Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] to the [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is probably downstairs , knocking back a stiff gin and tonic before submitting himself to the milder offering of champagne . |
| 2 | It does not lend itself to the earlier analysis of symbolism which identified distinct abstract signifiers and concrete signifieds , since it simultaneously operates at both levels . |
| 3 | Cumberland , an eye-witness recorded , ‘ jumped around the room with joy ’ on learning he could resume his pursuit of the rebels , ‘ and declared that he would follow them to the further part of Scotland . ’ |
| 4 | Duncan took out his passport and handed it to the older man , who opened it to the relevant page and stamped it with a small stamper he had with him . |
| 5 | Molesworth claimed that the House would not be committing itself to the larger scheme , nevertheless it was not in a mood for what George Bankes called an ‘ extensive scheme to enable Cabinet Ministers to entertain foreign visitors and their friends ’ . |
| 6 | but then again I 'd rather just let them get on with it I 'm not trying to convert you to the better way of doing things , cos obviously I do n't know a whether there 's |
| 7 | Educational facilities and the quality of teaching staff must also improve — either colleges of nursing must only employ qualified teaching staff or they should leave it to the higher education establishments , who will also be able to facilitate adequate library facilities . |
| 8 | They gave the magic to a cripple named Birkinlig , and he took it to the lower land and in turn bestowed it upon his friends , his household . |
| 9 | Officials , especially , fear that candour unscreened by confidentiality will open them to the later ridicule of diarists . |
| 10 | This does not require any bridging inferences to link it to the earlier sentence . |
| 11 | So we are trying to introduce him to the larger world . |
| 12 | This returns us to the earlier point about the other major forces which contributed to the development of political responses to the riots : namely the media , Parliament , the political parties , and popular ‘ common-sense ’ debate . |
| 13 | But neither should we enable this sympathy to blind us to the greater truth that more persons suffer , many fatally , from corporate crime than ‘ conventional ’ crime . |