Example sentences of "to [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When his call was refused by Sir Derek Alun-Jones , the chairman , on the grounds that it was likely to form the basis of future litigation , Mr Mackeson-Sandbach said the trustees would be seeking ‘ legal advice on the means open to them to examine this report ’ . |
| 2 | Former employees of Maxwell companies say they 're hoping the MPs new initiative could lead to them receiving some compensation . |
| 3 | However they do acknowledge that many children can be more confident and more assertive than others , but that this is due to them receiving unconditional love . |
| 4 | In addition , there is a multiplicity of grants available to them to allow full-time education ; no such grants are available to the whites , poor or otherwise , who have to pay for their education themselves . |
| 5 | Wimbledon pay my wages and my commitment to them takes top priority . |
| 6 | Notices attached to them make this plain . |
| 7 | The teachers ' accounts of what happened to them make disturbing reading . |
| 8 | But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life . |
| 9 | While our sports leaders recognise the contribution they can make to providing a ‘ healthy outlet ’ , they are concerned that , although government looks to them to play this role , it is often not prepared to assist them . |
| 10 | Children are special — and problems relating to them need specialised care . |
| 11 | Everybody had a contract that was made specific to them saying this material , these audio tapes are your property . |
| 12 | The evolutionary story , to the extent that it can now be understood ( and to the much more modest extent to which I understand it myself ) seems to me to give some support to the view that in this respect the historical story means very much what it seems to mean . |
| 13 | I was surprised it had both a sunroof and air conditioning as they seem to me to cancel each other out . |
| 14 | Two pieces of evidence seem to me to cast some doubt on the drawing of direct parallels between LTP and memory . |
| 15 | Do you know what it did to me to see that animal on top of you , about to … ? ’ |
| 16 | At one point a uniform sergeant listening to me discuss some tactic , gloomily pointed out that my style was not theirs ; but then , he rationalized , ‘ how could it be , you 're from the north side of the river ’ . |
| 17 | Some of these proposals seems to me to make great sense . |
| 18 | Looking at things squarely , I should say that most of the £5 million you have advanced to Ingard will have to be written off — and it does n't seem to me to make much difference to the bank whether this becomes open knowledge now , or in a week or so . |
| 19 | If erm things should start to go wrong and the chap on the floor erm was to make any movement or s sudden movement towards either P C or any other piece of equipment in the room which may cause injury or damage to ourselves or himself , it would be down to me to challenge that man er and allow P C to get back behind er the ballistic shield . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ It makes sense to me to prevent ill health , so that people do n't have to go into hospital in the first place . |
| 21 | Yes that seems to me to fit that sort of bill , erm to be quite honest I would prefer that we base the promises on a previous paper that T six six one , er you know , sort of er typical success of the fact looking forward cos at least erm that 's not so erm , you know , sort of difficult to erm you know achieve as erm sort of repairing potholes within , when you consider that the reason that the potholes do n't get mended is because government legislation has it that we have to actually erm have lines painted all round them , so that they can be part of the package of er road mending in many cases , I mean urgently erm difficult ones are not that common er so I think that perhaps some of these promises are so difficult because it gives with one hand and takes back with the other , you know , it says we promise , but , I , I would say that 's not much of a promise , you say I promise to erm , you know , erm merge , I forgot about , but if it said but , you know , if it rains I wo n't tell you , er it would be very sad |
| 22 | However , Major John Wiseman , M.C. , at first told me categorically ( in a private communication ) that my husband had not been in ‘ A ’ Squadron , but later kindly wrote to me to correct this statement . |
| 23 | The analysis associated with the Name of the Father , castration and the Oedipal seems to me to have less purchase in thinking television than it has had for cinema . |
| 24 | Gombrich sombrely recalled hearing about Auschwitz while working at the BBC Monitoring Service during the war : ‘ They claimed at that time — I remember that as if it were yesterday — they claimed that at least five million people had been killed , and I remember a colleague of mine coming to me to check this figure , because it seemed impossible . |
| 25 | CENTRAL OFFICE An Assessment Of Central Office Performance Charter Movement ‘ To whom does Central Office Account ? |
| 26 | I said well I 'm trying to I said this bloke what happens to be my oldest brother I said , and he wo n't even tow it for me ! |
| 27 | Yeah well I was only in Gwindy for three years , then I went to Lewis Girls because I lived this end of I had to go to I loved Gwindy school . |
| 28 | All the more disappointing therefore to learn later that some Seniors members who had blackballed me for Muirfield had now put in an objection to my joining this club too . |
| 29 | Well — that happened to me when my daughter joined the local Brownie Pack ; they were desperate for help and that ‘ couple of hours on a Friday ’ led to my becoming that pack 's Brown Owl , moving to a Guide Company that was in danger of closing and finally becoming District Commissioner administration four Brownie Packs , four Guide Companies and one Ranger Unit . |
| 30 | He seemed to himself to need more leisure to pursue his studies of the New Testament and of Christian thought more profoundly . |