Example sentences of "to [indef pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frenzied production one week gives way to nothing the next . |
| 2 | Place three cups on a table , one upwards and two downwards , and say to everyone the game is to turn over two cups at once so that cups the right way up are turned upside down and vice versa . |
| 3 | So the teacher of a blind child , while allowing all along in the child 's education for the difficulties he encounters , still prefers to emphasise to everyone the sameness of the child ( his skills and achievements ) . |
| 4 | Well-intentioned though their desire was to make available to everyone the best information concerning hygiene , health care , child care , etc. , and although they always placed such recommendations in the context of ensuring that everyone , through improved wages and benefits , would live at least at a ‘ national minimum of civilized life ’ , the ‘ official interference ’ implied by their proposals was disliked as much by working people who would experience it , as by the Liberal bourgeoisie who were hostile to the principle . |
| 5 | He 's forgotten to mention , by some slip of the memory , the one fact about the pits which is known to everyone the impurity of the air breathed by the pitmen ! |
| 6 | It requires government to speak with one voice , to act in a principled and coherent manner to ward all its citizens , to extend to everyone the substantive standards of justice or fairness it uses for some . |
| 7 | The longer you survived after giving assets to someone the less tax they paid on the gift . |
| 8 | In highlighted pen that you know so when he goes out with someone in ninete , in two thousand he 'll say to someone the last time I went out with someone was in nineteen ninety three . |
| 9 | if they would be very difficult to get through to somebody the truth |
| 10 | apparently he went , he went round telling everybody erm he was doing a live exercise and he got singed or something but this , this erm , its Browndown on the South Coast and it was , it was a Christ it was a Christmas piss up , regiment Christmas piss up and anything goes , as long as you do n't physically hurt somebody , although that has been known to happen and its not criminal anything goes right , but honestly the worse you do to somebody the worse they do back to you , and people are getting tied bollock naked up the flag poles , dumped in bins , erm , tied in their beds , put out in the middle of the parade ground , fucking all sorts of things you know , like what we can do , the most common thing is nicking , you know the old walking pay slips they 've got |
| 11 | This year the IRA has killed two people in Belfast compared to none the previous year . |
| 12 | Could I go back to something the lady here |
| 13 | So presumably either Pickerage was lying about his date with Hilary Frome , or the pair had been up to something the whole of Sunday . |
| 14 | In each case linguistic play will be restricted by reference to something the language may not refer to at all . |
| 15 | Key to everything the idea of the glass . |
| 16 | I 've never met anyone like him , he wanted to everything the Shaun Charman way and would not compromise . ’ |
| 17 | Quality is the most important factor since your brickwork will be exposed to everything the elements can throw at it . |
| 18 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |
| 19 | Paintwork supplied by International for all ten yachts survived the voyage in remarkably good condition , standing up to everything the oceans could throw at it . |
| 20 | Never in her entire life had she spoken to anyone the way she had just spoken to Nathan Bryce . |
| 21 | Unknown to anyone the herring meal contained DMNA , a substance which was poisonous to mink . |
| 22 | It would seem to anyone the perfect recipe for a good holiday but to these youngsters it is particularly special . |
| 23 | Umberto Eco complains , ‘ Unfortunately , ‘ postmodern ’ … is applied today to anything the user happens to like ’ ( in Hutcheon 1988 : 42 ) : as he suggests , the term is increasingly used in the media to signify little more than vague approval of what is new and striking in contemporary culture . |
| 24 | Floating aquatics have a different way of life to anything the gardener commonly encounters . |
| 25 | Isolated in this small square well in the deck , they were exposed to anything the elements cared to throw at them . |