Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from these important changes , specialized antiracist work within the local state has been increasingly identified as an embarrassment by the Labour Party for whom political commitments to antiracism and multiculturalism are apparently a vote loser . |
| 2 | This will allow them unparalleled access to German and northern European markets . |
| 3 | ‘ And was it part of my father 's plan that you make love to me to convince me that marriage to Jonathan was the wrong thing ? ’ she said angrily . |
| 4 | The software will also work across multiple domains , so that network managers in different parts of the organisation can simultaneously tweak the network ; this is achieved by giving them simultaneous access to the central management database . |
| 5 | Most of them enclosed letters to be forwarded to her . |
| 6 | It is therefore not unusual for junior nurses to feel that it takes them some time to " settle in " on a surgical ward . |
| 7 | We actively encourage them to take on tasks out with the role of resident to give them some leaning to their life , to give them some creativeness to actively tap some of the skills they have had as a housewife or when they were out in the community . |
| 8 | Parents will not concern their very young children with the details of the doctrine , as that is quite unnecessary for the establishment of the early conscience , but they should at least give them some introduction to it as soon as the need becomes obvious from their inevitable questions . |
| 9 | FastPort gives everyone direct access to the printer . |
| 10 | It 's going to take me some time to type that list . |
| 11 | I have given my filth-preference vote to one of them , and together with other much-transferred votes it may determine his election . |
| 12 | My usual response to being addressed in German was to reply ( in Russian ) ‘ Ya nye Nyemyets ’ ( ‘ I 'm not a German ’ ) which confused them since I clearly was not Russian . |
| 13 | The stairs were my usual route to the ‘ hell-hole ’ in which I lived and walking up them I had to dodge numerous heaps of ‘ gunk ’ . |
| 14 | Relieved , I turn my exhausted attention to the details of tomorrow 's expedition to the Valley of the Kings , and our return flight to Cairo . |
| 15 | I used to get very sentimental during my period with the Territorial Army about the exploits of the British Parachute Regiment , despite the fact that my sole contribution to their reputation had been made in Aldershot discos . |
| 16 | It was my sole contribution to the conversation . |
| 17 | And the players I 'd been working with previously went along with me , from using my modified equipment to using my custom-built equipment . |
| 18 | Speaking as the operation began , Mr Barnett thanked the person who gave permission for the donation : ‘ I know that Aisling , even if she does not survive , would want me to express my eternal gratitude to them for giving her the chance to live . ’ |
| 19 | My grateful thanks to you all for your kindness and consideration . |
| 20 | Finally , I must add my grateful thanks to Pete Livesey and to Climber & Hill Walker for raising the BAA 's profile in such a dramatic way . |
| 21 | On Wednesday night I was seized with an intolerable pain from my right temple to the tip of my right shoulder , including my right eye , cheek , and jaw , and that side of the throat . |
| 22 | Yes , you 're always wary of erm people like that you know , their reputation goes before them , and erm you do n't really see the ball till late , he just flicked it down , I just done enough to get down and erm you know , get my right hand to it and like , Steve Foster was following up well and that and you know , that 's the things that we 've got the run with us now . |
| 23 | I just felt like I would have given my right arm to be there with a camera — and that stayed in my mind for a long time . ’ |
| 24 | After listening to my heart and extracting a syringe-full of blood from an artery , they connected my right arm to the drip-feed . |
| 25 | But , as fate would have it , my work has lain for years in a field where I was obliged strictly to keep my political convictions to myself . |
| 26 | My greatest contribution to human happiness was either the decision to abolish the cartel on cross-channel ferries or , less delicately , the decision to abolish monopoly price fixing for condoms . |
| 27 | Asked by a perfumed interrogator whether I would like a large slice of my earned income to be taken from me and devoted to helping the poor , I would feel loathe to shake my head . |
| 28 | I was also infuriated by the continual refusal of the British government , despite my strong representations to Harold Wilson , to meet with the Biafran leaders . |
| 29 | Wierzbicka ( 1988 : 103ff ) , following on Bolinger 1984 , points out likewise that " if my attitude to an event is such that I am glad or sorry about it , this means that in advance of this event I could have predicted my emotional reaction to it " . |
| 30 | ( in my classic response to Rejection and Pain ) |