Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The optic sensors in his visor transmitted the scene through the suit 's calculator directly to his brain . |
| 2 | It was Orleton who put Isabella 's case persuasively to the magnates gathered round her and Mortimer . |
| 3 | Given a merchant 's upbringing close to London 's dockland , and enrolled as a mercer , he rapidly made his mark among a group of rising ‘ outsiders ’ , prominent in colonial trades and colonizing ventures , who were challenging the politically conservative oligarchy of mainly Levant and East India Company merchants that dominated the corporation of London before the civil war . |
| 4 | These include the specialist locating devices that enable the ferret 's progress underground to be monitored and its exact position to be discovered . |
| 5 | He was thinking of taking Rochester 's complement straight to Purley in the car , whether Willis agreed or not . |
| 6 | It was Ellie Milligan 's intention never to be caught crying in public again . |
| 7 | I will also relieve you , Robert , at eight-thirty , when you take Mr Glastonbury 's tray upstairs to his bedroom . |
| 8 | I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’ |
| 9 | The lady 's bid now to eighty pound . |
| 10 | However , it was more than three years later ( The New Republic , March 1926 ) that Wilson brought Eliot 's poetry home to the bosoms of his countrymen . |
| 11 | Prior to that it had been viewed in terms of an individual 's placatory act of redemption to the deity ( or deities ) and later as a rite of initiation into the tribe , so marking the male 's passage firstly to ordinary , profane existence and secondly to full , public and potentially active membership of society . |
| 12 | I was vividly aware of the far reaching and vast contribution that Basil had made to education , to values , to the good influences of the Authority on teachers and children , colleges , schools and students , and I am of the privileged few who were able to work with Basil in the early days of struggles , so I know how much , how very much he did — So I felt that at least he had fulfilled — as nearly as we can ever judge — so much of his life 's work even to the developments in his own personal creative medium — and this must be a comfort to you as well as to us who knew him as a friend and colleague . |
| 13 | The most significant element of TML 's work still to be completed is commissioning , which includes the design and installation of a complex and comprehensive software system for all data control and transmissions networks . |
| 14 | One does n't confide every bit of one 's business even to one 's secretary . |
| 15 | Hibs maybe or move onto the coaching staff ready for Wilko 's move upstairs to a chief Executive thing . |
| 16 | I was confused by Nigel Harris 's article Halfway to liberation ( Trade wars NI 204 ) . |
| 17 | The most telling point against Janette Richardson 's methodical interpretation may well be that no commercial benefits to the merchant can be imputed to his generosity and hospitality towards the monk ; the monk is invited to his house simply " " to pleye … in alle wise " " , " to have fun in every way " ( 59 – 61 ) , and is able to borrow a hundred francs from the merchant even at a time when cash in hand would be particularly useful to him in his business ( 255 – 92 ) : this , significantly , is the immediate context of the merchant 's reflection : Derek Pearsall nicely describes the poignant ambivalence of a single action that is motivated simultaneously by instinctive self-interest and by the " " inner springs " " of human virtue in the Shipman 's merchant 's desire both to be and to be recognized as generous . |
| 18 | He slid back beneath the covers , hugging the woman 's body close to his , his arm around her waist , and fell into a deep and dreamless sleep . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose so , ’ clearly weighing up the chances of Auguste 's swimming underwater to the women 's bathing machine section and drowning his beloved daughter . |
| 20 | I feel the Pope should draw his clergy 's attention instead to these new things called Buzzboards — motorised two-wheel scooters on which the driver travels upright at a dignified speed of 20 mph . |
| 21 | Horrocks knelt , put his hand to the woman 's brow then to the pulse at her wrist . |
| 22 | They usually had to wait for their father to come home to decipher Davide 's news aloud to them . ) |
| 23 | We put Tony 's tripod close to the cliff edge , wishing that we had a rope when each of us fell into unexpected crevasses in the cliff-top grass . |
| 24 | It is impossible to confine a discussion of Europe 's economy solely to Europe ; it was already by 1880 a part — the dominant part — of a world economy whose organization was to be elaborated even more before 1914 . |
| 25 | Stoke-on-Trent , the ‘ Potteries ’ and the lovely Peak District are an hour 's drive away to the north . |
| 26 | The other branch runs south-eastwards through New Guinea and the New Hebrides and through a scatter of small Melanesian islands , before making an abrupt dog 's leg northwards to the Samoan islands to join the Tonga-Kermadec chain which extends southwards again into New Zealand . |
| 27 | That bitch 's turn now to be superseded ! |
| 28 | A present employee must respect the confidentiality of his employer 's information even to the extent that he should not pry into information he has been told not to look at . |
| 29 | Viking 's and Rose Marie 's restaurant close to the hotel are also renowned for their excellent value and are favourite haunts with Four Seasons guests . |
| 30 | Will my right hon. Friend anticipate the Chancellor 's statement tomorrow to the extent of confirming that funds will be made available to ensure that our armed forces , although smaller , are even better equipped ? |