Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] to [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do trust George completely ’ Annette went on ‘ I just have to with his work and so much he ca n't tell me but when he come back in that state I just could n't help … |
| 2 | We 've also submitted er on your behalf er motions to the er regional conference er and to the er Cardiff er federal conference , which I mistakenly referred to as a national conference . |
| 3 | One more issue , which I often return to from these Benches , although I hope that before long I shall be able to support those on the Treasury Bench from the other side of the House — |
| 4 | And I even forget to post the free ones . |
| 5 | Newton , for example , she merely refers to as ‘ a sober , silent , thinking lad ’ , a description that contrasts markedly with Storr 's : |
| 6 | So there are successes in Horizons Agency , you just have to at the moment by the difficulties in finding the necessary funding to cater for people who are not great achievers in terms of output funding . |
| 7 | Okay well you really want to with us do n't you ? |
| 8 | Like the other women , Barbara Lipscombe was asked if she had ‘ particular ways of doing things ’ that she regularly kept to in housework : |
| 9 | Okay , now anybody apart from the one , who did you actually divert to by the way ? |
| 10 | Dysfunction is a term currently enjoying great vogue , perhaps because it so aptly describes so much of what we laughingly refer to as modern living . |
| 11 | Submerged oxygenating plants are those that we affectionately refer to as ‘ weeds ’ , and their function is to maintain healthy , well-oxygenated water for the fish and other livestock . |
| 12 | we probably want to about work again . |
| 13 | Our childhood shapes the kind of people we become , and influences our choice of career , so it 's a subject we often turn to on the show . |
| 14 | And we really have to in the first instance , get public opinion to realise the way in which our lives are so pervasively subject to criminal prosecution , that 's the first step . |
| 15 | I 'm really sorry you could n't move in there tonight , but as usual everything here is delivered in what they charmingly refer to as Eastern Caribbean time — which means late ! ’ |
| 16 | Miss Ellis ' eyebrows launched into the twitchy dance they always seemed to at the mention of the words , ‘ my mother . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Girl , never doubt but he 'll come back to you whole and hungry , as he always used to from the butts or the wrestling when you were fretting over his lateness . ’ |
| 18 | Fraser-Smith was a vigorous defender of the tribe 's right to live in the Serengeti national park , but deplored the moran system and worked hard in the face of what he repeatedly referred to as their ‘ stultifying conservatism ’ to make the Masai appreciate the benefits of modern ranching . |
| 19 | But , like it or not , he nearly had to in August 1170 , when he was very seriously ill . |
| 20 | Broadly speaking , Swann provided a liberal , semi-official legitimation for tackling issues of racism ( or , more accurately , prejudice ) and what it coyly referred to as ‘ cultural pluralism ’ in all schools , including the so-called all-white schools which hitherto had maintained the stance of ‘ No problem ( i.e. blacks ) here ’ . |
| 21 | It was this policy he now resorted to in an attempt to win Martha back . |
| 22 | Later , in a letter to Max Born , he delivered himself of his celebrated remark that he did not believe that God ( whom he customarily referred to in comradely terms as " the Old One " ) played at dice . |
| 23 | There was nothing new in Lukacs 's total opposition to what he contemptuously referred to as the decadent and sick art of modernism . |
| 24 | Tom unbuttoned his overcoat , fished in the pocket of the dark suit which he scathingly referred to as his ‘ city uniform ’ for his identity card and flashed it at the uniformed security man . |
| 25 | This he derisively referred to as ‘ sociologism ’ and distinguished it from the true activity of sociology , the study of social action . |
| 26 | M Mr Deputy Speaker , you will have seen if you read these er orders in front of us today running to at least er I reckon about ten thousand words , but by and large , all and sundry are going to be bote , er going to be out of vote on June the ninth , citizens of the European union and the minister has actually said on one or two occasions , all citizens of the union , well it is not true that all citizens of the union will be able to vote on er June the ninth . |