Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Rosa cast an eye at her mother 's frowning back where she attended to some task and tried to exchange a glance of impatience with Tommaso . |
2 | But , that where we went to that pub that time with Geoff , that 's the first time I 've been up there . |
3 | At the BBC , we try to reproduce sounds as accurately as possible , particularly in wildlife where we go to great lengths to find the right noises to fit the locations and species . |
4 | We also spent time in the capital , Guatemala City , where we talked to senior government officials like the defence minister , General Jose Garcia Samayoa . |
5 | Some were taken back to the dungeons of Black Crag where they remain to this day , to the anger of Kazador . |
6 | The documents obtained in this way were stored in an archive in Salamanca ( where they remain to this day ) and , after the end of the war , were constantly referred to by the military courts trying suspected Republicans . |
7 | The thermal tide could carry molecules generated by solar uv radiation to the night side where they revert to other forms with the emission of uv radiation . |
8 | The EXTREMELY suspect one where they run to each other ( or more likely one sad git runs to the scorer … desperate to get some attention ) , hold hands , trot backwards stroking each others hands in the process ? ? |
9 | The retirement lasted two year , until McLaren tempted him back to the sport in 1982 and his old skills were soon apparent at Brands Hatch and Watkins Glen , where he returned to winning ways . |
10 | Sunderland Council has been praised by the district auditor in his annual appraisal where he pointed to several areas where the council had given value for money . |
11 | It 's surprisingly wild in its upper reaches where it leads to Threshthwaite Mouth — one of the most distinctive though seldom used passes in the Lake District . |
12 | In 1976 in the Conservative Monthly News Lord Whitelaw was clearly of the opinion that ‘ Undoubtedly , economic mismanagement … where it leads to high levels of unemployment , especially amongst young people , also contributes considerably to increasing the number of those tempted into a criminal life . |
13 | Leapor devotes a greater part of her poetry to the description of agriculture and to questions related to the use of land than she does to domestic service . |
14 | Erm , so we come to special resolution number one , which is as set out on your order paper , which is to do with the replacement of a , er , clause in our Memorandum of Association , and I will invite Jeffrey to move it . |
15 | It changes every year so we go to these conference and we fight on our declaration of intent , on pensions , pensions reviews , that 's er reviewing a pension what we 're trying to get for the government of the day to review the pensions every six months instead of at the present every year . |
16 | We were all starvin' , Chief , so we went to this canteen . |
17 | Although they belonged to different generations , and though Wilkins was deeply indebted to Galileo for his telescopic observations , the comparison is nevertheless illuminating . |
18 | But as Irene said : ‘ Children respond much more to love and affection than they do to physical punishment . ’ |
19 | ‘ Children respond much more to love and affection than they do to physical punishment ’ — Irene Bell |
20 | When men get to around forty they all seem to want to have affairs with younger women … but … they have usually forgotten how to go about ‘ chatting up ’ women and so they revert to pubescent memories and do incredibly stupid things like writing letters , or , even worse , poems to the unfortunate woman . |
21 | And , according to Mr Abbell , it is common for US attorneys to use their experience in government once they move to private practice . |
22 | Though the six counties initially refused an offer of separation from the rest of Ireland , that was the compromise eventually agreed on , although it led to civil war in the new Irish Free State , and remains the root cause of later violence . |
23 | Does n't it rather vitiate the nature of Cabinet government , though , if a decision , like the one to remove all exchange control , a very fundamental one for any economy , is in fact worked up , although it goes to full Cabinet in the end , in such a body ? |
24 | Although it grows to some 20cm in the wild it rarely achieves even half that size in the aquarium . |
25 | not apply , any more than it does to all garden plants , There are certainly some , the Mediterranean group for example , which includes oregano , lavender , rosemary and thyme , that grow in this sort of environment , but there are many more which need such conditions as shade , moisture , plenty of food , or deep soil , or they may want varying combinations of these , or any of them combined with their opposites . |
26 | THE SAATCHI & SAATCHI share price responds better these days to gossip and innuendo than it does to hard fact . |
27 | Sent away to prep school at eight , he was lonely and homesick and no sooner had he settled in than he moved to public school , to Gordonstoun , a bleak and desolate place on the windswept north-east coast of Scotland , with a regime to match . |
28 | But , as he revealed later , it did not take long for him to realise that Paris was no more inspirational to him than Barnsley , so he returned to northern England and entered show business as a singer and pianist . |
29 | The machine was n't fit for this purpose so he had to good case to go back to Dixons and ask either for a replacement or his money back . |
30 | David O'Leary had another reason for the lack of flair : ‘ Once it went to extra time everyone was afraid to make a mistake . |