Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wish you 'd let me explain to Old Red . |
| 2 | A resolution was passed that " nothing relating to Total Abstinence be introduced into the News and Reading room lectures . |
| 3 | Am I committed to consistent communication about the way we handle our finances , giving , earning , spending and saving ? |
| 4 | When I was eleven I moved to secondary school , Henry Compton in Fulham . |
| 5 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
| 6 | But I knew the score before I moved to Ayresome Park last summer . ’ |
| 7 | But I knew the score before I moved to Ayresome Park last summer . ’ |
| 8 | Could I appeal to running shoe manufacturers to open their eyes and realise that they are missing out on a valuable section of the market ? |
| 9 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 10 | I came to sensible awareness ; to incredulous understanding . |
| 11 | Quite often , the first clue that I get to old age anxiety is when a mature dog is referred to me with , what appears to be , an ‘ out of character ’ separation anxiety . |
| 12 | I should make it clear that I am drawing on notions of an idealised business environment when I refer to unambiguous communication being the motive power which occasions accountability . |
| 13 | I refer to paid maternity leave , child allowance , single parent allowances etc . |
| 14 | I refer to Spitting Image ( ITV ) , which last time round was held in check until the polls had safely closed , but this time was allowed an outing on Wednesday while the electorate were still technically making up their minds . |
| 15 | In the later afternoon , Andrew Gregg , deputy co-ordinator of ‘ UUUC Advice and Relief Centres ’ , and I returned to Central Strike Headquarters and collected a portable typewriter and some other items of equipment useful for continuing the strike should we have to go into hiding . |
| 16 | On joining The Scotsman and moving to the mainland , I bowed to public demand and retired . |
| 17 | Twenty metres or so from the grass-packed hill which looks over the Rabbit Grounds I switched to Silent Running , pacing stealthily through the long weeds and reeds , careful not to let anything I was carrying make a noise . |
| 18 | He had not said , Frankly , Peter , you are not up to being Archdeacon , he had instead emphasized the need for someone from outside the diocese , for someone with ecumenical experience in urban work , for someone accustomed to ministerial care . |
| 19 | ‘ I go to high street shops that do high fashion looks at low prices , Ms Selfridge in Belfast Oxford Street are good . ’ |
| 20 | When I went to junior school it was half and half , white and Black kids ; the Black guys were really revered , and lots of the white boys would try to act Black , because they associated it with being hard or cool . |
| 21 | I mean luckily enough , I went to junior school with him . |
| 22 | A couple of years later I went to primary school and came under the strict , disciplined regime that was usual in Jamaica in those days . |
| 23 | You and I went to ordinary grammar schools , Bob — but we do n't go round pretending to be classless . |
| 24 | My original career intention was to go into farm management and I went to agricultural college . |
| 25 | Now , I and I went to other day , I was having quite bad headaches from the back of my eyes , feeling like , you know , I had pressure there , and so , I think it was just headaches but I wanted to go and check it out , and I went to the , cos my dad said oh if you go to the opticians erm , they give you free checks as you 've got glaucoma in the family , and erm , or glaucoma , or whatever you call it . |
| 26 | I did n't even know I had any kind of title until I went to prep school when I started to get these letters saying : ‘ The Honourable Charles ’ . |
| 27 | I was eight when I went to proper boarding school for the first time . |
| 28 | And then I went to British Legion to have a drink . |
| 29 | I went to CHRISTIAN SALVESEN PLC 's head office to see their Group P.R.O . |
| 30 | When I was studying I went to Open Air Theatre and I saw a version there on Christopher er what 's his name that chubby fellow with the glasses Christopher Biggins that 's it . |