Example sentences of "[verb] to [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1628 , William Laud persuaded Charles I to issue a declaration prohibiting all theological disputation and ordering that the Thirty-Nine Articles should be adhered to in their full and literal sense . |
| 2 | And he used to come to with his black horse and dray and I used to go to help him on a er on a Saturday morning , used to get to about perhaps nine or half past and I 'd go the rounds with him and all I used to do was to er take the peoples things that they 'd bought up the entry you see because they were all entries then . |
| 3 | It was the first place he had come to in his own right , with something to give . |
| 4 | Well , now I 've been past many a field of hay but it does n't smell like it used to in my young days . |
| 5 | Many of their young men are going forward to train as priests , and at some time in the near future the people will be ministered to by their own men . |
| 6 | ’ For four days we 've had music you could almost dance to in our own front rooms — if you like that sort of music . ’ |
| 7 | There is one final point that ought to he made before we operationalise these theories , and it is one which we alluded to in our earlier discussions . |
| 8 | Many mothers of sons never see them to talk to on their own from the day they marry , because their daughters-in-law always expect to be present on every conceivable occasion , and this is something that can build up a very understandable resentment . |
| 9 | I have n't had to in my this current house because they 're sealed units and I I bought the house new so . |
| 10 | Here you can mimic the conditions they are used to in their native South Africa . |
| 11 | The professor 's wife said something about how difficult and expensive it was to get a good cleaning woman , and the professor responded uneasily , insensitively , aware that he was not getting the respect he was used to in his Senior Common Room . |
| 12 | As a result , there were simply more same-sex intimacies and ones of greater intensity than we are used to in our modern world , steeped as it is in post-Freudian heterosexuality . |
| 13 | Furthermore , attacks such as Crews 's are , as he acknowledges , not taken seriously and replied to in their own terms , but treated as symptoms of repressed disturbance . |
| 14 | Most companies ( record companies , music publishers and large management firms ) have what they refer to as their standard agreement . |
| 15 | The media are obviously hard up for stories because they seem interested in what they refer to as our overcrowding problems here . |
| 16 | She points to the teddy bear ( that one ) in the first picture and then points to the empty chair in the second picture ( there ) and assumes that the teacher is paying attention to what she is pointing to in their shared context of situation . |
| 17 | We are on the floor together : the door has to swing to on its own , as it is designed to do , though more for the sake of security than lovers . |
| 18 | Now he had no one to go to with his artistic problems , no hearth to sit at . |
| 19 | Half board accommodation is arranged , and rides to at their own pace . |
| 20 | Kate could n't help resenting the fact that his eyes were firmly fixed on what had once been referred to as her greatest assets ‘ … particularly after a provocative remark like that ! ’ he drawled . |
| 21 | The full set of normality relations which a lexical item contracts with all conceivable contexts will be referred to as its contextual relations . |
| 22 | Godfrey de Lucy [ q.v. ] , later bishop of Winchester , is once referred to as his fellow student . |
| 23 | Yet Catalan and not Spanish remains their first language ( the signposts have often two spellings ) , and Ibiza and Formentera — the smallest of the group — are still commonly referred to by their Roman name ‘ Pituisas ’ , the Islands of Pines . |
| 24 | This revision has been undertaken by Steven Sheehan , Director of the Ralph Mayer Centre at Yale University , and includes more detailed sections on newer materials such as acrylics , referred to by their American name , ‘ polymer colours ’ , and a completely reworked pigment section . |
| 25 | However when he came to Celebes ( hereafter referred to by its modern name , Sulawesi ) , even Alfred Wallace was lost for a complete explanation of how this large star-shaped island acquired its fascinating and unusual fauna . |
| 26 | Now when she catches the odd episode on TV , Eithne looks on as Chrissie is referred to by her remaining soap family members . |
| 27 | Will he tell us why he refused to give an interview on the television programme referred to by my Hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley ( Mrs. Clwyd ) ? |
| 28 | I am distressed to hear of the problems facing owner-occupiers in the area referred to by my hon. Friend . |
| 29 | That point enables me to raise with the Minister the matter of aid to mining areas , which was also referred to by my hon. Friend the Member for Hemsworth . |
| 30 | I do not intend to say any more about this issue , which has already been referred to by my hon. Friends . |