Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a neighbour wrote an anonymous letter about them to the DHSS and before long an official was knocking at their door . |
| 2 | But it was as nothing to the humiliation which the unions would pour on his government in the last two years of its term . |
| 3 | Incest and necrophilia were as nothing to the amorous Egyptian gods . |
| 4 | We are interested and associated but not absorbed and should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — Shall we speak for thee to the king or captain of the host ? ' — we should reply , Nay sir , for we dwell among our own people' ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 6 | DeVore met those eyes and saw through them to the emptiness beyond . |
| 7 | The fingers were long , unnaturally thin , the skin on them so clear it seemed he could see right through them to the bone itself . |
| 8 | Then he took the wallet of photographs from his pocket and leafed through them to the ninth picture in Heather 's collection . |
| 9 | I feel their flames go through me to the tower . |
| 10 | What , after all , is the difference between a priest acting in the highest sense of his vocation , or a prophet compelled into declamation , or such a saint ( even unknowing ) , opening himself up to the mercies of God , becoming a channel for them to the world ? |
| 11 | In 1790 a great meeting of tanners held in London elected him to speak for them to the prime minister , William Pitt , concerning the distressed state of the tanning trade ; and in 1793 he wrote to parliament on behalf of Bristol tanners to suggest remedies for the scarcity of the oak bark used in tanning . |
| 12 | Our motoring culture has a price all too evident to the police investigating car crime , to the victims of road accidents , and the nurses caring for them to the one in seven children suffering from asthma and the environment , as more and more areas of the countryside are carved up to make way for roads . |
| 13 | Once you 've paid your $399 , you are a ‘ non-revenue passenger ’ , worth nothing to the airline . |
| 14 | And , by the Married Women 's Property Act 1964 , any money derived by a wife from an allowance made by her husband for housekeeping purposes , or any property acquired out of it , is deemed , in the absence of any agreement between them to the contrary , to belong in equal shares to the husband and wife . |
| 15 | The need for an ‘ official name ’ for indexes and dictionaries contrasts with the desire of others for a set of rules for different names leaving the choice between them to the user . |
| 16 | In this extension , the waves cross , mutually focus each other , re-expand and then separate leaving Minkowski space between them to the future . |
| 17 | Their running was impeded by the mass of men coming out of the main doors and scattering in all directions , and heads down , they made their way between them to the back of the Naafi and into the rest room , which was empty ; and they were just in the process of taking off their wet top coats when the supervisor came in , saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm in luck ; I was about to send to the hut for help . |
| 18 | Isambard made a motion of his hand to the men who held the boy pinned by the arms , and he was half-dragged , half-carried between them to the rack . |
| 19 | We were further delayed getting back on station by a detour for me to the south end of Duke Street . |
| 20 | Berthe Weill shrugged and crossed the street after him to the catcalls of the crowd . |
| 21 | Quiet , never shouting about himself to the world . |
| 22 | Their private parts were firmly jammed in the wringer and all it needed was for somebody to the rescue . |
| 23 | The path took me under trees in full leaf and out across open fields where below me to the left the river Bain , the shortest river in England , flowed on its two-and-a-half-mile journey from Semer Water to the river Ure . |
| 24 | If my wife manages to elbow her way past me to the book first , she 's immediately led astray by extras like ‘ free use of private beach ’ , ‘ heated swimming pool ’ or ‘ wine-tasting ’ . |
| 25 | What he means is that although in one sense the competitively won money is very desirable — it gives a terrific boost to Imperial 's research and , because many of the contracts are from industry , keeps the university closely in touch with the real world — it actually contributes next of nothing to the core costs of the college , of which , of course , academic salaries are the largest single component . |
| 26 | And he did nothing in his life of exploration to introduce any of them to the places he saw . |
| 27 | Third , it analyses the influence on the political agenda and public opinion ; has it shifted either of them to the right ? |
| 28 | This might be because the time-cues are too weak , the transmission of them to the body clock is poor , the clock itself is insensitive to time cues , or it possesses an abnormally long or short free-running period . |
| 29 | In fact , an incurious person might travel from one end of them to the other without seeing a single shrub . |
| 30 | Fantasias ‘ on themes from such-an-such opera ’ were staple fare for many of the less substantial virtuosi of the first half of the nineteenth century , and even Liszt contributed a fair number of them to the literature . |