Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the next article , I will describe the details of the job , and in another the solutions I found to the many problems encountered on the way . |
| 2 | er , so I 've a , is n't it , it 's a case of no news is possibly good news again , erm , I 'm trying to get in touch with the National Co-Organiser for Carl and John without er any success erm , I know he was going to the erm , the British Section just erm , he was gon na check on them and what actions were forthcoming but er , I have n't heard about that erm , I dare say there 's some on the way erm , the erm , the other few points were erm Jackie 's talk last month she mentioned that erm she was gon na give sort of the more forms sort of side presentation and stuff at their centre in North London , I 've got ta date for that now , it 's erm the eighteenth of March , which is a Wednesday so eh , I 'll certainly be going , if anybody else is interested that 's er , that 's the date er , it 's , it 's not entirely to do with but it , it has a link in , erm we were mentioning campaigns last month , I believe there 's a fourth coming one on , indigenous peoples , which , er , it 's , it 's all sort of triggered off by erm the er five hundredth anniversary of Columbus discovering the Americas erm , the erm cast and the whole of all the sort of the Region and Action networks and the Americas are , erm gon na have a big link in with that campaign so , erm , I , I 'd really like to see us sort of getting involved with that , yes , and , I mean , I 'll be involved to an extent anyway , cos some of the actions that I 'll getting will be sort of addressing the issue of indigenous people 's but erm , erm , they if , if nobody else is wiling to take it on , I 'll , I 'll , I 'd certainly be prepared to erm , sort of co-ordinate that campaign , erm , having said all that , erm I mentioned to a few people that erm , erm in the process of buying a house , so erm I could be moving in well hopefully as little as two months time so erm , I mean if er is as quite as it has been for the last few months , I probably wo n't have any problems , but erm , sod 's law it 's bound to pick up just as I 'm moving house |
| 3 | ‘ I certify that I have known Colour Serjeant William Nicholl late of the 8th ( or King 's ) Regiment for the space of ten years , six of which I belonged to the same Company and always considered him a man of most exemplary character . |
| 4 | I appeal to the same verbal trick as I used in Chapter 3 . |
| 5 | ‘ I went to a few shops , including Iceland , and to the George pub on Bondgate . |
| 6 | And maybe because I went to an all girls ' school , it 's not so obvious , you do n't see girls and boys walking hand in hand in the playground . |
| 7 | Well it , it was n't funny that day before I went to the that ear |
| 8 | ‘ I went to the same school you 're going to now . |
| 9 | ‘ My parents left enough money to make sure I went to the same school as Elise , but I was never the academic type — too fond of games . |
| 10 | Perhaps he secretly thinks I belong to the same world . |
| 11 | Er this is just one that I wanted some stuff and I said to a few people |
| 12 | Seven months later , on 28 September 1990 , I wrote to the same Chancellor of the Exchequer : |
| 13 | TWO months ago I travelled to the former Yugoslavia and visited hospitals and camps filled with the displaced and wounded of the Bosnian conflict . |
| 14 | No underhand tactics as then , everything out in the open , everyone operating to the same rules . |
| 15 | It would be no exaggeration to claim that the whole of present-day transplantation surgery is based on his original insight and on his subsequent collaboration with Sir Peter Medawar , which led to the latter 's Nobel Prize . |
| 16 | This , he said , could not be characterised as having breached the duty of good faith which amounted to no more than a principle of fair and honourable dealing . |
| 17 | In his paper ‘ Analysis Terminable and Interminable ’ ( 1937 ) , which belongs to the same period of Freud 's life as Moses and Monotheism , Freud writes about the way in which nearly all women patients show signs of wishing to be men , and men seek to avoid taking a passive attitude towards other men , including a male therapist . |
| 18 | In the early 1970s , in the heyday of abstract philosophy of education , it was commonplace to draw a distinction between education ‘ in the true sense ’ and pseudo-education ; or , which came to the same thing , between education and training . |
| 19 | The subsection creates an obligation to consult the judiciary , not to be governed by their opinion , which amounts to no more than advice . |
| 20 | If you can afford a magic standard then you can use this to increase the leadership or add to your combat result which amounts to the same thing for the all important break test . |
| 21 | Users often report experiencing the sort of twisted non-Euclidian dimensions associated with the Old Ones , so it 's reasonable to assume that this is how Mait made contact with them , or with whatever race memory remains of them , which amounts to the same thing . ’ |
| 22 | Readers usually know something about authors whose books they have read , and even if they don " t know anything , it is natural to imagine an author figure , which amounts to the same thing . |
| 23 | Their colour-similarity is a necessary condition of their belonging to the same colour species , not a definition of their colour . |
| 24 | Now we can begin to see the outlines of a theory of human personality and cultural development which is elegant indeed and which reduces to a few general principles many of the random and apparently unsystematic motions of human history and culture . |
| 25 | One was a £230,000 ‘ compensation for loss of office ’ , the bulk of which went to the former chief executive , Emmanuel Olympitis , who suddenly departed last month . |
| 26 | Mr Faulks said : ‘ Inside the police found a complete confidence trickster 's set with 26 different charge cards either in the name of Garawand or in the name of Yousefi and ten cheque books , four of which related to the same account at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Darlington . ’ |
| 27 | There are several other bacteria similar to the gonococcus , which belong to the same family , the Neisseriae . |
| 28 | Observations of European wild cats , which belong to the same species as the domestic cat , reveal that , far from being kitten-killers , the males sometimes actively participate in rearing the young . |
| 29 | There are , however , four distinct stages in the development of phylloxera , all of which belong to the same Phylloxera vastatrix life-cycle : the sexual , the leaf , the root and the winged form . |
| 30 | Thus , the most useful way of analysing the first two precedents is to compare the provisions in each of them which relate to the same contractual issues and consider the two different approaches . |