Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molly had secretly enjoyed her initiation to sex on the night of Yanto 's near drowning , but then she had had to curtail her natural emotions for fear of waking her Father . |
| 2 | Greek or Trojan ancestors were quite enough to support their claims to power . |
| 3 | My present feeling is that any one who can not feel the beauty of their melody had better confine his criticism to prose and leave the discussion of verse to those who understand something about it … . |
| 4 | The two main parties , the ruling Democratic Action and the Social Christian COPEI , have long used their access to oil money to lubricate an elaborate system of patronage . |
| 5 | For example , the extensive list of qualifications and caveats which Marshall appended to his exposition of the quantity theory of money had threatened to cast such a long shadow over its validity that Marshall appeared to take freight and retarait behind the ceteris paribus stipulation which so typified his approach to economics . |
| 6 | Emilia reveals that she found the handkerchief ( ‘ Villainous whore ! ’ and ‘ Filth ’ , he calls her ) , and with her dying breath — that most crucial of all utterances to Renaissance beliefs — proclaims her integrity : ‘ So come my soul to bliss , as I speak true ; /So speaking as I think , alas , I die ’ ( V.ii.253f . ) . |
| 7 | But Dr Haritos-Fatouros , Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Thessalonika , concludes that such feelings of shared humanity are often not strong enough to override our obedience to authority . |
| 8 | Thus the adducts detected in this study may not be derived from bile at all but merely have their binding to DNA increased by bile . |
| 9 | Let's be progressive enough to show our commitment to sister unions in other European countries by giving our members the language tools needed for the European trade union movement . |
| 10 | That does not affect our commitment to safety and it has nothing to do with privatisation . |
| 11 | It is ironic that Scotland , with an over-production of electricity , is already contracting its surplus to industry south of the border . |
| 12 | Lord did not confine his ventures to cricket . |
| 13 | If I will not bring his bride to life , then he will rob my bride of her life . ’ |
| 14 | In the brief soliloquy following Clarence 's exit Richard keeps up the equivocation : ‘ I will shortly send thy soul to heaven , /If heaven will take the present at our hands ’ ( 119 — 20 ) . |
| 15 | Some people were already turning their thoughts to food of another kind , impatient to get home . |
| 16 | These ministers had mostly either left the west of Scotland because they could not reconcile their consciences to episcopacy when it was restored there , or had come to Ulster to evangelise and serve the Scots settlers . |
| 17 | These are people who instead of waiting passively to see what life will bring , have decided not to leave their happiness to chance . |
| 18 | Austrian parents do not have to suffer the embarrassment of going and asking for charity just to send their children to school looking like everyone else . |
| 19 | The two other functions of a king he shirked : he did not lead his armies to war , anyway in his later years , and he did not provide an heir . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm just exercising my right to Freedom of Expression . ’ |
| 21 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 22 | BSkyB can not split their transmissions to black out programmes in various parts of Britain , the same way as BBC or ITV . |
| 23 | As they continue to fight their pop past PAUL BYRNE ! asks Mark Hollis whether they should n't just change their name to Whisper Whisper ? |
| 24 | Robert Spence 's Swordfish C-GEVS ( see the August issue ) had not gained its Permit to Fly on August 31 so was restricted to taxi-ing at Muirkirk , Ontario , during the Labour Day fly-in . |
| 25 | He seems to have had a good acquaintance with the theory and practice of shoeing , though we can not admit his claim to originality . |
| 26 | Twice the proportion of incontinent women aged 60 or over attributed their incontinence to childbirth than women non-sufferers in that age group ( 16% ( 22 ) v 7% ( 52 ) ) thought likely . |
| 27 | court should not shut its eyes to fact that statistically one in three marriages end in divorce . |
| 28 | YUGOSLAVS determined to oppose CROATS and will not allow their surrender to BRIT troops . |
| 29 | The boy who puts unwanted chocolates , sweets , nuts and raisins and chewing gum into the trolley at the checkout can not put his hands to mischief if he is at the other end of the checkout using them to put his mother 's groceries in the box ( see page 111 ) . |
| 30 | Given the significance of patronage in securing a promotion , or in placing an officer in a situation where he might have an opportunity to distinguish himself , and thus strengthen his claims to advancement , there was a good incentive to arrange for a transfer to another ship where favour might be expected . |