Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The night before his death I spent more than an hour with him and we spoke quietly of the future ; he wanted to be sure that Ray and I would look after Margaret , our step-mother , whom we had come to admire greatly for her devotion to Father . |
| 2 | Before leaving America she gave away much of her furniture to family and friends and was able to enjoy letting them have the pieces they had always liked . |
| 3 | wore much of my platform to school yeah . |
| 4 | It had been easy to get myself moved away from sleeping next door to him : It had happened naturally with my demotion to crew . |
| 5 | This kind of ‘ natural ’ product gains its meaning entirely from its opposition to industrialization , and is thus always indirectly produced by industrialization . |
| 6 | The fundamental religious awareness ‘ leads necessarily in its development to fellowship or communion , and so forms the different religious communities and traditions of mankind . |
| 7 | The new Air Quality Management Plan is the most comprehensive of its kind : not perhaps in its approach to tree conservation — the paper it is written on stacks three feet high — but in its determination to force producers and consumers to stop passing on their muck by law . |
| 8 | The helmet allowed us to have the last few hours of his life together before his airlift to hospital , and this would not have been possible otherwise . |
| 9 | He informed them of Gen Morgan 's visit to Belgrade two days earlier , and Tito 's refusal to back down on his claim to sovereignty over Venezia Giulia . |
| 10 | The four old men were obviously on their way to bed . |
| 11 | By the time Andrew was awakened by his sister Gillian Parry battering on the door of the house in Newton Street , Southport after calling in on her way to work , the lounge was burning fiercely . |
| 12 | you tell me as I look in on my way to bed |
| 13 | Regional nutritionist , is pictured just after her marriage to husband . |
| 14 | Rhee joined the Independence Club soon after his conversion to Christianity ; he was arrested and spent seven years in prison . |
| 15 | You 're not allowed just in your day to day life to say to somebody , unless you know them really well , it 's the shits today ! |
| 16 | At home in Northumberland long ago , there had been a painting by Sickert whose poignancy and brilliance had stopped him nightly on his way to bed . |
| 17 | Certain it is , if he had more than three-score armed men with him , he was not on his way to church ! |
| 18 | Out of the whole mess , Curtis took consolation from two factors — wounded and losing blood , the bastard would n't get far on foot , and into the bargain he had lost his knife — already on its way to Forensic , who would doubtless prove it to have been the murder weapon with which he had butchered his victims . |
| 19 | Feminist socialization theories express their conventionalism most noticeably in their relationship to biology . |
| 20 | He would not care to take you home to his house to tea , he hates his father so , but I suggested both going to our place , you will do this wo n't you ? |
| 21 | Ever since his return to power in 1958 , his foreign policy had been pointed in that direction : his development of an independent French nuclear deterrent and his growing estrangement from NATO are part of that general background against which his treatment of the EEC in 1965 must be understood . |
| 22 | Gregor Mendel , a contemporary of Darwin 's , and the head of a monastery in Moravia , had been trained in the physical sciences , and this training shows up in his approach to heredity . |
| 23 | Dicey 's position on this question is seen most clearly in his attitude to federalism . |
| 24 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
| 25 | Three , we fail to understand why it is necessary or desirable for such a large proportion of this subscription to go out of our institute to County and National Funds . |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't try and wriggle out of your inattention to duty . |
| 27 | ‘ That is something that come out of his reconnaissance to Goose Green . |
| 28 | .. Try it out when you leave here , try it out in the meetings and the presentations that you have to make I encourage you to do that , to try it out in your day to day working and for those people who have either already been on this course or are coming on this course after you that you meet encourage them to do the same , because there 's nothing like encouragement and feedback from each other to be able to use these new ideas . |
| 29 | His self-assurance comes out now in his attitude to school work : ‘ I did not like not being able to answer a question , particularly if another boy could ’ . |
| 30 | This evaluation of the Egyptians ' attitude to time is borne out by their attitude to chronology . |