Example sentences of "to [noun] [pron] [adj] " 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 | These dangers can be seen both in structuralism and in other approaches to literature which all thought they were avoiding them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Under the acts , corporations are required to measure their own pollution level and report this to the inspectorate . |
| 5 | Yes , get back to Newham you working class layabouts , she said . |
| 6 | As we drove back to Chelmsford we all wished we were back in the sunshine of southern Germany . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Individual constructors can easily adjust the rates to suite their own fancy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The directors submit to shareholders their one hundred and second annual report , together with the audited accounts of the group for the year ended 31st March 1993 . |
| 11 | Wholegrain mustard is to Dijon what wholemeal is to brown flour . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Germany put in to practice its social ideology and policy in a much more vigorous way than Italy did . |
| 14 | The presb. after serious dealing with him to convince him of the evil of the said practice , and after receiving his promise judicially not to practice it any more appoints him to be publickly rebuked before the congregation by his parish minister . " |
| 15 | The presb. after serious dealing with him to convince him of the evil of the said practice , and after receiving his promise judicially not to practice it any more appoints him to be publickly rebuked before the congregation by his parish minister . " |
| 16 | By 1985 Greenpeace was better organised and French intelligence had learned that it was planning to send out to Moruroa its larger 42-ton Rainbow Warrior , together with the Vega , and then to launch a number of small boats in which its members would try to elude the French Navy and penetrate the test area . |
| 17 | ‘ I was told to mind my own business . ’ |
| 18 | But I 've been taught to mind my own business , so I wo n't need an answer to that . ’ |
| 19 | His words called to mind our own culpability , which we find hard to admit . |
| 20 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The fragmented narrative cultivated by Vargas Llosa , for example , is intended to replicate the way in which we experience real life , in that events and information are presented to us in a disjointed fashion and it is only when we have lived through the reading experience that we are able to piece it all together with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 23 | She has any eye for detail and a steady hand to piece it all together . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Profitboss rarely turns down an invitation to speak at a conference , seizing the opportunity to present his company in the best light , to fine-tune his own professional skills . |
| 26 | Until these attitudes change , a lot of teeth — and their owners — are going to be subjected to grief which many of them could be spared . |
| 27 | And when Mick Stockwell slid over a low cross in the 73rd minute , Kiwomya was on hand to sidefoot it past goalkeeper Nigel Spink . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | To parents whose present and future livelihoods depend on their children , those deaths are more than an emotional tragedy . |