Example sentences of "[adj] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How 're you doing ? ’ — this to Maxim over Agnes 's shoulder stretching out a big hand ’ you must be Major Harry Maxim . |
| 2 | Some fishkeepers are more than happy to add water straight from the hot tap , and add this to cold before using a conditioner . |
| 3 | In the Life , he makes a number of references — to Johnson 's high regard for a man he knew to be in hiding in London on account of having borne arms in the ‘ 45 ; to the curious fact that Johnson wrote almost not at all during the year 1745 — though Boswell , a windblown reed at best where politics were concerned , attributes this to preparation for the great Dictionary , rather than to any politically-induced melancholia . |
| 4 | Someone forward this to wilko for me … ive solved all our problems ; - ) |
| 5 | Yeah , I tell you what you could take this to school for me . |
| 6 | John Whiting of Interactive Learning Services brought this to life in a speech at the Interactive Learning Federation 's conference in July 1989 . |
| 7 | Now I want to allow a bit more time for questions so I 'll just end if I may with a funny story which , did n't happen to me , it happened to a colleague of mine , erm a young lady , who went to give er a talk like this to group of adults like yourselves and at the end of the meeting the treasurer went up to her and said do we owe you any fee or expenses ? |
| 8 | It does not seem wildly improper to apply this to Rose of Lima three hundred years later . |
| 9 | Party officials attributed this to antipathy to the " open ballot " system in which voters had to queue at polling booths behind the poster of their chosen candidate and were publicly counted . |
| 10 | And obviously if you playing cards close to your chest , you need something like this to sort of be able , you know , |
| 11 | As for initiatory rites , while circumcision was peculiar to Judaism in the Roman world , baptism was widely practised . |
| 12 | Connery 's endorsement of a political creed has brought something brand new and risky to politics in Britain : the heavyweight celebrity as politician . |
| 13 | This activity is unreliable and , in general working conditions , is prone to inactivation by other substances handled , including cleaning materials , leaving the skin unprotected . |
| 14 | Goldfish are particularly prone to predation by herons due to them being slow swimmers , and brightly-coloured . |
| 15 | They are good for conditioning skin that is prone to roughness on elbows , knees and on upper arms . |
| 16 | External designs are easiest to work on but most prone to interference from mud and water . |
| 17 | Not that the weather is any less prone to wetness in the Mournes than elsewhere , or that the slopes are any less steep . |
| 18 | For example , birds have higher maximum lifespans than mammals and are less prone to death in the wild . |
| 19 | It also seems probable that cells from inflamed epithelium ( colitis ) will be more prone to toxicity from cytokines than will cells from control tissue and this may have introduced artefactual abnormalities in dispersed colitic cells . |
| 20 | It is easier to inset after typing than before . |
| 21 | Willey , credited with bringing Manly to pre-eminence before spells with Balmain , Norths , Souths and , most recently , Penrith , hopes to arrive in time for Sunday 's Yorkshire Cup semi-final replay , against Halifax . |
| 22 | Seconds later the muezzin of a hundred Delhi mosques called the Faithful to prayer with a loud cry of ‘ Allaaaaah hu-Akbar ! ’ |
| 23 | Yet they would be wrong to bolt through it . |
| 24 | And , while her heart raced that there was a hint in what he 'd just said that he might be prepared to sightsee with her that afternoon , ‘ You must be parched ! ’ she apologised . |
| 25 | After the idea of a dead-letter drop had been made clear to Postelnicu with some difficulty , the new minister took the intelligence officer to his bathroom and asked if the lavatory 's water-cistern could be used as a letter drop . |
| 26 | Ince , taking a return from his own shot , put the little winger clear to rifle in his first goal of the season on 36 minutes . |
| 27 | I mean , I knew from my own experience that carers were not getting the help , they were not getting the back-up , so any sort of really good telephone numbers I had laid my hands on got sort of written away in a wee book , and I was lucky enough to come across an association that actually backed up carers and actually were willing to sort of , put their life on the line and say to me , yes , you have got rights and you need support and we are here to give you that support . |
| 28 | I just think it was a momentum that was caused by some villages feeling safer from the nationalists as they got further and further from the front and therefore more and more people a bit f erm being willing to sort of talk again , shout up against the , the landlords and as they saw , as they saw that their neighbours were getting land , all the others decided well they 're getting land , we might as well talk to , have a talk about them the problems and the harsh treatment that we 've had in , in years before . |
| 29 | Deer ruin their chances of being awesome beasts , providing a rare and special experience to those who spot them , by standing in massive herds all along the verge of the A9 looking glum , and grouse lose points for frightening you half to death by crashing out of the heather from under your feet screeching like banshees . |
| 30 | So she locked them in a coat closet where they beat each other half to death in the dark for twenty minutes . |