Example sentences of "[adj] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Of course it only gradually came to mean all this to me through the succeeding years , through my memory of it . |
| 2 | I was very prone to them at the time , mainly because I was undertaking only light and sometimes very spasmodic training . |
| 3 | ‘ Competitions now seem derisory to me after the ascent of a route of this scale ’ . |
| 4 | When I postulated that the environmentalists might have a case , they were horrified that I of all people should express such a view , when it had been clear to them from the start that I was different from the others ( my sisters ) . |
| 5 | Calling them " temporary workers " merely made their situation clear to them from the start of their employment . |
| 6 | It would be heartless to deny her the pleasure of feeling that she is making a useful contribution to the preparation of meals , but it would be equally unkind not to make it clear to her from the beginning just who will be in charge and wearing the chef 's hat ! |
| 7 | Now , it 's not clear to me at the moment that that is going to be the direction , say , of the Roman Catholic Church , because we seem to have a much more conservative Pope and there are conservative movements growing up in all the churches , you 've only got to look at Reagan 's America and the way you find counterparts to that kind of religious conservatism in all the European countries . |
| 8 | ‘ But Ken was making it very clear to me from the very beginning that I was not going to get away with anything , ’ Pertwee told me . |
| 9 | It was clear to us from the beginning that 1991 would not be a very good year to launch anything — from magazines to Scuds . |
| 10 | Northamptonshire TEC says bluntly : ’ It became clear to us in the early summer that we would not be fulfilling our Youth Training guarantee . ’ |
| 11 | Just how petty , greedy and self-interested others really are will be made perfectly clear to you during the next few days and your reaction to them may well be to decide to turn off the charm and the money supply forthwith . |
| 12 | It should have been made quite clear to you from the beginning that MI5 's word on this would be final . ’ |
| 13 | Denise Alexander said : ‘ People throughout the North of England have been fantastically generous to us in the past year . ’ |
| 14 | His exact instructions would be fed direct to him through the disc-jockey on Voice of America . |
| 15 | then erm the first payment in some occasions is a cheque direct to you from the TEC . |
| 16 | It was provided with a direct link to the London and North-Western 's Camden Station and so animals were driven direct to it from the trains . |
| 17 | But manufacturers can sometimes move the goal posts to suit their own ends — or perhaps they were oblivious to them from the start . |
| 18 | As a small boy I recall a very old gamekeeper ( at least , he seemed old to me at the time ) talking of gypsies having tame stoats in captivity . |
| 19 | so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts . |
| 20 | With the Rummidge A to Z open on the passenger seat beside her , she set off to find J. Pringle & Sons , somewhere on the other side of the city : the dark side of Rummidge , as foreign to her as the dark side of the moon . |
| 21 | although a cruise is an interesting to me as the fat poster . |
| 22 | One hurricane was much the same as another to me after the two weeks I 'd just had , and I slept right through it . |
| 23 | I 've got erm proportional space code which is very similar to it on the Microsoft Works . |
| 24 | Many of the herbs Chris uses for treating his fish would be accessible to them in the wild . |
| 25 | Once the film has stopped I want you to think of things which could occur to make the situation dangerous to you as the driver of the car . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ What was it he had that made him mean so much to you in the war ? ’ asked Greg . |
| 28 | He is indeed , as John Taylor has aptly called him , ‘ the go-between God ’ , for he both takes the things of God and makes them real to us on the one hand , and takes our faint longings and prayers and brings them to the Father on the other . |
| 29 | For the Holy Spirit and hope are two sides of the same coin ; respectively the objective and the subjective modes in which the future is made real to us in the present . |
| 30 | ‘ Why could not an entity that had no extension be visible to us under the appearance of … extension ? ’ |