Example sentences of "[adj] to [pron] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I held his hand all the way and mum was there and I said you 'll be alright dad I said do n't worry about it I said er , we 'll be here when you come out , he said yeah alright , I 'm alright , so as the surgeon came out he said look Mrs he said I 've seen your daughter , yeah , I have to say this to you he said it 's a fifty , fifty percent chance that John will come back from the operation , operation OK and he said it 's a one hundred percent chance he wo n't without surgery of course he do n't know anything , got his little cap on |
| 2 | The action takes place thousands of miles from ‘ the perennial roar of London ’ , but the reader remains very much aware of London and the civilization it stands for as moral standards crumble ; ‘ savage ’ and ‘ white man ’ become confused until the conduct of the whites , intent on mutual destruction , seems worse than that of ‘ these poor souls — and even Sally Day , the child of cannibals , in all likelihood a cannibal himself — so faithful to what they knew of good ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ It was several months before the truth finally dawned on me that although I was being entirely faithful to her she had no inhibitions about sleeping with other men for kicks . ’ |
| 4 | This was the kind of incorrect use of section 118 to which we refer . |
| 5 | The schedule of accommodation which forms the basic document around which the rest of the building note is developed , and which I shall illustrate , was prepared , for this particular group of patients , in precisely the same way as it had been done for some of the other sub-groups within mental illness and mental handicapped for which various supplements have been prepared to which I referred above . |
| 6 | Making it clear to them they get they get it 's not |
| 7 | Only in retrospect , after our detailed research , did it become clear to anyone what had transpired in GPs ' surgeries throughout Wirral in 1982–4 . |
| 8 | The implication was clear to anyone who understood English well : the president was anxious that Zambians should not make Britons in Zambia take the blame for the policy of the Heath government . |
| 9 | But , Jean said , it was clear to anyone who knew him how important she had been . |
| 10 | It was fairly clear to anyone who knew English and Burmese that this had not been written by a Burman . |
| 11 | As a unionist with very good reason for having the warmest of feelings towards Scotland , may I ask my right hon. Friend to make it absolutely clear to anyone who wishes to establish an institution in Scotland with legislative powers over certain areas of policy that , regrettably , it would be totally unacceptable for any Scottish Member of the House to have any say , vote or control over areas of policy in the rest of the United Kingdom ? |
| 12 | Despite extensive training , administered nationally , her services were free to anyone who needed her . |
| 13 | But the intervention is manifest to anyone who has read Proust without perceiving any explicit alignment of metaphor with the world of repose , metonymy with the outer world . |
| 14 | , ’ Eric rambled on in the earpiece , apparently oblivious to what I 'd just said . |
| 15 | Long experience has , however , shown to me the danger of the good being lost through the devotion of some to what they think to be the best . |
| 16 | Er it 's immaterial to me I mean I 'm , I 'm , I 'm totally unprejudiced . |
| 17 | immaterial to me I said . |
| 18 | because you 've got a something that 's absolutely foreign to what we do , we do n't er |
| 19 | ‘ XYZ ’ is the perfect kiss-off to everyone who raved against Moose in 1991 with such blinkered zeal , to all the people who sneered at shoe-gazing — a ‘ scene ’ defined , uniquely , by those who hated all of the bands they ill-informedly lumped together — for being one-dimensional and destined for a quick death . |
| 20 | North Yorkshire in that context was different to what they found in the rest of the region . |
| 21 | ‘ They then end up with a photograph very different to what they intended . |
| 22 | screws , how to identify furniture and mainly ol and his methods are totally different to what we 've learnt |
| 23 | At the second meeting of the judges , on Thursday , 21 st May , the atmosphere seems to have been very different to what it had been the previous week . |
| 24 | The main aim , usually , is to show that sentences containing what are regarded as bogus designators can be adequately replaced by other sentences which do not contain such designators , and hence that the " real " topic in the given instance is in fact different to what it appears to be . |
| 25 | But my language on the platform 's entirely different to what I speak |
| 26 | But this is so different to what I 'd been doing as it is for most people . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm very disappointed because the game is different to what I saw out there tonight . |
| 28 | Yes , quite , quite , it 's , it 's intriguing because it 's so un so different to what I had in mind . |
| 29 | I know the people in these bands and it 's nothing different to what I grew up with . |
| 30 | He just is , just totally different to what I remember him being like . |