Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not until the following year , when Majorca was forced to submit , did armed resistance to him in Spain come to an end . |
| 2 | The Left became increasingly middle-class and this reinforced the already strong opposition to it among trade union officials . |
| 3 | There is something so fatally trivial about this movie in its elevation of appearance over substance , that I feel an irrational resistance to her as Claudia . |
| 4 | I was never consciously frightened of him and felt close to him and was regarded as a favourite child to him in some ways . |
| 5 | Anderson seems genuinely pleased to see Hollar when he appears outside his door ( as indicated by his unequivocal directive to him to " come in " , ( p. 51 ) ) . |
| 6 | They should be placed where horses can have free access to them without the fear of being trapped and hurt by a more aggressive horse higher in the pecking order . |
| 7 | ‘ She said a funny poem to me about an angel spitting . ’ |
| 8 | Governors should take any grievance relating to employment very seriously and give proper consideration to it through a fair grievance procedure . |
| 9 | He tendered a dry , crisp hand to her on the doorstep and inclined his head in farewell . |
| 10 | The clearing banks , which are deeply sceptical about the commercial value to them of the loans scheme , have used the changed political climate to demand a higher price for their participation . |
| 11 | I was grateful for the Foreign Secretary 's friendly reference to me at the Conservative party conference , and his acceptance of my expertise on one subject — even though it was only the cinema . |
| 12 | In spite of mean and unworthy insinuations to the contrary-insinuations which I fear are always inevitable in the case of men who hold prominent but not primary positions in any administration-I have felt a strong personal attachment to you as my chief . |
| 13 | Hiroshima was originally written for the New Yorker magazine , which devoted an entire issue to it in 1946 . |
| 14 | He wanted to ask what she had to be tired about , to remind her that this dinner-party was all her idea , and there was no real point to it at all , since they had asked nobody whom they needed to impress . |
| 15 | Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them . |
| 16 | In the 1760s Catherine II of Russia had in self-defence to issue decrees ordering her subjects to petition her only through the appropriate officials and not by the direct personal presentation to her of their grievances and requests . |
| 17 | ‘ At Oxford , people defined themselves in class terms and this was all a tremendous shock to me in many ways . ’ |
| 18 | It must be on-line , that is , people in the personnel department must have easy access to it by means of visual display units ( VDUs ) on their desks . |
| 19 | In this case you should make sure she has all she needs , including easy access to you by phone , and you should keep in daily contact with her . |
| 20 | ‘ Did she make an official complaint to you about the attack ? ’ |
| 21 | The word itself is derived from two Greek words : holos and kaustos ; the former , ‘ wholeness ’ , has a tragically ironic edge to it in the light of Leonard 's concerns for ‘ oneness ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ The coercion may of course be of different kinds , it may be in the grossest form , such as actual confinement or violence , or a person in the last days or hours of life may have become so weak and feeble , that a very little pressure will be sufficient to bring about the desired result , and it may even be , that the mere talking to him at that stage of illness and pressing something upon him may so fatigue the brain , that the sick person may be induced , for quietness ' sake , to do anything . |
| 23 | Phil has n't addressed a civil word to us in weeks . |
| 24 | If some of us despair at the seeming lack of real competition to them in Scotland , Hateley 's reaction permits not a whit of concern . |
| 25 | ( 7 ) Organisations such as the Consumers ' Association , the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and television programmes such as Watchdog may possibly have dealt with a similar problem to yours in the past . |
| 26 | In inviting her Rachel had proclaimed the absolute acceptability to her of her daughter even though she knew that Rachel did not feel this . |
| 27 | It had always been a moment of pure magic to him in the theatre , the consciousness of the huge rustling animal behind him , and the hush as the house lights went down , the pause of utter stillness , silence , and then as he brought his baton down , the incredible surge of excitement as music smashed the silence , created instantly the illusion of that otherworld that did n't really exist . |
| 28 | Picking Gwen Bear up from the bed , and hugging the soft toy to her for comfort , she stood at the window and stared out at the cloudy night sky . |
| 29 | What we want to do this morning is erm tt talk a little bit to you about er the quality system and the I S O Nine Thousand procedures and er documented er systems , which have been developed so far within the whole group . |
| 30 | It became clear that he was heading east towards Zamora in the opposite direction to us at the same level after takeoff from Porto , and fully occupied flying his aeroplane — he did not respond to the controller 's requests for position reports or estimates . |