Example sentences of "[pers pn] to [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’ |
| 2 | If Harriet did not carry them to higher ground they would surely drown . |
| 3 | You can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 4 | Their main advantages are : wood is an excellent insulator ; the windows come in an wide range of standard sizes ( and non-standard ones are easy for a joiner to make up if necessary ) ; they are , generally speaking , the cheapest type of replacement window to buy ; and you can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 5 | He can make his birds fly like an arrow — in a straight line , in single file — or can direct them to any place he likes , in any formation . |
| 6 | let them , let , do you think , let them , let , cos if we leave it to International Secretaire they may still not do it . |
| 7 | See this was after the nationalization and the policy of the railway executive at that time was to instead of two stations in one town , they were all they were reducing it to one station you see . |
| 8 | Tilting it to one side he allowed the object to clatter onto the table . |
| 9 | So now I 'm trying to tell it to this pad he bought me this morning . |
| 10 | That 's erm would you say that obviously it 's a b it 's very difficult to actually ask cos it to some extent you 'd be generalizing anyway , would you say that people in the flats , do stick together or or do you get some people who isolated and just k just do n't have any flats ? |
| 11 | As we drive from mine to exhausted mine I chat with some of the first group about doing geology . |
| 12 | We can define the unknown in broad terms — " What would increase our margins here ? " — and this is really defining a search area In essence a question tells us the answer with which we would be satisfied : if our thinking can get us to this point we can stop that line of thinking . |