Example sentences of "[vb -s] everything to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wants everything to be like it was before . |
| 2 | She 's since made a complete recovery and Mona 's consultant says she ows everything to Janet . |
| 3 | Milovan Djilas , who observed both Stalin and Tito at close quarters , has made the point that self-abasement too is necessary to the system : everyone is loyal to the leader , owes everything to his inspiration , is worthless without him , until someone else is leader : that someone suddenly loses his modesty . |
| 4 | Reiterlied with words by Herman Lons was written when Weill was 13 , an essay in typical German song , vaguely in the style of Brahms , the later , more sophisticated Das schöne Kind owes everything to Richard Strauss . |
| 5 | BELVILLE : [ aside ] That such a girl as this , cottage-born , who owes everything to my family and has an absolute dependence upon my pleasure should find me resistible . |
| 6 | He has not only tarnished his relationship with Leeds United Football Club ( the club that he owes everything to including his 2.75M price tag ) , he also shit on the manager and those players who are left at the club , who helped him win a championship medal . |
| 7 | It owes everything to the puppets but the tongue is firmly in the cheek for this production of Thunderbirds … |
| 8 | Has everything to be drummed in a hundred times ? |
| 9 | Has everything to be taken like this ? |
| 10 | Legend has it that the lake was formed by the tears of a love torn nymph , and at the end of a luminous day , when the sun turns everything to delicate hues , even the sceptical are ready to admit they have seen the Trasimeno nymph — adding to the water level with a few tears more . |
| 11 | Any simplification of Freud 's ideas , especially that of the ‘ Freud reduces everything to sex ’ order , grossly distorts those ideas and limits their usefulness . |
| 12 | Course , Richard who keeps everything to himself ! |
| 13 | In other words , it attributes everything to one specific event and draws all its consequences from that one event . |
| 14 | Tradition builds on the past , relates everything to archetypes and prototypes . |
| 15 | Why does he say all , as if the crown were a toy , a plaything , a mere nothing — when both of us know it means everything to him ! |
| 16 | Morrissey means everything to me and I 'm not bothered by people who laugh at me , I really do n't care , I love Morrissey , end of story . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't expect you to understand now , but it means everything to me , Meredith , ’ he said huskily . |
| 18 | The centre means everything to her . |
| 19 | This means everything to me . |
| 20 | Apart from and me , there is , a rather lugubrious ( though pleasant ) Peruvian , and , the French Canadian , whole reminds me of , in that he expects everything to be done for him at little cost in exchange for a good wit and ready sense of humour — also like , he plays the piano , with a special line in French songs . |
| 21 | Dino is cool to skate with because he is better then me and he really pushes everything to the maximum . |
| 22 | ‘ James likes everything to be on a personal basis . |
| 23 | Clowns seem to have a lower centre of gravity , or a magnetic field that converts everything to prose . |
| 24 | Meanwhile his birth comes to seem more and more impossible and Abraham on several occasions brings everything to the brink of disaster . |
| 25 | Gardening : Leaves everything to be desired Fred Whitsey recommends acer trees for the best displays of foliage |
| 26 | A democracy … demands a dissemination of political understanding wide enough to make the people 's will in government an effective thing … the uninformed citizen … can be misled by the easy halftruth and the persuasive slogan ; or he can feel that understanding will always be beyond him and fall into that apathy which leaves everything to authority . |
| 27 | He produced newspaper cuttings proving that BB came to Nefta but I am not convinced that she stayed in the Hotel de la Liberté , whose plumbing leaves everything to be desired . |