Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] to [art] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My posting to the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes seemed a long way away . |
| 2 | But Jim , the chap who lives next door to them came over the other night to collect a pound from me as my contribution to the er , sign on the lamppost saying that this is a watch neighbourhood watch area , now it 's |
| 3 | Sell my soul to the de devil himself . |
| 4 | Whether this is stimulated by the myths and ballads proposed by David Holbrook , or is a reflection upon the living conditions of society 's victims suggested by Searle , teachers ' limitation of the pupils ' work in English to ‘ personal ’ writing can be interpreted as giving their support to the status quo of the social system . |
| 5 | The Wrigleys chewy ads portrayed Yankie youth , resplendent in full Sacramento High College clobber , wrecking their gums to a doo wop accompaniment . |
| 6 | Although it has changed its name to the Cirque Invisible with most of its material new , its format remains much the same as before , created by the husband and wife team of Jean Baptiste Thierree and Victoria Chaplin ( daughter of Oonagh ) but not joined by their lithe acrobat son , James Spencer Thierree . |
| 7 | It has to tell the world openly that the mid-range machine is its chosen contender as the central repository for the 21st century , and above all make convincing its commitment to the AS/400 by rushing out top end machines that are much bigger than the present top model while instituting a crash programme to slash the costs of manufacture — and then slash them again , work out how to make money out of the machine while charging much less for the software — and making all the remaining System 36 users an offer they ca n't refuse to convert to the AS/400 , even if every sale to that base is a dead loss to IBM . |
| 8 | On the Vienna and Berlin routes every transport had its smattering of adult supervisors , who had to sign a pledge to return immediately they had handed over their charges to the RCM . |
| 9 | Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing . |
| 10 | ‘ At all costs ’ , wrote Dorothy Hardisty in one of her reports to the RCM executive , ‘ we must try to dissuade our boys and girls from believing that London is the answer to all their prayers . ’ |
| 11 | She had continuously offered her services to the RCM committee as a foster parent , but they had never found a suitable child and perhaps also felt that she was too poor to cope . |
| 12 | Well , Gain has reportedly just snared a porting pact with IBM to move its software to the RS/6000 and once it 's ready IBM will apparently co-market the stuff worldwide especially to users with mission critical distributed applications . |
| 13 | The public sector auditors ' mandate therefore extends beyond that of their private sector counterparts who generally confine their energies to the attest/fiscal compliance role . |
| 14 | The United States and other industrialized countries responded by withdrawing their objections to a US$350,000,000 credit to Brazil from the Inter-American Development Bank ( IDB ) . |
| 15 | Ricardou has been credited as the instigator of this development , although his contribution to the nouveau roman was principally to articulate and systematize this new aesthetic . |
| 16 | I think this is one of the chairman because there was so many horrendous forecasts in the summer and autumn about the S S A that when it was announced you know we thought it was goods news and of course it was n't , erm so this is why they 're trying to be prudent and we have kept in our proposals to the erm , has already mentioned that er , thank god , the er democratic growth has been covered this year and so on , erm , plenty of other things that we would like to see erm to comply with the government 's own legislation erm but they where with all . |
| 17 | But it 's unwise to take our bodies to the Grand Prix circuit of running for our lives without doing a few practice laps first . |
| 18 | I I suppose in the in the light of what 's been said I I am slightly uneasy erm particularly going back to the erm I five discussion that that we had yesterday and you you 'll be aware that part of our objection to the erm the policy put forward by the county council re related to the specific wording of the of the policy and the the flexibility available to local authorities in in terms of allocating land erm that best serves the needs of potential developers and investors . |