Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't quite know what the idea of the visit was , but the French Canadians had a similar one — anyway , everyone sold gold bricks to one another like mad . |
| 2 | Many of them make regular trips to the filmset where it was all put together , at Portmeirion in Wales . |
| 3 | Had any of them made any approaches to her ? |
| 4 | None of them made any concessions to the local Muslim culture . |
| 5 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 6 | I made 27 calls to Central Office , of which the best was the last . |
| 7 | In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier . |
| 8 | I made some comm-calls to contacts on planets here and there , pretending to some that I was looking for commissions , to others that I was in different parts of the galaxy transporting things for different people . |
| 9 | As I made these suggestions to her , I was continually reminding her that she was feeling very relaxed and comfortable and that she was in complete control of the situation and need do nothing ( even in her imagination ) that she did not choose to . |
| 10 | To get a wider picture than I had obtained from the local bookshops I made special journeys to various places , and acquired every library book I came across , only restricting myself by not acquiring more than one book from each library . |
| 11 | During a week 's stay under the ranges I made daily visits to this rich arboretum , which would have served me to investigate until this time without exhausting its treasures ; but , alas ! our provisions failing , we were obliged to re-trace our steps . ’ |
| 12 | Well they could address their letters to myself Councillor David Poole or Councillor Stuart Argyle to the Council House erm the suggestion you know er their the thoughts the thoughts on this what er they could er erm help us in our campaign and also about the leaf stem as well if they want to write to me at the Council House suggesting and I mean proper places to where it should go because that 's really up to County Council but er at least if I had some suggestions we can pass them over to the County Council where where it could go . |
| 13 | Had I heard any rumours to that effect ? |
| 14 | I make frequent visits to the Killearn workshop and I need a base for when I 'm in Scotland . |
| 15 | I rode 12 miles to the start , hid the bike and set off . |
| 16 | I got six months to two years borstal , and I was at Bullwood Hall for about nine months . |
| 17 | ‘ The pet shop refused a refund but I got one thanks to DAS , ’ he says . |
| 18 | We had heard that the University library and the small library of the Burma Research Society had practically disappeared , so I visited second-hand bookshops to Pick up out-of-print books on Burma , and for the modest expenditure of one hundred pounds managed to gather a very good collection of standard books on Burma and Buddhism . |
| 19 | I want those subsidies to be phased down by the Community , and I also want to encourage British coal to be exported to Germany if that is a way to deal with the problem . |
| 20 | I urge members , Chairman , not to hide behind this shabby amendment but to vote according to their consciences and their beliefs and to vote according to the views of eighty percent of the population that we represent and I urge other members to be as brief . |
| 21 | before I was a gard er was a mo a gardener , and after I 'd three years to the extent I ca n't . |
| 22 | But if I give some names to Mr next week I think yes well I 've got them at the music later today so I can ask them then . |
| 23 | I linked both books to the theme of ‘ Outsiders ’ , not because of the title but because I felt both books told the story of two lives lived on the edge of society . |
| 24 | I paid surreptitious trips to our old homes in Ada Street and West Avenue , where the fences my father had put up for Granny Kirkup before the war — in 1934 , I believe — were still standing round the long garden of ‘ Mundesley ’ , named after my grandmother 's birthplace . |
| 25 | So I run several yards to my left , step on to a two-foot metal platform , straddle the barrier , and jump down the other side . |
| 26 | After all , when I taught these secrets to my art students , they had one eye on their future interview . |
| 27 | ‘ I get quicker answers to prayers from God than I get answers to my letters . |
| 28 | I defer those contexts to later Chapters . |
| 29 | However , as we shall have to live with each other for the next few months in an electioneering atmosphere , I refer hon. Members to ’ Erskine May ’ on moderation in language . |
| 30 | However , the SIB is in charge of this and I refer hon. Members to it if they have problems . |