Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [pron] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expression " New Deal " was first used by Roosevelt in his speech accepting the Democratic Party nomination as its presidential candidate in July 1932 , when he said " I pledge you , I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people . " |
| 2 | I take them to a certain stage , but I tend to find finishing a painting much more difficult than starting it , so I 'll leave it to one side , maybe for a week or more , where I can see it , and as I pass it suddenly something will click . |
| 3 | If you copy it to a different place , does it leave the blank formulas |
| 4 | If you , you get it to a certain length and it 's a bit too short to have the layers cut out , cos you need it all the same length really and it pisses you off so much . |
| 5 | Instead of determining the sex of your children yourself , as bees , crocodiles and other creatures do , you leave it to a genetic lottery between X and Y chromosomes . |
| 6 | Well you you do it to a certain extent you 've got descriptions |
| 7 | This is probably acceptable so long as we restrict ourselves to a single group , like mammals , but there is some dissent when people seek to extrapolate mechanisms from non-vertebrate species , like molluscs , to the mammalian brain ( e.g. Hawkins and Kandel 1984 ) . |
| 8 | At another level this also happens when we commit ourselves to a particular religion or ideology . |
| 9 | We limit ourselves to a single question : has this treatment been proved to be safe and effective ? |
| 10 | They they deserve it to a certain extent . |
| 11 | Auto-exposure systems work by measuring the average brightness of the incoming picture , and they control it to a standard level by varying the lens iris opening and the ‘ gain ’ of the camcorder 's video amplifier . |
| 12 | When workers which have been out foraging return with crops full of honeydew and nectar , they feed it to a replete , which swells until its abdomen , once no bigger than a grain of sand , has swollen to the size of a large pea . |
| 13 | Instead of lean convictions and supple value judgments , they treat us to a slick orgy of channel-hopping ( Hiltler word-bite plus Mapplethorpe sight-bite and so on ) and feed us quivering slices of deconstruction , done to a turn . |