Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some , like David Young , who had abandoned the law for a career as a property developer , she put in charge of great statutory bodies , in his case eventually raising him to the Cabinet as Lord Young of Graffham . |
| 2 | Relating an interlude of bad weather in 1873 , Bonington suddenly whisks us to the ( almost ) contemporary Chamonix campsite : ‘ Sitting out bad weather is another familiar experience . |
| 3 | The village of Uppercross in Persuasion ( 1818 ) , for example , ‘ had been completely in the old English style ’ , two houses only showing themselves to be superior to the dwellings of yeomen and labourers : the squire 's mansion with its high walls and great gates , and ‘ the compact , tight parsonage , enclosed in its own neat garden ’ . |
| 4 | But if the club suddenly asked him to strongly consider taking the Blackburn offer then even if he did n't he probably would never have felt the same again about playing for Leeds , ( ie , doubting about management 's loyalty to him , etc . ) |
| 5 | Such a picture of the mind naturally lends itself to a James-type account of the localisation of bodily sensations : if the mind has its ‘ seat ’ in the head , and sensations are in the mind , then what appears to be the directly-kno-wn location of the sensation must really be the indirectly-known location of the source of the sensation . |
| 6 | Crowds of people would line the banks through the little villages , never tiring at the sight of their own local natural phenomenon , until the great waves finally smashed themselves to extinction against the weirs of Gloucester City . |
| 7 | The agent just gave it to me , which obviously meant he wanted him to do it and is unusual because they do n't normally give out telephone numbers . |
| 8 | If employers ignore advice and subsequently it emerges that it was a real problem , that steps should have been taken , that research elsewhere showed it to be a reasonable system to look after employees mental health , then the scale is potentially enormous . |
| 9 | What agreed by government , management and trade unions a policy which assists industry not leaves it to the market forces . |
| 10 | Why did the United States not leave it to Scotland Yard in the first place ? |
| 11 | This vulnerability further endeared her to the public . |
| 12 | The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry and the British Chemical Distributors and Traders Association also apply it to their member companies . |
| 13 | Speakers also justify themselves to those who might be perceived as being similar to the self . |
| 14 | Pagan demons also lend themselves to biblical interpretations . |
| 15 | Yes , ours have , yeah they probably passed it on in fact , kids probably passed it to them |
| 16 | As a screen Englishman , he felt it his duty to volunteer for the Royal Navy when war broke out and was amused to find that his newly-developed persona automatically promoted him to officer class . |
| 17 | People say : ‘ Students are by definition idealistic and impatient — would Mugabe really want them to be any different ? |
| 18 | The latter had been scrapped by the Supreme Council upon its declaration of independence , but Gorbachev now ordered it to be restored . |
| 19 | Lucy now felt herself to be a hypocrite . |
| 20 | Confident that there was enough evidence to support the move , Branson now appointed himself to the board as an ‘ A ’ director , giving the Virgin Group a three to two majority over Fields . |
| 21 | Manoon immediately surrendered himself to the authorities and was later charged with , among other crimes , conspiracy to assassinate Queen Sirikit in 1982 . |
| 22 | LONELY among the Indians whom they had subjugated , and whom they therefore feared , the Spanish squireens who settled in Central America almost five centuries ago kept themselves to themselves , and married their children to those of their friends . |
| 23 | The aircraft immediately flew them to Bronglais Hospital , Aberystwyth , where a medical team had been put on stand-by to give them medical checks . |
| 24 | And Evan even stirs himself to encore with a heart-breaking solo shimmy through The Shirelles ' ‘ Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow ? ’ , the latest addition to Lemonheads ' litany of unlikely , gorgeous cover versions . |
| 25 | If you have any information which might be of special interest to our readers please send it to the Presbytery . |
| 26 | French restaurants particularly lend themselves to this kind of combination , and the staff seem quite happy to oblige . |
| 27 | However , the picture was confused by the fact that independent and party candidates alike affiliated themselves to groups such as the nationalist Popular Fronts , which did not compete as political parties . |
| 28 | It is my intention then to deliver them to you the following day , Friday 5 March , probably sometime before midday . |
| 29 | ‘ I was angry ! ’ he admitted , thrusting his hands into the pockets of his trousers as he studied her , his eyes traversing her slender form , raking over the tangle of dark hair , her susceptible grey eyes , her full , sensual mouth , before lowering them in slow appraisal of her trim figure then returning them to her querulous expression . |
| 30 | As a style , modernism visibly lends itself to this appropriation . |