Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] to [noun] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the constant complaint of Arthur Young , among others , and the great sociologist Max Weber later put its link to consumption very clearly . |
| 2 | The better-off farmers could send their sons as fee-payers to endowed grammar schools ( in Thame or in Oxford itself ) ; the gentry could take advantage of the railways and dispatch their sons to boarding-schools further afield . |
| 3 | He must be at least six feet two , she decided confusedly , wondering why those blue eyes turned her legs to jelly so quickly . |
| 4 | As part of the whole , they are expected to enable all who are present to make their offering to God as fully and as well as they can , in addition to making their own contribution for him . |
| 5 | Nothing happened to either Bitov or Yurchenko on their return to Russia so obviously both were planted in the West to cause confusion and also to show their colleagues back home how badly they were treated by the Americans and British . |
| 6 | They should be encouraged to make their questions more probing , and their contributions to discussion more closely reasoned . |
| 7 | The race , over a gruelling hundred-mile-long course was won last year by a team from Hereford … we 'll be asking if they can row their raft to victory once again . |
| 8 | It is clear that the Authority adjusted its approach to INSET quite considerably after the early days of PNP and in the light of our sixth report and feedback from schools . |
| 9 | Her homage to frankness in her letter to Jim Prior more than five years later caused a great deal of ironic laughter in Whitehall . |
| 10 | In November 1913 he accompanied his family on their way to England as far as the railhead , which had now reached the Awash river , and then returned to Addis Ababa . |
| 11 | The Kaszubes in Danzig and Germany found that they could not export their produce to Poland economically simply because Polish produce was cheaper , and in the Corridor they could not export their produce to Germany effectively because , as far as the Germans were concerned , the Kaszubes were Polish . |
| 12 | He knew he was wealthy , set up for life , but he was already being made to pay for the taking of those lives : almost every night since , he had been troubled by dreams in which he found himself face to face once more with his victims . |
| 13 | The evidence of his claim to greatness so far is sketchy , to say the least . |
| 14 | Fleischmann told me that in his opinion Jones should have declared his interest to Gajewski more explicitly , not merely that he was interested in the problem , and should have informed Gajewski of his results at that time so that there would be no ambiguity about claims for priority . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , Croydon and Cooper , you shall see me face to face soon enough and then you will know that Emily Grenfell is not a woman to be trifled with , ’ she said grimly . |
| 16 | ‘ That is for your rudeness to Mamma just now , ’ he said , ‘ and for your wickedness in hiding , and for looking at me like that , you rat ! ’ |