Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Briefly , I should like to respond to the Secretary of State and to express my thanks to my hon. Friends who have contributed positively to improving the Bill . |
| 2 | But at the same time , I can not escape the feeling that Mr Farraday is not satisfied with my responses to his various banterings . |
| 3 | So off she went , while I got on with transferring my mini-weapons to my own costume . |
| 4 | I will never ever leave my players to their own devices . |
| 5 | I will never ever leave my players to their own devices . |
| 6 | I am delighted to send my congratulations to my hon. Friend 's constituents . |
| 7 | When appropriate , it is gently suggested to the organisers that they should themselves donate an agreed percentage of their takings to my chosen charity for the year . |
| 8 | Gipsies must move towards us , become part of the community , contributing their skills to our daily lives as we offer our knowledge to them . |
| 9 | She let the strand slide through her fingers to its full length and lay playing it between them . |
| 10 | Those who rule states must always consider the ideological acceptability of their policies to their own people , as well as to people in other countries . |
| 11 | ‘ They have confined their activities to their own leagues mainly , but they are starting to mix more now . |
| 12 | Two ants were attached by their pincers to her left arm . |
| 13 | NCM in Cardiff will initially use the well established system of its parent company and then , in time , transfer its clients to its own system . |
| 14 | This backlash has meant many dog owners having to confine their pets to their own gardens for exercise and toilet use which , of course , leads to the problem of how to dispose of the dogs ' faeces . |
| 15 | She came in with a light , wary step , made a deep obeisance just within the doorway , and then advanced to the prince 's chair and sank at his feet , touching her lips to his proffered hand . |
| 16 | He seemed arrested by her laughter , she saw , as she watched his glance go from the merriment in her eyes to her laughing mouth . |
| 17 | Sharing the platform at a rally at the former Lenin shipyard in Gdansk , both men had alluded in their speeches to their political differences . |
| 18 | Many refugee servicemen were decorated and many gave their lives to their adopted country . |
| 19 | Quite a number of soldiers and airmen owe their lives to his interminable wartime journeys between his microscope and the aircraft factories and airfields . |
| 20 | We simply asked the ANL not to block the entrances to the park , and only to hand its placards to their own members . |
| 21 | American handlers are always smart and well turned out and show their dogs to their best advantage . |
| 22 | Furthermore , manufacturers wish to transfer their customers to their new ranges of computers from earlier models , and therefore want to minimize the problems of transition . |
| 23 | He failed the test and the reward has gone to someone else and it is not , Anna said fiercely to herself , pressing her palms to her closed eyes , it is not fair that he should never know what he can not do , that he should always set himself targets he ca n't achieve , that he should never be allowed to progress . |
| 24 | ‘ When I like people a lot , I never tell their names to my other friends . |
| 25 | Citrine insisted that the departmental chief officers met with his full-time colleagues on the Authority weekly , encouraging the officers to comment on general policy matters rather than confining their comments to their own specialisms : a method he had found worked well at the TUC . |
| 26 | I 've already answered the underlying question , I do believe that they should have the maximum discretion and then they should be answerable for their decisions to their local electors who want a good police service and want a good education service and there is money there for them to do it if that is their wish . |
| 27 | Alighting upon the bonnet ( hood , if you are American ) , in full view through the windscreen , it opened its wings to their fullest extent , remaining there before the grateful gaze of this gentle man who walked with God and loved the creatures of His natural world . |
| 28 | Now he was straightening the covers over her as she lay , utterly spent , and he was promising her answers to her unspoken questions in the morning . |
| 29 | This narrowed our market and the prospective sellers were only too keen to bring their vehicles to our immobile selves for inspection . |
| 30 | Yet the evidence from their earliest word uses , their requests for the names of things , and their repairs to their own utterances , all indicate that they opt for Conventionality as they begin to use their first language . |