Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , without turning round , he said : ‘ I 'm sorry I lied to the police . |
| 2 | After this she returned to the house hoping against hope that in the interval her daughter might have returned , but there was no sign of her . |
| 3 | This she confined to the pocket in her overall . |
| 4 | Well I think it was I mean that erm we when you dredge from the Causeway I 'd say near the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all the way to Botterman 's Bay just below Pinmill and that Botterman 's Bay was that 's a place where they had and that 's where the big ships used to moor then and they used to get .. be lightened , like all grain goods and that used to be loaded into barges by hand and then when it goes so light they used to the fish with about three thousand grain in 'em and then they used to fill them up in the dock , on the same method . |
| 5 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
| 6 | Walker ( 1975 ) has noted that mature students who did not satisfy the GER obtained significantly better degree results than all students while mature students who satisfied the GER did not differ significantly from the norm , and in seeking an explanation for this he points to the fact that those who did not satisfy the GER are on average somewhat older and can be seen as genuine returners , rather than students who have taken longer to meet the traditional qualifications . |
| 7 | This he attributed to the solo exercise . |
| 8 | For a brief period after his accession Henry VII allowed the old Exchequer system to revive ; but from about 1493 he reverted to the methods of his immediate predecessors . |
| 9 | In January 1867 he went to the Paris exhibition as horticultural correspondent for that weekly , as well as the Field and The Times , and started to write his first two books , Gleanings from French Gardens ( 1868 ) and The Parks , Promenades and Gardens of Paris ( 1869 ) . |
| 10 | He and She can refer to the third party in either of the triangular relationships , but in Sonnet 2 He refers to the Friend 's future child , while in 3 She refers to the Friend 's mother ; in 50 and 51 He refers to the poet 's horse ! |
| 11 | 16th December 1813 ’ … went to Mr. Architect Websters , he was from home , but Mrs. Architect was there entertaining company — cold of my feet and uncomfortable I returned to the White Hart spending my time with Mr. Richardson the drawing master — till Mr. Lishman came . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And when he was recovering from his sickness here in my house , I noticed how similar he looked to the girl 's face in the picture . |
| 13 | In 1874 he went to the Barrow Shipbuilding Co. as manager of the water-tube boiler department , becoming secretary in 1876 . |
| 14 | In deference to the apparent madness of King George III he agreed to the Lord Chamberlain 's proposal , as play censor , to omit Shakespeare 's King Lear from the repertory which told of a monarch similarly afflicted ; but clashed with him over The School for Scandal , the objections to which , however , he managed to resolve , bringing him a period of near prosperity . |
| 15 | Off he goes , bzz , bzz , look-till he comes to the dog 's house . |
| 16 | His enterprise did not stop here and in 1786 he advertised to the public that he had opened another school for ladies , ‘ at his house at 2 Brazenose Street in drawing , writing and accounts , ladies and gentlemen instructed at home and boarding schools attended as usual . ’ |
| 17 | In 1963 he turned to the theatre , directing Titus Andronicus and other plays at the Birmigham Rep , and showing himself adept at producing the intimate and affable atmosphere of the small screen on stage . |
| 18 | Yes , they realised how much he meant to the fans . |
| 19 | In 1648 he wrote to the Westminster Assembly , criticizing the Presbyterian system it had devised , but the only result was the suspension of his augmentation at Winchester . |
| 20 | ‘ It gets worse the nearer you get to the front , ’ the cook promised him . |
| 21 | Let's call it just economic you get to the point of going on before you . |
| 22 | and she could n't realize how she come out in these she went to the doctor and he says well you must be allergic to summat |
| 23 | Contacted initially by Metzenbaum 's staff on Sept. 4 , Hill at first wanted to provide evidence anonymously , but on Sept. 21 she agreed to the suggestion of judiciary committee chairman Joseph Biden , Democratic senator for Delaware , that she provide a sworn affidavit to the Federal Bureau of Investigation which would examine her case . |
| 24 | On June 6th they go to the polls to say Yes or No to a proposition that would stop the government buying 34 American-made FA-18 fighters , and slap a moratorium on buying any new military aircraft until 2001 . |
| 25 | Indeed in 1984 he presented to the president a pipe-march he had composed with the ringing title of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland . |
| 26 | After the Nazi occupation of France in 1940 he escaped to the United States where Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard tried to recruit him to their team at Columbia but were prevented because Washington at that time did not recognise the Free French forces . |
| 27 | On 22 January 1946 he agreed to the formation of the Central Intelligence Group ( CIG ) , which was to be a small organisation simply collating all forms of foreign intelligence and reporting back to the president through the National Intelligence Authority ( NIA ) . |
| 28 | In 1969 he moved to the Carr Lane site where he joined the engineering fraternity . |
| 29 | In 1626 he reported to the Commons on the outcome of the York House conference , at which George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , had declared his support for Arminianism ; and when he delivered one of the Commons charges against Buckingham in the Lords he added his own gloss that he was ‘ the principal patron of a semi-pelagian , semi-popish faction , dangerous to church and state , lately set on foot among us . ’ |
| 30 | In 1147 he succeeded to the dukedom of Swabia , and within a year he set out to take part in the Second Crusade , under the command of his uncle Conrad III and Louis VII of France . |