Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I duly put this plan to Eliot , who , to my mild surprise , did not seem to regard it as so fanciful an idea as I had anticipated . |
| 2 | what would you like from the catalogue sort of thing and I only had this catalogue to Cos I pa you know I paid for it what di did they have ? |
| 3 | I only want one door to my place , he thought . |
| 4 | ‘ I only want this farce to be over so I can get on with my life . ’ |
| 5 | I just said good night to her . |
| 6 | ‘ I just want some time to myself , ’ she repeated calmly . |
| 7 | I just love that guitar to death . |
| 8 | I once lived next door to a giant of a man with feet like Yeti slippers . |
| 9 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 10 | Personally I like to keep things as simple as possible , so I always relate this concept to the relative major key even if I 'm dealing with a song which is in a minor key . |
| 11 | I still commend this report to council as the first real stride along the road we have to take , there 's no choice about that . |
| 12 | On occasions I also added acrylic medium to the Quink to prevent any unnecessary bleeding of the line , although at times I enjoyed its non-waterproof qualities and allowed the ink to run . |
| 13 | But I also believe patristic Christology to be more hopeful than that of any other period in our quest to find a Christology which is inclusive of women . |
| 14 | Erm you know they 're not interested in services that actually meet with these of people , like people that want the buses and I really take great exception to on the on spending less money on public transport er not but also work place |
| 15 | In 1899 , when there was a sharp increase in the number of reported cattle thefts , H. W. Brodhurst , the Government Agent , attributed it to false cases which were instituted because the magistrate was inexperienced : ‘ I therefore attach little importance to this apparent recrudescence of a crime which was once the curse of the Province , but has been little heard of in late years . ’ |
| 16 | I therefore give due notice to the Government Whips who are on duty that when we examine the bill in Committee and consider some of the things that are set out in this illustrious treaty , I may not be able to support the Government . |
| 17 | I 'd like to think that I never give poor care to any patient for political reasons , ’ he mused somewhat pompously , ‘ but I 'm certainly not above giving extra good care to the wife of an important man like Bill ! ’ |
| 18 | For those with really bad hearts , Daedalus recommends a complete peristaltic body stocking , which forcibly returns venous blood to the head from all over the body . |
| 19 | In addition , international competition forced the company to sell Garrard Engineering to a Third World ( Brazilian ) firm which eventually transferred all production to the assisted area of Manaus , on the Amazon , with 4,000 job losses in Swindon between 1975 and 1982 . |
| 20 | BSE , a disease which attacked the brain and nervous system , was believed to have been passed on to cattle through cattle feed containing the remains of sheep infected with scrapie , a similar disease endemic in the UK for over 200 years which apparently posed little risk to human health . |
| 21 | Arguably not , because until recently most political scientists saw the Diet as an institution which merely gave symbolic ratification to legislation handed down by the executive . |
| 22 | I comfort myself with the belief that my friend was right and those epic days on the crags will endure long after the memories of trouble-free ascents , which merely add another tick to the guidebook , have dimmed . |
| 23 | In spite of moves by the South Korean government to open up its long-and-heavily protected domestic economy to foreign imports , efforts by many multinational companies to break into South Korean markets have run into trouble . |
| 24 | Cases of wounding by pistol shots occasionally came before the courts and in at least one instance a child was killed , although apparently by accident , which nevertheless brought great notoriety to the so-called ‘ Clerkenwell Pistol Gang ’ . |
| 25 | Studies conducted since April 1988 convey mothers ' powerful sense that , as their poverty deepens , strategies which once gave some protection to their families are crumbling under the weight of increasing debt ( Cohen , 1990 , 1991 a , b ; Craig and Glendinning , 1990a , 1990b ; Craig , 1991 ) . |
| 26 | Motian 's drumming is much less ‘ accompanist ’ in style than most ( although there are no true drum solos here ) , which also lends greater integration to the ensemble than one might expect . |
| 27 | ( For a fuller account , which gives a much more rounded picture than is possible here of such thinkers as Schleiermacher , Hegel and Kierkegaard , and which also gives special attention to British and American theology , Claude Welch , Protestant Thought in the Nineteenth Century , vol. 1 : 1799–1870 ( 1972 ) , is especially to be recommended . ) |
| 28 | The three main systems , ie the minicomputer , the teaching LAN and the HELP system are linked via a communications processor , which also provides controlled access to external services via PSS , and to Brunel University via a direct line . |
| 29 | The question that is raised is whether the history of indiscriminate city bombing and the actual use of atomic bombs on cities has vitiated the prohibition on indiscriminate use of weapons , especially the use of weapons not directed at military targets or which inevitably involve disproportionate damage to civilians . |
| 30 | On the one hand , ideas have been simplified into reduced versions which often bear little resemblance to their originals in the disciplinary contexts from which they have been taken . |