Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It deals with pains like appendicitis , coley cystitis , which is inflammation of the gall bladder — about nine different diseases — and it merely says to you at the end of the operation based on the last five or six hundred patients I 've seen , the probability of this patient having appendicitis is ninety per cent , the probability of something else being ten per cent . |
| 2 | The bird has a piercing yellow eye and I think an older generation of wild-fowlers still refers to it as the golden-eye although that name , strictly speaking , belongs to an entirely different species . |
| 3 | At the exalted level of Olympic competition that might be true , although I find it hard to attribute the concept of ‘ needing ’ to Carl Lewis , who , and no doubt I am being unfair , always looks to me like the lead actor in a Disney film entitled The Fastest Kid on Earth . |
| 4 | In my experience the smart rejoinder to a put down usually occurs to me on the bus on the way home , but at least some of my guests were quick thinking enough to exact their revenge … |
| 5 | an inscription on the Monument which was not finally removed until 1831 imputed the blame for the Great Fire of London ( 1666 ) to treacherous Roman Catholics , and Pope indignantly alludes to it in the third of his Moral Essays ( ll. 339–40 ) : ‘ Where London 's column , pointing at the skies , / Like a tall bully , lifts its head and lies . ’ |
| 6 | God also speaks to us in the seven sacraments the special symbols of God 's love and care . |
| 7 | He also talks to him about the possible relationship between stress , smoking , poor dietary habits , alcohol and the incidence of peptic ulcers so that Peter understands what is happening and can consider what changes he might make in his lifestyle . |
| 8 | Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary . |
| 9 | If the Americans accepted that the Israel-Palestine problem was insoluble , at least for now , they could concentrate on what really matters to them in the Middle East . |
| 10 | Everything nice happens to me in the autumn . |
| 11 | He never talks to her at the table — but she stares at him strangely sometimes . |