Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 31 | About the fishes who swallow human sins , and carry them away to the ocean . |
| 32 | I gave one of them away to the . |
| 33 | He took me in his arms and carried me downstairs to the library , where he put me in front of the fire , and gave me a glass of wine . |
| 34 | Adapt the nothing therein to the purpose in hand , and you will have the use of the cart . |
| 35 | Adapt the nothing therein to the purpose in hand , and you will have the use of the vessel . |
| 36 | Adapt the nothing therein to the purpose in hand , and you will have the use of the room . |
| 37 | And this brings me finally to the link between circumcision and menstrual taboo . |
| 38 | The zoo-man at the turnstile 'd come rushing out and Vern 'd get scared and drag me away to the place where he 'd hidden my … |
| 39 | After we had broken fast in the small buttery which adjoined the kitchen , Benjamin dragged me outside to the gardens . |
| 40 | It was Freeth 's custom to write songs — setting his words to popular tunes — about remarkable events in local and national news , and to sing them nightly to the company assembled at his Coffee House . |
| 41 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |
| 42 | Seeing himself as the peacemaker among his fellow monarchs , and adopting as his motto Beati Pacifici ( Blessed are the Peacemakers ) , he repeatedly refused to commit himself wholeheartedly to the Protestant cause . |
| 43 | Tom himself said it was because he had to work hard at school at subjects other than music , he could not devote himself wholeheartedly to the flute . |
| 44 | Confronted with a party weighted in favour of the clerical , he nevertheless took a thoughtful look at Hugh Beringar , and addressed himself rather to the secular justice . |
| 45 | Pennethorne protested that since 1845 , he had devoted himself entirely to the Office 's work and now found that he had lost all his work . |
| 46 | For example the German scholar who wrote a monumental life of Philip Augustus in six volumes and , in the process , came to study Richard 's career with great thoroughness , believed that " he had abandoned himself entirely to the pleasures of Messina where the women seemed very seductive to warriors from the North " . |
| 47 | ‘ I had n't heard about Doug but in a case of murder , nobody close to the victim gets overlooked . ’ |
| 48 | Emile Durkheim ( 1959–1917 ) addressed himself directly to the question of punishment to a much greater extent than either Marx or Weber ever did . |
| 49 | This surrender was legitimized only if the monarch devoted himself unsparingly to the good of the state and his subjects . |
| 50 | ‘ As the intention of the Society is to form Veterinary Physicians and Surgeons intended to be dispersed throughout the Kingdom to exercise usefully their art , the Professor will teach the residing pupils only the most important difference between the two medicines — that of the human body , and that of Cattle — he will confine himself strictly to the teaching of the Veterinary Science . ’ |
| 51 | Naisbitt is a shrewd observer and in practice he does not limit himself strictly to the confines of content analysis . |
| 52 | Masklin lowered himself carefully to the floor and crept forward . |
| 53 | Two years later in 1738 he married Mrs Miller 's sister , Susanna Kennet , linking himself securely to the Chelsea circle . |
| 54 | Up to the age of thirty or so he appeared to devote himself mainly to the social life of various celebrated Parisian salons . |
| 55 | The owners of the woods were bound to present their woodwards to the Justice of the Forest on their appointment , and at every subsequent Forest Eyre , to take an oath to perform their duties faithfully . |
| 56 | From the beginning , the evening bore all the hallmarks of success , Luke adapting himself immediately to the light holiday mood of Sam and Anna , and sweeping Merrill along with him . |
| 57 | Convinced that there were practical solutions to the social evils of his day , he devoted himself particularly to the temperance movement . |
| 58 | The Consul General addressed himself exclusively to the Substitute in slow , accurate Italian , pronounced with his native accent . |
| 59 | ‘ We are all men of the world ’ — he excluded the Archdeacon from eye contact and addressed himself exclusively to the Dean — ‘ so of course we know , do we not , that problems of that sort for young clergy bring with them all kinds of undesirable connections . |
| 60 | Notice that Paul does not tie himself legalistically to the details of Jesus 's words . |