Example sentences of "to the [noun sg] [noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and Elinor had been to the council offices and I had still not come home when they got back . |
| 2 | The only possible savings would be from reductions in the number of teachers in the maintained schools , which would come about if parents were to stick to the survey preferences that they indicated for the independent sector . |
| 3 | We had climbed together a couple of weeks before at Goat Crag , where I was once again reminded how suited Fanshawe is to upward progress ; a powerful frame and seemingly hydraulic legs brought him to the crag aeons before I arrived . |
| 4 | This level of provision represents a very substantial commitment of resources to the enterprise bodies and it should be sufficient to enable them to carry through the wide range of tasks expected of them and to build on their excellent first year of operation . |
| 5 | ‘ We needed to get the BP and Unipart brands on to the petrol stations so they would be highly visible . |
| 6 | They get to the school sports and they say , where 's your dad ? |
| 7 | ‘ Six months ago , we never thought she would ever achieve her ambition but , fingers crossed , I 'll soon be taking her to the school gates and she can sit in class with the other youngsters , just like she always wanted . ’ |
| 8 | Windows opened ; grocers ran to the doors of their shops ; customers stopped discussing bacon and turned ; our teachers wobbled on their bicycles as the noise buffeted them like a violent squall ; and boys sprinted to the school gates as they came out of the building , though many others , cool boys , shrugged or turned away in disgust , gobbing , cursing and scuffling their feet . |
| 9 | Now if that is really saying to the water users that it 's down to you , there are genuine concerns of conservation and I think they are , there is a real problem in some areas . |
| 10 | We could replant with beech interspersed with conifers to act as nurses to the beech trees until they had got established . |
| 11 | The Commission subsequently issued an interim measures decision which , amongst other things , required Akzo 's UK subsidiary to return to the profit levels that it had been applying before the alleged threats were made and implemented . |
| 12 | Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding . |
| 13 | As a public limited company , we have greater access to the money markets and we can thus offer more competitive rates . |
| 14 | ‘ The NRA would just not respond to the access problems while we had the lease , ’ said Robin . |
| 15 | And there were occasions when banter and humour were used by low-ranking officers to convey the impression to the section police that they should go easy on the number of ‘ skulls ’ ( prisoners ) they accrued because of the excessive paperwork it was causing . |
| 16 | The day after her accident we went to the swimming baths so she could have a shower . |
| 17 | Remove the four bolts each side which bolt the backrest brackets to the body sides and you now have a two seater . |
| 18 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 19 | The wagons were taken by traverser to the Wagon Shop for final coats of paint and the completed wagons were taken to the Gravel Sidings where they were brake and steam tested ( if fitted with same ) . |
| 20 | Although Blake may have given the impression to the prison authorities that he had accepted his sentence and settled down to serve it ( it would surely have been odd had he done otherwise ) , in reality neither he nor the KGB had any intention of him remaining in prison a day longer than necessary . |
| 21 | Prisoners may complain to the prison authorities or they may complain to the Board of Visitors . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've put out a call to the hospital personnel that we 're low on blood and some of them have volunteered to come in . |
| 23 | You stick to the salon catwalks and we 'll stick to the hallowed turf of Old Trafford , White Hart Lane , Wembley and the rest . |
| 24 | This time , after I 'd hung up , I laid the phone down at an angle to the receiver tits so he 'd get an engaged tone if he tried again . |
| 25 | It was clear to the research nurses that they needed the RCN 's administrative and financial backing in order to get a national association off the ground . |