Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] to [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now to do that effectively I think it 's essential that I get you to participate in what 's happening so from time to time I 'm going to ask you to answer questions , sometimes by writing them down , sometimes by shows of hands erm sometimes by er reacting back erm to the questions that I ask . |
| 2 | It is , after all , one of the world 's most expensive spices , second only in cost to saffron itself . |
| 3 | With Hewlett-Packard Co heading for $18,800m turnover this year and Fujitsu Ltd at around the $26,000m mark , while Digital Equipment Corp looks hopefully to Alpha to rocket it off its $14,000m-a-year launchpad , the contenders to take over leadership of the mainstream computer industry from IBM Corp are lining up — and a major new round of mergers and acquisitions could be on the way . |
| 4 | It must also be remembered that they have certain rights while in the Department 's care not only in physical terms but also in relation to information which is held by the Department about them as individuals . |
| 5 | If the tail swings very vigorously from side to side it usually means that the animal is about to attack , if it can summon up that last ounce of aggression . |
| 6 | The Banco Popolare di Bergamo , one of Italy 's oldest banks , will be replacing all of the character-based OA software used in its 240 branches with Applix 's Aster*x on Sparcstations and link to Oracle 's RDMS : the $18m deal is reportedly worth $1m-plus to Applix which has to convert the software to Italian . |
| 7 | It 's as if they think I 'm really Firmin and then from time to time I just pretend to be this white man called Charlie . |
| 8 | In the present she mostly enjoyed herself , or had so far : ‘ I 've been sad so often yet from day to day I 've enjoyed everything that was going . ’ |
| 9 | The only complaint — and she was not really complaining against her uncle , perhaps I should rather say the cause for depression — was that from time to time she was very homesick and longed to see her mother and girls of her own age . ’ |
| 10 | As with the other relationships considered here , there are clear gender differences , certainly in relation to support which passes between in-laws . |