Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But many teachers feel this will be too late to make the public stop comparing them to the O-level system . |
| 2 | Archie Hamilton , son of the third Baron Hamilton , who served as Parliamentary private secretary to Margaret Thatcher , is another example of the old tradition accommodating itself to the new spirit in the party . |
| 3 | The clonk may be several things , but is most probably the ball joint on top the rear axle joining it to the rear ‘ A ’ frame . |
| 4 | I saw her and I , I be honest with you I hid , I be totally honest and I 'll tell her the same if I see her because I 've just found out then that they could n't do any more for me dad and I really did n't want to speak or see anybody and I sat in the canteen on my own , I just said to me mum , mum on the phone I said mum I need to do this on my own I said I 'm just gon na have a coffee in the cafeteria and I do n't know if you 've been in there but the cafeteria is all glass and she pulled up in a white van delivering something to the office , I thought oh no it 's Jenny she 's the last bleeding person I want there , I do n't mean that |
| 5 | They rose to go , Giles Hawick with the politician 's automatic competence escorting them to the lift and warmly asking Catherine Crane where she had trained and how she liked her job . |
| 6 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 7 | A further door led off to the right , with a tiled passage taking her to the bathroom , and another large square room at the end , which was probably the dining-room . |
| 8 | Irony was to the fore when in 1925 he wrote of the Russian Revolution , but behind it was a more important urge leading him to the poem ‘ Le Voyage ’ of his favourite Baudelaire . |
| 9 | It 's only a matter of time now before they find some forensic evidence linking him to the scene of the crime . ’ |
| 10 | Cross the road into a green lane following it to the Ffwddog road . |
| 11 | His eyes scanned her bare fingers and returned to her face , their icy glitter freezing her to the floor . |
| 12 | An alternative might be the new technology bringing us to the leisure society with machines doing all the productive work and people freed to follow their own leisure pursuits . |