Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a child , I thought about this a good deal and my father would often invite me to feel the holes in his head — taking my fingers in his hand and guiding them to the slight depressions under his vaselined hair . |
| 2 | Thou hast been ‘ the cloud ’ before me from the day that I left the flesh-pots of Egypt , and was led through the way of the wilderness — the cloud that hast been guiding me to a land flowing with milk and honey — the milk of innocence , the honey of friendship ! |
| 3 | ‘ I think that the powers of Callanish have been guiding me to Wrath all my life , ’ she said . |
| 4 | I can personally vouch for the usefulness of the information in guiding me to places where turn-of-the-century cyclists had rested on roadside verges — and lost money and valuables . |
| 5 | Most libraries have wall charts guiding you to the shelf groupings for the major Dewey divisions . |
| 6 | There was the stand of palms , but not the conspicuous one to the north . |
| 7 | Otherwise the order would not be a proper one to be made . |
| 8 | Here , the cause will be a very different one to that associated with irrigation but may have significant repercussions for the exacerbated salinisation of one of China 's most productive agricultural regions . |
| 9 | There is still a division of labour between politicians and administrators in pluralist theory , though it is a very different one to a model of government in which politicians make policy and administrators implement them . |
| 10 | Oh yeah , er well be a different one to that to start with but it 'll be earlier . |
| 11 | that 's she 's , that 's a different one to one that came yesterday . |
| 12 | The sum of the erm I do I do n't , I know , my dad 's taught me a different one to Miss , she she taught me that erm i the , oh hang on ! |
| 13 | there 's one for you same as Nicky I 've got , here are , there 's another one , different one to that , there 's Nicola 's , leave 'em there I have n't got a Diana , the Queen Mother and the Queen left talking about my girl , my girl |
| 14 | But it 's quite an interesting one to , to look at . |
| 15 | There was much competition during the war as to who could come up with the best bomb story , and my mother had a great time telling this one to all the aunties , especially as it was only due to her nagging that I had n't been in my bed at the time . |
| 16 | It could be a very important story , and , knowing the damage our grape-vine could do with any story , the only way to stop that was to keep this one to myself . |
| 17 | I played this one to death on the Speccy . |
| 18 | So I bring this one to an end with a nasty short jab to his belly . |
| 19 | I wish I had a three-pound coin for the number of masculine hands that have patted my weedy little female head in mid-shudder , in accompaniment to the words ‘ Aw , come on love , it 's all right , baby , just leave this one to me , darling , trust me , would I do anything that was n't in your best interest , would I ? |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm going to send this one to my friend ’ — she lowered her voice — ‘ the one who 's had that big operation . |
| 21 | There 's hardly a man in England but this one to whose lure Owen would stoop now . |
| 22 | How the House will have valued yet another statement from the hon. Member for Dagenham , this one to the effect that he would do something only in extremis . |
| 23 | ‘ Traditionally games against Meath are always close , and I would n't expect this one to be any different . ’ |
| 24 | I want this one to be one of the times when it 's not . ’ |
| 25 | Try several on this one to one basis . |
| 26 | A typical pattern is described by a former minister of transport and subsequent chairman of BR : ‘ Over and over again we could have settled much more cheaply by settling more quickly but , at each stage , we were told that we must not settle quickly because the Government really were going to fight this one to the bitter end … |
| 27 | Yeah I prefer this one to downstairs . |
| 28 | Oh I , I read this one to you , oh fucking hell in what way is the whale 's penis similar to the elephant ? |
| 29 | This one was hard because this one to me I think was the hardest because it was was theoretical |
| 30 | Could I draw this one to a close by suggesting that the procedure owners , who own the procedures identified in the take on board the need to make a minor adjustment to set the principle in place and the . |