Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I moves to this area just over two years ago I knew no-one , my two older children were at school and , although I enjoyed being at home with my two-year-old toddler , I felt that I was getting past the stage of discussing sleepless nights and dirty nappies ! |
| 2 | Sometimes she goes to different places on the island to paint pictures . ’ |
| 3 | I was offered this amazing job in London , but I felt no , I 've got plenty of time , I 'd rather be with her until she goes to secondary school . |
| 4 | ‘ I see you got your hair cut by the scenic route , ’ she remarks to one gentleman who has neatly slicked a few strands over his bald patch . |
| 5 | In addition to running courses , she responds to individual requests for advice and consultancy on various aspects of media work , such as how to approach the press and how to run effective publicity campaigns . |
| 6 | In Act I Scene V she calls to evil spirits , showing that she realises human feelings must be obliterated in the fight for power . |
| 7 | I said I do n't know boogie , boogie she dances to any music do n't she ? |
| 8 | In day-to-day contact with clients and with the community at larger he or she becomes to some degree locked into the support of individuals and groups that may be antipathetic to the employing agency . |
| 9 | Leapor devotes a greater part of her poetry to the description of agriculture and to questions related to the use of land than she does to domestic service . |
| 10 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 11 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 12 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 13 | well can you explain please as the man who devised these charges and assessed them and work them out how by some process of reason anybody reading that sentence gets the clue that when it says management charges will rise at a rate below the level of inflation , it refers to one pound fifty nine , how can you understand that ? |
| 14 | It refers to such resources as the overhead projector , tape-recorder , cineprojector , etc . |
| 15 | However , if uttered on 25th June , it refers to 24th June , but if uttered on 30th June , it refers to 29th June . |
| 16 | On item thirty on page seventeen , it refers to increased charges above those proposed in item twenty two , that should of course read item twenty six . |
| 17 | The code contrast here seems to relate to such things as the distinction between talk about action and talk as action , the degree of speaker involvement in , or distance from , a message , whether a statement reflects personal opinion or knowledge , whether it refers to specific instances or has the authority of a generally known fact . |
| 18 | But once again , it refers to male dogs only . |
| 19 | That 's taken , i i it refers to Pagan festivals that have happened in the past , i i I mean we 've invented our own rituals as well , but based on the May Queen figure . |
| 20 | However , if uttered on 25th June , it refers to 24th June , but if uttered on 30th June , it refers to 29th June . |
| 21 | At one level , this definition is rather broad ; it refers to threatened acts and the likelihood ( rather than the actuality ) of damage to person or property . |
| 22 | The Act provided no definition of a ‘ public place ’ , but it refers to any place to which the public have access , irrespective of whether or not they have a legal right to go there , even when there are particular and restricted rules of entry . |
| 23 | It refers to urban decline and work on rural and coastal areas . |
| 24 | It at the beginning of the second sentence refers to coming downstairs ( and not to his head , of course ) , and then the next it refers to another way . |
| 25 | I suppose it refers to those bands who need two or three goes to start every song . |
| 26 | It refers to excluded knowledge , failure to give pupils opportunities to appreciate , areas left out of consideration , ideas not addressed , concepts not offered or discussed . |
| 27 | Geschichte as Kähler used it refers to past history as such ; Historie to history as studied by the means and methods of historical study . |
| 28 | The term ‘ gouger ’ is flexible in that it refers to known criminals as well as others who look or act as if they have a potential for crime and trouble . |
| 29 | The point is important for , when he turns to personal identity , he insists on a distinction between two ideas which ‘ the ordinary way of speaking ’ runs together : the idea of ‘ man ’ , and the idea of ‘ person ’ . |
| 30 | it contributes to better market forecasting at the concept stage of development ; |