Example sentences of "[indef pn] to the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Where did you come from ? , ’ asks someone to the Swamp Thing in The Return Of The Swamp Thing ( Cannons , Oxford Street and Panton Street , 12 ) . |
2 | It was the one shared walk of the Rambles and I had forgotten the golden rule when introducing someone to the hills , never to stretch them beyond their ability . |
3 | Always take someone to the toilet if they ask . |
4 | ‘ I 'm trying to tell you — well , ask you , to be accurate — to take someone to the cricket match next week . ’ |
5 | In certain styles of kung fu , methods of combat are practised for taking someone to the ground with a sweep , called a ‘ take-down ’ . |
6 | Just to try & redress the balance here ; - ) I watched the goals on MOTD and I must say that Speed did appear to wrestle someone to the ground ( def. free kick ) . |
7 | He derives much satisfaction from introducing someone to the sport and says : ‘ You do n't need to be strong to play it . |
8 | He thought it was maybe just er the driver had taken someone to the church was waiting to go back for them . |
9 | Their private parts were firmly jammed in the wringer and all it needed was for somebody to the rescue . |
10 | And , and you think to yourself oh we 've seen everything , but I used to get pleasure in taking somebody to the potteries because I knew they had n't seen it and it would be like ooh , when they got there , you could see the shock , the surprise in their eyes when they went in there |
11 | And also in there there 's like , there 's there 's the odd card saying swap your entire hand with somebody to the left or the right of you , or swap a card with the person on the left or the right of you , and that 's quite funny for a laugh as well . |
12 | There is evidence that some earlier peoples in Central America , particularly the Olmec , were also concerned with time , but none to the degree that the Maya were . |
13 | The editors have supplied some footnote cross-references to the Bemerkungen and the Investigations , but none to the Blue and Brown Books . |
14 | It is true that all advanced industrial societies have witnessed this shift but none to the same extent as this country . |
15 | Well , to hell with them , but I will say everything to the last word . ’ |
16 | I remember everything to the very last moment . |
17 | I explained everything to the policeman . |
18 | Meanwhile his birth comes to seem more and more impossible and Abraham on several occasions brings everything to the brink of disaster . |
19 | The success of those appearances in the cities of Tokyo and Nagoya owed everything to the professionalism that had transformed Kylie in two short years from innocent to hard-headed star . |
20 | City failed to produce one worthwhile shot and owed everything to the extraordinary reflexes of their goalkeeper . |
21 | These blessed theatrical people leave everything to the very last minute . |
22 | Dino is cool to skate with because he is better then me and he really pushes everything to the maximum . |
23 | That was a mythical representation of Scotland that owed everything to the prejudices of people who lived in the past and knew nothing of the realities of the Scotland that then existed . |
24 | So , for perfect results , reduce everything to the lowest common denominator before putting it into the press . |
25 | For someone of this persuasion , who does not want to attribute everything to the workings of power , the problem obviously arises of why the sexes should have distinctive linguistic subcultures at all . |
26 | This mixture of fish gets on fine in my tank , except when a week after buying them , the Rainbows spawned which caused chaos as they pushed everything to the other end of the tank . |
27 | For since the Treaty of Tordesillas , signed in 1494 , all the unknown world to the east of an imaginary line drawn 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands would belong to Portugal ; everything to the west of that line would belong to Spain . |
28 | Indeed its formulation provided the theological undergirding for having a Council at all and not leaving everything to the pope to decide alone . |
29 | To take an example , the observation that shareholders are on the whole behaving passively is consistent with the view that they know little about the firm and consequently leave everything to the manager . |
30 | He performed everything to the clock . |