Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should be placed where horses can have free access to them without the fear of being trapped and hurt by a more aggressive horse higher in the pecking order . |
| 2 | He tendered a dry , crisp hand to her on the doorstep and inclined his head in farewell . |
| 3 | The clearing banks , which are deeply sceptical about the commercial value to them of the loans scheme , have used the changed political climate to demand a higher price for their participation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them . |
| 6 | ‘ Did she make an official complaint to you about the attack ? ’ |
| 7 | The word itself is derived from two Greek words : holos and kaustos ; the former , ‘ wholeness ’ , has a tragically ironic edge to it in the light of Leonard 's concerns for ‘ oneness ’ . |
| 8 | ( 7 ) Organisations such as the Consumers ' Association , the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and television programmes such as Watchdog may possibly have dealt with a similar problem to yours in the past . |
| 9 | It had always been a moment of pure magic to him in the theatre , the consciousness of the huge rustling animal behind him , and the hush as the house lights went down , the pause of utter stillness , silence , and then as he brought his baton down , the incredible surge of excitement as music smashed the silence , created instantly the illusion of that otherworld that did n't really exist . |
| 10 | It became clear that he was heading east towards Zamora in the opposite direction to us at the same level after takeoff from Porto , and fully occupied flying his aeroplane — he did not respond to the controller 's requests for position reports or estimates . |
| 11 | An extremely fat and gummy bus conductress wobbles and frets and poddles and wets on the opposite seat to me of the bus 's lower , non smokers deck in fierce counterpoint to the holey road beneath . |
| 12 | ‘ Charles was an incredible help to me at the beginning of my career , ’ said Bernard with professional earnestness . |
| 13 | I am also enclosing a note about the British National Corpus , and shall get the discussed poster to you before the next ESBW event . |
| 14 | Anecdotes that bolster self-image reveal a great deal to you about the speaker . |
| 15 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 16 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | Sun is looking to shoot down Silicon Graphics Inc with Freedom , admitting that its graphics specialist neighbour in Mountain View , California , has been ‘ a major irritation to us over the last few years . ’ |
| 19 | He 's been a good friend to me during the war when we |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll have you know that Tim has been a very good friend to me over the past five years . ’ |
| 21 | Otto 's been a good friend to you over the years . ’ |
| 22 | The ‘ conversion ’ of the UK government has been briefly described earlier ; it is manifested in their July 1989 commitment to spend £10m. on climate change research in 1989/90 and the confident request to them from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils ( ABRC ) for an extra £11m. in 1990 and £13m. in the two succeeding years for additional environmental research . |
| 23 | It was certainly a source of great pride to me in the nineteen sixties to be Personnel Manager of the Greenock plant , in an area which is noted to it 's erm , insecurity , to see the effects on the living standards and conditions and morale of the general community of having a manufacturing plant which had stability of labour , as well as it 's er , objectives . |
| 24 | He never troubled me again — in fact , he even used to say good morning to me on the way to school . |
| 25 | Mr Harley , who made a long statement to me at the time , would doubtless have indicated if the Bawdsey site was ever raided from the sea . |
| 26 | Charles de Gaulle had wanted such an agreement as a way to maintain French economic links to their former colonies , and it represented yet another important concession to him by the rest of the Six . |
| 27 | The decision to accord a full chapter to it in the Constitution on the Church , and prior to that on the hierarchy , was symbolically one of the most important the Council ever took . |
| 28 | Hotel-keeping 's double Dutch to me at the moment — but I catch on fast , Michael . |
| 29 | I 'd accept all that , just as I accepted her usually sharp-edged attitude to me during the nearly two years of our association . |
| 30 | 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 . |