Example sentences of "[conj] to my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what , of course , was not known to me , nor to Mr Smith , nor to my Rhodesian adviser who obviously knew nothing about Rhodesia , was the relationship between the tribal chiefs and the tribes : the chiefs do what the tribes tell them , not the other way round . |
| 2 | I shall remember that to my dying day , I shall remember it all my life . ’ |
| 3 | Try telling that to my three year old see what . |
| 4 | Yvonne 's wearing a little black number that to my untutored eye looks like it could have cost ten quid or a thousand ; Clare is rather more ostentatious in a short , sparkling , crimson creation that looks like it wants to be a ball-gown when it grows up . |
| 5 | And knitting needles that to my little fingers were like rolling pins you know and they were long and they got under my arms and I always used to have a tummy ache on knitting day cos I did n't want to go to school . |
| 6 | That said , I have printed TrueType and Adobe Type Manager fonts with excellent results as well , and seemingly quicker than to my aging PostScript printer . |
| 7 | And to my flowing hand |
| 8 | To keep the training crew occupied I sent them away to this vessel for a day 's rummage and to my pleasant surprise it was not long before they returned with the news that they had unearthed a vast cache of spirits and cigarettes in the ship 's hospital . |
| 9 | This was a very tense time and to my complete amazement I took 2nd place in the amateur class . |
| 10 | In fact , on all the windows wired up now , and I walked up to him , and I just said , would you like to give to me , son , and he turned round and looked at me , and to my great surprise he gave it to me . |
| 11 | I rang the Daily Express and to my great delight was told that Max was in the Bahamas . |
| 12 | I had written to the South African Cricket Union asking for his address and , some weeks later and to my great delight , a letter arrived from Geoff Griffin himself ! |
| 13 | Ross says that his team searched for ‘ the sort of things you would never find here , both to Britain 's credit and to my great sorrow ’ . |
| 14 | I quickly cast back out again to the same spot and to my total astonishment the rod was almost pulled out of my hands before I got it back to the rests . |
| 15 | Will the Secretary of State explain to me , and to my puzzled constituents , what is the point of Powys health authority 's applying for trust status , given that the entity which now constitutes the health authority would also constitute the trust ? |
| 16 | To my utter astonishment the motion was passed unanimously and thereafter , and to my lesser astonishment , completely ignored ; at a by-election at Pollok the Liberal candidate devoted just ten out of the 150 lines of his election address to it and came bottom of the Poll . |
| 17 | I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman and to my hon. Friend in a moment . |
| 18 | I address a final word to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and to my hon. Friend the Financial Secretary . |
| 19 | I begin by joining in the congratulations paid by hon. Members of all parties to the hon. Member for Birkenhead ( Mr. Field ) on the production of an excellent report , and to my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield ( Mr. Winterton ) who chaired the Select Committee on Health , which was also involved . |
| 20 | Therefore , as I have frequently said in letters to Opposition Members and to my hon. Friends , we regard the support of students as the proper duty of the education system , rather than of the social security system , although there are exceptions that we support under the social security system . |
| 21 | He could see that I was slowly but surely getting back to my old self , and to my own poetry . |
| 22 | I wanted to get back to myself and to my own work , to all that he had robbed me of — even my own name . |
| 23 | I am grateful both to the Education spokespersons who put a great deal of time in , in order to carry out erm their preparations towards this report and to and to take part in the consultation exercises and to my own colleagues . |
| 24 | Assure you , my good liege , I hold my duty as I hold my soul , Both to my God and to my gracious King ; And I do think , or else this brain of mine Hunts not the trail of policy so sure As it hath used to do , that I have found The very cause of Hamlet 's lunacy … |
| 25 | But to my overwhelming relief , John threw back his head in one of his gargantuan laughs . |
| 26 | But to my Western eyes , children here are remarkably un-spoilt . |
| 27 | As to my honourable friend 's confi concerns about Essex and of course his constituency borders mine . |
| 28 | In the event of my dying before remarriage , I DEVISE and BEQUEATH all of my real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever not already disposed of as to my freeholds in fee simple and as to my personal estate absolutely to the issue of my union with JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , the property to be held in trust for the said issue , the trust allowing monthly sum of not less than FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL to pay for the upbringing of the said issue , this arrangement to cease on his or her attaining the age of twenty-one years , whereupon a quarter of the remaining estate — whether in freehold property , stocks , shares or chattels shall be granted in perpetuity to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , and the remainder to be granted to the said issue . |
| 29 | As to my hon. Friend 's comment that the security forces should be allowed to operate without constraint from political considerations , I can give a categorical assurance that no such restraint for political reasons will be imposed . |
| 30 | And as to my previous remark , I was merely attempting familiarity . |