Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So far he has not had the opportunity to appear to us a flexible and strong politician . ’ |
| 2 | Thus for increasing exposure a rise in the reading could be due either to new material seen or to the phenomenon that we have called spreading , i.e. the effect according to which a subject is seen as larger merely because of a longer exposure . |
| 3 | But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life . |
| 4 | ‘ The chemical effect extends to what a person is wearing once the effect begins . |
| 5 | The basement cattery seemed to her a sinister place , though she knew that the animals were most lovingly tended by Miss Pettigrew . |
| 6 | Much of their scholarship was carried out mutually , with Mill attributing to her a key chapter in his Principles of Political Economy , entitled ‘ On the Probable Future of the Labouring Classes ’ ( 1848 ) , in which she argued that the working classes must receive a thorough education in order to contribute to the country 's economic and social progress . |
| 7 | As I questioned her during the session , Maxine described to me a life as Martha , a fisherman 's wife in a small seaport in the late eighteenth century . |
| 8 | The law seemed to him a mountainous cloud , compacted of these rank and ever increasing hyphae , sprawling over the buildings in which her exigences were met , pouring herself into every drawer , lying on every shelf , saturating every ledger , every record with her must , coating all like a mould and growing by eating that on which it grows . |
| 9 | This courting dance seemed to them a grotesque parody . |
| 10 | But having parents seemed to us a very great hindrance … . |
| 11 | Guitarists write to me a lot for advice , I guess because there 's not a lot of people out there who can really help . |
| 12 | This committee suggested to him a policy that included a tribunal to fix the labourers " wages . |
| 13 | Rain murmured to her an unconvincing : ‘ It 's all right . ’ |
| 14 | Anchovy-paste sandwiches , scones and Dundee cake seemed to me an ample repast , particularly as I had a nervous , irrational distaste for eating the food of Syl 's mother in her house . |
| 15 | ‘ Mr O'Hare came to me a number of times complaining that he was being pestered . |
| 16 | She begins by recalling a remark made to her a long time ago by Larkin , about difficulties encountered in his private life — a remark which consisted of a joke to do with ‘ the impossibility of relations between men and women ’ , followed by the notion that ‘ women ought really to marry each other ’ , followed by ‘ but that would be wrong , would n't it ? ’ |
| 17 | Gender is a grammatical distinction according to which a noun or pronoun is classified as either masculine or feminine in some languages . |
| 18 | For the Institution even to contemplate withdrawing the free journal seems to me a grave injustice , particularly to senior Life Governors ( I am 78 ) … |
| 19 | Er we set up on a regional basis er er Robert talked to you a couple of months ago about the initiatives that he 's taking from our and that again is a very much of a cross practice initiative er which is drawing on all the skills that we 've got within the with within the office penetrate the middle market sector and we are going to er specifically use er our grounds expertise and er computer audit expertise as a product which we saw would be attractive to these er these sort of companies . |
| 20 | It was a rough crossing , and most people were rather quiet , and a few were vomiting over the railings and indeed all over the upper-deck , but Clara had never felt better , and the rough lurching seemed to her an added attraction . |
| 21 | Northam Station seemed to her a peculiarly lovely spot for such an embarkation . |
| 22 | Even her timidity seemed to him a sham . |
| 23 | Ika delivered to me an ‘ express letter ’ invitation to a party , by means of the Pneumatique — a strange device , comparable , I supposed , to that which sent cash round department stores . |
| 24 | One person said to me a year or two ago : ‘ I 'm scared of dying . |
| 25 | The short process of giving birth to a baby seemed to her a triviality compared to the long haul of rearing it that lay ahead . |
| 26 | " The world constructed by the media seems to me a reasonable surrogate for " real life " , whatever that is . |
| 27 | Drenching even a few rooms , with foam and then a chemical spray seems to me a high penalty for catching what American police forces call a perpetrator . |
| 28 | Feeding your fish is probably the most important aspect of the hobby , but one which in terms of technical and specific advice seems to me a very grey area indeed , not helped particularly by product-leaflets/literature or indeed product labels as designed by the fish food manufacturers . |
| 29 | " The Meeting have taken it into Consideration the Complaints which every member of this Meeting have now stated , that their Dykes and Inclosures are very much Damaged and broke down by passengers assuming to themselves a right to take Cross and Short Cuts thro' Inclosures … |
| 30 | Michael Heseltine talking to me a little earlier today . |