Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one belongs to the physical elite for long . |
| 2 | In many cases , the parents of the brighter children wished them to go to the secondary school in Jarrow , an overcrowded building housing about 400 pupils in which good scholarship results were achieved , but there were serious difficulties facing their children : |
| 3 | Deciding what facts are relevant to a choice of means may be very complicated , and that the difficulties from admitting his obligation to take account of them testifies to the irresistible authority of ‘ Be aware ’ in practical decisions . |
| 4 | Perhaps they are sheepish about the efficiency or integrity of their testing systems , and unwilling to have them exposed to the public scrutiny that would follow if the banned athletes chose to take the matter further in law . |
| 5 | I doubled to the other side of the deck and joined the Sergeant Major and Brigadier Mills Roberts . |
| 6 | I reiterate the point that I made to the hon. Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow ( Dr. Godman ) . |
| 7 | Well I mean to the untrained eye with a , this guy was suspicious when he saw all this cracked varnish |
| 8 | It is presumably that time which is relevant to the comment which I have n't the heart to repeat here where I refers to the current narrator . |
| 9 | After a very pleasant lunch therefore , I taxied to the very end of the runway , turned into wind and took off . |
| 10 | I only realized what it was when I got to the front door . |
| 11 | As soon as I got to the other side of the bank I threw myself down and started to roll . ’ |
| 12 | And what we used to do to begin with the canal used to dip in the middle , you know there was bike wheels and dead cats and everything in it , and it used to dip and , and there was a sludge and , and the barges used to go up and down with a horse pulling them , and in the middle there was a , so you could n't bottom it in the middle , so when I learnt to swim I used to dive off this ledge and go under the water so far and I , I could reach the bottom when I got to the other side . |
| 13 | I can not say that my school days were particularly happy ones and I was not sorry to leave when I got to the official leaving age , which was fourteen in those days . |
| 14 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
| 15 | The humid heat of the New Guinea forest had probably proven too much for someone used to the dank climate of south Wales , they reassured Joan . |
| 16 | ‘ I would like to make clear the importance I attach to the continued availability of advice , from within and outside the NHS , in contributing to the development of the health service in Scotland , ’ said Lord Fraser . |
| 17 | Conran acknowledges that in the face of-City rumour it is important for a group such as his to communicate to the outside world what its overall strategy is and to spell out the logic of its master plan — something he feels Storehouse might have done to better effect prior to becoming besieged by unwelcome take-over bids . |
| 18 | I moved to the leaded window , looked out . |
| 19 | I say to the hon. Member for Dagenham what the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland ( Mr. Wallace ) said about his speech , which is that he made very heavy weather . |
| 20 | I say to the hon. Member for Denton and Reddish and my hon. Friend the Minister that I do not see why British Rail , as ever , should be expected to bear the full cost . |
| 21 | I say to the hon. Member for Harrow , West that I think that the right hon. Gentleman 's words will have reached the chairman of the Audit Commission . |
| 22 | However , I say to the hon. Lady and to the alleged author of that statement that , frankly , I disagree . |
| 23 | I say to the hon. Gentleman , who is an Opposition Front Bench spokesman , that he must withdraw that comment . |
| 24 | Moderator I reported to the general assembly last year that the Board of Social Responsibility had planned a deficit on its operation of thirty eight eventide homes amounting to a little over two million pounds . |
| 25 | I suggest to the hon. Gentleman that our record is the best in the European Community . |
| 26 | I apologise to the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan ( Mr. Salmond ) for interrupting his speech . |
| 27 | I apologise to the hon. Gentleman . |
| 28 | I apologise to the hon. Gentleman . |
| 29 | In Chapter 1 I referred to the changing attitude among the leaders of Eurocommunism towards the institutions of Western democracy , and their radical reconsideration of the Leninist model of a revolutionary working-class party , which was elaborated in specific historical circumstances and no longer has any relevance for the politics of socialist parties , particularly in the advanced industrial societies . |
| 30 | His two companions , however , sniggered as I referred to the great cardinal , affairs of state , and finally to the Luciferi . |