Example sentences of "[adj] to [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northamptonshire TEC says bluntly : ’ It became clear to us in the early summer that we would not be fulfilling our Youth Training guarantee . ’ |
| 2 | Denise Alexander said : ‘ People throughout the North of England have been fantastically generous to us in the past year . ’ |
| 3 | I wish your husband would make some good , cheap sweets , ’ she said , and then said — almost tenderly — ‘ he was very good to me in the difficult days ’ . |
| 4 | And perhaps most important of all was her ability to take whatever was sustaining and useful to her in the mid-nineteenth century 's version of ‘ womanliness ’ and ‘ domesticity ’ and to reject those elements which stifled , maimed and , sometimes literally , maddened other women . |
| 5 | I also knew that experience in working with other birds would be useful to me in the long term . |
| 6 | Linfield chairman , David Campbell said today : ‘ This is a fantastic capture for us — an experienced player who will be invaluable to us in the European Cup . ’ |
| 7 | We 'll be covering all kinds of software and peripherals applicable to you in the coming months . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman must use the time available to him in the normal way to debate that matter . |
| 9 | ‘ Why did you get engaged to him in the first place ? ’ he questioned softly . |
| 10 | These extra digits do not come from the graft , but from the cells adjacent to it in the anterior part of the bud . |
| 11 | ‘ I recently went to Ireland , and my visit was the headline news story in every Irish newspaper , but during that time there was not a single column inch devoted to it in the English press , whereas it was very prominently reported in the European press . |