Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun prp] [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a message not only to Jairus but to the whole Church : |
| 2 | This arrangement , known only to Montague and to the king 's secretary , Richard de Bury , was designed to protect a vital area of the king 's patronage and power , namely his household , from control or manipulation by the regents . |
| 3 | Phoebe opened her eyes and saw the abstracted professional look in the doctor 's face ; attentive not to Phoebe but to the lump , to the breast itself . |
| 4 | Hitler is still today regarded there in ‘ heroic ’ terms as a ‘ great statesman ’ and ‘ significant personality ’ , whose foreign policy achieved German power and autonomy , while his failure and the loss of the war are put down to sabotage from within , and the war itself attributed not to Hitler but to the meddling of the western powers in a German-Polish conflict . |
| 5 | In pagan days , when Celtic pilgrims journeyed not to Knock but to the Sacred Feasts of Tara , matchmaking played an important part in the celebrations . |
| 6 | This view was the belief that the ransom for sin which Paul tells us is Christ 's sacrifice ( 1 Tim 2:6 ) was paid not to God but to the Devil . |
| 7 | Today 's travellers owe more to Telford than to the Romans ! |
| 8 | Effective feedback is ensured through external verifier reports sent both to SCOTVEC and to the centre . |
| 9 | I congratulate my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister , the Foreign Secretary and the Chancellor on their negotiations leading up to Maastricht and at the conference itself . |
| 10 | ‘ On the way up to Luxor or on the way back ? ’ |
| 11 | Or you 'd go down the er out to Barton and down the side of Armand up and back again . |
| 12 | I demurred , pointing out to Haines that as the chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association I had been very careful to avoid interfering with press stories in any way . |
| 13 | ‘ So I went back to Alassio and at the end of the month Constanza came to pick me up and to tell her mother . |
| 14 | I have trespassed and will retreat back to Cambo and to the country just to the south of it . |
| 15 | If Michael Ryan is n't around , if it simply looks impossible , the whole thing , I 'm on the next boat back to Belfast and over the border and safe in Dublin before you know it . ’ |
| 16 | With Britain getting closer to Iran and with the US constantly improving its rapport with Syria , we felt that now we were all together , we could be released without having to wait for all the governments to restore relations . |
| 17 | ( ii ) In his response to McCreery 's suggestion that " remainder of surrendered personnel and refugees " in 5 Corps area should be evacuated either to Italy or to the US Zone of Austria under SHAEF/12th Army Group , Robertson dealt only with surrendered personnel . |
| 18 | I told him that when I had last seen the doctor he had said the situation here in the plain was so serious that Eric would now have to make the choice of going either to Switzerland or to the mountains . |
| 19 | In his view — a strictly private view aired neither to Sheila nor to the lounge bar of The Coach and Horses in Quindale — Anna Bouverie was , well , something ; not just a looker , but something more , something — |
| 20 | ‘ Everard 's wife has flu , ’ Rupert explained , ‘ so we owe the pleasure of your company this evening to that rather unfortunate occurrence , ’ he went on , feeling that in some obscure way he was being complimentary neither to Penelope nor to the absent Mildred Bone , but not quite seeing how else he could have put it . |