Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This came about because entrepreneurs realised that they could maintain higher profits by not indulging in fierce competition which forced them to pass on benefits to consumers . |
| 2 | But Lord Zouch , President of the Council , who was no friend to the professional judges there , discounted the notion that they were taking bribes : ‘ I mean not money to any magistrate , ’ he remarked . |
| 3 | I walked down Loreto to Coricancha . |
| 4 | Those details have not been sent out to the parish councils for further consultation and I refer there John to circular fifteen of ninety two Publicity for Planning Applications where at paragraph twenty five there is clear Government advice that where the changes are p are where the proposed changes are significant , and these are undeniably significant , there should be reconciliation . |
| 5 | I had been working as a dai ( midwife ) for the Government since 1974 , but I resigned when they stopped paying my salary and only paid me if I brought in patients to be sterilized . |
| 6 | Four and six when I went down Nottingham to work , at the box place , Henry 's I got seven and six a week . |
| 7 | I did not farad to . |
| 8 | The Germans are just over the river there — I 'm off on a recce directly — and I have n't time to muck about . |
| 9 | I have n't time to really listen and get good feedback from my kids … |
| 10 | ‘ I have not objection to giving my age but if this lady does n't want to then good luck to her , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Even the Sioux Indians immortalised in Dances With Wolves are angry because it will divert money from their bingo halls which bring in revenue to poor reservations . |
| 12 | But Jim says the Minister asked for extras which added nearly £20,000 to the bill . |
| 13 | The Humber has been a barrier which cut off trade to the south . |
| 14 | ( Perhaps there are analogies here with occupations which open up membership to women and subsequently decline in status and pay . ) |
| 15 | Active follow-up of all children , which included home visits to the last known address , was done approximately 1 year later ( March–April , 1992 ) . |
| 16 | THERE was an amusing television programme last week called BOFTY — Bore of the Year — which meted out awards to those most guilty of pretentiousness , rudeness , ubiquity and any other media excess as decided by the satirical magazine , Private Eye . |
| 17 | She started the Parents Review School in 1891 ( later the Parents Union School from 1907 ) , a correspondence school which sent out work to all children enrolled . |
| 18 | This is a major cause of physical handicap , but the insertion of valves which drain off fluid to the heart have reduced the risk of brain damage . |
| 19 | From the perspective outlined in the preceding chapter , language teaching can be seen as a principled problem-solving activity : a kind of operational research which works out solutions to its own local problems . |
| 20 | International : Dictator who sold out country to drug barons faces 120 years ' jail After a seven-month trial , Manuel Noriega has been convicted on eight charges . |
| 21 | What kind of ‘ authority ’ will you be representing and have you given enough thought to conveying it in a non-threatening way ? |
| 22 | These days she sought out excuses to be on her own . |
| 23 | Small boats came out to the liner , some bearing vendors of coconuts and bananas , others containing friends and relatives who shouted up names to the rail . |
| 24 | Imagine the er as an alternative method , you send out questionnaires to a set of gypsies |
| 25 | Dr Hamish Inglis says : ‘ Once you have had a cold you build up immunity to that particular virus . |
| 26 | It is not difficult to think of other examples — the man who takes up golf to be seen with the ‘ right sort of people ’ the competitor more interested in the prize than the process of winning it ; the senior common-room member who can not converse without showing off . |
| 27 | Members of these covens are usually ‘ nominal ’ witches who pay only lip-service to the dogmas and are interested in it only for the kicks it provides . |
| 28 | Did you go up Sunday to the shops ? |
| 29 | You turn down invitations to anything off-beat . |
| 30 | Marshall does n't quite know what to do with Geena Davis ' study in female renunciation as star player Dottie , a woman who gives up baseball to be a good wife . |