Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You hit the bottom of the valley , wait for the arms to stop shaking from the effort of holding the bike 's front wheel to its course and take on food from the station de ravitaillement . |
| 2 | Add the LM remedy to your bottle — this is now your STOCK BOTTLE . |
| 3 | I 'd had some sailing instruction before on Lake Bala , in a larger Wayfarer which has room for two people and an instructor , but I found that I was tending to leave the thinking to my partner and the instructor , and just doing what I was told without knowing why . |
| 4 | HOW TO APPLY CRITICAL THINKING TO YOUR STUDY PROBLEMS |
| 5 | Crump was a kindly man and his kindness to his wife had resulted in his being made to appear in thrall to her from time to time . |
| 6 | ‘ For your kindness to my girl I am in your debt , as she is . |
| 7 | In a recent letter of condolence to his family , the Council of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Switzerland praised the strength of his personality , his many abilities and his Christian commitment in the area of development . |
| 8 | Attlee , an astute judge of men , banked on Mountbatten 's ambition to provide an adequate counterweight to his proclivity for risk , and in this judgement he was proved to be correct . |
| 9 | When you have enough experience to have reached the stage where crashes are a rare occurrence ( if ever ! ) , the greatest aid to orientation is to fit a scale type fuselage to your model . |
| 10 | The object of bereavement work with the elderly can be more one of continuing supportive intervention and understanding the old person 's need to look back over the past years and relationships than of expecting them to ‘ work through ’ their grief to its resolution . |
| 11 | The weeping aloud of the relatives turns to melancholic songs in the local Quechua dialect , Zacarías Ceonocc Huayhua … sings words of grief to his wife whom he has just recognized . ’ |
| 12 | A second or two later , however , Fabia was turning her concentration to her plate , and giving herself something of a silent talking-to — her theme being that Ven would think he was lunching with some deranged lunatic if she went on grinning like that at him all through the meal . |
| 13 | Aerial work pilots such as crop-sprayers , aerial photographers , power-line inspectors etc. have to give great concentration to their work and have little opportunity to scan the sky for aircraft approaching at high speed . |
| 14 | ‘ What sort of a day have you had ? ’ she asked him lightly , and spent the first course and half of the second in hearing how he did n't think he was giving so much concentration to his job as he should just lately . |
| 15 | A thought crept unbidden to her mind , causing a rush of liquid heat to course through her . |
| 16 | Fitzgerald 's brain was also haunted by survivals of past literature , ‘ The old music of bygone singers , rich haunting sentences of old leisurely authors , rang in his brain , and came unbidden to his pen . |
| 17 | The words spring unbidden to his mind ; the language he once knew has slipped from his grasp . |
| 18 | Whittingham led the interceptors , attacking a Ju88 and a Ju87 , but seeing no result to his fire . |
| 19 | The Spires and Shires tour company has added a new landmark to its sightseeing tour of Oxford . |
| 20 | Yes , the tour was definitely looking up a little , and only the previous evening she had written a card to her daughter to say that in spite of a death and a theft and a murder she was ‘ beginning to make one or two very nice friends on the trip ’ . |
| 21 | We will credit amounts deposited by use of your Card to whichever account you select but if the amount actually received by us differs from that stated by you , your account will be debited or credited ( as the case may be ) with the amount of the difference . |
| 22 | How about showing the red card to his dad instead ? — WIN a tenner for your Twit of the Week |
| 23 | he took the card out of the slot , pulled back his left cuff and pressed the card to his wrist . |
| 24 | On 7 July Amedeo wrote a card to his mother telling her , somewhat cruelly , that as Italy was now in the war , he had thought that he might be called back for military service , even though he was an invalid and had felt a slight desire to return to Italy . |
| 25 | ‘ Adequate resources would have to include extra staff , as this shortage contributes a great deal to our lack of staff training , i.e. the staff we have are all needed to run the service ’ … |
| 26 | ‘ Extra staff , as this shortage contributes a great deal to our lack of staff training ’ . |
| 27 | Mounts can add a great deal to your picture , and there are many different sizes and shapes from which to choose . |
| 28 | I owe a great deal to my education many years ago , as I come from the background of a Welsh mining village , where a high proportion of us ended up with university degrees — a far higher rate than in many posher , salubrious , suburban areas . |
| 29 | With Marion 's baby due next month and my being absent on leave , I would n't put it past the ‘ high heid yins ’ to cook up some deal to my disadvantage . ’ |
| 30 | Indeed , I suppose I owe a great deal to his novel , Caleb Williams , which I have read several times with a daughter 's care . |