Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them enclosed letters to be forwarded to her . |
| 2 | I shrugged , as if I thought them honourable scars to be gained in my lady 's service . |
| 3 | It should be noted , however , that he also protested against conditions at Newgate , particularly the presence of strangers in the chapel ‘ pointing & whispering , to ye Confusion of ye wretched Men to Dye ’ . |
| 4 | My aunt , she run a house for them visitin' ministers to Port au Prince . |
| 5 | They could take those who still owed them large sums to the Insolvent Debtors Court . |
| 6 | I want to give you good answers to your questions . ’ |
| 7 | He said , ‘ There was a time , my lord my cousin , when you preferred axes to ink . |
| 8 | The phrase " factory system " was already entering the language when , in 1807 , Davies Gilbert MP , a distinguished scientist , declared : However specious in theory the project might be of giving education to the labouring classes of the poor , it would in effect be prejudicial to their morals and happiness : it would teach them to despise their lot in life , instead of making them good servants to agriculture and other laborious employments to which their rank in society had destined them ; instead of teaching them subordination , it would render them factious and refractory , as was evident in the manufacturing counties . |
| 9 | An omission which might have and may still cost him serious casualties to personnel north of the Qattara depression . |
| 10 | Oh , before that she gave him strict injunctions to be sure to kill Horrible or he would destroy them all , which was duly done . |
| 11 | Then , like a host who becomes most animated when his guests are leaving , this leader of the campaign against garrulousness gave me succinct directions to Old Aberdeen . |
| 12 | It would take me Fucking years to type in the details of all the players and the rules to distribute them . |
| 13 | Is n't it grand boys to be bloody well dead ? |
| 14 | " It sure looks to me as though that fever might be beginning to take hold . " |
| 15 | Do n't consign us lesser mortals to outer darkness . |
| 16 | This , to use a definition of the American , Stanley Ellin , one of the writers to have given us short stories to equal any that have been written since crime and the short story met ( read his The Speciality of the House ) is any story so long as it deals with " that streak of wickedness in human nature " . |
| 17 | Thus intuition comes in twice , firstly to tell us general truths to the effect that certain natural characteristics bestow prima facie obligatoriness , and secondly to tell us which of various alternative acts is more stringently obligatory . |
| 18 | Prime Minister Chung announced on Dec. 11 that all US atomic weapons had been removed from South Korean soil , and offered to open US military bases to inspection by the North on condition that the North permitted simultaneous inspection of its own nuclear facilities . |