Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He should never be regarded as someone only to be approached when a prescription is required or when some serious breakdown in health occurs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Someone close to Mr Mandela described him yesterday as a chess player five moves ahead of anyone else in the game . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So what happens when family members or friends are told or understand that someone close to them is going to die ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In so far as any rules had been devised in the past , the principle seems to have been to give power to someone close to the throne , and invested therefore with some of the aura of royalty . |
| 12 | Buyers need to tell someone close to them they have made the arrangements , otherwise the policy will be worthless . |
| 13 | But if you are worried about your own safety or the safety of someone close to you , it is possible to minimise the risk even further by taking some simple , sensible precautions . |
| 14 | someone close to you subjects you to emotional blackmail/puts pressure on you ( ie ‘ It 'll be your fault if I drop dead with a heart attack . ’ |
| 15 | If this is your first experience in the role of main helper to someone close to you who has suffered a major loss , and if you have not yet suffered one yourself , you may find the strange variety and intensity of her emotions and her need for long-term support rather daunting . |
| 16 | If you are facing the facts in your relationship or that of someone close to you , be encouraged . |
| 17 | Now meditate on these words of Paul , thinking about what they tell you about the grace and love of God in your own situation or that of someone close to you . |
| 18 | I 've got someone close to him . ’ |
| 19 | It was the first time that someone close to me had died , and I could not imagine life without my sister , even if I had never loved her , or even thought about her recently . |
| 20 | We no longer wear mourning clothes for a fixed period of time , we do n't refuse to go to parties for the first six months after the death of someone close to us , we do n't take time immediately after the death for intensive grieving . |
| 21 | But as she mounted the first of the steps to the front door she sensed someone close to her . |
| 22 | Our reactions to the death of someone close to us are particular to us and to our relationship with them . |
| 23 | The difference is , the Luciferi have someone close to our hearts who betrays our every step and turn . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's important when someone close to you gets cancer that you have as much help around you as possible . |
| 25 | How different it is when someone , perhaps someone close to us , perhaps someone we have never met , helps us to view the world through different eyes . |
| 26 | Someone close to me has had a cataract operation in both eyes . |
| 27 | It is hard to imagine you getting through the day without upsetting someone close to you , possibly a lover or a relative . |
| 28 | Somehow you can put up with and even smile at a stranger or workmate 's silly antics and daft behaviour , but when someone close to you starts rubbing you up the wrong way you 'll explode . |
| 29 | Evidently Hatton got a hundred when he was personally involved , fifty when it was someone else to be knocked on the head and left in a ditch . |
| 30 | To make oneself a ‘ victim of God 's justice ’ , to perform penances greater than one 's own sins had ‘ earned ’ , was to set that additional penance ‘ free ’ for someone else to ‘ use ’ for their salvation . |