Example sentences of "[verb] to my [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suggest to my hon. Friend the Minister that he could simply delete that line of clause 60 . |
| 2 | This is a book much to be admired ; it contains exactly the sort of information I would have divulged to my own foundation students once upon a sketchbook project . |
| 3 | As one who joined the Leader of the Opposition in voting against the Single European Act , before the right hon. Gentleman became a Euro-fanatic , may I appeal to my right hon. Friend to warn the voters about the huge dangers to the much-improved labour relations of Britain if they were to vote into power any Government who were prepared to pass over the power to wreck our trade union reforms by majority vote in Brussels ? |
| 4 | He raised with me certain personal problems that he was facing and I asked him to come to my regular constituency surgery to discuss matters in more detail . |
| 5 | ‘ I wonder , when you 're allowed out of here if you 'd like to come to my humble abode to recuperate ? |
| 6 | I just needed time to adjust to my new position . ’ |
| 7 | I recall explaining to my close friends at school , querying why my sister was so distressed , what had happened , but directing them not to tell anybody . |
| 8 | I apologise to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department for being unable to attend at the start of the debate , due to the aggravated taking of British Rail , which took three hours to take me from York to the metropolis . |
| 9 | I apologise to my hon. Friend the Member for Staffordshire , South ( Mr. Cormack ) for not responding to him . |
| 10 | It gradually rose to my left , but remained level ahead as far as distant , hazy mountains . |
| 11 | So I immediately assumed that this was what was happening to my own kids . |
| 12 | What 's happening to my little girl ? |
| 13 | One day , in the dim and distant future , I expect that I shall want to move into different arenas , but I imagine that I shall continue as an NCT member , not just to receive my favourite journal , New Generation but also to carry on contributing to my favourite charity . |
| 14 | ‘ Added to my millions it bonds us into a formidable team . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Added to my brilliant detective work , of course , ’ he added with a grin . |
| 16 | Her love and gentleness added to my great unhappiness . |
| 17 | The interior of Armstrong was beginning to smell of wet dogs and that just added to my bad mood . |
| 18 | You are talking of a few pennies ’ pittance added to my weekly wage . |
| 19 | But the I want to make essentially er two points , one relating er to the overall boundary review and one relating er an argument relating to my own area . |
| 20 | Besides , I want to protect the remains of my privacy ; I do n't want to appear cold-hearted or stubborn ; but I know that when I try to make my life give me its answers to how I have come to my current concerns , I ca n't do it without feeling that I am on the edge of a dangerous fiction of self-description . |
| 21 | Now it has come to my own turn and I do n't like it . ’ |
| 22 | and could report upon them in their own ethical statements , but they could not object to my ethical statements as I meant them , if I have the relevant feelings . |
| 23 | I became a car driver again widely overtaking walkers and cyclists , and made forays of comfortable detective work returning to my cornucopian base , some of the victuallings within you will learn about in the Lewis section . |
| 24 | Returning to my first meeting with Vincent , Arthur Cheyney naturally became my hero , especially when he took me on a trip from Ipswich to Parkeston Quay , which completely sold me on the job and made me resolve to move heaven and earth to get on a cutter crew as soon as possible . |
| 25 | I was secretly hoping I would one day find a way of escaping and returning to my own country . |
| 26 | And I see no point in reverting to my maiden name since that belonged to my father . |
| 27 | When I arrived , I found to my great irritation that I 'd forgotten the film . |
| 28 | The people of York will have noticed the mocking smiles on the faces of Opposition Members when I referred to my hon. Friend 's record . |
| 29 | It looks to my lay eye extremely impressive yet the eerie fact remains that it engages missiles when they are only 2 or 3 seconds away from hitting a ship . |
| 30 | What 's more , I 'd love you to lecture to my confounded wife in that fashion and tell her that her rotten complacent way of life is over . |