Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] to [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically , I figured that this was my ticket to at least branching out a little bit . |
| 2 | Deciding that attack was the best form of defence , I knelt beside him and lowering my head to within inches of his , said , ‘ Next time , It 'll be the bread knife . ’ |
| 3 | The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation , a major lender to Bond but one which cut its exposure to about A$1billion earlier this year , said it would study the implications of the NAB action over the weekend . |
| 4 | She cut her hair to about , to about there but it was once down , right down here |
| 5 | He is , however , the person who she opens her heart to about her previous marriage : |
| 6 | This is not a new matter , this is a matter on which the County Council could have directed their mind to for several years . |
| 7 | But they wo n't have injured duo John Hendrie and Willie Falconer in their bid to down the Reds . |
| 8 | This machine was the second of its type to by built , it established a record for long distance flight when it flew from Hendon to Mudros in 55 hours , over a 10 day period . |
| 9 | CONGRATULATIONS TO from the SAS ( Special Analysis Section ) , on her marriage to on — pictured above . |
| 10 | In addition , it will technically be able to veto any changes Aegon proposes to the business plan of the new Scottish Equitable plc , including Aegon increasing its stake to above 50.1 per cent after 1999 . |
| 11 | Elders , the Australian group , has been ordered to cut its stake to at least 9.9 per cent by June . |
| 12 | For those too young to remember the 1960s , Niki de Saint Phalle 's name conjures up wacky and colourful Nanas ( French slang for woman ) , whose harmlessness is matched only by their price tag and Partisian chic , neatly caricatured by a tacky perfume she put her name to in 1982 . |
| 13 | It hissed and moved its head to within a few centimetres of the android . |
| 14 | Dow Europe has bought 51 per cent of the Czech chemical company , Chemicke Zavody Sokolov , and has an option to increase its share to at least 90 per cent within three years in a deal worth $100m ( £50m ) . |
| 15 | It 's as if you 're the first person she 's told her secret to in years . |
| 16 | First prize of tapes worth £100 goes to of while the second prize of £50 worth of tapes is on its way to of and the third prize of £25 worth of tapes goes to of . |
| 17 | For example , if , the expected payoff for type converges to but it could improve its payoff to by masquerading as a z = 0 player . |
| 18 | Utterly ignoring her struggles to free herself , he slid one hand beneath her hair to cup the back of her neck , and pulled her face to within a couple of inches of his own . |
| 19 | And he said not at all , not at all and I said well I do want the people to know that , you know we , although we tribute to of the lost lives in the two World Wars , we are now striving for peace and so I wound a few white poppies . |
| 20 | There is , in fact , every indication that Karajan was acutely aware of the temper of the times , though to find evidence of this we do not go to the random rag-bag of recordings he was permitted to make in the early 1940s but to what he immediately turned his mind to with Legge in Vienna in 1947 : Strauss 's Metamorphosen , a recording , still , of unparalleled intensity , and the Brahms German Requiem , a performance ( it was said to be one of Toscanini , s favourite records ) of unbearable directness and poignancy of utterance . |
| 21 | He had increased his speed to between forty and fifty miles an hour . |
| 22 | Congratulations to , processing , on his marriage to in Fort Jesus , Mombasa on . |
| 23 | There tends to be an easy assumption that satisfactory job training exists because everyone who remains in post in a library must of necessity have learnt to do his job to at least minimum standards … ’ |
| 24 | A scar ran from the corner of his eye to under his jawbone , and his tattooed arms rested on the desk in front of him , which was covered with mementoes of his Legion career . |
| 25 | When he had remained in his bed to at least 6.30am he was praised and given a big mug of chocolate . |
| 26 | There 's little Bill Ward has n't turned his hand to in the first sixty years … from Tragic opera … to Singing puppets |
| 27 | ‘ He further informed the prince that , should he find evidence of a continuing liaison between himself and yourself , he would consider it his duty to at once have recourse to the king his father . ’ |
| 28 | Please lend your support to by writing to Tim Eggar MP , Minister for Energy , Department of Trade & Industry , Ashdown House , 123 Victoria Street , London SW1E 6RB . |
| 29 | If we can reduce our weight to around that of our youth and eat well enough to give us the energy to work and live our lives to the full , we will all benefit . |
| 30 | The F-Plan will provide you with a wonderfully easy formula for boosting your intake to between 35g and 50g of fibre a day — at least twice most people 's normal consumption — without sacrificing any pleasure in meals . |