Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one day Miss Havisham decided it was time to apprentice me to Joe , and told me to bring him to her house . |
| 2 | Busy executives should not be bothered by trifling matters , so the receptionist must learn how to classify calls and route them to the person best suited to deal with them . |
| 3 | The army was an unsatisfactory occupation for a man who lacked the money to purchase promotion , for he was likely to be in the situation of the Master of Elphinstone , who complained in 1715 that ‘ I have served as Capt[ai-n] this nine years which I have the vanity to believe intitelis me to something better than a company of foot ’ . |
| 4 | In those circumstances , a magistrate can sentence someone to a maximum of three months in prison . |
| 5 | You 've got items to be discussed , and then you 've got an ability on the right-hand side them to resequence them . |
| 6 | Sometimes he would have liked to unburden himself to somebody , but his officers and men had their own problems . |
| 7 | Also , it seemed to Bénezet , in some excitement , and in haste to unburden himself to someone about whatever was on his mind . |
| 8 | I was yards away down the other end of the table , yearning to hear WHAT ON EARTH he was saying and suffering pangs of guilt that I spent so little time encouraging him to unburden himself to me . |
| 9 | A small limited company which is run by a husband and wife , who are the sole directors , runs a car which to all intents and purposes is a delivery vehicle . |
| 10 | What such critics for their part fail to realize is just how difficult scientific research actually is , how complex the testing of any even seemingly trivial hypothesis or hunch may be , and how many paradoxes and seeming mysteries we confront every day in our research which to us are at least as challenging as , but theoretically more relevant than , fretting about probably untestable phenomena like ESP . |
| 11 | In his well-known ‘ boutades ’ against politicians Pétain appeared to fear no one ; to Poincaré he once remarked acidly that ‘ nobody was better placed than the President himself to be aware that France was neither led nor governed . ’ |
| 12 | Mrs Heron was murdered in cold blood in a crime which to date has appeared to have no motive . |
| 13 | The latest suggestion of Crown Street prompts me to write an alternative which to my knowledge has not yet been considered . |
| 14 | I would n't quibble with any of the other species you say are not suitable but please avoid this blight on the poor Hatchet which to my mind is a rewarding and unusual species in any community . |
| 15 | Ever since they had known one another , Otto had been kindness itself to Jean-Claude . |
| 16 | She has always been kindness itself to me , but I have a feeling in my bones that she would not regard me as a wholly reliable supporter . |
| 17 | On the other hand he was kindness itself to Andrew 's mother-in-law . |
| 18 | The nuns were kindness itself to Leonora . |
| 19 | These volcanic plugs , from North Berwick Law on the Forth estuary and the Bass Rock in the firth itself to Castle Rock in Edinburgh , provided early tribes with natural defensive sites . |
| 20 | Areas of application — from the computing industry itself to traditional industries which have been liberated from routine to the new technology — continue to proliferate . |
| 21 | In the period beginning just before the punk explosion and ending around 1982 , the rock press played a decisive part in the making and shaping of a succession of trends from punk itself to Two-Tone , the so-called new pop phase and the emergence of quasi-mystical underground acts like Echo and the Bunnymen . |
| 22 | Many adults have grown up in an environment in which they have picked up extremely infantile notions — notions which have never been challenged directly , but which , because of their almost total inadequacy and failure to square with other knowledge and experience , cause religion itself to be rejected as people become more sophisticated in other departments of life and other areas of knowledge . |
| 23 | If you 'd planned to set his mind like glue on wedding you to this Islesman , you could n't have done better . |
| 24 | Either side , or the jury , could ask for the tape itself to be played during the trial and the judge would almost always accede ; difficulties might arise where the tape contained objectionable or inadmissible evidence , for example , references to previous convictions , but these could usually be overcome . |
| 25 | They are not intended to suggest that any given product does no harm whatsoever to the environment . |
| 26 | the potential recourse of the provider of finance is clearly limited solely to the funds generated by the asset it finances , with no right of recourse whatsoever to other assets of the entity ; and |
| 27 | The minister also said that there would be no financial or budgetary disadvantage whatsoever to any GP who had to treat a large number of chronically ill patients . |
| 28 | Once , after a particularly sharp contraction , she had a sudden wish to unburden herself to her mother , to tell her that her grandchild had nothing to do with John Carrow , but that its father bore a striking resemblance to Tom Tremayne . |
| 29 | Jane is convinced that this refusal to unburden herself to friends led to increased frustrations for her mother . |
| 30 | ‘ Funny things , are n't they ? ’ holding it to the light , checking the measure before giving it to Rosen . |