Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sling a few carcasses to prowling cats , and I get told off for it . |
| 2 | Thus laden , I rode the 20 miles to Picton and caught the ferry ; stayed overnight in Wellington and then took the train to Auckland — no problems in putting the bike aboard ; and this journey lived up to expectations and surpassed them ; the scenery through the ‘ King Country ’ in autumn is quite unrivalled , and again looks like a superb area for a cycle tour . |
| 3 | In my union branch , as in many others , I expect the best activists to be voting Labour . |
| 4 | As I changed the mandatory dollars to cordobas before going through passport control , I could hear a pop song with a distinct Wham ! -like tune blasting through the airport — ‘ Esta Daniel — Daniel Ortega , Daniel , Daniel … ’ |
| 5 | My mother grabbed me at the very edge of the roof , just before I toppled the two storeys to the street . |
| 6 | ‘ Shall I give the necessary orders to OC F Company , sir ? ’ |
| 7 | The big bonger chimed midnight as I put the finishing touches to our Bible beds ( hers has a closing lid , of course ) . |
| 8 | Dropping the kids off at my mother-in-law 's , I trudged the few miles to the hospital taking the short cut through the grounds to the usual ward . |
| 9 | Also in that section , I examine the possible answers to the other questions posed previously — that is , ‘ what are the experiences of girls as learners of mathematics ? ’ and ‘ are girls treated fairly in mixed-sex mathematics classrooms ? ’ . |
| 10 | Then I ascended the narrow stairs to his doorway . |
| 11 | Yesterday afternoon was misty and bitterly cold , but I walked the four miles to Wuthering Heights and arrived just as it was beginning to snow . |
| 12 | ‘ I grabbed a few minutes to myself , ’ she explained breathlessly . |
| 13 | Every morning , before it was light , I crossed the mile-long sands to the cove where the fishermen kept their boats , while curlew , disturbed by my approach , called around me in the darkness . |
| 14 | ‘ I said a few words to Miss Mallender — Miss Heather Mallender , that is — at her sister 's funeral , last year . |
| 15 | Okay what happened was , I had no emotional reactions to anything , I wanted to cry at something on T V , I could n't any more , I could n't cry . |
| 16 | I prefer the single jewels to the elaborate crowns . |
| 17 | With a prayer of thankfulness I rowed the few yards to her , made fast the dinghy to a cleat on her transom , and climbed on board . |
| 18 | I know it 's a bit of tenuous link but there we are — other than that I 've no great claims to knowing any Leeds players |
| 19 | ‘ I 've no moral objections to being actually paid to play . |
| 20 | Even as I wrote the final corrections to the first edition of this text in January 1973 , a splendid , though destructive new tear had Opened across the island of Heimaey , south of Iceland , and new oceanic crust was being formed . |
| 21 | ( Or groundsperson , as you quickly modified it to , though let me assure you grateful as I am for your awareness of the issues involved that I have no simplistic sensibilities to be offended in this area . ) |
| 22 | In some cases customers would demand more Champagne than woollens which led the sharpest businessmen to quickly diversify into this lucrative new commerce . |
| 23 | The idea that people needed to be shown from where to view the lakes , hills and mountains developed into the ‘ stations ’ or points from which to see the best views to the best vantage . |
| 24 | The steering committee which made the late changes to the report consisted of representatives from the European Commission , the lead additives companies Associated octel , Ethyl and SIAC , the International Lead and Zinc Research organisation , Agip Petrol and the United States ' Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 25 | For each project , for example , LIFESPAN can be used from the directory which contains the relevant modules to be entered into LIFESPAN . |
| 26 | The smart metalled road which links the new colonies to Aurobindo Marg gives out a few hundred feet before you get to the village . |
| 27 | Above the doorway was a succession of clocks which indicated the next departures to the principal destinations . |
| 28 | As stated earlier , the purpose of this book is to examine certain aspects of company law from a particular point of view : one which takes the relevant rules to be part of the machinery by which power , and particularly what we have called social decision-making power , is sustained and regulated . |
| 29 | American Airlines , which began the daily flights to Chicago less than a year ago , and an airport spokesman accused the Government of being partly to blame for the decision . |
| 30 | Remove the four bolts each side which bolt the backrest brackets to the body sides and you now have a two seater . |