Example sentences of "to [noun] [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 | Yes , get back to Newham you working class layabouts , she said . |
| 4 | Individual constructors can easily adjust the rates to suite their own fancy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Germany put in to practice its social ideology and policy in a much more vigorous way than Italy did . |
| 7 | ‘ I was told to mind my own business . ’ |
| 8 | But I 've been taught to mind my own business , so I wo n't need an answer to that . ’ |
| 9 | His words called to mind our own culpability , which we find hard to admit . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And when Mick Stockwell slid over a low cross in the 73rd minute , Kiwomya was on hand to sidefoot it past goalkeeper Nigel Spink . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Gooch , typically , tried to play down the huge blow to England his own illness has been . |
| 15 | Who 's trying to swindle you this time ? ’ he asked smiling wryly — his job had made him cynical . |
| 16 | I shall be driving back to Prague myself this afternoon . ’ |
| 17 | Such a situation poses a threat to privacy which this draft directive quite properly addresses ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When we moved from Durham to Bristol our youngest daughter was ten . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | How widespread was the preparedness to use force of arms , if necessary , to restore to Israel her rightful king ? |
| 24 | The Junkers , by leading the German unification , were able to enshrine their own position . |
| 25 | Many European houses are anyway more used to peddling bonds to investors whose main interest is price , than equities to investors who must be convinced about the health and prospects of a specific company . |
| 26 | 1064 so to escape the prima facie claim to immunity which this class of documents ordinarily attracts . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Sheridan Lorrimore was telling a long-suffering good-natured couple all about his prowess at ice hockey and Xanthe , pouting and put out at having been temporarily deserted by Mrs Young , had ended up next to Giles-the-murderer whose real-life preference , I 'd gathered , was for boys . |
| 29 | ‘ Tell your client , ’ said the voice at the other end of the phone , ‘ that he or she would have a better chance of establishing who is or is not responsible for his or her dustbins if he or she employed a lawyer who did n't address his inquiries to people whose principal concern is pharmacology . ’ |
| 30 | I can not understand why positive support is given to people whose only objective in life ( in their own words ) is to ‘ fuck the system ’ . |