Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] 's [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Especially after McCann 's return to Derry , the NILP contained a number of talented writers and speakers . |
| 2 | Because in the past Dave we 've actually tried to tie it in with parent 's evening to sort of use it as a bit of a motivator to jeer the , gee them up before the end |
| 3 | Exchanging one kind of social and economic brutalism for another is not what Havel and his kind have in mind , nor do such prescriptions fit the democratic habit of the Czech temperament , formed long before communism 's arrival to power . |
| 4 | The irritation is evident not only from Valerie 's switch to a more Creole-like phonology but also from the intonation and amplitude of her response . |
| 5 | And were taken by the Primrose ( a small steam tender which conveyed the dockers down to Butterman 's Bay to partially unload ships too large to enter the dock fully laden ) to the ship . |
| 6 | Robyn pressed her hand to her mouth , read his words two — three times , staring down at Mark 's writing to where that name was etched indelibly in black ink , and felt as if the anguish had paralysed every part of her . |
| 7 | Cases on the common law side are usually won not through counsel 's address to the court , which there is usually a little time to prepare in advance , but through the effective examination of witnesses . |
| 8 | La Paysanne , executed at La Rue-des-Bois ( where Picasso spent most of August ) , or shortly after Picasso 's return to Paris , is one of the largest and most powerful of the group . |
| 9 | The first cathedral of this name in Novgorod was built in wood soon after Vladimir 's conversion to Christianity in 988 . |
| 10 | In late September , soon after Mussolini 's escape to Germany , the Standortkommandantur on Piazza Garibaldi announced that there would be a reward of 1800 lire — then approximately the equivalent of £25 sterling — for every prisoner-of-war denounced to the authorities . |
| 11 | Just like Nicola 's note to Parkin , Dexter remembered , with the threat to expose him . |
| 12 | The rewards are just beginning to come through with Mercury 's contribution to C&W trading profit leaping from £4million to £14million in the six months to September 30 . |
| 13 | And it coincides almost exactly with Dysart 's appointment to the Ministry of Defence three years ago . |
| 14 | Moral philosophy , then , deals not with man 's ability to ‘ represent ’ in perception , but with what Hobbes calls the ‘ motions of the mind ’ — desire , aversion , love , and benevolence . |
| 15 | Nicol — acknowledging club triumphs at the Midlands contest and at Panmure — has not had Millard 's exposure to quality sevens fields yet , but it 's not in Nicol 's nature to meekly accept that Millard remains front-runner for a place in the World Cup Sevens at Murrayfield from 16-18 April . |
| 16 | ‘ I think it 's just in Harry 's nature to be chivalrous and friendly , ’ Wendell said . |
| 17 | The September reforms came shortly before Özal 's announcement to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Sept. 27 that Turkey would henceforth accept the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 18 | The man 's too bowled over by Dysart 's politics to be of the slightest — ’ |
| 19 | That 's how it came about — idiots would clamber onstage and either get slung off or would dive off before Penge 's answer to Sid Justice got hold of them . |
| 20 | Further to Neil 's Memo to you of the 24th June , I am sorry to say that Newport Borough Council came back to us saying that they could not meet with us on Friday 24th July after all . |
| 21 | But a sign also of God 's commitment to his world . |
| 22 | Sun is striking not only against possible legal challenges but also against Microsoft 's promise to ‘ make Windows such a moving target that Sun could not keep up ’ . |
| 23 | The crisis which had blown up over Tito 's claim to Carinthia and Venezia Giulia was nearing its height . |
| 24 | Munro has been out of rugby since his complex leg break in April , 1990 , an injury that forced him to drop out of Scotland 's tour to New Zealand that summer . |
| 25 | The aim , after all , was not to arrest the man but to follow him and see if by that means they could uncover the line which ran back from Mordecai 's shop to the ultimate suppliers of Osman 's money . |
| 26 | ‘ I chose to go to South Africa in 1988 , knowing full well that in so doing I would miss out on England 's tour to Australia and Fiji . |
| 27 | But relations between father and son deteriorated sharply on Vyner 's engagement to Sylvia Leonora , daughter of Reginald Baliol Brett , second Viscount Esher [ q.v. ] , an influential official in court and political circles . |
| 28 | Studies are now being conducted into the habits of the maleo but so far ornithologists have added little since Wallace 's day to our knowledge of the bird . |
| 29 | Moving on to Zimbabwe 's admission to Test ranks , one can only congratulate them and wish them well , while inevitably questioning their prospects in that kind of company . |
| 30 | There is an analogy to be drawn here with Nizan 's trip to Aden . |