Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1912 he insisted , against opposition from the foreign ministry , that Prince Lichnowsky be appointed to the London embassy , saying " I send only my ambassador to London , who has my confidence , obeys my will , fulfills my orders with my instructions " . |
| 2 | It is only my subscription to Punch that stops me from taking a midnight walk off the roof . |
| 3 | Silvester Horne , in his popular survey of nineteenth-century Nonconformity , admitted , ‘ The easiest accusation to sustain against Nonconformity has been hitherto its tendency to disintegration and division ’ . |
| 4 | Chiaro herself notes the " What do you get if you cross " formula only indirectly , and then in its " adult " variation as exploited for sexual innuendo by The Two Ronnies ( p. 72 ) : What is particularly characteristic of elephant-jokes and their kin is not only their proneness to formulae , but also their semantic anomaly . |
| 5 | As it throws down its challenge to fellwalkers , its modest height seems irrelevant . |
| 6 | She cut out her morning bathe , cut down her luncheon to minutes , stuck to work till the end of the afternoon ( Concentrate , Do n't stop : if Michel can do his kind of reading in an open car in the street … ) . |
| 7 | Claudia winced ; it was doubly painful to have Roman know how much his marriage to Dana would affect her . |
| 8 | By making an order , the trial court denies itself the chance to observe the demeanour of the witness and especially his reaction to cross-examination . |
| 9 | He had learned to play during the 1940s when record players were still a rarity on the domestic front and so his exposure to jazz came mainly from the radio . |
| 10 | The Defence Minister , Italo Argentino Lúder , 73 , on Jan. 24 handed in his resignation to President Carlos Saúl Menem , an action which he described as " irrevocable " . |
| 11 | maybe we could send in our trip to Soton via Hampshire hedgerows report ? |
| 12 | Eastbourne lifeboat had just been recovered after an exercise when the crew heard the ship 's initial Mayday on their radio and were able to identify the vessel by radar and pass on her position to Dover Coastguard . |
| 13 | The volunteers are currently working on a Darlington wetland site to improve vastly its appeal to wildlife and migratory birds . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , a radical editorial reorganization called the Bradshaw shift , involving the moving of fragment VII as one large block back to the end of fragment II , with these fragments then relabelled groups B2 and B1 respectively , has been eagerly accepted by some editors and critics since the nineteenth century , wishing to solve thereby certain anomalies in the ordering of named places that the pilgrims would pass on their road to Canterbury . |
| 15 | village formerly in Middlesex , now in Surrey , through which Sikes and Oliver pass on their way to Chertsey . |
| 16 | At present British single mothers can not pass on their citizenship to children born abroad , nor can married women pass on their citizenship to children from abroad with non-UK fathers . |
| 17 | At present British single mothers can not pass on their citizenship to children born abroad , nor can married women pass on their citizenship to children from abroad with non-UK fathers . |
| 18 | So these pass on their rubbish to garbage companies , which transport it for burial to states like Ohio that still have landfill space . |
| 19 | He did me first and , as usual , stepped over my mattress to Brian , who suddenly snarled , ‘ Do n't you pull my leg , I 'm not an animal . ’ |
| 20 | A trust left in the form ‘ I demand ’ or ‘ I desire that you give ’ is also valid ; and so is one ‘ I wish my estate to be Titius ' ’ or ‘ I know that you will make over my estate to Titius ’ . |
| 21 | Sorry , that 's not my understanding to date . |
| 22 | The emphasis that Calvinists placed upon the majesty of God led them to condemn as blasphemous any attempts to tinker with the supernatural , and thus their reaction to calamities was to accept them as part of God 's inscrutable purpose — the working out of a divine providence which governed all human affairs . |
| 23 | She then attached a long lunging rein which she had brought coiled over her shoulder to Midnight 's noseband . |
| 24 | ‘ Do not go , ’ she said over her shoulder to Owen and the Greek . |
| 25 | Unless a mother divorces herself completely from the essential tasks of child care , handing over her baby to others , her role will keep her in touch with the most basic elements of life ! |
| 26 | Gen. Michel Aoun , the rebel Maronite leader who was granted asylum in France on Aug. 29 [ see p. 38405 ] , also criticized the government , in his case " because they turned over their country to Syria " . |
| 27 | It 's the boat race tomorrow … and with sixteen wins in seventeen years … and six victories in a row the Oxford boat club can claim to be the most successful team in British sport … so how do they do it … what 's the secret of their success … we can reveal all tonight its down to Heather and Bert … and a piano player called Kate … they 're all in our Friday Feature |
| 28 | This for Diana was the satisfaction of that Sandringham weekend , not her proximity to Prince Charles . |
| 29 | What matters is not its conformity to rules , but the fact that it communicates and is recognized by its receivers as coherent . |
| 30 | It takes away , no doubt , the right of the solicitor to bring an action directly the work is done , but it does not take away his right to payment for it , which is the cause of action . |