Example sentences of "[pers pn] the [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Signe drove the old VW carefully — she was a good driver — and insisted upon taking me the prettiest way to Inkeroinen , which meant through the little side roads around Kouvola . |
| 2 | It was in this book that he was able to show me the first reference to the Santa Maria . |
| 3 | It gives me the greatest pleasure to second the nomination of Chris as the Honorary Treasurer . |
| 4 | THE next leg of my journey takes me the short drive to Regensburg and from there I follow a minor road to Cham , last stop before the German-Czech border post . |
| 5 | In a constitutional democracy , there are individuals whose status or office gives them the automatic right to be heard . |
| 6 | Graham rented the fastest car Hertz could offer , a BMW 73si , to take them the seventy miles to Lausanne . |
| 7 | They were temporary , not permanent , migrants : not for them the single journey to a new land . |
| 8 | The mannikin skipped over to show them the unexpected addition to his ghastly collection . |
| 9 | Here , following the banner of reform , led by the gentlemen of that most aristocratic Whig Government , led by Lord Grey , Lord Melbourne , Lord John Russell , they saw for a time before them the high road to a better and fairer ordering of society . |
| 10 | The most prominent families had no objection to service — it had long offered them the surest route to power , wealth , and prestige . |
| 11 | The assurance with which Gothic schemes were presented made them the obvious alternative to Second Empire , but large secular Gothic buildings of this type were an unknown quantity . |
| 12 | Why have n't I the sheer drive to just get up and go , take the twins and emigrate to Oz or Canada ? |
| 13 | Now , am am I the only person to whom a lot of this is news ? |
| 14 | I can imagine you the finest dragon to ride — ’ |
| 15 | ALASTAIR McIVER BRINGS YOU THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO TENNIS FOOTWEAR FOR 1992 |
| 16 | Let his man make his way back there , and let me have the third horse and bring you the quickest way to Ullesthorpe . |
| 17 | Brittany Ferries give you the shortest drive to the Western Loire . |
| 18 | Once you are here , the largest Freshers ' Week in Britain will give you the ideal introduction to all the academic and social aspects of university life . |
| 19 | Ahead of you the serpentine walk to the castle was constructed about 1640 . |
| 20 | He crossed to the library and entered , assailed at once by warm memories of the man who had been to him the nearest thing to a father . |
| 21 | Smart had always attracted friends , and they served him well now , securing him the necessary recommendation to St Luke 's by a bookseller , perhaps a connection of Newbery 's , who had become a banker , probably one of the bankers who formed a majority of the Governors of St Luke 's . |
| 22 | These are taught to the initiate to show him the accepted response to the vagaries of order , disorder , ambiguity , and ambivalence which lies in the complexities of social behaviour . |
| 23 | Events which begin by offering the boy exciting adventure end by teaching him — about people , about statecraft — and confirming in him the steadfast loyalty to the Empire which is evident in his later exploits . |
| 24 | You 're always give him the last sweet to him ! |
| 25 | She came out into the starlit night , and beckoned one of the battered taxis to take her the short distance to the Monte Samana complex . |
| 26 | Desktop Publisher certainly was n't the first newsletter to be produced using computers , many titles are word processed , nor was it the first publication to be desktop published , that honour probably goes to The Wordsmith , but we were the first newsletter to specialise on desktop publishing ! |
| 27 | Cyril Bradbury 's shocked daughter Denise had to make his breakfast at home and rush it the four miles to his bed wrapped in foil . |
| 28 | The the other advantages I can think of at the moment for erm getting company to say yes it the obvious connections to company . |
| 29 | His willingness to accept violation and destruction at our hands out of love for us the loving obedience to his Father is the darkness of the aboriginal prayer , the prayer that makes sense of any other prayer , the mystery of hope at the heart of hopelessness that Dr Spufford refers to in the death of Robert Aske . |
| 30 | They could have followed us the four hours to Dieppe in the hope of picking up trade on the way back ; but that makes for a ten-hour day . |