Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from these important changes , specialized antiracist work within the local state has been increasingly identified as an embarrassment by the Labour Party for whom political commitments to antiracism and multiculturalism are apparently a vote loser . |
| 2 | This will allow them unparalleled access to German and northern European markets . |
| 3 | ‘ And was it part of my father 's plan that you make love to me to convince me that marriage to Jonathan was the wrong thing ? ’ she said angrily . |
| 4 | It 's going to take me some time to type that list . |
| 5 | Finally , I must add my grateful thanks to Pete Livesey and to Climber & Hill Walker for raising the BAA 's profile in such a dramatic way . |
| 6 | I was also infuriated by the continual refusal of the British government , despite my strong representations to Harold Wilson , to meet with the Biafran leaders . |
| 7 | ( in my classic response to Rejection and Pain ) |
| 8 | ‘ My broken engagement to Miss Sandra Bamfield is part of the reason I 'm on this side of the ocean , I guess . ’ |
| 9 | When I showed my few pages to Shelley , he urged me to develop the story at greater length , and to underline the main idea more powerfully . |
| 10 | I even began to enjoy my weekly visits to Whitechapel , where I would be given the chance to show off my new-found skills . |
| 11 | Plectra I have certainly seen on my weekly trips to Safeway … |
| 12 | Margaret Thatcher had kept her word given over five years before that I would not lose out by my enforced move to Transport and I was now in charge of the biggest spender and largest employer in Whitehall . |
| 13 | She likes to cook and does my favourite meals to perfection , ’ said Keith , 48 . |
| 14 | Brigflatts can be walked to from Sedbergh following the Rawthey Way , coming back via Birks and the wonderfully named Elysian Fields , but my favourite walk to Brigflatts begins from Gawthrop and follows the edge of Middleton Fell to Holme Knott and Brigflatts Moss . |
| 15 | ( I subsequently had ( 27 April ) a site meeting with an EGBT official , who completed a proposal form on the spot — however , the funding aspects are not my main concern here ; suffice it to say , 1 ) that I have always been confident that funding would be secured from one source or another , and 2 ) that my direct approach to SNH was done only because I had indications that their project approvals took months rather than weeks — something I have subsequently been assured is not true ) . |
| 16 | So , if you think that I 've got where I have by giving my sexual favours to Tim Dunton , or anyone else … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's true that I 've given my personal backing to Kevin Keegan in our search for players , but we have to be realistic . |
| 18 | As a member of the National Trust for Scotland for nearly 58 years , and having from time to time been involved in its affairs , I want to add my personal support to Douglas Connell 's proposition ( Points of View , 15 March ) that the functions of the National Heritage Memorial Fund ( in so far as they relate to Scotland ) should in future be carried out by a new body established in Scotland . |
| 19 | My personal reaction to Tomlinson is that its conclusions about Barts and the other hospitals scheduled for closure are fundamentally wrong . |
| 20 | When crossing by boat from West Loch Tarbert to Port Ellen on one of my early Journeys to Islay I was talking with an elderly minister who was coming to visit a crofter brother who was ill , and during our conversation said that it appeared to me that for a small island with a population of about four thousand it had produced an unusually large proportion of ministers , ship captains , marine engineers and doctors and asked him why he thought that was so . |
| 21 | I made my second journey to Cosford in 1980 , an Olympic year — though I had no aspirations in that direction . |
| 22 | ‘ This was my second visit to Lourdes but only my first with the Helen Leech pilgrimage . |
| 23 | ‘ I am therefore issuing my second challenge to Michael Fallon : will he now withdraw his remarks and accept that real cuts are taking place in Darlington 's training provision or is he scared of the truth about training ? ’ |
| 24 | see you guys in a forthnight when i will be at white hart lane for my annual trip to england … ( anyone know of any good health club with hidden cameras where they can shoot my ‘ beatiful ’ body ? ; - ) he , he ) |
| 25 | ‘ I may revise my previous aversion to redheads ! ’ |
| 26 | My deeper antipathy to Germany and Germans I restrained for a while , on the absurd grounds that it was somehow unreasonable to abominate each of two mutually ill-disposed nations . |
| 27 | ‘ My mother had taken my little brother to tennis at Winchester , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Having studied the text and read critical appreciations of it , my natural reaction to Satan is still the same as it was when he first appeared to me . |
| 29 | MY later visits to Althorp were allowed only if I agreed to be supervised |
| 30 | It may sound a bit corny , but ever since I 've started to wear my traditional dress to school , I feel so much more comfortable . |