
| 36 | Bring everything to the small salon as soon as you have it ready . |
| 37 | He would have done better to have given everything to the boy outright , but it is my belief he did not want Benedict to lose touch with his godmother . ’ |
| 38 | They had decided against inviting Bill O'Farrell , the agent , or Leroy Burns , Grunte 's ‘ minder ’ , as the conspirators were pretty certain that those two would leak everything to the MP . |
| 39 | He stated himself that he did not believe that neurotic symptoms all had a sexual cause and berated a student writing a paper on chess saying , ‘ you can not reduce everything to the Oedipus Complex ’ . |
| 40 | The first one is John Stuart Mill 's objection which is that we ca n't leave everything to the people . |
| 41 | So it is not possible , not practically possible to leave everything to the people . |
| 42 | This week I want to start by reconsidering that first objection but we ca n't leave everything to the people . |
| 43 | ‘ Take everything to the van and check it with Mr Sorley . |
| 44 | The best Korf could think of was leaving everything to the provincial gentry , which Alexander had tried without success in his Moscow speech of March 1856 . |
| 45 | For , of course , he would deny everything to the police , and , though she knew she was right , she did n't have a shred of evidence . |
| 46 | It owes everything to the puppets but the tongue is firmly in the cheek for this production of Thunderbirds … |
| 47 | British Champion Colin McRae pushing everything to the limits … it requires rapid changes through the gear box … even when cornering … now in the Banbury factory of Prodrive engineers have spent 18 months developing a semi-automatic gear box … they 're already becoming common in Formula One … now for the first time they 've been successfully introduced in a rally car … with just a touch of a button the driver can change gear without having to take his hand off the steering wheel . |
| 48 | We may be meant to think that time is simultaneous , in a way that may owe something to the simultaneity propounded , ‘ perhaps ’ , in Eliot 's Four Quartets , where ‘ History is now and England ’ ; or that it is cyclical , a turning wheel , with human depravity paling into insignificance as the wheel turns into modern times . |
| 49 | She disappeared , then reappeared behind the counter and whispered something to the girl who was on duty there . |
| 50 | ‘ I mean , ’ he was saying to Caroline , 'she 'd bring something to the table and I 'd have to ask what it was . |
| 51 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 52 | They owed something to European social democracy , including the French experience of planning , and something to the planning experience of other parts of the developing world , notably India . |
| 53 | George Underwood : David was always a bit over the top and he decided to write to John Bloom , a millionaire business , saying something to the effect ‘ Brian Epstein has got The Beatles but you can have us ’ , but Bloom was n't that interested and passed his letter to Les Conn , an agent . ’ |
| 54 | Mary Finnigan : It was at this time , when David flew out to Malta , then not only were we organising the Arts Lab but a free open air festival in Beckenham , David , having flown out to the Maltese song festival had sent Angie a postcard saying something to the effect that he was going to be in Italy and why did n't Angie come and join him , which she did , leaving me to sort out both the folk club and the free festival organised for Beckenham Park the following Sunday . ’ |
| 55 | But whatever the proportion agreed with the taxman , the cost of superfluous luxury , of expensive servicing and of trading-in a fully-depreciated old faithful for a new machine would once again mean something to the wallet of Mr Toad 's great-grandson . |
| 56 | Jinny had made one attempt to say something to the boy , but Doyle stopped her immediately , catching hold of her chin and jerking her head away . |
| 57 | He was struggling to pull something to the top of the dunes . |
| 58 | Indeed , this lack of distinctiveness owed something to the changes which had occurred during the inter-war years . |
| 59 | Gregory of Tours and Bede both knew that the conversion of their peoples to Christianity had done something to the religion to which they were converted . |
| 60 | Much as he mistrusted almost every Irishman with whom he came in contact on the Continent ( Bishop Clement for his disrespect of patristic authority , the priest Sampson for his cavalier attitude to the baptismal rite , Virgil of Salzburg for sowing dissension between himself and the duke of Bavaria as well as for believing that the world was round ) , Boniface 's establishing of monasteries as the learned back-up to missionary work and his devotion to the papacy and to Rome both owed something to the Irish background in England . |