Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deciding what facts are relevant to a choice of means may be very complicated , and that the difficulties from admitting his obligation to take account of them testifies to the irresistible authority of ‘ Be aware ’ in practical decisions . |
| 2 | It is presumably that time which is relevant to the comment which I have n't the heart to repeat here where I refers to the current narrator . |
| 3 | I says to the little kid , when nanny and mums do n't take , well I do n't anyway . |
| 4 | Scobie — he 's the Lab attendant — and I sees to the working labs but all the heavy cleaning is supposed to be done by the contractors . |
| 5 | She laughs to the inky sky . |
| 6 | She rightly notes that students are not entitled to any income support from the Department of Social Security during the summer vacation and she points to the real problems that exist in areas of high unemployment , such as Gateshead and on Tyneside in general , where students , whom the Government urge to take on part-time or full-time jobs during their vacation , simply do not find those jobs available . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll take it , ’ she says to the old woman . |
| 8 | She becomes drawn into the business dealings of the Countess , a New York cosmetics tycoon , in the course of which she travels to the Rubber Rose Ranch , a Dakota health spa , and takes part in a revolt by the cowgirls . |
| 9 | Jane Fowler appreciates her own failings as she takes to the open road with an advanced driving instructor |
| 10 | The tragic heroine of Odtaa , as she appears to the other characters in the story , is idealised in two senses . |
| 11 | Rosamund Cresswell attends Farnborough Hill Convent College where she is studying for the GCSE examinations and in September she moves to the Sixth Form at Wellington College . |
| 12 | As the coffin is lowered into the earth , she talks to the dead girl directly , promising to consecrate herself to ‘ the struggle ’ . |
| 13 | This week she returns to the familiar territory of Perth Theatre as Comtesse de la Bruyere in JM Barrie 's comedy of manners , What Every Woman Knows . |
| 14 | ‘ She reacts to the wrong bits , ’ says the 34-year-old author who gave the world the stomach-churning chiller Slugs . |
| 15 | Unless she comes to the front door , and follows you down the path ; or comes to the back door and follows you into the garden . |
| 16 | When s/he gets to the other side of the circle s/he is gently redirected across again . |
| 17 | The rational way to employ such conflicting prudential principles would not be to deduce from more general principles which of them applies to the present case . |
| 18 | The historical significance of this book is therefore multi-levelled : it is a reminder of the intellectual scope of one of America 's leading feminist art historians , it testifies to the changing interests of the discipline of the history of art and , perhaps most importantly , it charts the developing priorities and concerns of the American women 's movement . |
| 19 | Such ‘ normality ’ can surely apply not just to the sciences , but to any discipline ; it refers to the working acceptance of current assumptions and procedures . |
| 20 | A derivation of White Sunday , it refers to the white garments worn by the recently baptised Christians of the early Church . |
| 21 | In rug-making it refers to the contoured areas at the four right-angles of the field adjacent to the borders , usually only found in rugs employing a central medallion . |
| 22 | In the foregrounding model , stylistic value has a slightly different meaning from that which it has in the " stylistic variants " model : it refers to the special act of interpretation which we make in order to make sense of what would otherwise appear strange and unmotivated . |
| 23 | A Design Change can be aborted using option 2.7.0 , Abort DC , if , for example , it refers to the wrong module or it has been activated through the wrong package . |
| 24 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 25 | In the early part of the April issue , it refers to the Veterinary College , but in the later part to the Royal Veterinary College . |
| 26 | Although he suggests he is not wholly against the permissive society , all that he can find to say in its favour is that it points to the continual necessity to make traditional values relevant to contemporary society , to the fact that the importance of the family , ‘ the very principles of order itself … are not … accepted by all ’ . |
| 27 | As for application portability between the CMOS and RISC versions , he points to the Integrated Language Environment , ILE , that was released as part of OS/400 version 2 release 3 . |
| 28 | Rather he points to the theoretical paradox involved , namely that the human sciences ' very emphasis on historicity as a mode of being was equally applicable to themselves as forms of knowledge , and inevitably destroyed any attempt to formulate universal laws comparable to those of the natural sciences . |
| 29 | If he points to the empty box then it is probably fair to regard this as deliberate misinforming , as the ‘ implanting ’ of a false belief in another 's mind . |
| 30 | Oh come on Christopher come and sometimes it in the right panel , that 's the right panel there and then it goes in the left hand and then it goes to the right hand and then it goes to the left then right , the left , the right , left , right , left , confusing , but it 's that hand to start with |