Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he took the wallet of photographs from his pocket and leafed through them to the ninth picture in Heather 's collection . |
| 2 | I fetched more glasses and dealt some of them to the Lorrimores who were an oasis of silence in the chattering mob and paid me absolutely no attention : and from then on I felt I had indeed chosen the right role and could sustain it indefinitely . |
| 3 | Social and economic relations were modified in a whole range of ways over this period , some of them to the advantage of the working class . |
| 4 | He was rehearsing Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and the lines had fled ; what he hung on to was the physical business , and when he did some of it to the mirror it seemed poor stuff for the old Living Boomerang . |
| 5 | Judging by her tone , she might even have transferred some of it to the absent Rose . |
| 6 | She had never met Naomi in her life , but in death she grew to love her : she had taken her into herself , had learned her likings , had read her books and tried ( although not herself musical ) to listen to her music , she had spoken much of her to the children , had insisted upon treating her as an ally , as a friend beyond the grave , had reinvented her and kept her close to them — oh , not without awareness of the dangers , of the necessary distortions and consolations , but then all life is danger , and Liz had embarked willingly upon its full tide with those three small boys , with that ambitious , importunate widower and that friendly ghost . |
| 7 | Evidence has emerged that mahogany which has been logged illegally in Brazilian Indian reserves is being exported to Western countries , much of it to the UK , which accounts for 52 per cent of Brazilian mahogany . |
| 8 | British officers on the Defence Adviser 's staff in our Washington Embassy , and in exchange appointments at US military establishments , see the products of the vast US research and development programmes and become wedded to them to the detriment of British-developed equivalents . |
| 9 | Third , it analyses the influence on the political agenda and public opinion ; has it shifted either of them to the right ? |
| 10 | At the Carnival , 1925 , when I was 10 , Sam had first bought us large ice-creams and had decided , before going into the circus , to take the three of us to the menageries ( at an extra cost of two pence , if I remember right ) . |
| 11 | During my term of office I hope to introduce all of you to the ‘ Team ’ who are the driving force behind the Society — Friends without whom I could not manage ! |
| 12 | ‘ It 's remarkable that , in addition to playing 11 cities around the country , the educational programme played to over 5,000 kids and brought many of them to the main theatre in their local cities for the first time in their lives , on subsidised tickets . |
| 13 | Give it some of that' or ’ We 've got Sabrina on next weeks show , and you do n't get many of them to the pound , eh boys ? ’ |
| 14 | A waiter smoothed his blue waistcoat and padded behind her to the round table where she always sat , next to the band and the dance floor . |
| 15 | If the linguistic side of our University Schools of English could be persuaded to give rather less of their attention to the roots of the English language and to devote more of it to the leaves it has put forth so abundantly since 1500 there would be far more data for literary scholars like Mr. Bateson to work upon . |
| 16 | Moreover , goals relate to situations , so arousal may be as much situational as internal ; we may be aroused by the presence of others and the knowledge that other people are evaluating us , thereby linking goals or values important to us to the situation in which we find ourselves . |
| 17 | Pushing those around him to the brink and saying jump . |
| 18 | The suggestion , which received widespread support , was that members on retiring or resigning from the Bank would allocate all or portion of the sum due to them to the Frank Holden Defence Fund . |
| 19 | Tutilo stood staring in bewilderment from one of them to the other , without understanding , almost without recognition . |
| 20 | The bankruptcy order is settled by the court in Form 6.25 in Schedule 4 to the rules ( r 6.33 ) , see Appendix C , form 32 , and the court must send at least two sealed copies to the official receiver who must send one of them to the bankrupt and cause the order to be entered in the register of writs and orders at the land registry and be advertised in the London Gazette and local newspaper ( r 6.34 ) . |
| 21 | First he returned one of them to the brass container . |
| 22 | I adjusted one of them to the reclining position , lay back in it and closed my eyes . |
| 23 | She held the faded spine of one of them to the light so that she could read the lettering : ‘ Journal of Martin J. Beale 1852–67 . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm Loretta Lawson ’ , she said , returning and handing one of them to the American woman . |
| 25 | He just managed to beat one of them to the receiver . |
| 26 | When McMahon received a letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury in answer to one of his to the effect that God Almighty still loved him , he replied that a certain quotation always stayed with him : ‘ I rage , I melt , I burn . |
| 27 | Rebecca was looking pointedly from one of us to the other like a parody of a spectator watching a tennis rally . |
| 28 | And he did nothing in his life of exploration to introduce any of them to the places he saw . |
| 29 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 30 | The dream that had brought the two of them to the other side of the globe was wedging a distance between them . |