Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [verb] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The train puffed to a stop ; only five passengers alighted , and the only male among them a tall young man , his hair so fair that from a distance it appeared almost white , waved to them before turning back to the carriage and lifting out a case . |
| 2 | Northern GRAMOPHONE readers ( and surely many southerners as well ) will join me in welcoming back to the catalogue the first of James Loughran 's Hallé Orchestra has always shown a special feeling for Brahms 's sound , and Loughran is also a highly responsive Brahmsian , flexibly spontaneous in his sense of line , yet at the same time demonstrating a comparable structural grasp . |
| 3 | His opponents accused him of selling out to the United States on North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) with the United States and Mexico and leaving Canada with more unemployed and a bigger public debt than ever . |
| 4 | Some of her fellow students accused her of selling out to the whites . |
| 5 | I suppose it must have been because a string of boyfriends seemed quite willing to spend their last penny on her before going off to the front . |
| 6 | His grip lingered on the translator 's hand and he smiled faintly at her before turning back to the Chief of Protocol who was standing behind him . |
| 7 | We might feel tempted to say that Wittgenstein 's account may be true of sensations ; but that there is no such thing as a sensation of blue , and so there is no reason why a private linguist could not start by naming the way things look to him before moving on to the more difficult talk of the way things actually are . |
| 8 | In an effortless manner the 33-year-old Portuguese woman had practically swept all before her since bouncing on to the world stage in 1982 . |
| 9 | So the salt you can remember it through going back to the acid plus alkali reaction , it 's the same one you get there . |
| 10 | Stewart could argue that it was little more than a playful cuff and Christophi certainly made a real meal of it by falling dramatically to the ground clutching his face . |
| 11 | Not to his face , you understand , and he did make up for it by giving lavishly to the church … ’ |
| 12 | They tried to intimidate me by holding on to the furniture . |
| 13 | Er the very fact that we 're at our desks er for more than seventy percent of our time filling these forms in er prevents us from moving on to the next prisoner and going out and arresting more people for crime . |