Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you right now a really clever thing then that you should know about is if I want to times that number by ten right . |
| 2 | In most research studies of bereaved people it is recorded time and time again that , so long as the people involved have somewhere to go and someone to talk to about this major loss in their life , then they may well cope . |
| 3 | Not one of the many East Berliners I spoke to at several crossing points said they meant to stay in the West . |
| 4 | Still , no-one I spoke to in any organisation could name any cases where environmental opposition alone has stopped a course being built . |
| 5 | I had to in that ! |
| 6 | I 'm gon na have to draw it there cos I wanted to Like that . |
| 7 | The Company did very well despite this attitude to its imports ; in the 1660s it made a number of loans to the government , amounting altogether to £130,000 , and in the 1680s it regularly paid 10,000 guineas a year , which came to about 1 per cent of the King 's total revenue . |
| 8 | It is now one of Britain 's largest bus groups , with approaching 5 per cent of the market , which rises to between 15 and 20 per cent north of the border . |
| 9 | Over 2,000 lots will be offered , three-quarters of which date to before 1795 , according to the publicity information . |
| 10 | A disused mine , called Bank No. 6 , the mouth of which was about one mile from the Knockshinnoch main shaft , had an underground roadway which extended to within 24 feet of a Knockshinnoch roadway , near to where the men were trapped . |
| 11 | That there were issues important enough seriously to disturb Anglo-papal relations at this time is confirmed by a letter of Pope Hadrian I to Charlemagne which dates to between 784 and 791 . |
| 12 | However McCann , who got to within 8 seconds of him last Saturday in the Movilla 10 , started very quickly and at the turn , which he reached in 9.30 , he was 10 seconds up on the Banbridge man . |
| 13 | Category II contained the 32% of authorities who referred to between 5 and 30 programmes or courses , and Category III , the 27% of authorities who mentioned 5 or less . |
| 14 | In fact , by winning the Pilkington Glass Ladies ' title in June for the 10th time , she came to within one of Chris Evert 's record of 157 career titles . |
| 15 | He saw the boat heading back towards him , and at one stage she came to within fifteen yards of him . |
| 16 | ‘ I was just wondering how , when a few women of my acquaintance would shrink in horror from such a confection , you manage to down such delights , while at the same time maintain such a slender and perfect shape . ’ |
| 17 | One such walk takes you from the village of Bosherston , down to the sands at Broad Haven and around to St Govan 's Head , where there 's a tiny chapel tucked into the cliff face which you get to down some steps . |
| 18 | Many of the problems that you refer to in such a light-hearted manner are the result of this situation , which Colombia has been fighting , with a certain success . |
| 19 | Were you speaking to about another ghost story or was that the one ? |
| 20 | At that stage when you were picked up then , what happened the , where were you taken to after that . |
| 21 | You , you had to in those days you had to sort of er use your common sense because if you had a big healthy baby it 's a long while to go right through ten o'clock at night till six o'clock the next morning . |
| 22 | What you do for the first two years is you learn all the theory of being a doctor and you go and you have to between eight of you , learn all about a body you have one body between of you and you learn all about all the muscles and the nerves |
| 23 | I think you have to round all your friends and family you know Nice Yorkshire flowers . |
| 24 | It is not always easy to know who does what at Trinity Road or who to speak to on any requests or queries you may have . |
| 25 | Erm , the erm , the erm , the erm , er , settlement of the anti tr civil anti trust law suit that was referred to in the statement was erm , costs of about six million dollars this year on a class action law suit which we have reached a tentative settlement on in the last few days and , in fact , there were some , there was about six to seven million dollars of additional provision made at the end of last year in the one time charges that we referred to at that time but could n't really identify with erm , lawyers breathing down your necks in the United States and er , this is a class action law suit , would have been in a Texas Court and erm , you know , the boiler plate language is that you want to get rid of the , you know , the expense and uncertainty of this type of litigation and if you think that what a Texas jury did to Texaco , it 's probably a prudent decision to close the matter off at this time . |
| 26 | ‘ We came to within fifty yards of that point . |
| 27 | A PARTICULAR pleasure over the weekend was reading the latest issue of New Statesman and Society , once the publication one turned to for eloquent exposition of left-wing politics . |
| 28 | Figure 1 shows that the binocular viewing of a fronto-parallel surface close to the observer also generates a gradient in the horizontal size ratio ( HSR ) as a function of eccentricity , which we refer to as differential horizontal perspective . |
| 29 | Decisions by associations of undertakings or concerted practices ( which we refer to in this book as ‘ arrangements ’ ) |
| 30 | erm Yes , now if we get to about half way down there 's a plus in the margin , and the third line in the bracket below that plus , more or less on a level with a three dot , and a little bit below , it says , William , I think it 's Wilkinson , a minister , curate of St Ebbe 's Parish , ‘ his answer that he must attend the burials and christenings ’ , so obviously he could n't work on the fortifications . |