Example sentences of "[adj] to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the movement 's greatest assets , perhaps its greatest , was its Organizing Secretary from 1895 to his death in 1910 . |
| 2 | Some people who show or sell halter horses use this to their advantage . |
| 3 | What made things particularly difficult was that I felt I was n't Black enough for my Black colleagues and that white workers picking up on the division used this to their advantage by divide-and-rule tactics . |
| 4 | Debbie and Freda Finni know this to their cost . |
| 5 | And so what he 's trying to do is to as Andrea says erm uncover the truth , get to the , get to what really happened as it were , under the layers of myth and distortion could have been introduced in the Bible story , and as I said if you read the book erm and it is quite fascinating in many ways , it is a bit like a detective story because what Freud does is he tries to get to the truth by analyzing the , the actual texts and the texts contains discrepancies and anybody who 's ever tried to erm edit a book , learns this to their cost actually , but er you find no matter how carefully you change things , there 's usually things you miss , little discrepancies that give away how it was the first time and er Freud 's view is this , this has happened very much to the Bible , it 's been so heavily edited and re-written and later the the various editings show and if you read it very critically , you can begin to see perhaps the underlying pattern er coming through and erm just as you can tell for instance by reading Genesis , that it 's a of two accounts because there are two stories , the first story is Chapter One of Genesis , then in Chapter Three or something there 's a second story repeats it with variations . |
| 6 | Once they have realized what they want to achieve they can talk about this to their child . |
| 7 | Yes , we 've all actually said this to their face . |
| 8 | When Miss P said this to him Boy realised that he could n't actually imagine a man proposing something that he would n't want to do , or would n't at least want to try just once , but he understood what he was being told and he learnt that lesson well , thank God . |
| 9 | Our civilization has at least this to its credit , he wrote , that it has found a way of rounding up this dishonest crap and incarcerating it in morgues , in fortified places with guards and alarm bells and the rest , thus keeping it off the streets , protecting decent citizens , and now , he wrote , there are even moves afoot to repel intruders by making them pay hard cash to enter these fortified places . |
| 10 | The psychology and sociology student , who is on a research project at Maryland University , added : ‘ I do n't intend to let the person who did this to me affect my life in the future . ’ |
| 11 | When she applies this to her test situations , however , she tends to interpret it in the narrow sense of explicitness rather than with reference to the higher orders of logic to which abstractness usually refers and which the general weight of her argument implies . |
| 12 | An employee discovered this to her cost in the case of Staffordshire County Council v Donovan ( 1981 ) . |
| 13 | The patient had added this to her urine , hoping that her apparent illness would stop her having to return to Africa . |
| 14 | Additionally Mozart 's Mannheim friends , Wendling and Ramm , had spread the news of his impending visit and his mother wrote of this to her husband : |
| 15 | But when he had fought back the overwhelming urge to ring the police and have criminal charges brought against his secretary , he had realised he could use this to his advantage . |
| 16 | Yeltsin immediately turned this to his advantage . |
| 17 | But primitive man guards himself against that by listening in to the being of the person who is uttering the words and by adding this to his evaluation of the words . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , when my husband mentioned this to his mother , all hell broke loose . |
| 19 | Louis the Pious had a particular devotion for St Denis , and he conveyed this to his son . |
| 20 | New York dealer Paul McCarron noted good sales as always , attributing this to his policy of bringing a wide range of competitively priced prints . |
| 21 | They never did anything like this to his brother , you know , because they did n't dare . ’ |
| 22 | But in the Philosophie zoologique Lamarck had subordinated this to his belief in a progressive force that pushed living things steadily up the scale of organization . |
| 23 | As he could think of nothing else , Martin repeated this to his grandfather . |
| 24 | Having already been struck by the intensity and depth of colour of Aquacryl , I turned this to my advantage . |
| 25 | When I mentioned this to my GP he smiled . |
| 26 | I know this to my cost as I spent the next few days discovering which Stain Devil cleaning stick was needed to remove most of my portion from Sunil 's white bathroom carpet . |
| 27 | P.S. You must not mention this to my mother . |
| 28 | ‘ Making a final decision wo n't be easy but I ca n't keep on doing this to my body , ’ said Gardner , who suffered multiple fractures to his left leg less than two years ago . |
| 29 | When I mentioned this to my father he said he had to drive up that way and would take me in the car and call back for me within a couple of hours . |
| 30 | ‘ Take this to my study , there 's a good girl . |