Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here Lucy was lifted up , and allowed to measure her own corn , using a round wooden pottle measure filled to the brim each time and carefully smoothed off . |
| 2 | Under the acts , corporations are required to measure their own pollution level and report this to the inspectorate . |
| 3 | Individual constructors can easily adjust the rates to suite their own fancy . |
| 4 | Those who had come to New England to have an opportunity to practice their own approach to religion , and then found they did not agree with the views held by those who were in power , had a more serious problem . |
| 5 | Germany put in to practice its social ideology and policy in a much more vigorous way than Italy did . |
| 6 | ‘ I was told to mind my own business . ’ |
| 7 | But I 've been taught to mind my own business , so I wo n't need an answer to that . ’ |
| 8 | His words called to mind our own culpability , which we find hard to admit . |
| 9 | Equally remarkable were the ambition and determination that pushed to completion her final novel , which is also her masterpiece , South Riding ( published posthumously in 1936 and awarded the James Tait Black memorial prize ) : a rich regional study of social change and local government , it drew to some extent on her mother 's experiences as the first woman alderman in the East Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 10 | And when Mick Stockwell slid over a low cross in the 73rd minute , Kiwomya was on hand to sidefoot it past goalkeeper Nigel Spink . |
| 11 | She has four arms , making her an inescapable foe — one hand holds a sword , one a human head , one is raised in a gesture of peace to trick the unwary , and the other forms a claw , ready to pinion its next victim . |
| 12 | Who 's trying to swindle you this time ? ’ he asked smiling wryly — his job had made him cynical . |
| 13 | Such a situation poses a threat to privacy which this draft directive quite properly addresses ’ . |
| 14 | This was to assist the layers of the king 's soul to break free and find their proper places , so as not to encumber his final space-flight . |
| 15 | They might see it as better to take-over their main supplier , even if it means that company losing some existing orders from competing manufacturers of food products ; * buyers may deliberately seek international suppliers , so as to maintain their choice and retain some degree of control over the prices and terms of supply . |
| 16 | If the joint tenancy between the husband and wife has been severed , it will have been possible for the husband to mortgage his own share or settle it upon certain trusts . |
| 17 | In all honesty I think they are exactly the same as newpaper reports in that if a team wins 3–0 or 4–0 they automatically say it was a trouncing , and then dredge up ‘ facts ’ to evidence their overall assumption . |
| 18 | The Junkers , by leading the German unification , were able to enshrine their own position . |
| 19 | 1064 so to escape the prima facie claim to immunity which this class of documents ordinarily attracts . |
| 20 | Lewis was inclined to ground his grudging acceptance of democracy on the doctrine of original sin ; Tolkien rejected it on the grounds that public virtue can not be mechanised or formulated . |
| 21 | Cowering before a stone-faced jury is Andy Spearpoint , lyricist and singer with the New Fast Automatic Daffodils , attempting to explain why his gang of rhythmic misfits really needed to foist their multi-tentacled percussion patchworks onto a world already over-run with pop music in all its myriad hybrid strains . |
| 22 | And within three minutes Jamie Hoyland burst from midfield to claim his first goal of the season , bundling the ball past Schmeichel when the Danish keeper was left helplessly unprotected against an inswinging Hodges free kick . |
| 23 | You 'll just have to sweet-talk your new chum , Old Red , into requesting the Office to leave you in Marcus for more than one night . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I gather the headmaster had to slipper him last week . ’ |
| 25 | So you 've come round here to bash-up my young brother ? |
| 26 | On the other hand , marriage might still create claims to territory which good luck and force could convert into possession . |
| 27 | And Neil Kinnock and Kevin McNamara should be making a special effort to affiliate their own union , the TGWU , to the SDLP . |
| 28 | On the domestic front , our big drive — and to date our big failure — has been to get the few men who live in the camps into the communal kitchens and to share in other tasks , like washing their own clothes , for example . |
| 29 | To date our Sixth Form colleges have offered a very wide and attractive range of options and opportunities . |
| 30 | He became a Wesleyan Sunday-school teacher and an enthusiastic if unsophisticated temperance advocate — the sort of convert to respectability whose transformed life the new movement liked to advertise . |