Example sentences of "to [pron] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This argument seems to me sound so far as it goes , but it does not go very far . |
| 2 | I wish I could just spirit you back to my bed right now and spend hours making love to you . ’ |
| 3 | Er I 'd like to draw your attention to my poster upstairs actually cos we , we have now performed major study of er obstruction in the before and after prostatectomy . |
| 4 | Before we allow him to intrude on to my turf too far , I should set the whole business in its correct credit context . |
| 5 | As a result , I drank more than was sensible in my condition : like a lot of women , I always felt more unwell during the first three months of pregnancy than afterwards , and alcohol went to my head very quickly . |
| 6 | Indeed , I recall that shortly after Miss Kenton 's departure to Cornwall in 1936 , myself never having been to that part of the country , I would often glance through Volume III of Mrs Symons 's work , the volume which describes to readers the delights of Devon and Cornwall , complete with photographs and — to my mind even more evocative — a variety of artists ' sketches of that region . |
| 7 | But to my mind even more sinister has been the development of some forms of ‘ industrial ’ fishing . |
| 8 | Reg. v. McPherson is to my mind clearly correctly decided as are all the cases which have followed it . |
| 9 | Tony Abraham , chair man of Lansdown Conquest , says , to my mind quite rightly , that if you can draw a commercial accurately on a storyboard , it is a poor commercial , because the film camera should be able to do things no pen or paintbrush can . |
| 10 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |
| 11 | Afterwards they had a wedding breakfast in the Escargot restaurant in Greek Street nearby whose proprietor was an unofficial father figure to my mother so far away from home , and then they sent my mother 's parents in Brittany a coded message via the free French radio : Marie is still eating snails and all is well . |
| 12 | Yeah similar to my place up there |
| 13 | I went to my room as often as I could , and then after a week I went to the local Employment Exchange . |
| 14 | Hon. Members should submit their subjects to my office not later than 10 pm on Tuesday 10 December . |
| 15 | ‘ Theo , can you come to my office straight away ? |
| 16 | I wrote to my family less often . |
| 17 | Coming up to my house pretty soon but I 'm not going there cos it 's shit . |
| 18 | Then th they added to my district then again . |
| 19 | Now it must get back to its nest as quickly as possible before it too collapses in the heat . |
| 20 | Body hunched apparently awkwardly over the front of the machine , hunting for front tyre grip , Doohan slams the NSR on to its side so violently that he will surely crash . |
| 21 | Doohan slams the NSR on to its side so violently that he will surely crash |
| 22 | She followed his gaze a moment , seeing how his eyes climbed the Wall to its summit far overhead , then looked back at him again . |
| 23 | It collects its food on a curtain of baleen or whalebone in its mouth and after a single meal may well have transferred to its stomach no less than 2 tons of tiny shrimps , each no more than 3 inches long . |
| 24 | Roman frowned but did n't answer , and Claudia stood up ; she could n't bear sitting so close to the man she loved and had lost to her sister any longer . |
| 25 | She was so keen to get a letter to her daughter off tonight . ’ |
| 26 | No I means , basically it means that it gets to her head really quickly like one , two glasses of wine and she 's off her trolley . |
| 27 | Plainly she possessed none , except perhaps to her cat-creature far away , which she had condemned to death . |
| 28 | They had arrived back at her hotel , however , before Fabia realised that they were at cross purposes about why she should want to return to her hotel so early . |
| 29 | ‘ I value Elsbeth 's high standing among authors and agents , ’ commented Mr Trewin , ‘ and look forward to her contribution not only to Weidenfeld but also to the Orion Group as a whole . ’ |
| 30 | Unlike the infant boys of previous minorities , an infant girl would be a pawn in the marriage market — the traditional female role — but one who took with her to her husband not just a dowry , but a kingdom . |