Example sentences of "[pron] to [art] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should confine himself to the questions put to him . |
| 2 | erm , I understand that they might trade down , but equally there are a number and I can take you to the letters written to the if you like , are you saying you did n't realize that many of these people would have to budget , carefully budget |
| 3 | I would refer you to the Act dealing with press-gangs " ; and then , " Tupper , what will you do if this thing is forced upon us ? " |
| 4 | Only when in technology body and image so interpenetrate that all revolutionary tension becomes bodily collective innervation , and all the bodily innervation of the collective becomes revolutionary discharge , has reality transcended itself to the extent demanded by the Communist Manifesto . |
| 5 | Where , on the other hand , we have sense-qualification , the property of A is not applied as a property in itself to the entity identified by N ( nor are any referential and perceptual correlates of the intensional property to be looked for in the actual referent , if there is one , corresponding to that entity ) . |
| 6 | Code switching in this community therefore does not immediately lend itself to an account based on a notion of " we " and " they " : the " we " and " they " psychology must first be shown to exist . |
| 7 | This coexistence of change and resistance owes something to the limits set by nature . |
| 8 | In this example we initialize the index register to zero and , on each iteration of the loop , we add one to the value held by the index register before executing the add instruction . |
| 9 | In his presentation Vic covered a good proportion of the East Anglian network , lines such as King 's Lynn — Liverpool Street , Norwich — Liverpool Street , going through Thetford and Ely with its cathedral ( known as ‘ The Ship of the Fens ’ ) , King 's Cross — Cambridge via Royston , Norwich — Ipswich , and one or two freight branches such as the one to the cement works at Barrington , with its Rolls-Royce diesel shunters , and a line to a sugarbeet factory , now closed . |
| 10 | Certainly , she was not inclined to trust herself to a system based on gifts and favours . |
| 11 | ( f ) She proclaimed herself to the staff nurse to be an ex-Jehovah 's Witness and the notes were recorded accordingly . |
| 12 | Thou hast been ‘ the cloud ’ before me from the day that I left the flesh-pots of Egypt , and was led through the way of the wilderness — the cloud that hast been guiding me to a land flowing with milk and honey — the milk of innocence , the honey of friendship ! |
| 13 | Dustin introduced Livings to his business manager , the London boxing promoter Jarvis Astaire , ‘ who took me into his offices , ’ recalled Livings , ‘ and en passant introduced me to a chap standing at a window ledge in a corridor , typing : ‘ This is one of our writers ’ , says he . |
| 14 | Kathy Rooney had to leave me one night when we were dining at the Kensington Hilton , so she took me to the porter to arrange for him to take me upstairs to my room when I was ready . |
| 15 | Since issue number one we 've quoted the raw results of the benchmark tests we use ( and we 've chosen them pretty carefully , I might add , and applied them to every machine submitted to us for review ) , but we 've discovered that the raw figures do n't mean a lot to a great many of you . |
| 16 | We used , father , after he got motorized , he sold one of them to a man named at Fordham . |
| 17 | A man in uniform directed them to the hall booked by Templeton 's . |
| 18 | She said she was going to take them to the men working on the road . ’ |
| 19 | Lieutenant-General Abdul Haq Ulomi , who heads the country 's most powerful military and political body , said in an interview the two countries were testing the new surface-to-surface rockets in Afghanistan by supplying them to the mujahedin to use on Kabul . |
| 20 | It was this more than anything that impelled Havel into active opposition , and there 's little doubt that it 's his reputation as a truth-teller , a man whose word is to be trusted , that most commends him to a nation recovering from constitutional mendacity . |
| 21 | In 1284 Edward I appointed him to a commission sent to Ireland to audit accounts there . |
| 22 | ‘ I shall give him to the Geimhreadh to play with for a few nights , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Almost every afternoon when Charlie was at school he turned up to take him to the studio to rehearse with his band . |
| 24 | ENO , I am glad to say , is proud to be dismissed by him to the purgatory reserved for this despicable activity , and more than 450,000 people pass through our doors each year to prove it . |
| 25 | When her condition deteriorated the local authority decided , contrary to W. 's wishes and the opinion of the consultant attending her , to transfer her to a unit specialising in the treatment of eating disorders . |
| 26 | Louise called her to the phone to speak to Nora . |
| 27 | In this case police officers saw the defendant take a flick knife from his pocket and give it to a friend to inspect before returning it to his pocket . |
| 28 | Local leaders attributed it to a request made at the Russian Congress of People 's Deputies by the Chair of South Ossetia 's Supreme Soviet , Torez Kolumbegov , for the autonomous region in Georgia to be reintegrated in the Russian Federation [ for January referendum in favour of reintegration see pp. 38731-32 ] . |
| 29 | Apparently Ray still could n't bring himself to sell it , and instead donated it to a pond built by the Norwich section of the BKKS for a local Cheshire Home . |
| 30 | The usual way in which his power is circumscribed is by limiting it to a right to break for certain specified purposes . |