Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] 's [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's the local judge , and I ought to report Pew 's death to him or Squire Trelawney . |
| 2 | He had borrowed the ledger one night and read how a member of the Longford militia came galloping up on a foam-flecked horse to the doors of Carewscourt , yelling that the French and Irish had scattered Lake 's army to the four winds and that they were coming south and for everyone to flee , flee , flee if they valued their lives … . |
| 3 | By John Roman Baker , comprising Crying Celibate Tears , The Ice Pick and Freedom to Party , these award-winning plays explore man 's relation to man in a time of crisis , where the war against the HIV virus is at is fiercest . |
| 4 | We noticed that they touched each other all evening , shoulder to shoulder , knee to knee , nothing obvious , although I did see O raise Boy 's hand to his lips once , and later I saw Boy rest his head on O 's knees , just lay it there for a moment like a dog . |
| 5 | The advantage of this argument is that it allows one to define literature 's relation to reality in a much more positive and coherent way : both literature and the reality which it represents are of the same order and , according to Bakhtin , this order is ideological . |
| 6 | Mr Gerald Kaufman , the shadow foreign secretary , reiterated Labour 's opposition to any commitment to offer the right of abode to favoured categories based on status or affluence . |
| 7 | He says Labour 's commitment to manufacturing industry is the best hope for the future . |
| 8 | The OSF press release and its mock shock horror surprise also does n't allow for the fact that Addamax voluntarily revealed Sun 's involvement to defendants ' counsel in October of 1991 and that OSF itself has known about it since at least May of this year . |
| 9 | Whereas for most Greeks and Romans , whether they believed in cycles or not , the dominant aspects of time were the present and the past , Christianity directed man 's attention to the future . |
| 10 | You have n't been on the receiving end of Doreen 's barbs , but if they pierce Ling 's skin to the extent of causing him to leave your service you can put a ring round the fact that there will be … definite disruption . |
| 11 | Show jumping 's answer to the Chippendales . |
| 12 | $13.2 million loss raises buyer 's premium to 15% to indignation of dealers |
| 13 | Mr Smith said it would be his task to broaden Labour 's appeal to the whole community , but he peremptorily ruled out changing the party 's name . |
| 14 | Finally , the Immediate Programme reasserted Labour 's adherence to the principle of collective security through the League of Nations . |
| 15 | Oxford East 's M P , Andrew Smith says ‘ Neil Kinnock 's speech shows Labour 's commitment to governing the country after the next General Election ’ . |
| 16 | Using it as fuel deletes transport 's contribution to the greenhouse problem at a stroke , as hydrogen burns to give just water vapour and NOx . |
| 17 | Such an approach allows us to experience nature 's response to the controlled variation of an environment . |
| 18 | Susanna Lewis 's very popular book A Machine Knitter 's Guide to Creating Fabrics is available again after a long absence from the bookshelves . |
| 19 | And you 've also got man 's desire to be sure of achieving success . |
| 20 | But , as Kapla notes of Mitchell , feminist Lacanians tend to assimilate the linguistic unconscious to ideology , and to leave ideology 's relation to the material world unclear . |
| 21 | On page eight , item one three two , can I draw committee 's attention to , says she , feverishly flicking through the pieces of paper , to a letter that John Patten has written to us , you 'll see what we asked Amanda to do on our behalf , Amanda Root , Women 's Sub also asked her to do that , and John Patten , surprisingly enough has written back , his private secretary has written back , she continues to say , ‘ Mr Patten is used to getting communications from Chief Officers conveying the views of committees , he has never had any correspondence from Sub-Committees through other officers ’ . |
| 22 | Melia suggests that as far as strictly medical treatment is concerned , it would be prudent to leave doctor 's business to doctors ! |
| 23 | Before asking what feature of Quine 's position is supposed to make this response possible , we should note Quine 's response to familiar sceptical arguments , for example , those that rest upon evidence for perceptual error and illusion , and upon empirical evidence of delusion . |
| 24 | While specific instances of such instability lack moment , little indications of the small ‘ incorrect ’ pleasures and uneasy recognitions on which niche-audience television thrives , nevertheless the bouncing of complicity and distance defines forms of identification and subjectivity which , in their turn , define television 's capacity to be critical . |
| 25 | Religion reflects man 's desire to be the God he imagines . |
| 26 | The NEA continued to make the headlines with equally controversial grants , including a panel-proposed award , later rejected by Frohnmayer , to performance-artist Karen Finley , who in one of her acts smears her scantily-clad body with chocolate to symbolise man 's inhumanity to woman . |
| 27 | He believed that the sexuality of man , unlike any other animal , developed in two waves and this could explain man 's susceptibility to neuroses . |
| 28 | Earlier he had derided Labour 's commitment to combating crime after an attack by Labour 's Derek Enright ( Hemsworth ) . |
| 29 | Will he match Labour 's commitment to pensions ? |
| 30 | Mr Connolly said he had written to Mr Clarke saying he very much hoped Labour 's commitment to the retention of water services under local government control extended to returning those services to councils ‘ in the unhappy event of any form of privatisation or transfer to some hybrid organisation ’ . |