Example sentences of "to add [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Losing was one thing but to lose as spinelessly as the Welsh XV did to Bridgend on Saturday was to add insult to severely injured pride . |
| 2 | Sir Geoffrey Howe , then Foreign Secretary , also spoke , but only , from Hong Kong 's viewpoint , to add insult to injury . |
| 3 | To add insult to injury the hypnotist claimed Kylie had failed to pay the consultation bill . |
| 4 | To add insult to injury , Palace , attacking with renewed vigour , were then awarded a doubtful penalty . |
| 5 | ( 11–12 February 1778 ) as if to add insult to injury , Leopold received Mozart 's letter telling him that he had not yet finished his commissions for the Dutchman : |
| 6 | To add insult to injury the business of selecting students and allocating places was computerised in 1973 , and so it remains today . |
| 7 | To add insult to injury his faithful laser blazer has limited power , so to keep the aliens at bay he has to make every shot count . |
| 8 | To add insult to injury , the young thug filed a civil claim against Mr Respectable for wounding him and , although he won his action , the damages awarded were only nominal , reflecting the spirit and not the letter of the law . |
| 9 | To add insult to injury , he had even turned down paying pupils in order to give free lessons to Aloysia ; and with supreme lack of tact he even described how he had begun an aria for the tenor Raaff , only to turn it into one for Aloysia instead . |
| 10 | The , to add insult to injury , it started raining heavily . |
| 11 | In 110 we find straightforward confession : Yet in the same sentence we find specious self-excuses : ‘ but , by all above ’ , — this unusual oath , calling the heavens to witness , is an anticipatory give-away — Well , the disbelieving reader will say , to claim that you betrayed your partner merely to test your love for him , which has supposedly been increased by the experiment — this is to add insult to injury . |
| 12 | Apart from the fact that there was trouble with one of the other directors — apparently Jefferson was having a high old time with his wife and , to add insult to injury , charging the hotel rooms to expenses — you may recall that Downton lost two very valuable contracts with players in tennis and golf . |
| 13 | And to add insult to injury , one of his own arguments celebrating the omnipotence of God had been placed in the mouth of Simplicio , that character in the dialogue who , as the spokesman for naive common sense , had been the subject of ridicule . |
| 14 | To add insult to injury , our family health services authority is returning our claims for Haemophilus influenzae type B immunisation unpaid . |
| 15 | Moreover , and to add insult to injury , these off-centre policies are never supported by a clear majority of the electorate . |
| 16 | To add insult to injury the roof leaked . |
| 17 | ( Harry had decided that to pay for entertaining Nadine Cunningham would be to add insult to injury . ) |
| 18 | To add insult to injury : |
| 19 | To add insult to injury members should be aware that the Banks are now attempting to re-write the settlement proposals of the dispute last year by claiming a right to earlier opening . |
| 20 | And Madam , I 'd also ask you to say that to him to pay compensation for the minor injuries she 's suf she 's suffered and of course you have to consider that 's a point in a case involving assault , would be to add insult to injury , and would not assist the parties in coming to terms with their relationship and hopefully attempting a reconciliation . |
| 21 | I dared not even glance at " Happy " , but to add insult to injury I gave the order " About turn ! " and they repeated the gazelle-like jump even better than the first time . |
| 22 | Fabia was seated beside Ven in a taxi when she realised that furious would be an understatement for what Ven would be if he ever learned that she had not only deceived him but , to add insult to injury , allowed him , believing her to be someone else , to house her and feed her into the bargain . |
| 23 | To add insult to injury , Alan 's not even entitled to unemployment benefit . |
| 24 | To add insult to injury , the British No 2 led by a set and 5–1 before throwing it all away . |
| 25 | To add insult to injury , Dykstra was beaten again twice in the dying seconds — Hateley turning in a cross from McCall and , with the goalkeeper in obvious distress , Mikhailichenko stealing in to score the fourth . |
| 26 | Only 365 people turned up and to add insult to injury , the lights had to be turned on in the second half when a storm blew up , plunging the ground into darkness . |
| 27 | Such battles as the abolition of additional charges made on telephones , gas and electricity bills , and now to add insult to injury , V A T. |
| 28 | And just to add insult to injury , Doreen 's husband , Mike , had died two years ago . |
| 29 | To add insult to injury , Taylor scored a third for Cambridge twelve minutes from time and then seconds from the final whistle Dublin scored a fourth for Cambridge United . |
| 30 | Nothing really to add Chairman to the agenda item of |