Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | More often , an executive 's contract entitles him to private use of his car . |
| 2 | Since it is clear that the vocation of hermit was officially recognised in the fourteenth century , the account of Richard 's pursuit of his calling points to parental opposition and possibly a reluctance on Richard 's part to commit himself to any officially supervised licensing . |
| 3 | The Mirror Group 's decision to sell it to him was perhaps the greatest miscalculation in post-war press history . |
| 4 | ‘ Ted 's camp left nothing to chance , ’ he recalls . |
| 5 | The two machines , one for Britain and one for France , were handed over and it was to be Bertrand 's responsibility to transport one to Paris and so on to London in the French diplomatic bag . |
| 6 | I , in my turn , was surprised to find how much I was looking forward to a day on my own , and mildly surprised at my mother 's willingness to leave me to it . |
| 7 | It is possible that for all its lofty consequences , Nietzsche 's willingness to expose himself to Meistersinger in the first place arose out of nothing loftier than social contacts : the coincidence that a sister of Wagner 's living in Leipzig was friendly with Professor Ritschl and his wife , with whom Nietzsche was on excellent terms at the time . |
| 8 | She got an answer soon enough — the city 's mayor confined her to a lunatic asylum . |
| 9 | PAUL MERSON 'S self-destructiveness banished him to football 's margins for several weeks . |
| 10 | While the Australian and Pakistan examples quoted above serve to illustrate the variety of provisions and problems which may emerge under the rubric of ‘ rural education ‘ , Sher 's thinking leads us to an awareness of the uniqueness of the situation in a country school whatever its location . |
| 11 | Because in 1982 , when I was nine years old , my father 's work brought us to North Cornwall , where the landscapes are among the most magical on Earth and the legend of King Arthur still burns . |
| 12 | Pearson 's work owed something to the influence of his Johnsonian friend , Hugh Kingsmill [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | Blair 's job took him to troutless Humberside , but after two years , good fortune posted him back to Aberdeenshire . |
| 14 | ‘ We left Malta shortly afterwards and my Dad 's job took us to Japan . |
| 15 | With sadly impaired health and frustrated by Rossetti 's reluctance to commit himself to marriage , and his too apt inclination to infidelity , she resorted to ever-increasing doses of laudanum . |
| 16 | A statement issued by over 100 groups and alliances , including the Brazilian Forum of Non-Governmental Organizations , the Pan-African Movement , Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace , is critical of the North 's failure to commit itself to concrete moves on fair trade , debt reduction , poverty alleviation and technology transfer . |
| 17 | Yet for all its traditions the Indianapolis 500 is , again like America itself , on the cutting edge of technology , combining the latest advances in engineering and the car racer 's desire to apply them to the maximum . |
| 18 | Environment and development groups warned that the summit was likely to be a failure , largely due to the North 's refusal to commit itself to firm accords . |
| 19 | The British Prime Minister , John Major , has spoken out against the US 's refusal to commit itself to a declaration concerning targets and schedules aimed at controlling emissions of greenhouse gasses . |
| 20 | Olazabal 's finish hauled him to the top of the European order of merit . |
| 21 | He asked if the woman 's name meant anything to her . |
| 22 | But why did n't Elaine 's name mean anything to her ? |
| 23 | A people 's court sentenced him to death , and put a bounty on his head . |
| 24 | They say that parents who pay for their children 's education expect them to be given homework . |
| 25 | Anselm 's departure contributed nothing to the solution of his own problems ; it only benefited the royal treasury , to which the archiepiscopal revenues were now added . |
| 26 | Houghton 's wife reported him to naval security for being in possession of large sums of cash . |
| 27 | Montag 's wife reports him to the Brigade and he is forced to flee , making his way to a place outside the city described by Clarisse , where a group of people have gathered together to memorise books , keeping the words immortal . |
| 28 | Brown doubts Microsoft 's pledge to reduce it to 8Mb in the final release will produce a very usable system , certainly not one that could run multiple applications concurrently . |
| 29 | Another half-hour 's walking brought me to Cow Dub where a stream thunders down from a lip of flowstone , crashing through a narrow tubular cavern to scour out a perfectly formed round pool below . |
| 30 | A physiotherapist from Dawn 's area accompanied her to the centre on occasion to observe the specialist care she received . |