Example sentences of "to [pron] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | No , I 've been and spoken to them again this morning and yesterday , R S C left it there not O S D although it 's O S D's van , so they should 've come out to move it on Friday and the mechanics did n't turn up , then they lost the keys , cos yesterday myself and who was it , Lyn , waited up for the keys cos they were gon na move down put it into a safer spot . |
2 | The misunderstandings of ‘ pain in animals ’ can work to the severe detriment of the animals by attempting to assign to them specifically human values . |
3 | He moved to them early this year . |
4 | There is absolutely no need for young people to commit crimes when they have available to them perfectly good training courses that have been provided by the Government and with Government money . |
5 | put the contrary view in the form of a dilemma when he said : ‘ Either they were performing this public duty in giving the protection asked for , in which case I think they can not charge , or , which no one suggests , they were at the request of an individual doing something which it was not their duty to do , in which case it seems to me both public policy and section 10 of the County Police Act 1839 , make the contract illegal and void . ’ |
6 | Although , in years to come , these might prove to be of social interest , many such letters refer only to domestic and personal trivia and , having personally recently discovered a letter written to me over 30 years ago by my wife just before we were married , I would not want this to be read by anyone else at all . |
7 | but if the god of heaven is concerned that 's fine , he 's not worrying because he created the whole thing , therefore it seemed to me pretty good reason to be concerned |
8 | Such outbursts by Dr Jenkins seems to me yet another example of preaching socialism while thriving on the rewards of the capitalist system of government . |
9 | They made what seemed to me rather artificial efforts to draw me into the conversation . |
10 | In fact , practically all I did was to go for solitary walks or pretend to read Virgil or Sophocles , whose two dead languages were now as meaningless to me as mental arithmetic , and as incapable of claiming my concentration . |
11 | ‘ But on the other hand , ’ Emily went on after a wait , ‘ the girl also said to me suddenly one day , when I thought she was trying to read back dictation , ‘ I ca n't get through the spring without a man . ’ |
12 | I would n't worry Bruce , it seems to me Stiff Little Fingers are virtually indestructible . |
13 | And Goldberg , in his pad : Dear Harsnet , it may surprise you to hear that after all these years I am finally at work transcribing the notes you entrusted to me so many years ago , with a view to eventually publishing them . |
14 | In particular the Concerto grosso had seemed to me fairly small beer beside the superb Fifth Symphony ( = Concerto grosso No. 4 ) with which it is coupled on Chailly 's Decca disc . |
15 | I am looking at the specific points that were made by the delegation to me earlier this month . |
16 | The numbers have grown from next to nothing just 30 years ago . |
17 | We suggest , however , that the tiredness experienced by young couples in the first months of a baby 's life is not just the result of broken nights , change of role , anxiety as to the well-being of so small and vulnerable a being , and doubts about being a good enough parent , but is also related to the strain of exercising a defence against envy of the baby to whom so much care and comfort is offered . |
18 | Eliot at once sent him a cablegram , saying that he was one to whom all contemporary poets owed a debt . |
19 | The form of your letter to a tenant ( left undated until completion ) could be : re Blackacre The above property has today been sold by our client , Mr Jones , to Mr John Smith of Whiteacre , to whom all future payments of rent should be made . |
20 | On the other hand , he must have been a disappointment to his dynastically inclined father and mother since he never showed any aspirations for political office despite their encouragement . |
21 | He had written to tell them about Amy since his parents constantly threatened to visit and ‘ unlikely as this was actually to happen , the prospect had added an intolerable anxiety to his already anxiety-ridden life . |
22 | We are relieved to leave Arkwright to his strangely tainted existence . |
23 | The fact that it turned out to be Laura on the doormat , instead of Alexandra , made no difference whatsoever to his sheer idiotic lunacy . |
24 | At the least , Swegen 's victories are likely to have owed something not only to his doubtless considerable abilities as a commander , but also to an administration capable of utilising resources effectively and controlling the country in his absence . |
25 | His librettists whether poets , novelists , producers or scholars , tailored their books to his minutely worked-out requirements . |
26 | Surely it was what he had seen as her present stupidity that had earned her his contempt , since the past was the past , and she was still reluctant to explain anything more than the absolute minimum necessary to put an end to his increasingly unbearable taunts . |
27 | Then a young woman — dark , quite a looker if you liked that sort of thing but a bit too full of herself for Bennett 's liking — walked into the club and announced that she was the dinner guest of Sir Robin Day , he could only treat her to his coldly disapproving smile and direct her to the ladies ' bar . |
28 | The finished result , eleven bound volumes of single-spaced pages , is a testimony to Warnie 's extraordinary patience , as well as to his seemingly inexhaustible appetite for contemplating his own immediate past . |
29 | Towards the end of a gruelling management conference , Tom Peters , perhaps the best-known of the American business thinkers , softens his voice to deliver an alarming forecast to his predominantly male audience of senior executives : |
30 | Meanwhile the other lawyer was growing impatient with Bartocci for allowing himself to be imposed upon in this way by his pushy and unscrupulous colleague instead of attending to his utterly reasonable request for bail or a visitor 's pass or access to official files . |