Example sentences of "to [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other Girls would have had to send money home but Jane set aside a similar sum to tide her over periods of unemployment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Under the acts , corporations are required to measure their own pollution level and report this to the inspectorate . |
| 4 | Yes , get back to Newham you working class layabouts , she said . |
| 5 | She had refused to breast-feed her two children because she thought it disgusting , and my father in middle age had spent many wakeful nights , not cavorting in the pleasure grounds of a foreign city , but walking the floor feeding his children from a bottle while his new wife lay in a sedative-induced slumber . |
| 6 | Individual constructors can easily adjust the rates to suite their own fancy . |
| 7 | He may also have hoped that by supporting a revolution with which the Chinese felt no small degree of identification , he would be able to outmanoeuvre his Maoist critics . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Germany put in to practice its social ideology and policy in a much more vigorous way than Italy did . |
| 10 | ‘ I was told to mind my own business . ’ |
| 11 | But I 've been taught to mind my own business , so I wo n't need an answer to that . ’ |
| 12 | His words called to mind our own culpability , which we find hard to admit . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | JOHN BARNES , the England winger struggling with a hamstring injury , stayed in Liverpool yesterday as Bobby Robson 's squad met up in Buckinghamshire to fine-tune their final plans for next Wednesday 's World Cup qualifying game in Poland . |
| 15 | And when Mick Stockwell slid over a low cross in the 73rd minute , Kiwomya was on hand to sidefoot it past goalkeeper Nigel Spink . |
| 16 | Its aim is to boost Scotland 's manufacturing exports to Spain which last year totalled £474 million , an increase of 10 per cent over the 1991 figure . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Earlier , press reports citing Western diplomats had indicated that Russia 's interpretation of the complex mechanism for inspections had prevented access to sites which Western officials said should be opened to scrutiny . |
| 19 | Having declared to Roderigo his true feelings about Othello , Iago later explains why he pays tribute to virtue : personal gain . |
| 20 | Gooch , typically , tried to play down the huge blow to England his own illness has been . |
| 21 | Who 's trying to swindle you this time ? ’ he asked smiling wryly — his job had made him cynical . |
| 22 | I shall be driving back to Prague myself this afternoon . ’ |
| 23 | Fighting spread to Mostar which Croatian forces took on Oct. 25 and proclaimed capital of the Croatian Community of Herceg-Bosne [ see p. 39103 ] , with Boban as its president . |
| 24 | Such a situation poses a threat to privacy which this draft directive quite properly addresses ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Very few of you will be starting from scratch to implement your computerised personnel information system . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | For a while , she would have to downscale her first impressions . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | When we moved from Durham to Bristol our youngest daughter was ten . |