Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The housewife refers to them as external obligations to which she feels a deep need to conform . |
| 2 | Most of the rainforests belong to developing countries which have to resort to milking their most precious resource to make ends meet , and to pay back money lent to them by Western countries . |
| 3 | Maybe the wee dram given to me by one of the Sergeant instructors kept out the cold . |
| 4 | There are discredited and out-of-date theories around , and I have asked officials in my Department to report to me on those matters . |
| 5 | When Kevin Woodford , owner and chef of Woodfords restaurant on the Isle Of Man asked viewers of ITV 's This Morning programme to write to him about any culinary problems , the letters simply flooded in . |
| 6 | In rural areas , the figure drops to one in three . |
| 7 | ‘ Does not the whole ensemble speak to you of imperial confidence , a global network of industry ? ’ |
| 8 | The degree and nature of any interaction between the proposal and existing research programmes would depend totally on the needs of each individual submission made to us by visiting researchers , and can not be foreseen at this stage . |
| 9 | It was a great pleasure to talk to you at dear Crabb 's breakfast party . |
| 10 | The pigeon lay soft and warm on my belly , and I stood listening while my metabolism returned to something like normal . |
| 11 | FOOD TALK brought to you by best and Nestlé |
| 12 | One young teacher working in a more conservative college spoke to me of this period with some amusement . |
| 13 | First , it is clear that balancing necessitates some judgment as to how much we value a particular interest , and that people may well disagree as to the weight accorded to it in any particular instance . |
| 14 | NEW IMAGES is a personalised Beauty Programme sent to you in monthly parts . |
| 15 | One immediate difficulty is that the weight attached to it by different historians has varied enormously . |
| 16 | The telephone answering machine , and my clients ' willingness to talk to me at unusual hours of the day and night , kept me firmly in touch . |
| 17 | It can also order the Chief Constable to report to it on any particular matter ( s.5(4) ) . |
| 18 | The most vivid memory I have of that Christmas Day is of Shanti , now almost two years old , walking round and round the long dining-room table , pulling a little toy engine given to her by one of the boys , round and round , smiling and smiling . |
| 19 | Only one in seven men did not help their wives at all in the professional/managerial , clerical and skilled classes , although , for the semi-skilled and unskilled , the proportion rose to one in four . |
| 20 | ‘ A 28-year-old girl came to me with terrible complications . |
| 21 | The Estonian government at the beginning of August accused the central USSR authorities of attempting to rob the republic of the economic sovereignty granted to it in 1989 [ see pp. 36825 ; 37045 ] . |
| 22 | If you live a high-risk area , the likelihood increases to one in 13 . |
| 23 | But what had made the girl propose to him in this way ? |
| 24 | A friend at the Bar estimated to me in 1981 that a youngster of ability on the common law side can go up to eight or ten thousand pounds , but then tends to reach a plateau . |
| 25 | I 've had newspaper cutting sent to me by other people . |
| 26 | After 1980 it was possible for charities to reclaim tax paid on money covenanted to them for four years or more , not just at the standard rate of tax , but at the higher rate if individuals paid tax at the higher rate . |
| 27 | I felt the soap operas were raising issues about how you survived and coped in the late eighties that both addressed political issues and also involved me emotionally , whereas nothing about the formal election coverage got to me at all — apart from the Labour Party Political Broadcast , the first one in history to be repeated by popular demand ! |
| 28 | I would ask those concerned if they could be patient and given time I will refund all money owing to them including any interest that would have accrued had their money been in a bank . |
| 29 | There had been no need to cling to him with such ardour — no need to respond to his kiss with such wanton abandon . |
| 30 | Indeed , arguments about the relationship constituted much of the core debate as is evidenced by the attention given to it by classical figures such as Weber and Durkheim . |