Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breaks my heart to part with them but I am going to live abroad and can not take them with me . |
| 2 | Only the sightscreen manufacturers will do badly out of this idea , and I have no room in my heart to worry about them . |
| 3 | I only hope that you will never have to read this letter — not because my life is worth anything to me but because it breaks my heart to think of you alone in a world which I have found to be so harsh and unforgiving . |
| 4 | ‘ It really breaks my heart to think of Simonica having to stay there . |
| 5 | So , naturally , overcome by concern , you hurried up to my cabin to enquire after her health . ’ |
| 6 | In competition it is to my advantage to feel for others as little as possible , an advantage which outweighs my dread of a growing isolation . |
| 7 | It was my privilege to present with a satellite dish as a retirement gift from his colleagues , customers and the company . |
| 8 | It might strengthen my case to appeal to apparently neutral , non-political standards but I do not suppose that I would be saying anything useful about the nature of cognition . |
| 9 | And that tuned in well with my inclinations to look for formal qualities and make more or less abstract patterns out of nature . |
| 10 | While the stars are at the theatre it is my responsibility to look after them and make sure they have everything they need . |
| 11 | I put him back in his stable again , complete with an enormous amount of bandaging and went home to wait for my vet to phone with the results of the x-rays . |
| 12 | One or two other teachers were encouraged by my willingness to argue against racial prejudice and became more vocal themselves . |
| 13 | I will grow my hair out to its natural colour until it falls long and lank about my shoulders , allow my skin to fade to a startling winter white . |
| 14 | I lowered my head quickly , as if to acknowledge the truth spoken by the old woman Khadija when she heard of my decision to travel to London . |
| 15 | But he demanded high standards and as a classical scholar was exasperated by my inability to cope with Latin . |
| 16 | So gripped did I become with my inability to proceed at one point , that I almost became benighted through ignoring what was literally a keyhole through the rock . |
| 17 | My inability to unbelieve in him hung on to me by the jaws , as I ascended the corporate ladder . |
| 18 | You do n't need my permission to go over there anyway . |
| 19 | ‘ I could n't close my fingers to pull on the water after an hour . ’ |
| 20 | BELVILLE : I stepped out of my chariot to walk across the meadow and whom should I spy but your humble servant , Mr. Williams . |
| 21 | My attempts to look like a normal human being again were evidently not too successful — at one point in my journey , I came on a man crouching over a small brook from which he was trying to drink . |
| 22 | This , maybe , was my opportunity to escape from the torpor into which I had sunk . |
| 23 | I seek leave this morning to hold my recommendation to adopt for a day as per Bungay bypass , tending member discussions which need to be held with representatives from both Suffolk County Council and Norfolk County Council . |
| 24 | Craned my neck to look for a way up to the high high bridge , saw a rocky overgrown path over the other side of the road . |
| 25 | It hurts my neck to look at you . ’ |
| 26 | There are discredited and out-of-date theories around , and I have asked officials in my Department to report to me on those matters . |
| 27 | The thought had crossed my mind to get into producing . |
| 28 | That 's true , er it would be also I think irresponsible for my side to point at oil companies or this or that operator . |
| 29 | Colleagues , it 's my pleasure to welcome on your behalf , Abdul . |
| 30 | Now , it 's now my pleasure to welcome on your behalf Chris the Secretary of Portsmouth Trades Council . |