Example sentences of "to [pron] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | At the invitation of the Soviet government , and accompanied by no fewer than 25 Swedish journalists , members of Raul Wallenberg 's family and the society which bears his name will meet , during their week-long visit to Moscow , representatives of the KGB and the Foreign Ministry , who have promised to submit to them all available material . |
2 | Simplest procedure is often to employ law agents for the purpose , writing to them some such letter as this : Messrs Scrivener & Tipstaff , Law Agents . |
3 | I did n't wonder why she 'd taken to using a typewriter when her last messages to me were handwritten , and I did n't ask myself how Edouard could have talked to me all that time without mentioning there was an envelope for me . ’ |
4 | Yes , that was my husband 's way of proposing to me all those years ago and we have indeed watched many horror movies together since — but it was n't very romantic , was it ? |
5 | Although I was n't brought up in the Jewish faith — my mother would n't hear of it — he still passed on to me all those standards that were part of his own upbringing and would never tolerate what he from time to time described as my ‘ unacceptable behaviour ’ . |
6 | You 've been such a good and loyal friend to me all these years , and I know it was wrong of me to ask something so demanding of you , but … ’ |
7 | Mrs Chalker echoed Mr Brady 's comments when she told the bank 's board yesterday : ‘ It is not clear to me that new facilities are needed to enable the bank to address this problem [ of defence conversion ] . |
8 | Properly used , it seems to me that quantitative methods can only lead to advances in our subject . |
9 | As a guiding principle , it seemed to me that future business information systems must not only be able to cope with all the many individual sources of business information , but also , such systems should be able to rank those sources in importance using various appropriate criteria . |
10 | I was n't vain enough to think that the way she had come on to me that first night was solely down to my resistless charms . |
11 | when this lot goes out to consultation you come back and te to me that other people are n't putting their arms up in air , about the reduction in services , or what are preceiv or what are perceived , no hang on , |
12 | It has occurred to me that other staff within the Royal Bank may be in a similar position to myself , holding a small number of shares which would cost more than their worth to sell . |
13 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
14 | So it seems to me that parental investment erm theory is , is much better because not only is it universally applicable , it also explains why the sexes a are , are the way they are in ultimate evolutionary terms and that talk about hormones and sex chromosomes never can do . |
15 | It seems to me that certain people in F1 can get away with anything they want and that has just been demonstrated here today . ’ |
16 | It had not occurred to me that alternative arrangements could or would have been made , but , the more I thought about it , the more leaving the school seemed like the most sensible thing to do . |
17 | It seemed to me that various things he did could have gone into other directions , but some kind of self-protective mechanism of his just pulled him back and he did what he knew . ’ |
18 | It seems to me that innovative courses could with advantage be handled in virtually the same way . |
19 | In those days , it seemed to me that released hostages had come out of deepest , darkest Africa . |
20 | I would like , Chairman , to know , because er , it always seems to me that unnecessary money is spent in , in the American lead , so it 's difficult to get any money . |
21 | Erm this whole problem does give ministers erm a great deal of tension and heart searching erm and er we 're in the throws of , of , of looking for a leaflet that 's gon na help ministers faced with er parents who come and have to be turned away because we feel embarrassed , we feel erm the weight of our , our turning away people and our inability to minister the grace of God to them , although I 'd of thought gravity of but er anyway erm er but we have this problem and erm it seems to me that one way out of it is to pick up on what our brother from the Church of England said and look at new rites , and new ways in which we can open our arms to a public out there which is desperately in need of rites of passage . |
22 | I think Mrs Stove was a little worried about trusting her daughter to me that particular summer , as it was the one after I 'd struck young Paul down in his prime , but at nine years of age I was an obviously happy and well-adjusted child , responsible and well-spoken and , when it was mentioned , demonstrably sad about my younger brother 's demise . |
23 | We 've actually got to address the issue of the waste of the resources of the planet and it seems to me that this report addresses that fairly substantially . |
24 | An American once said to me that British Midland 's habit of giving out boiled sweets before take off was a ‘ quaint gesture ’ . |
25 | it seems to me that British manufacturers are missing out on a market that would be welcome by bigger women |
26 | To me these supposed advantages of preference utilitarianism seem spurious . |
27 | ‘ To me these three pieces are possibly better than anything written for my instrument . ’ |
28 | Ail these questions — and there are many more — also suggest to me another bigger question , the one that Victoria had noted , the extent of my own involvement . |
29 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
30 | A dyspeptic , phlebitic , tuberculous — yet still bellicose — gourmet , to whom such rarefied nourishment was as a staff of life … |