Example sentences of "to [pron] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is a gentleman of complete integrity , ‘ disdainful of all littleness and meanness ’ , to whom honour has more importance than life itself . |
| 2 | Arrive home , carry first boxful in , go out again to car where Henry and Harriet are engaged in the first barney of Xmas , and to my horror hear front door slam behind me . |
| 3 | I refer to my memorandum dated 31 March 1993 in the above regard , to which all departments have now responded . |
| 4 | I refer to my memorandum dated 19 September 1990 which informed you that the Personnel Committee , at its meeting on 11 September 1990 , decided not to agree to a closure of Regional Council workplaces during the 1990/91 festive season . |
| 5 | From a letter to my mother dated 2 May , which has escaped destruction , it is clear that I had just written to Eliot explaining that I realized the undesirability of publication , unless indeed Rowse himself were prepared to give it his endorsement . |
| 6 | I have not yet received a reply to my letter dated 21st May 1992 asking for information about temporary caravan sites and caravan rallies . |
| 7 | I felt sick to my stomach reading that filth . ’ |
| 8 | A different point — again a very important one — relates to the general powers of the IAEA and to its ability to monitor civil programmes to prevent covert programmes . |
| 9 | The research aims to examine the effects of attrition and conditioning on the panel , to exploit the analytic advantages of attrition and conditioning on the panel relating to its ability to model dynamic models of human behaviour and attitudes and to investigate the practical aspects of maintaining a panel . |
| 10 | The success of Windows is due in part to its ability to keep several applications active at the same time — each in its own screen or window . |
| 11 | If the government sticks to its decision to limit public sector pay rises to 1.5% , museums may have some extra flexibility as the DNH has budgeted for a greater increase . |
| 12 | The government 's fall was attributed to its failure to gain international recognition for an independent Macedonia . |
| 13 | I find the webbing straps and lever locks used to hold my boat to its trailer make excellent cramps . |
| 14 | This meant that , although hydrogen was more expensive to produce , it enabled the dimension of balloons to be minimised , in addition to its nature allowing longer flights over greater distances . |
| 15 | It decided to question the validity of the Regulations in proceedings for judicial review but to avoid adverse publicity which might arise if it was the only building society failing to pay in accordance with the Regulations and to avoid the danger of being charged penalties , it paid three instalments as required by the Regulations but without prejudice to its right to recover those sums if it was correct in its contention that the Regulations were void . |
| 16 | She owed it to her daughter to make this compromise . |
| 17 | Now the expression on Karen 's face as she lay beneath me , knees pulled up to her chin to facilitate maximum penetration , was of a recent convert taking communion . |
| 18 | He made her stand holding up her skirt , and to her delight applied cold cream to her ravished posterior . |
| 19 | FERGIE may have found it difficult to learn Her Royal Lessons , but you do n't have to be a fitness connoisseur to see that she has learned a thing or two about keeping in Of course her title of the Disappearing Duchess takes on a different meaning now a year ago it referred to her ability to lose five stones of regal flab . |
| 20 | The front was slashed all the way down to her navel to reveal rounded breasts , which rose and fell temptingly like a couple of ripe peaches . |
| 21 | She had been studying for her A levels however when , after discovering that she had smuggled a pining and off-his-food spaniel up to her bedroom to sleep one night , her father had put some of her own recent doubts into words . |
| 22 | As she ran to her bedroom to find some clothes , her Dad 's dressing-gown , flapping round her legs , slowed her down . |
| 23 | Lina likes music — any kind of music as long as it 's not too noisy — and especially likes to listen to her son playing classical music on the piano . |
| 24 | The reference to her Bible suggests two things : firstly the oral and the literary could exist side by side , and secondly that religion and superstition were not necessarily perceived as contesting forms of popular belief . |
| 25 | She saw him go to the bar and order a tray of Cokes and crisps for the children , and by the time he came back to her table carrying two mugs of coffee she had composed herself a little . |
| 26 | First Floss and Tibbs retired to their tent to dispel this foretaste of the middle-aged grossness that awaited them in the exercise of their healthy young bodies . |
| 27 | Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites … |
| 28 | Similarly , individual members of the salesforce may be too close to their territory to perceive wider pattern within marketplace trends , and there will be a need for an overview to balance this intimate and territory based view . |
| 29 | In so far as cost-of-funds matters lead to Japanese competitive advantage , it is more likely to be due to their willingness to take greater risks because of the low relative cost reported by Prowse ( 1986 ) and confirmed by Hodder ( 1986 ) , rather than a propensity to disregard DCF . |
| 30 | Human beings are needed for those tasks for a variety of reasons from their highly dexterous manipulative potential through to their ability to accept informal instructions . |