Example sentences of "[pron] to [art] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boll would be in the Directors ' dining room , Basil would have gone to see his cronies in A area , Wayne would have gone out with those as young and limited as himself to the Hind 's Head in the village , Carol would be in the canteen wittering with the other Clerical Assistants and her husband . |
| 2 | ‘ So he went down , ’ said Frome , as if puzzling it out , ‘ and he helped himself to the headmaster 's sherry . ’ |
| 3 | Stating that Mr McNeill ‘ apologises without reservation for the offence caused by his remarks ’ , Mr Pignatelli said his deputy would further explain himself to the council 's advisory group on racial equality and the Strathclyde Community Relations Council on Thursday . |
| 4 | Right at the last minute , as the cameras were due to roll , the director spotted that Beesley had managed to insinuate himself to the ship 's rail ; picking up his megaphone , he instructed the amateur imposter kindly to disembark . |
| 5 | Uncle Philip broke the armour off a pink battalion of shrimps and ate them steadily , chewed through a loaf of bread spread with half a pound of butter and helped himself to the lion 's share of the cake while gazing at her with expressionless satisfaction , apparently deriving a certain pleasure from her discomfort , or even finding that the sight of it improved his appetite . |
| 6 | In Rome , the Iranian chargé d'affaires rushed off to the seaside rather than commit himself to the Shah 's uncertain cause . |
| 7 | Reverend Wulwick dedicated himself to the children 's needs : |
| 8 | ‘ But was n't it ironic that he wuz the one who eventually blew everythin' wide open , an ’ led you to the chink 's drugs operation ? ’ |
| 9 | Next time , get Vic to take you to the King 's Head Carvery . |
| 10 | We are able to effect an introduction for you to the Firm 's Bank who may be able to make such funds available . |
| 11 | kisses bringing you to the lift 's black button , |
| 12 | 6,000 exhibitors from 40 counties welcome you to the world 's key industrial fair in Hannover , Germany . |
| 13 | After one attack at Kharg , the Iraq News Agency announced the terminal 's destruction ; this was widely reported , although a later report confined itself to the installation 's T-jetty on the eastern side of the island . |
| 14 | Indeed the relationship frequently extends beyond the work itself to the farmer 's involvement in the domestic life of his employees . |
| 15 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 16 | The film I watched ( 4 May ) addressed itself to the government 's 30-page pamphlet Protect and Survive . |
| 17 | Do not necessarily accept the doctor 's word for this , you have your own duty to the client and the doctor may not have taken into account the importance of the case itself to the client 's best interest . |
| 18 | It is a dramatic change , and not one that recommends itself to the city 's residents . |
| 19 | ‘ So here the plaintiffs left everything to the defendant 's husband ; … and they must take the consequences of his having obtained it without explaining to her or her understanding what she was signing . |
| 20 | You will send all your senior managers for the entire week of the event , and dole out shorter visits to deserving underlings , either those with long service records or those who might be able to learn something to the company 's advantage . |
| 21 | 10am : Three tapes sent to the BBC1 , one to its international relations unit , one to the corporation 's See Hear unit to be signed for the deaf , and one to World Service News . |
| 22 | He had frankly given no thought whatsoever to the child 's name ; he had not yet thought of him as an identity anyway . |
| 23 | When she got home , she answered an advertisement in the parish magazine for a baby minder ( how simple ; why had she not thought of it before — she was at home minding Charlotte anyway , so why not several more ? ) and offered herself to the Vicar 's wife for parish duties . |
| 24 | To report on my own experience , I have found a surprising number of English people outside the academic world who have lived with the Sonnets , have taken them into their own experience , can quote with ease ‘ To me , fair friend , you never can be old ’ , or ‘ Shall I compare thee to a summer 's day ? ’ , or ‘ When , in disgrace with Fortune and men 's eyes ’ , or ‘ Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediment ’ . |
| 25 | My feelings about the book were positive rather than the reverse , but I complained in my review that it was studded with references to fashionable French gurus that were purely cosmetic , adding nothing to the author 's argument . |
| 26 | In town later that day we met a PE teacher , who guided me to the sponsor 's offices for a form but no further information . |
| 27 | Take me to the sea-king 's palace and show me his throne of silver , and his trumpets of pearl , and his coral candles burning beneath the waves ! " |
| 28 | On Tuesdays , Dad took me to the children 's cinema , on Wednesdays , Pop took me to Sally Carmichael 's dancing class , and on Saturdays my Nan would take me to the variety show at the Sheffield Empire . |
| 29 | Of course , they will remember which company treated them to a day 's sailing . |
| 30 | Dr Patterson has tried to untangle the survival value of these behaviour patterns and relate them to the animal 's ecology . |