Example sentences of "to [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's more , I 'd love you to lecture to my confounded wife in that fashion and tell her that her rotten complacent way of life is over . |
| 2 | ‘ They can do what they like for me — blow the place up for all I care — I 'll be off to my mobile home in Lytham St Annes before long . ’ |
| 3 | I should be quite content , I thought , to live here for ever , smelling the cooking and the lavatory and the dust , looking forward to my two slices of bread at lunch or tea and my Red Cross stew at supper , thinking about all the books I am going to read and how nice it is going to be when I can speak German and Russian fluently ; I only want to be allowed to live , and enjoy the sun when it shines , and wait for it when it goes behind a cloud . |
| 4 | It was received for a variety of voluntary input in Scotland and nationally , but most notably , I gather , in respect of Education and Professional Development , which leads on to my other purpose in writing . |
| 5 | No thank you , but it 's nice to get used to my new image in your mirrors . |
| 6 | ‘ True , ’ she acknowledged , ‘ and I 'm looking forward to my first experience of Formula One . ’ |
| 7 | 1964 , the year previous to my first spell of duty , had proved a particularly good one for Venturous . |
| 8 | A dream I had not so long ago took me back to my first year in Vienna . |
| 9 | Armed with your support I look forward to my first year in that position , to sorting the Party 's problems . |
| 10 | It must relate to my first sight of my mother 's genitals — but not the last — for we lived in just one room . |
| 11 | ‘ I had contact with hundreds of people prior to my first face to face meeting with the kidnappers in Beirut , ’ Waite said in a statement yesterday . |
| 12 | At 8.30 am I drove to my first appointment in Balderton Street , planning to buy a hat at Miss Selfridge afterwards , en route to the filming . |
| 13 | Returning to my first meeting with Vincent , Arthur Cheyney naturally became my hero , especially when he took me on a trip from Ipswich to Parkeston Quay , which completely sold me on the job and made me resolve to move heaven and earth to get on a cutter crew as soon as possible . |
| 14 | I crept up to my first victim in the same way as I imagine a lion cub stalks it first wildebeest — clumsily . |
| 15 | Even today I still look forward to my first glimpse of it , after a huge bend in the road , through the gate in its enclosing wall . |
| 16 | My fear of dentists dates back to my earliest experiences in the twenties . |
| 17 | Warm thanks are due to my many colleagues within the information industry and to those organisations who have been so helpful in providing guidance , views , information and explanation . |
| 18 | My thanks also are due to Miss Mary Burkett and her staff at Abbot Hall , from whom I have had help and co-operation since the start of the survey in 1975 ; to Mr B. C. Jones and Miss S. J. MacPherson , County Archivists , of the County Records Office , who have given generous help and advice ; ; to Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby , whose book first aroused my interest in the stocking trade ; to my fellow members of the Lancashire and Lakes Guild of Spinners , Weavers and Dyers for encouragement and support ; to my granddaughter , Anne Allen , who took the photographs , ( except where otherwise stated ) ; to my daughter , Jan Hare , who typed the manuscript ; to my friends , Penelope Porter , Kathryn Allen and Mary Sutherland , who gave technical advice , reviewed text and read proofs ; Elizabeth Edwards and Kathleen Drummond for advice and information , and above all my thanks to the many kind people who live where there are galleries , and who have put up with my enquiries with such patience and kindness . |
| 19 | I recall explaining to my close friends at school , querying why my sister was so distressed , what had happened , but directing them not to tell anybody . |
| 20 | ‘ Put it down to my Sagittarian sense of drama . ’ |
| 21 | As I look back to my inner training in prayer , I see an early stage when it consisted of asking God 's blessing on myself and those I loved , then through a stage of mental meditation , and finally a merging into contemplation , which did not need words , but a silent awareness of the presence of God , which sometimes continued for a quarter of an hour or more . |
| 22 | This leads me to my only criticism of Potter 's version , its extravagance . |
| 23 | It would have been interesting to listen to their discussion , trying to understand their arguments , for I 'm hanged if their decision makes an ounce of sense to my mundane way of thinking . |
| 24 | I was able to get back into some of my trousers and I was well on the way to my ultimate goal of health and fitness . |
| 25 | Two years after the publication of the Syllabub book disagreements with my partners over policy matters led to my resignation as chairman and director of the firm and eventually to my total severance of all connection with it . |
| 26 | When I have grasped this ( the difference , not the colour chart ) , I can apply it to my present experience in order to see whether the experience is one of pink or of orange . |
| 27 | Monday brought a sad end to my long association with Glentoran Football Club . |
| 28 | In turning to my second strand of educational research I am encouraged by Reid , Hopkins and Holly ( 1988 ) : |
| 29 | But , of course , it does n't always work ; I was listening to my second recording of the Liszt Sonata about a year ago , and found things there that did not satisfy me . |
| 30 | To turn back the pages to my early memories of harvest time , on the smaller farms is to have opened a book on nostalgia . |