Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stopping for lunch near Messkirch , en route for Ulm , I discovered that my three days ' neglect of the groceries in the car boot , together with the intense heat , had reduced some of them to a suppurating , soggy mess . |
| 2 | Consider a common situation ; a manufacturer sells a number of his products to a wholesaler ; the wholesaler sells some of them to a retailer and the retailer sells one of them to a consumer . |
| 3 | I fetched more glasses and dealt some of them to the Lorrimores who were an oasis of silence in the chattering mob and paid me absolutely no attention : and from then on I felt I had indeed chosen the right role and could sustain it indefinitely . |
| 4 | Social and economic relations were modified in a whole range of ways over this period , some of them to the advantage of the working class . |
| 5 | He was rehearsing Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and the lines had fled ; what he hung on to was the physical business , and when he did some of it to the mirror it seemed poor stuff for the old Living Boomerang . |
| 6 | Judging by her tone , she might even have transferred some of it to the absent Rose . |
| 7 | I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there . |
| 8 | She had never met Naomi in her life , but in death she grew to love her : she had taken her into herself , had learned her likings , had read her books and tried ( although not herself musical ) to listen to her music , she had spoken much of her to the children , had insisted upon treating her as an ally , as a friend beyond the grave , had reinvented her and kept her close to them — oh , not without awareness of the dangers , of the necessary distortions and consolations , but then all life is danger , and Liz had embarked willingly upon its full tide with those three small boys , with that ambitious , importunate widower and that friendly ghost . |
| 9 | Edward promised further help , and a force of almost 5,000 men under the Earl of Salisbury was mustered in March 1373 ; but du Guesclin invaded the duchy and subjected much of it to a French military occupation . |
| 10 | Evidence has emerged that mahogany which has been logged illegally in Brazilian Indian reserves is being exported to Western countries , much of it to the UK , which accounts for 52 per cent of Brazilian mahogany . |
| 11 | Third , it analyses the influence on the political agenda and public opinion ; has it shifted either of them to the right ? |
| 12 | Thus an association of features leads to the attribution of all of them to a common agency , rather like the association of subglacial channels with eskers in a different context . |
| 13 | During my term of office I hope to introduce all of you to the ‘ Team ’ who are the driving force behind the Society — Friends without whom I could not manage ! |
| 14 | He admits to reservations about one of the central elements of McKenna 's work — the suggestion that DMT ( Dimethyltryptamine , a psychedelic which delivers a short 15-minute blast ) works the same for everyone , that it transports all of us to an alien realm , bringing us into contact with the ‘ machine elves of hyperspace ’ . |
| 15 | At the stroke of a pen they removed hundreds of thousands of needy youngsters from the benefit system and condemned many of them to a life of mendicant poverty , many also slipped into prostitution . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's remarkable that , in addition to playing 11 cities around the country , the educational programme played to over 5,000 kids and brought many of them to the main theatre in their local cities for the first time in their lives , on subsidised tickets . |
| 17 | Give it some of that' or ’ We 've got Sabrina on next weeks show , and you do n't get many of them to the pound , eh boys ? ’ |
| 18 | If you are really fond of her , then you know that you will both give each other pleasure simply by being together for a while , but you must be prepared to give much more of yourself to the conduct of those few hours than you probably would in other social circumstances . |
| 19 | If the linguistic side of our University Schools of English could be persuaded to give rather less of their attention to the roots of the English language and to devote more of it to the leaves it has put forth so abundantly since 1500 there would be far more data for literary scholars like Mr. Bateson to work upon . |
| 20 | Pushing those around him to the brink and saying jump . |
| 21 | ‘ I would sell any of them to a non-Asian but I do n't know who they are . |
| 22 | And he did nothing in his life of exploration to introduce any of them to the places he saw . |
| 23 | Indeed , he has invited both of you to a special tournament to be held at Smithfield the day after next and , following that , later in the evening , a banquet in the Savoy Palace . |
| 24 | Perhaps I should have been frank with her , admitted honestly that I did n't love her and that if she insisted on marrying me she would be condemning both of us to a joyless union . |
| 25 | At the same time I placed a leg between his ; the object being to prevent him bringing up his knee against my balls.The plan was to throw both of us to the ground — at the right moment . |
| 26 | But she gave most of it to a charity promoting adult literacy , living instead on the £115,000 presidential salary . |
| 27 | Flake the tuna and add most of it to the bowl , together with the beans . |
| 28 | He once reproached Sir Philip Sidney for his famous refusal of a cup of water on a Dutch battlefield as an act that looks ‘ aggressively holy ’ , and it is hard to imagine any other critic of the age allowing himself such a remark , or even conceiving of it : The okay thing would be to drink some of the cup himself and pass it on , leaving most of it to the other man … ’ |
| 29 | Thirty five for an ordinary one you know everything to my spouse or most of it to the spouse with bits to the children er well r we usually run to about thirty five pounds . |