Example sentences of "to [pron] [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm going to explain to them all the importance of Iran to the US and the danger of it falling to extremists , he said . " |
| 2 | Yes , I feel that it 's very much a case that they have things done to them all the time and our pupils , a lot of them , are quite sort of apathetic in decision-making and are quite happy to accept , or appear to be happy to accept , whatever anybody decides should be done for them , to them . |
| 3 | The way the media suck up to them all the time . |
| 4 | And they 've got an Inspector and Sargeant seconded to them all the time , and a highly paid civilian and other civilian staff |
| 5 | So you see ee God does n't leave things for chance , he does n't leave people on the scrap heap he reaches out to them all the time . |
| 6 | The mess in the kitchen was typical of neither of them , and should have announced to them both the distress of the other . |
| 7 | She did n't speak a single word to me all the way back here , and she 's in foul form downstairs at the moment . |
| 8 | ‘ I left Rhydoldog for ever ’ , Laura was to write later , ‘ on an early April day when the wild daffodils were smothering the banks of the old water garden and thousands more nodded to me all the way down the lovely driveway to say farewell . ’ |
| 9 | It seems to me all the decisions have been yours ! ’ |
| 10 | I went to him on the Sunday morning I said morning Charlie , he said morning and I said ni I said goodnight Charlie , he say goodnight and that 's the only thing he said to me all the weekend . |
| 11 | ‘ She wo n't leave me alone , talking to me all the time , distracting me . ’ |
| 12 | Unfortunately she now clings to me all the time and I find it terribly embarrassing and uncomfortable . |
| 13 | True , she behaves like someone who is unfaithful to me all the time . |
| 14 | My kids write to me all the time . ’ |
| 15 | Petri often quoted the older man 's opinion : ‘ He called me his most genuine pupil and tried everything to further me , recommended me to managers and conductors , sent to me all the pupils he did not want to take , and was instrumental in getting me the appointment of Professor of Piano at the Royal College of Manchester , England , where I remained from 1905 to 1911 ’ . |
| 16 | To me all the cows looked similar — small and black all over although I did recognize that some had longer horns and a few had none at all . |
| 17 | What can As You Like It possibly mean to someone who had never been in love , or Hamlet to someone who has never felt ‘ how weary , stale , flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world ’ . |
| 18 | at one hundred and thirty pounds , one forty in the back row , one fifty one sixty one seventy one eighty one ninety two hundred two hundred pounds in the back row , at two hundred pounds , two twenty to my right the lady 's bid , sir two forty two forty , going on ? |
| 19 | In some cemeteries an annual or regular service is held to which all the families and friends of people who have been buried or cremated in the last year are invited . |
| 20 | At school there was an iniquitous system known as House Order , according to which all the girls in one house were graded from one to , say , thirty-six , the criterion being the individual 's worth to the community . |
| 21 | She knew that Richard came from the castle and understood that his family was the family to which all the others deferred , but now instead of intimidating her Richard 's status seemed to impart a sense of protection . |
| 22 | In The Fire of Love Rolle gives a vivid account of his spiritual life as a progress from intellectual knowledge of the faith to " kynde knowynge " — a progress to which all the mystics witness . |
| 23 | The Swan Hotel from Dington , Herefordshire have beaten off the challenge of 11 other finalists to become the National Champions of the Rothmans Village Cricket Pub Quiz and win £500 for Kingston CC to which all The Swan Hotel team members belong . |
| 24 | John Hinde , the accident recorder for the mountain rescue committee of Scotland , to which all the teams are affiliated , argues that navigation problems contribute to around 50 per cent of all accidents on Scotland 's mountains . |
| 25 | In the areas of social policy , a separate protocol to which all the member states except the United Kingdom are signatories , is likely to have a major impact on companies operating in the Community , including a probable ‘ trickle-on ’ effect to companies based in the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | The third tier of life is the celebration , to which all the congregations will go . |
| 27 | In modern systems , there is only one pipe , to which all the upstairs wastes are connected . |
| 28 | For if the relations between the individual and society are as close as he believes , we must take them into account ; instead of grounding explanations upon one part we must theorise about the whole to which all the parts belong . |
| 29 | Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust in 1930 to which all the family pictures were transferred with a view to donating them to the nation . |
| 30 | And this half hour of sweet silence was the greatest pleasure that night , it was its crowning moment ( Boy thought , this is as good as coming together ) , the precious moment from which Boy was to go home exhausted and almost jaded with pleasure , the moment to which all the overtures of the night had led . |