Example sentences of "[adj] to [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got erm proportional space code which is very similar to it on the Microsoft Works . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Within a month Renate had lost her job ( ‘ the complaint was that the girl was too slow ’ ) and had suffered a sharp decline in health , having contracted chronic catarrh , nervous debility and eczema of the scalp ‘ which made her unable to summon up the courage to get a haircut after a hairdresser had been very rude to her on the subject ’ . |
| 4 | He was perfectly amiable to her on the few occasions when they did meet ; sometimes she even felt that he liked her . |
| 5 | The plans by M-1 Great Britain Ltd to mine on the Corbetts of Faragon Hill and Meall Rairneachan have attracted objections from local people , the MCofS , the Scottish Scenic Trust and the Countryside Commission for Scotland ( now Scottish Natural Heritage ) , while the RSPB and Historic Scotland have expressed reservations . |
| 6 | It was his own fault for having been conceited enough to be pleasant to her on the morning of the read-through . |
| 7 | She had not known what to expect from this side of marriage since there was no literature available to her on the subject and her mother had told her nothing . |
| 8 | The three other prints will then be available to you on the same basis and each may be paid for in the same way . |
| 9 | We 've been to visit him , he 's back to visit us , and he 's available to us on the phone for a year , and all of that 's covered by this Department of the Environment . |
| 10 | Draw into your net all possible defendants , and then turn round and consider all the possible defences open to them on the facts given . |
| 11 | He would pass Syl 's house on the way , since it stood close to ours on the same side of the private road , behind hedges of cypress and box , flanked by lawns garnished with birch and all manner of ornamental trees . |
| 12 | Agnes actually put her hands over her ears as she looked at Jessie sitting close to her on the edge of the bed . |
| 13 | I walked back into the lounge and said , ‘ You clever girl ’ to Sally and sat close to her on the wide sofa . |
| 14 | The men who sat or lay near to him on the floor had watched with a curiosity that a man who was held in the Transit gaol at Pot'ma should concern himself with such a small matter as the pin-sharp biting of the louse . |