Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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1 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
2 | The wind was blowing up the hill so I was able to ignore the thick cover on the left of the track and concentrate all my attention on the rocks to my right . |
3 | I made my way through the crowds to Farr 's in Brown Street , managed to get right up to the entrance and poke my head around the door to see what was going on . |
4 | I made my way through the trees to the farmyard , four Commandos were stacking ammunition against the farmhouse wall . |
5 | I hope that many people will send their views on the proposals to the Inland Revenue . |
6 | This second volume of drawings vindicates their reliance on the individuals to whom they have entrusted the expansion of this area of their collections . |
7 | The Netherlands had been happy to accept the supranational principle in advance , but insisted on retaining the right to withdraw from the discussions should it prove impossible in its eyes for the ideas to be turned into economic practice . |
8 | " What about my poor old Ducky , " she changed her demands from the pigeons to her pony . |
9 | During the flight , Diana paid frequent trips from her seat near the toilets to her boys at the front of the British Airways 747 . |
10 | It lived in freshwater lakes in southern Pangaea in the later Permian , and became less of a sprawler , swinging its limbs from the shoulders to the hips , thus lengthening its stride . |
11 | Sabrina zipped up her anorak as she stepped out into the cold night air and rummaged in her pockets for the keys to the Audi Coupe . |
12 | Labour has doubled its lead over the Conservatives to 6 per cent in the past month , according to a poll of polls conducted for the BBC programme Newsnight . |
13 | That last thought caused her to pull herself together , and , making an effort to control her mind , she turned her attention to the letters to be answered . |
14 | Most kidneys for transplant come from those who have left their bodies for the organs to be used after death , but there were not enough . |
15 | Neighbours of the site are being asked to send their comments on the plans to a Government inspector who will decide whether to uphold Sedgefield District Council 's decision to turn down the extension for the social club . |
16 | Now Darlington Borough Council is asking villagers to send their comments on the plans to the Department of the Environment . |
17 | He asked them to do their homework with the schemata to be sent them , for the Church had no time to lose . |
18 | ‘ You know exactly what I mean , ’ she reproved , too aware that her pleasure in the music had been mirrored on her face more than once during their tour of the nightspots to be able to disavow her delight in the entertainment . |
19 | Peter Mansfield , a distinguished British commentator on the Middle East , sketches its history from the Sumerians to Napoleon 's invasion of Egypt in 1798 and takes a more detailed look at events thereafter , right up to the Gulf War . |
20 | But how I am to get conveyed with my luggage to Maitland neither Stephen or I can devise , three teams of bullocks having left Warra on their way from the plains to this place eight days ago and have not yet arrived . |
21 | He clenched his teeth fighting waves of nausea as the vehicle jostled its way up the ramps to the MID checkpoint . |
22 | It became unsafe and found its way between the wars to Newton . |
23 | Making her way up the stairs to One Deck , Lindsey tapped at the door of the Empress Suite . |
24 | She pushed her way through the crowds to the back of the cab , where another group of nomes were already nomehandling a plank into position , and scrambled up to where Dorcas was trying to make himself heard in the middle of an excited crowd . |
25 | She could either turn round , or brazen her way past the pressmen to the lower reaches of the parkland . |
26 | Initially the Germans were more proficient at this than the Allies , for they kept their snipers in the same sector for long periods so they became familiar with the enemy 's trench systems there , while the Allies rotated their snipers with the units to which they belonged . |
27 | In 1916 , a special committee produced its recommendations for the precautions to be taken in the event of an air raid . |
28 | The organisers announced the birth of a ‘ Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China ’ , and proposed a motto : ‘ Today Peking , tomorrow Hong Kong ’ , which was as close as Hong Kong came to making explicit its interest in the struggles to the north . |
29 | Hekmatyar , a hardliner who had opposed the Peshawar Accord , regrouped his fighters in the hills to the south of the city and began issuing demands to the new regime , principal among them being the expulsion from Kabul of Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam , the ethnic Uzbek militia leader who had fought for the Najibullah regime until switching allegiance to Masud in March [ see p. 38847 ] . |
30 | On the basis of the provision that ‘ whoever should be heir ’ should act as instructed , Scaevola is prepared to construe a trust on the coheir to make over his quarter in the gardens to Seia . |