Example sentences of "to [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " 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 | ‘ Women have babies , ’ I said firmly to my redeeming friend , ‘ so it 's men who have to decide about spending money , such as money on restaurant bills . ’ |
| 3 | He does n't respond to my friendly greeting . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | My interest in North Plains people in 1750 to 1850 which is about the same period for the you know cowboys goes back many years to my pre- writing days . |
| 6 | To my utter astonishment the motion was passed unanimously and thereafter , and to my lesser astonishment , completely ignored ; at a by-election at Pollok the Liberal candidate devoted just ten out of the 150 lines of his election address to it and came bottom of the Poll . |
| 7 | However , as I replaced the cap , to my utter amazement , I noticed it was labelled ‘ Geranium ’ — I had picked up the wrong bottle . |
| 8 | To my utter surprise , Arune went home after one evenings viewing and produced the V-neck sweater with patterning that she had seen on the Video ! |
| 9 | To my utter horror I was put on Fry House , which was the house for pregnant women at that time . |
| 10 | And it was to my utter disgust that a member of the media described our game with them as a derby ! |
| 11 | I was woken this morning by Kenneth throwing a pile of Sunday newspapers on to my eiderdowned feet . |
| 12 | Moreover the fluted columns , caryatid gateways and golden domes of the pavilion suggested to my adolescent self a world of ambiguous pleasures involving him , which I had to suppress my tipsy mind from visualising . |
| 13 | I got out of the car and ran to my front door , my mum answered the door , she looked quite different but I gave her a massive cuddle and went indoors . |
| 14 | Back in Hostal America I smiled wanly at the owner as I pointed to my ripped trousers . |
| 15 | Maureen 's skill lay in basic first-aid and tender loving care , so I did n't learn about diseases or complicated injuries — but what I did learn was vital to my future work . |
| 16 | ‘ To my two sons I am still just the old crow . |
| 17 | When adding some filter aid to my two foot coldwater tank I unscrewed the cap and tipped the small bottle over the tank to add two or three drops . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | After all , it was Lady Beatrice who urged Santerre to confess everything about Buckingham to my two agents . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm over the moon and I 'm going to give something to my two daughters and son and maybe take a trip to England to see my brother-in-law ’ , he said . |
| 21 | After I had read out the concentrated edition to my two guests , Moltke remarked : ‘ Now it has a different ring ; it sounded before like a parley ; now it is like a flourish in answer to a challenge . ’ |
| 22 | Many thanks to my two guests — to John Collinswood from Mechanical Management Services Limited in Thame , and to Roy Hill the Deputy Trading Standards Officer for Oxfordshire County Council . |
| 23 | I do n't know if I 'm unique , I suspect I 'm not but I go to my two design people and I say right blah blah blah this is what we want to do but you organise the printer I want you as the designer to find a printer that you can work with but here 's my timescale and it 's up to them |
| 24 | As soon as I had finished speaking , the small emergency wireless station was dismantled , and I rushed back to my two sergeants to get ready to leave . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He would drink lemonade himself if he was sufficiently offended , and then add to my other transgressions the blame for spoiling his outing by denying him wine . |
| 27 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ When I like people a lot , I never tell their names to my other friends . |
| 29 | I do not introduce her to my other friends . |
| 30 | I shifted my weight on to my other foot , looked around the landing and up the stairs , half-expecting to see my father leaning over the banister rail , or to see his shadow on the wall of the landing above , where he thought he could hide and listen to my phone calls without me knowing . |