Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it in order for them to continue clearly to deceive the House , when the chairman of Ford of Britain has said that their policies amount to economic suicide ? |
| 2 | And when the soles of their feet are skinless , there are trays of salt for them to walk across to harden the skin … |
| 3 | Where she might be he could not imagine and the gap between them seemed perceptibly to widen as he sat waiting in his car for a doleful hour of encroaching twilight . |
| 4 | The figures for inequality in income distribution in the countries of the region ( for example , Uruguay , 0.49 ; Brazil , 0.70 ; Chile , 0.50 ) are always higher than those for educational inequality , and dynamic trends suggest that the gap between them tends only to widen . |
| 5 | Quite apart from Rosa , it is necessary for me to have somewhere to go and think without interruption . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a long enough journey for me to come here to see you , ’ she said . |
| 7 | The ensuing debate , however , does little credit to the Mendelians , the more bigoted of whom refused even to believe in the existence of the pads despite the eye-witness testimony of a number of biologists who were later to become household names in their own rights — a list of eye-witnesses that includes British biologists as diverse in their biological contributions as J. B , S. Haldane , W. H. Thorpe , L. Harrison Matthews and G. E. Hutchinson . |
| 8 | What many of them use now to get their highs are solvents which , as you can read on page 28 , can and do kill . |
| 9 | The Oxford Union has played host to Prime Ministers and American presidents , but none of them came here to sing . |
| 10 | But only one of them stepped forward to receive his medal . |
| 11 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |
| 12 | Most of them did so to make a political point and to gain publicity . |
| 13 | Some of them remained behind to tell me a length how the object was a perfect focus for their festival that was being held in memory of one of their multi-armed folk heroes . |
| 14 | Sleek people accustomed to dealing with idler 's sunshine , some of them dancing only to explore a little vulgar love . |
| 15 | All of which served merely to raise Frankenstein 's spirits . |
| 16 | He wanted her back , regardless , but some part of him wanted desperately to know the real truth . |
| 17 | This difference , together with the obliquity , made it necessary on the one hand to excavate to a considerable depth at the bottom and to add a 30 foot embankment of made ground at the top , involving a vast amount of earth moving that , on the face of it seems hardly to have been necessary . |
| 18 | You tell me how any of us could have chucked him over the balustrade even if the whole lot of us got together to do it . |
| 19 | Yes , it 's another way of carrying out a procedure most of us prefer never to need , but are realistic enough to know is sometimes inevitable . |
| 20 | She would like one of us to call tomorrow to clip the budgies ' claws and give boosters to the cats . ’ |
| 21 | On the other hand , the rest of us have yet to realise that computer literacy will soon be as essential as driving a car . |
| 22 | The time it takes to fully implement T.Q.M. and the amount of work involved may be something that most of us have yet to come to terms with . |
| 23 | Some of us found enough to interest us just sitting in front of the Upland Goose Hotel watching the birds in the harbour . |
| 24 | I 've been trying to work out which issue of Woodworker — while editor — I thought was best , and as none come directly to mind , I 'd have to say it is this one . |
| 25 | I heard the fat man who had a room beneath me retching violently to spit his all . |
| 26 | Also , the jets of material associated with them seem certainly to shoot out from the rotational poles and to keep travelling that way ; were new planets to engage in the game of cosmic billiards they would have to shoot out equatorially from their ‘ parents ’ . |
| 27 | And I just went along with I went inside to get a cup of tea . |
| 28 | Hence , although acquaintance with ourselves seems probably to occur , it is not wise to assert that it undoubtedly does occur . |
| 29 | The first is a highly fortuitous and austere way : namely that the compound might have the same effect — the transfer of some particular kind of information — sufficiently often and sufficiently advantageously for there to be some selective advantage in its coming standardly to possess that significance : that is , for it to acquire the biological function of transmitting just that kind of information . |
| 30 | I think it 's said it , if there 's anything on pertaining to the County Council , like highway matters , then it could be useful , but I mean if it just , there 's no point in him sitting here to discuss planning applications , because that enquiry 's |