Example sentences of "[pron] to the [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Henry agreed to help in this way , and to go by himself to the Stapletons that evening . |
| 2 | Then he goes forward , as he must , to meet Esau himself , ‘ bowing himself to the ground seven times ’ as he goes . |
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| 4 | ‘ There 's a practice area just around the corner and the starter will call you to the tee five minutes before you are due to tee off , ’ he said . |
| 5 | That 's that 's one thing , but is finding the tenth root of something and then raising to the power six , or raising something to the power six and then finding the sa the tenth root , is that the same as finding the fifth root and cubing it or cubing it and finding the fifth root . |
| 6 | You 'll send me to the churchyard one day ! |
| 7 | AFTER the strange events which took me to the West African desert , I needed a spell at sea . |
| 8 | If my wife manages to elbow her way past me to the book first , she 's immediately led astray by extras like ‘ free use of private beach ’ , ‘ heated swimming pool ’ or ‘ wine-tasting ’ . |
| 9 | I took in with me to the hospital some homoeopathic remedies which are specifics in cases of croup , namely aconite , spongia and Hepar sulphuris . |
| 10 | Pahdra Singh called me to the club this morning where he and Reg Pybus and their crony , that stingy git Pugh , the corpse planter , unveiled the new team strip . |
| 11 | By the time I was fourteen I could n't wait to get away from that place and my mother took me to the hiring fair in the marketplace in Bishop Auckland . |
| 12 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
| 13 | Angeli , who also was not in court , had committed a fault in selling them to the press last August . |
| 14 | Their parents were sending them to the Wimbledon Islamic Day Independent Boys ' School because they wanted them to grow up English . |
| 15 | David Hempleman Adams did n't need much help navigating his team from his base at Swindon to the House of Commons ; after all he 'd successfully managed to get them to the North Geomagnetic Pole . |
| 16 | David Hempleman Adams did n't need much help navigating his team from his base at Swindon to the House of Commons ; after all he 'd successfully managed to get them to the North Geomagnetic Pole . |
| 17 | It would also be our contention that there should not be an attempt to direct traffic er in a northerly direction onto the A sixty one itself , beyond Killinghall because it is a particularly hazardous road with considerable bends on and I would be inclined to think it was far safer to direct them to the A one via the A fifty nine and southern bypass . |
| 18 | So I says What we can do is I 'll do an hour for you , we 'll move the piano and other bits , bicycles in this case that he had , we 'll shift them to the house close by , drop two men off , and one man 'll come and do the remainder of the work . |
| 19 | ‘ The idea is , if you get them all swimming — without Mr Foggerty and me , that is … if you take the job on , and take them to the baths several times a week — if you teach them to swim , we 'll give you a motor-bike . ’ |
| 20 | Kragan had taken Kaas under his wing and transferred him to the Stasi pre-trial detention establishment at Berlin-Hohenschonhausen . |
| 21 | Later , during tea , Lord Henry invited Basil and Dorian to go with him to the theatre that night . |
| 22 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 23 | : The state under ‘ crown privilege ’ would have the right to withhold crown documents such as the RUC report to the Director of Public Prosecutions and through him to the Attorney General . |
| 24 | Connors left the Brazilian shaking his head in disbelief as he hit winners at will and showed the kind of form that rocketed him to the semi-finals last year . |
| 25 | His threat reflected anger at the results of an internal party election that relegated him to the number four spot in the party leadership and his supporters to inferior slots on the party ticket . |
| 26 | He would take him to the Gates that evening and get him talking . |
| 27 | Meanwhile Ben had gone off to move another lighter and was then intercepted by the Manager who directed him to the dock some way off . |
| 28 | The adjutant directed him to the hospital next door , giving him written instructions on how to find the ward . |
| 29 | The other moments I will treasure were the near-perfect serving of Michael Stich in his first Wimbledon final against Boris Becker , which puts a new and totally unexpected name on that historic trophy ; the charmless street-fighter qualities of Monica Seles which nevertheless took her to the number one spot in the world while showing total contempt for most of the accepted standards of behaviour that should belong to a champion ; and finally the conversion of Andre Agassi from teenage rebel to near-establishment idol at Wimbledon , where he appeared in shining white and won the hearts not only of his adoring army of fans , but also of most of the middle-age traditionalists . |
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