Example sentences of "to [pron] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In describing the negotiations for Æthelred 's return from exile in 1014 , this says that the king was informed that no lord was dearer to them than their native lord , if he would govern them more justly ( rihtlicor ) than before , and that he then promised to remedy the things that they all hated . |
| 2 | Why do n't you say to them that they each organisation I mean H M S O and have ten minutes each for a presentation |
| 3 | They must have quality given to them because their varying dimensions can add so much to the design . |
| 4 | Men might reject the guiding hand of Providence and increasingly take control of their own lives , but death , when it came to them or their loved ones , had the same countenance that had frightened their ancestors . |
| 5 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 6 | It seemed to me that my personal disaster was so great that hitherto I had not allowed myself to understand it . |
| 7 | No , no I ca n't I just ca n't eat so I 'm not forcing myself to eat , what I 'm trying to do is only to eat the right things and I must start vitamin supplements I think I 've got the age when I probably need that , I mean , this cold is a warning to me that my immune system is not as strong as it ought to be , I should n't have had another cold so soon after getting rid of one ! |
| 8 | mhm It just occurred to me that our Civil Service , in its higher reaches , is also notoriously recruited very largely from the ranks of people who studied Latin and Greek at universities . |
| 9 | So it seems to me that the existence of death , the fact that organisms do n't live forever , and they certainly are not perfected in terms of personal fitness or survivability , because they get diseases and they die suggests to me that our modern insight into evolution acting on individual genes is , is correct . |
| 10 | ‘ At my local bookshop , called Ex Libris , in the Shambles at Bradford on Avon , ’ Kington writes , ‘ the man who looks after it once confided to me that his favourite browsing book when no customers were around was Desert Island Lists , which contained the records and books and luxuries chosen by everyone who had been on the programme in the Roy Plomley era . |
| 11 | It pleased him to see the shock his words delivered , and before David could protest , he lied , ‘ You 've been a help to me since my old bones went crook , and I 'll see you get your dues when the time comes . |
| 12 | I had been allocated an efficient back-up team from the Civil Service : Jane Benham ( promoted near the end and replaced by Martin Howarth ) , Michael Phipps and Jenny Bacon , all of whom impressed me with their loyalty to me and their diplomatic skills . |
| 13 | ‘ By this time I had already been fooling around with sound on sound recording , and then in 1971 some aunt that I never even knew left a small house to me and my two brothers . |
| 14 | The magazine will just have to lurch along snuggled up to me and my ageing haemorrhoids for a few weeks . |
| 15 | He knows I have extra time off owing to me because my last holiday period was cut short when one of the staff became ill . |
| 16 | This will demonstrate to everyone that our educational system is fair and just , and will help generate gratitude , loyalty and affection . |
| 17 | Conversely , the sufferer from addictive disease can not stop and denies the causal connection even up to his or her own death while blaming environmental pollution , an influenza epidemic , stress or any other external factor as the cause of his or her increasing disability . |
| 18 | I 'm at the age , that er more things come to you than your old age pension book . |
| 19 | ‘ I swear to you that your honourable gambling partner is going to restore those farms to this estate . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've wanted to make love to you since I first set eyes on you . ’ |
| 21 | These will be offered to you when you first register with a doctor or if you have not seen your doctor for some time . |
| 22 | We shall highlight the options available to you and their potential benefits and hazards to enable your final decision to be based as far as possible on a complete understanding of the available alternatives . |
| 23 | Next , you have to consider the options open to you and their likely consequences . |
| 24 | Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) . |
| 25 | This special low rate is available only to you and your fellow developers . |
| 26 | All too soon , I regret , we shall be forced to say adieu to you and your distinguished father . " |
| 27 | ‘ I 've listened to you and your sanctimonious blabberings for the last time ! |
| 28 | since he came to our Lordships House with some very and has had to sit this thing ever since then with one exception er to speeches deeply and seriously critical er of the proposals er coming from Members of your Lordships House mostly with vast experience of the subject matter former Secretary 's er er former Chief Constable er and er so many others and I arise only to put one point to you if my Noble Friend decides to resist these amendments , it seems to me I may be wrong but it seems to me overwhelmingly clear that they will be carrying against him and they will be put into the Bill which will be very considerably altered and amended , some of your Lordships may think improved , but certainly drastically altered and I wonder whether er my Noble Friend thinks that really would be helpful from the point of view either of the pr future progress of the Bill , or the position of the Government . |
| 29 | ‘ In an enclosed community , Master Corbett , people chatter — to themselves , to their sister , to me , or even to you or your ubiquitous servant , Master Ranulf . ’ |
| 30 | Lopsided , belonging not to herself and her inner love , but to doctors and chemotherapy and the loss of all her hair . |