Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [pron] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having visited Tullie House , I can confirm that , as my hon. Friend says , it is remarkable , and I commend it to hon. Members on both sides of the House . |
| 2 | I mean nothing to either of them . |
| 3 | ‘ Even I trust you to that degree , ’ she agreed shakily , smiling in spite of herself . |
| 4 | It 's a promise I expect him to equal . |
| 5 | I I say it to all whoever comes in here and they 're |
| 6 | I believed I put them to good use against Pakistan . |
| 7 | ‘ As soon as I realised Princess Diana was in trouble I put everything to one side , ’ she says . |
| 8 | I put it to this hundred , would you spend two thousand pounds on having a tummy tuck if your tummy needing tucking ? , |
| 9 | I ca n't agree a solution with our officers that is acceptable to the residents I represent and I put it to this council to try and get something done about it and all I get from the chairman of the committee is the officer 's comments pushed back down my throat . |
| 10 | I give them to that solicitor that , I were talking to . |
| 11 | ‘ I owe it to these orphans to make their life as easy as possible , ’ says this diminutive woman . |
| 12 | I remember it to this day . ’ |
| 13 | Is it just , well I was j er I mean I find it hard cos I suppose everybody to some extent , in the , the extent to which they live in their own house , |
| 14 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 15 | I dedicate myself to Higher Things . |
| 16 | My subterfuge was a visit to the Rotary — but the only rotary aspect of that day was the circle my buttocks described as I thrust you to orgiastic multiplicities . |
| 17 | I recommend it to all new mothers . ’ |
| 18 | This book is a primer , and I recommend it to any newcomer to the field , because of its overview of concepts and applied practical aspects . |
| 19 | way round , I shove everything to one side of the desk and everyone 's gone home and then I start working . |
| 20 | ‘ If you mean anything to this young man , I 'm sure he will understand . |
| 21 | It 's if it goes where you want it to that 's hard . |
| 22 | The typical problems that occur are that a file created on your system using downloadable fonts works perfectly but , when you send it to another system , such as a bureau 's typesetter , what you had in , say , Bodoni Bold comes back as New Century Schoolbook Italic . |
| 23 | If you show it to other people it could form part of their records which they may later be obliged to disclose . |
| 24 | If you put them to shallow they come up |
| 25 | When you put it to Sole that his approach to captaincy is more intellectual than gung-ho he laughs : ‘ Well , I am not a Finlay Calder by any means . |
| 26 | You restrict yourself to half a dozen goals in each case . |
| 27 | ‘ You recall me to common sense and my duties , McAllister . |
| 28 | It 's an ex exercise in their atr attribution y'know if you feel angry now and you attribute it to some abusive incident which you may remember from your childhood um that 's er that 's an accomplishment . |
| 29 | Here , if you are lucky enough to own an oven , you lend it to all your neighbours who do n't have one . |
| 30 | Grazing and benthic feeding carnivores will take live foods from the aquarium bottom and many are partial to freshly-broken clean live shellfish in their shells , if you anchor them to one spot . |