Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following day it gained me entrance to the main gate of the embassy . |
| 2 | The second place is that probably one of the reasons that physicians feel threatened by these kind of laws is that , without the law , I can cruise along and maintain my patients ' comfort and my sanity to the best of my ability . |
| 3 | As an Englishman I express my subordination to the political authority under which I live by paying a certain fraction of my money income to the appropriate official . |
| 4 | I had lost my heart to the little , golden flowers that brightened the meadows like a thousand suns . |
| 5 | The gentleman who saved me suggested I tell my story to the French authorities . |
| 6 | He would fight my case to the bitter end , he vowed . |
| 7 | In his desire to make sure that I do justice to the Masai cosmic vision , the professor overestimates my attachment to the logical . |
| 8 | Finally I handed my vote to the presiding officer who put my vote into the ballot box himself . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll change the number plates from my car to the other one , ’ he said . |
| 10 | I closed the book hastily and sat thinking , trying to apply my discovery to the murderous maze I found myself lost in . |
| 11 | Leapor often understands friendship as a spiritual comfort : accordingly , she advises women to pursue friendship , rather than beauty , since death is in sight : ‘ To smooth my Passage to the silent Gloom , / And give a Tear to grace the mournful Tomb ’ [ ML , 1 , 8 ] . |
| 12 | It was n't until lunchtime that my boss drew my attention to the strange ‘ hairband ’ I was wearing . |
| 13 | So while the Apostate 's squaring the circle with the last of Gittel 's breed , I turn my attention to the nearest branch of the familial tree of old Shmuel ben Issachar . |
| 14 | Encouraged by the finding of this tiny coin , I turned my attention to the second side of the pond and began the same operation along its full length . |
| 15 | It was not however , until I arrived in the country , and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet , that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna . ’ |
| 16 | Only after a time did I force my attention to the other problem — Gharr 's demand for the phetam in return for Mala . |
| 17 | Unfortunately I had not realised that a stern rope had already been passed to the ship and an indignant shout from my crew on the after deck drew my attention to the long nylon rope which was now snaking dangerously round the bollards as we drew away . |
| 18 | I was going to tell my joke to the nice German but he had started talking to someone else . |
| 19 | ‘ Since my ascendancy to the hallowed ranks of Snavely winners , my opinions in all matters have been sought most eagerly . |
| 20 | Perhaps my allegiance to the latter may in part be conditioned by the fact that grew up in its company , in which case I should similarly prefer Fritz Reiner 's 78s of the Shostakovich Sixth ( Columbia , 6/37 ) , which I also bought as a schoolboy . |
| 21 | My right to the first move at chess carries with it the duty to continue with the game , and so on . |
| 22 | However , I am prepared to confirm that in my evidence to the Select Committee I made it clear that the regional electricity companies were obliged to purchase the most economic electricity on the market . |
| 23 | Looking back , that square was my gateway to the real world — and the gate could only work one way . |
| 24 | With my back to the self-service counter I followed Portia Forbes 's progress along it through Tom 's eyes . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh God , ’ I moaned , and lowered my head to the cool steel pipe of the bridge rail . |
| 26 | Electric front windows , front seat height variation leaving three fingers above my head to the manual glass sunroof , power steering on 1.5 models and good control layout complete the picture . |
| 27 | Ltd. for their kind permission to reproduce illustrations of Cave Systems from their publications , and add my tribute to the excellent work of the cartographer Mr G.M. Davies . |
| 28 | My drink to the parched ? |
| 29 | On a taxi ride across the Clyde Valley — Hamilton , Motherwell , Wishaw going with my father to the psychiatric hospital where my mother had just been admitted , I was overwhelmed by the past , not just the place names that had filled my childhood when I 'd lived in this part of Scotland over twenty years before , but another past to which I had even less access : a prelude to my own . |
| 30 | There was talk of golf when I was a wee boy , and I went with my father to the local courses . |