Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Stotting ’ has a certain ring to it for the waterfall-collection game . |
| 2 | This may well have been due to the satisfaction he had been deriving from the composition of East Coker , though he made no mention to me of the new poem . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ Fabia agreed , but what was more than obvious to her , with Ven stressing , ‘ specifically ’ stressing , that Lubor talk to her on an impersonal basis only , was that he still did n't trust her not to ask personal questions about him . |
| 4 | She turned to him , pressing her mouth to his in a long , drugging kiss , while her hands slid tantalisingly over his hips in a blatant invitation . |
| 5 | By his coming to us as a human being and by his suffering , dying and rising for us , our lives have meaning and hope . |
| 6 | The aims of this new coalition were to press the British government into acting more forcefully against terrorism and to force a return to something like the old majority rule at Stormont . |
| 7 | But there had been no reference to them in the detailed report of Surrendered Ex-Enemy Personnel sent up by 5 Corps to Eighth Army two days earlier , on 15 May [ KP 112 ] . |
| 8 | I was grateful for the Foreign Secretary 's friendly reference to me at the Conservative party conference , and his acceptance of my expertise on one subject — even though it was only the cinema . |
| 9 | He had stumbled on a reference to it in an English journal — a painter had once disappeared into the peat fields to escape civilisation . |
| 10 | Finally , on Sunday morning Emerson woke up to find it raining — and Monza is not the track for rain , nor is rain a help to someone on the third row of the grid . |
| 11 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 12 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 13 | And I oh I fought hard I never wanted a baby to be born in the wok house cos the word workhouse to me in the old it was a terrible name . |
| 14 | As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time . |
| 15 | Anne herself found that when she voiced her grievances quietly and calmly , rather than screaming them , her family paid attention to her for the first time . |
| 16 | I paid every attention to her during a long sickness and , a short time before her death , she requested that I should make a mummy of her body , and keep her beside me — I have kept my word . ’ |
| 17 | Referrals by GPs where outcome was informal admission were consistently characterized by familial disruption : indeed only two of these cases were referred where the woman 's behaviour drew attention to her in the wider social environment outside the family . |
| 18 | The " subject of knowledge " , it is argued , should turn his attention to himself as a historical individual , and explore the essential aspects of his own manner-to-be . |
| 19 | Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them . |
| 20 | It is a timely reminder to us of the true value and cost of ’ rediscovered ’ writers , and a challenge to Black women writers , not just in the USA , but throughout the Black Diaspora to get our act together and chronicle our lives and our times for ourselves . |
| 21 | Money in the drapes , and in the pottery that had a shelf to itself by the wide , dark wood staircase . |
| 22 | Kneeling across him , she joined her body to his with a little gasp until he sat and touched his mouth to hers . |
| 23 | The call was a complex one , involving overlapping rules covering who gives room to whom at the final windward mark . |
| 24 | A great flush spread on her throat and she drove her heels into the sand and arched her back , whispering his own name to him like a fierce incantation . |
| 25 | Similarly , if your device name is longer than 19 characters ( 20 with the colon ) , you need to assign a shorter name to it as a system-wide logical , or use a pseudo-device name . |
| 26 | He had a poor opinion of the utility of book-learning to the Masai , and it was no doubt in part due to his influence that nothing was done in Tanganyika to bring education to them till the 1930s , whereas the first government school was opened in Kenya Masailand in 1921 . |
| 27 | He can , though , take a quick throw-in to himself in the '22 . |
| 28 | ‘ Pray think of a right man wt out regard to recommendations , which hitherto have not been of great service to me in the like cases , ’ the duke suggested . |
| 29 | These data are insufficient to establish the variation of seismic wave speeds with depth in the Moon to anything like the same extent with which this has been possible in the Earth . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll have you know that Tim has been a very good friend to me over the past five years . ’ |