Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | With marked reluctance , the elderly woman led them inside to a small sitting-room , which overlooked the garden at the rear of the house . |
| 32 | If they are knitting successfully I leave them alone ; if they do n't knit successfully I select them manually to the holding position ( with the holding levers set to knit ) to help them knit . |
| 33 | He asked those interested or intrigued by the idea to pray as to whether God might be calling them personally to this work . |
| 34 | Two messengers take them to Paris and deliver them personally to the ambassador . ’ |
| 35 | We ordered pints of bitter and ploughman 's lunches and he brought them personally to us as we sat in the bay window-seat of the public bar . |
| 36 | That brings me naturally to the scribblings of the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) . |
| 37 | Halting outside the little store , she took a deep breath to give herself courage before pushing open the door , then grimaced as the bell gave an important little ping which alerted everyone inside to her presence . |
| 38 | And I think it 's the tenants ' group which got together the , the , the sum of all those complaints , m erm which er and , and put them together to , to find what those common complaints were . |
| 39 | That there is a certain amount of confusion and inconsistency in the arguments does not make them less to be feared . |
| 40 | This and many other means to exhilarate the heart of man have been practised in all ages , as knowing there is nothing better to the preservation of man 's life . |
| 41 | The revelations of evil that I had experienced had brought me only to confusion and powerlessness . |
| 42 | Indeed any attempt to relate them prematurely to reality may restrict the development of the model . |
| 43 | We must apply ourselves right to the end of games . ’ |
| 44 | And because we 'd found self-esteem , we had the courage to go and sell ourselves successfully to employers . |
| 45 | He should never be regarded as someone only to be approached when a prescription is required or when some serious breakdown in health occurs . |
| 46 | She wanted to be more than an outsider in ‘ La Felicità ’ , more than a vague summertime nuisance for whose sake the family had to go travelling , someone only to be communicated with by notes or as a new source of rent . |
| 47 | This involves ‘ redrawing the boundaries of semantics/pragmatics ’ , in other words recognising that meaning can not be understood by addressing ourselves only to formal , syntactic processes : ‘ pragmatics ’ , the study of why and how utterances are used , has to be included within the study of what the utterances mean , and how their semantic load is constructed and regularised . |
| 48 | In other words , chords on the third to sixth degrees of the scale are only inversions of chords on the first and second degrees : Clearly this makes for rather meagre harmonic material if we limit ourselves only to triadic usage , so it is better to exploit other kinds of chord shapes which will serve to produce impressions of greater harmonic variety . |
| 49 | Or should we limit ourselves only to those who were prepared to engage actively on behalf of the cause ? |
| 50 | There were areas in the Carpathians , in the Balkans , in the western marches of Russia , in Scandinavia and Spain — to confine ourselves only to the most developed continent — where the world economy , and hence the rest of the modern world , material or mental , meant little enough . |
| 51 | Can I perhaps to that point raise an issue that we discussed at the meeting , and that was this whole point about de-sulphurisation , and use of low sulphur coal . |
| 52 | In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer |
| 53 | Because it 's sort of dark , his just to . |
| 54 | Well I just to well he 'd done it before And I said to them , Oh captain 'll take you . |
| 55 | Someone close to Mr Mandela described him yesterday as a chess player five moves ahead of anyone else in the game . |
| 56 | Before moving on to discuss the process of loss in relation to the death of someone close to us , it is helpful to look at a less significant but nevertheless important and unexpected loss and see our reaction there . |
| 57 | This subject needs a great deal of careful study and thought but , with this outline , let us move on to look at the experience a bereaved person might have of the church when someone close to them has died . |
| 58 | Yet this notion of compassionate leave is one of the indications we have of how society accepts the significance of having someone close to us die . |
| 59 | So what happens when family members or friends are told or understand that someone close to them is going to die ? |
| 60 | So far we have been concerned with trying to understand something of the general reaction people have to various forms of loss , concentrating on the reactions people will discover in themselves when they or someone close to them is dying or has died . |