Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I intend taking my case to an industrial tribunal . ’ |
| 2 | Not being a driver darling , I do n't know really much about such things never had to worry I 've always found somewhere chain my bike to a lamp post or er ha |
| 3 | At the time I ascribed my inability to an acute sense of boredom ( which , in part , it was ) , but I can see now that it was also a form of rebellion , this time an unconscious one . |
| 4 | What does that sleaze-bag of a gilgul expect me to do when I announce my presence to a quivering subject ? |
| 5 | I want to convert my loft to a shower room . |
| 6 | Wierzbicka ( 1988 : 103ff ) , following on Bolinger 1984 , points out likewise that " if my attitude to an event is such that I am glad or sorry about it , this means that in advance of this event I could have predicted my emotional reaction to it " . |
| 7 | The following morning I got Dad 's step-ladder out , put some of his flowerpots from the greenhouse on the steps and was having a lovely time with my own version of ‘ Breaking up the Happy Home ’ when the sound of pots smashing brought my carnival to an end . |
| 8 | The main deficiency of such approaches , however , is that they locate the ‘ problem of disability ’ in the individual and in the effectivity or otherwise of her/his adjustment to a set of beliefs , values and practices which are taken for granted . |
| 9 | Roger Jones of Ex Libris , publisher and bookseller in Bradford on Avon , draws my attention to a reference to the bookshop in Miles Kington 's newly published The Jazz Anthology ( HarperCollins , £17.50 ) . |
| 10 | I was walking down Wood Street , Wakefield with a friend who , with a nudge and a nod , directed my attention to a couple gazing into a shop window . |
| 11 | She showed me to my rooms and called my attention to a postcard on the mantlepiece from my tutor … |
| 12 | The small flock of eight flitted before me along the hedgerow , drawing my attention to a white post in a bed of slender St John 's wort and wood sage . |
| 13 | If I suddenly transfer my attention to an object or some aspect of the physical environment ( after all , inanimate things are much easier to deal with , are n't they — they do n't have emotions ) when you 're revealing thoughts and feelings , then once again I 've dodged your agenda . |
| 14 | I am indebted to who has drawn my attention to an article reprinted in the Journal of Applied Occupational Environmental Hygiene , August 1992 , Vol 7 pp 532–40 , to whom I am also indebted for permission to use extracts for the benefit of this article . |
| 15 | I shall therefore devote the substance of my lecture to a study of the cultural connections between Greeks , Romans , Celts , Jews and Iranians in the Hellenistic period . |
| 16 | I was self-conscious about my body to a painful degree , and terrified lest the weight came back . |
| 17 | I would n't show my diary to a best which shows |
| 18 | In discussing ( below ) answers given by the women in my sample to a test of self-attitudes , I shall present some evidence in favour of this interpretation . |
| 19 | I would be putting everything I needed into the horse box until about ten o'clock and at about half past ten my horse and it 's tack would be in there as well and I would be on my way with my day to an eleven thirty meet at a pub nearby . |
| 20 | I remained at the roadside for a few minutes , sitting on the grass with my back to a low wall . |
| 21 | As I clambered out of the trench and sat on the grass with my back to a tree he handed me a mess-tin full of very tasty Machonachie stew which I soon polished off . |
| 22 | Erm , having changed my jacket to a blue jacket I 'll still nevertheless be me . |
| 23 | I was British enough not to want to reveal my name to a stranger , so I just said , rather coldly : ‘ How are you ? ’ |
| 24 | I gave my name to a clerk and I was taken to the manager 's room at once . |
| 25 | Even if I 'm like giving out my name to a customer sometimes I write down Lynne and it 's like what did you write that for . |
| 26 | Wilson was quick to see how provocative such a development would be to the shipowners and refused to accept the post , though he confessed to have been " foolish enough to have allowed myself to be nominated and elected as honorary general manager , which meant that I was lending my name to an organization over which I had no control " . |
| 27 | I take my drink to a table and sit staring at my shopping list as though it 's the most fascinating thing in the world . |
| 28 | Indeed , the next months were taxing in a different way , culminating in my appointment to a post in Bahrein for which I had little enough relish . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll just see my father to a taxi and come back for you . ’ |
| 30 | I trace part of my feeling to an entirely ridiculous mixture of relief and pique that I do n't figure in it myself . |