Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I did not farad to . |
| 3 | The Germans are just over the river there — I 'm off on a recce directly — and I have n't time to muck about . |
| 4 | I have n't time to really listen and get good feedback from my kids … |
| 5 | ‘ I have not objection to giving my age but if this lady does n't want to then good luck to her , ’ she said . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Humber has been a barrier which cut off trade to the south . |
| 8 | ( Perhaps there are analogies here with occupations which open up membership to women and subsequently decline in status and pay . ) |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What kind of ‘ authority ’ will you be representing and have you given enough thought to conveying it in a non-threatening way ? |
| 13 | Dr Hamish Inglis says : ‘ Once you have had a cold you build up immunity to that particular virus . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ You have n't time to fiddle-faddle about like that . ’ |
| 18 | We swam out perpendicular to the two to three knot current , until we were in its heart . |
| 19 | We give more money to the Common Market budget than we give in aid to the third world . |
| 20 | ‘ We pass on knowledge to our trading partners , telling them what we see to be the benefits , and what some of our other customers have found to be the benefits . |
| 21 | It is important that we do not hand to our successors decisions made at the end of a dying Parliament ; we should leave them to take the decisions in future . |
| 22 | We dash abroad at least twice a year ( we dashed over to California last November ) and we dash down South to my daughter 's in Hampshire umpteen times a year and we dash seemingly everywhere in the wake of our grandchildren when on school holidays or visiting but I ( if not so much Bett ) also spend a heck of a lot of time just watching ( I prefer to call it scientifically observing ) the world around me and contemplating . |
| 23 | More positively , they show how attention to detail may bring off results which a simple reorganisation of staff does not . |
| 24 | Squirrels and martins moved in the trees , and once they came almost face to face with a boar . |
| 25 | Me they 'd probably stone to death . |
| 26 | They hand over responsibility to teenage , growing up and growing away , young people , who should gradually feel they are in charge of their own lives , and eventually become fully independent . |
| 27 | It 's no good just saying you can report fraud er to er t t to the regulator , they should also be responsible to the shareholders , the stake holders , everybody involved er in er er er a company er and in fact er they are n't they have really responsibility to no one except the directors er who appoint them , the company share holders are given very little information , the choice of auditors er is firmly in the director 's director 's hands , the depositors , the consumers , the employees er have no say er in the appointment of er auditors and more important the recent legal cases for instance and the Al Saudi Bank er er and Berg er sons er and company also decided that er auditors do n't owe a duty of care er to individual shareholders , potential investors , the current or potential creditors er even though that information is supposed to be there to help markets understand what is happening to that committee and the government showed no indication that it wants to reverse these judgements , it should reverse them , there should be specific responsibilities attached to er auditors to give them a duty of care er so that we get the information er and er spend more widely and the share holders and the stake holders know what 's going on er er er as well as er the bank or the financial er institution er itself . |
| 28 | On March 7 , the Group of 12 ( a newly formed coalition of the country 's main opposition parties , ranging from communists to conservatives ) issued a joint statement calling upon the populace to rise up against Avril and force him to hand over power to an interim civilian administration as the first step towards the holding of free elections . |
| 29 | cos he goes about quarter to twelve |
| 30 | He devoted much thought to the shape of the future church . |