Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] to an " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I intend taking my case to an industrial tribunal . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | I trace part of my feeling to an entirely ridiculous mixture of relief and pique that I do n't figure in it myself . |
| 10 | On my way to an engagement in Bracknell . |
| 11 | I made my way to an hotel lounge in the Diamond , where I sat and read a leaflet I had picked up in the church . |
| 12 | I did not know Salisbury well enough — Wendy did not know it at all — to grope my way to an hotel ( and , anyhow , we feared we had not enough money for a bed ) . |
| 13 | ‘ I was on my way to an auditing job in Newhaven . |
| 14 | For example , if I normally doff my cap only to my superiors , but on an occasion doff my cap to an equal , then I can effectively communicate an ironic regard , with either a joking or a hostile intent ( the non-linguistic example is intended to draw attention to the great generality of the phenomenon ; for a study of a particular linguistic practice and the jokes thus made available , see the study of the openings of telephone calls by Schegloff ( 1979a ) ) . |
| 15 | I repeated my declaration to an admiring court , listening to the plaudits of praise . |
| 16 | You have the uncanny knack of getting under my skin and raising my temperature to an uncomfortable degree . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I mean , ’ he spelled out for her , ‘ I wo n't force your engagement to my brother to an end if I feel some aspects of it are going to be — how shall we say ? — under my control . ’ |
| 18 | Former Prime Minister Olszewski and several former members of his government gave their support to an emergent new coalition of " patriotic and independence-oriented " groupings of the centre-right , according to a Polish television report on Aug. 10 . |
| 19 | Former Prime Minister Olszewski and several former members of his government gave their support to an emergent new coalition of " patriotic and independence-oriented " groupings of the centre-right , according to a Polish television report on Aug. 10 . |
| 20 | For , as a representation of the Paraguayan people 's suffering and of a hoped-for redeemer who is one of their own , it articulates popular sentiments and aspirations in a way that institutionalized religion has failed to do in its subservience to an oppressive social system . |
| 21 | The concession theory regards the company as owing its existence to an exercise of state power . |
| 22 | Health Authority figures show some outpatients who 've been referred by their GP to an orthapedic consultant there , may have to wait more than 2 years just to be seen . |
| 23 | She told her story to an officer she did not know and gave him the number of the Bristol callbox . |
| 24 | For example , despite her attachment to an extra-textual and pre-linguistic domain of mental activity , Nathalie Sarraute 's work , according to Heath , should not be limited by interpretative strategies which are fundamentally referentialist in orientation . |
| 25 | Not only was ‘ Dositejism ’ denounced by Metropolitan Stratimirović because of its anticlericalism , its suspected ‘ Protestantism ’ and its attachment to an alien western culture , but it was also seen as a threat to the language . |
| 26 | On the other hand India , which had 170,000 nationals working in Kuwait and several thousands in Iraq , limited its response to an acceptance of the need to comply with mandatory sanctions , an expression of regret at Iraq 's action and a call for the withdrawal of troops . |
| 27 | In Re Faure Electric Accumulator Company , for example , Kay J stated that ‘ to apply to directors the strict rules of the Court of Chancery with respect to ordinary trustees might fetter their action to an extent which would be exceedingly disadvantageous to the companies they represent ’ . |
| 28 | The few brief weeks at the ICO opened her mind to an appreciation of meditation literature . |
| 29 | Liz Tohou , a member of the American team who finished ninth in the Olympic qualifying tournament in Auckland last October , struck a penalty corner goal in each half to help her side to an unexpected victory . |
| 30 | On Oct. 8 the United Kingdom had entered the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) of the European monetary system of the European Communities ( EC ) , but at the subsequent European Council meeting in Rome Thatcher had been isolated in her opposition to an early move towards the second stage of economic and monetary union ( EMU ) and in the strength of her determination to hold out against the possible ultimate introduction of a single European currency [ see pp. 37782-73 ] . |