Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] to the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | What kind of answer do I want to the question of how I use a map in my head ? |
| 2 | In the presence of the Patronage Secretary and the Leader of the House , may I suggest to the Secretary of State that his personal position , because of the very sensitive job that he does in Government , should be cleared up before this day is finished ? |
| 3 | May I draw to the attention of the Secretary of State the case of a Wakefield man who was refused expensive injections for infertility by a fund-holding GP and told to apply for that treatment to a non fund-holding practice in Wakefield ? |
| 4 | May I revert to the question of my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridgeshire , South-West ( Sir A. Grant ) ? |
| 5 | May I come to the aid of your correspondents who have been so severely maligned for daring to question the divine right of the English to claim the whole of these islands as their own ? |
| 6 | Having seen the devastation in that beautiful valley that has resulted from the conflict , and having seen the impact of terrorism , which I deplore both there and here , may I say to the Secretary of State that while , of course , the matter must first be decided between India and Pakistan , no settlement can be acceptable that is not acceptable to the people of Kashmir , both Muslim and Hindu ? |
| 7 | Let me refer to the problems of Europe that the hon. Member for Chichester mentioned . |
| 8 | ‘ Would ye listen to the noise of it ? ’ |
| 9 | So did you stay to the end of the er the disco ? |
| 10 | Why do n't you speak to the mothers of those babies ? |
| 11 | Can you do to the end of the sentence . |
| 12 | Now the other way of course which your attitude can er be affected is that you 're probably yourself quite a relaxed steady sort of guy , but do you respond , do you react to the antics of another road user ? |
| 13 | ‘ Why did you go to the trouble of hiring me if what you wanted were the same drab old styles of before ? ’ |
| 14 | Did you go to the sort of school where it was made easy to go into science , or did you go to the sort of school where nice girls did the arts or something quite different ? |
| 15 | Did you go to the sort of school where it was made easy to go into science , or did you go to the sort of school where nice girls did the arts or something quite different ? |
| 16 | WHAT would you say to the chance of winning a top of the range portable TV with remote control and Champion Sport Vouchers worth £20 each ? |
| 17 | Could n't you fly to the south of France , just for a week ? ’ |
| 18 | I 'll make you listen to the sound of your own voice saying , ‘ Yes , please , I want you to do it . ’ |
| 19 | How can we react to the loss of local authority standards of paying conditions and negotiation practices ? |
| 20 | If I am to be punished unfairly , could we return to the subject of volunteering for the Parachute School ? ’ |
| 21 | How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live ! |
| 22 | How shall we respond to the loss of check-off as the proposed legislation means we surely will ? |
| 23 | ‘ Shall we drink to the success of our joint project ? ’ |
| 24 | Not only can we point to the success of such a tax abroad , but at no stage in recent negotiations or since have we been told that a local income tax would not work . |
| 25 | When is the next break ? when will we get to the top of this hill ? |
| 26 | But how do we get to the ideas of self-knowledge and self-liberation from the two previous levels of rationality — groundedness and enlightenment ? |
| 27 | But what stylistic value shall we attach to the metricality of prose ? |
| 28 | ‘ How do they react to the lack of attention ? ’ echoes Peter Elliott . |
| 29 | Now if you think you know what building or place is , put your hand up , but I think what we 'll do is actually let him get to the end of his description first . |
| 30 | Once , Bill Pertwee — again a staple member of the cast — remembered for me , Kenneth Horne made him write to the wife of an executive he thought Ken had insulted at a party given by the BBC for the Round The Horne cast . |