Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forwarding a copy of this letter to his wife , he added that ‘ I quite squirm at the thought lest some successor to me in the near future should treat these chiefs in a different manner from my own ’ . |
| 2 | Er and you 'd get some feedback to us from the Neighbourhood Watch point of view er and it 's not peculiar to Neighbourhood Watches but er from , from your point of view you also have access to the police in that er eventually there should be a liaison built up , not overnight I mean it wo n't , it wo n't happen tomorrow morning either , but there 'll be a lia liaison between the , the local police officer and yourselves er and if there 's any problems that you may have , you know and you 'll be able to communicate back to them . |
| 3 | They should be placed where horses can have free access to them without the fear of being trapped and hurt by a more aggressive horse higher in the pecking order . |
| 4 | ‘ Scouting attracts the hooligans , ’ he told the National Defence Association in 1910 , ‘ who are really the fellows of character if you can turn them in the right way ; and no doubt these fellows will be of some use to us in the future instead of being absolute waste material , fit only to be buried . ’ |
| 5 | I think that Harold himself always had a feeling , despite the nine years between us , that my succession would not make enough difference between his regime and the next , and he mentioned this argument to me on the 17th . |
| 6 | All fears are of the material world and we have to give some thought to them for the sake of our ambition and our dependants and our own physical well being , but they are not transcendent things and have no meaning there . |
| 7 | He tendered a dry , crisp hand to her on the doorstep and inclined his head in farewell . |
| 8 | The clearing banks , which are deeply sceptical about the commercial value to them of the loans scheme , have used the changed political climate to demand a higher price for their participation . |
| 9 | I was grateful for the Foreign Secretary 's friendly reference to me at the Conservative party conference , and his acceptance of my expertise on one subject — even though it was only the cinema . |
| 10 | I did not pay much attention to it as the time , because we had n't decided which peak we were going to attempt . |
| 11 | Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them . |
| 12 | George , who was eight years old when Coleridge was born , became almost a second father to him in the difficult years ahead , and was , Coleridge wrote , ‘ every way nearer to Perfection than any man I ever yet knew — indeed , he is worth the whole family in a Lump . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Did she make an official complaint to you about the attack ? ’ |
| 14 | The word itself is derived from two Greek words : holos and kaustos ; the former , ‘ wholeness ’ , has a tragically ironic edge to it in the light of Leonard 's concerns for ‘ oneness ’ . |
| 15 | There 's a advertisement er for example in a recent issue of the Guardian , if my er Dutch was erm a little better I 'd quote it into the record but erm I 'm afraid it 's , it does n't make very much sense to me at the moment . |
| 16 | But I have n't given much thought to it at the moment . |
| 17 | ( 7 ) Organisations such as the Consumers ' Association , the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and television programmes such as Watchdog may possibly have dealt with a similar problem to yours in the past . |
| 18 | It had always been a moment of pure magic to him in the theatre , the consciousness of the huge rustling animal behind him , and the hush as the house lights went down , the pause of utter stillness , silence , and then as he brought his baton down , the incredible surge of excitement as music smashed the silence , created instantly the illusion of that otherworld that did n't really exist . |
| 19 | It became clear that he was heading east towards Zamora in the opposite direction to us at the same level after takeoff from Porto , and fully occupied flying his aeroplane — he did not respond to the controller 's requests for position reports or estimates . |
| 20 | An extremely fat and gummy bus conductress wobbles and frets and poddles and wets on the opposite seat to me of the bus 's lower , non smokers deck in fierce counterpoint to the holey road beneath . |
| 21 | ‘ Charles was an incredible help to me at the beginning of my career , ’ said Bernard with professional earnestness . |
| 22 | I am also enclosing a note about the British National Corpus , and shall get the discussed poster to you before the next ESBW event . |
| 23 | Anecdotes that bolster self-image reveal a great deal to you about the speaker . |
| 24 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 25 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Pray think of a right man wt out regard to recommendations , which hitherto have not been of great service to me in the like cases , ’ the duke suggested . |
| 27 | Sun is looking to shoot down Silicon Graphics Inc with Freedom , admitting that its graphics specialist neighbour in Mountain View , California , has been ‘ a major irritation to us over the last few years . ’ |
| 28 | He 's been a good friend to me during the war when we |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll have you know that Tim has been a very good friend to me over the past five years . ’ |
| 30 | Otto 's been a good friend to you over the years . ’ |