Example sentences of "[verb] to [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like and I feel humble for asking , for anyone to write to me about the above . |
| 2 | And naturally his only means of getting in touch would be to write to her at the one address he knew : Elise 's cottage . |
| 3 | I have been asked to write to you about the restricted availability of the public toilets in Scorton . |
| 4 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to write to you about the following : |
| 5 | I therefore feel qualified to write to you about the French electronic machines.l |
| 6 | Theology must take as its starting-point the actuality of God 's self-revelation in Jesus Christ , disclosed to us by the Holy Spirit , and set its sights and adjust its compass by that . |
| 7 | It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years . |
| 8 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 9 | to remember that teenagers normally go through the phase of being attracted to someone of the same sex . |
| 10 | Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary . |
| 11 | If the Americans accepted that the Israel-Palestine problem was insoluble , at least for now , they could concentrate on what really matters to them in the Middle East . |
| 12 | Well , since he did not appeal to me in the slightest , the whole business became a terrible bore . |
| 13 | After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’ |
| 14 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |
| 15 | When he proposed to her on the last night I think she took him because , having been in her room for seven days , she 'd met nobody else and could n't bear to see her investment wasted . ’ |
| 16 | The lack of attention devoted to it by the British Government and , in particular , by the British press , in terms of the discussions at Maastricht , is symptomatic of our isolationist approach not only to Europe , but to the development of regional policy . |
| 17 | When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’ |
| 18 | He remained silent , watching her , and her embarrassment grew until in the end she set her glass down with a bang and in desperation said , ‘ So are you going to tell me what 's been happening to you in the last five years ? ’ |
| 19 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 20 | In 1741 Collinson reported to him on the miraculous achievement at Thorndon : |
| 21 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 22 | Although providing a degree of flexibility to cope with ground settlement , this type of joint tended to leak and a cement filling was added to it with the whole pipe laid on a bed of concrete carried up the sides . |
| 23 | North of the River Cam , re-using the older Roman town , was the late eighth-century Mercian burgh which had another fortified town south of the river crossing added to it in the late ninth century by the Danish soldiers and traders . |
| 24 | So it had come to her on the previous day , and came again now , the whiff , or stroke , of solitude , as her final hope for Patrick 's life was extinguished . |
| 25 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 26 | The rest come to us through the Northern Real Ale Agency , a wholesaler based in Newcastle . |
| 27 | I build to it during the lost-in-the-wood speech and then it starts a bit uncertainly and then they really get it and it hits the show like a trumpet solo . |
| 28 | Now er on the air at five o'clock mister Tim with drive at five and the early evening sequence , and we 're gon na chat to him in the next thirty minutes because he 's been out shopping today and he 's spent quite a lot of money on some brand new clothes . |
| 29 | Dependent on relief helicoptered to them by the American armed forces , the mountain refugees are still losing their young and their old to malnutrition , cold and disease . |
| 30 | After all we were all leading aircraftsmen on the course and the officer element were acting pilot officers on probation who generally referred to themselves as the lowest form of animal life within the RAF . |