Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] to [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as if God , embittered by the recalcitrance of humanity , has turned to behaving in the same manner as that imputed to him by the serpent in the Garden in its dialogue with the woman . |
| 2 | That 's all that matters to me at the moment . ’ |
| 3 | Some referred to him as the Furie ; some as Zach or Zacho or Mr Zee ; others called him Gentle , which was the name she knew him by , of course ; still others John the Divine . |
| 4 | With a Raleigh-esque flourish he threw a hanky over the unexploded missile and scraped it up , apologising profusely , before pocketing the prize and slinking off , red-faced and too embarrassed to talk to me for the rest of the evening . |
| 5 | This happened to me on the Seven Mile Straight at recently , a lorry coming in the opposite direction in spite of road signs . |
| 6 | This appeared to everyone on the ground to be a very harsh decision , as Lambourn had been to the ground twice in less than five minutes , the second occasion with a fine hard tackle that left him limping badly . |
| 7 | If one accepts such a theory , then it gives a reason to all that happens to us during the course of our lives . |
| 8 | Even the popular teenager who rebels against parental values and goals is likely to return to them by the age of thirty or so . |
| 9 | That sounds to me like the sort of liberal view which many of John 's contemporaries would have expressed at that age , under the influence of reformers like A. S. Neill — a comparison that occurred to me before I discovered that he had been meant to attend Neill 's school . |
| 10 | In upholstery you really do get what you pay for and you usually have to take the quality on trust since you can not see all the underpinnings of frames , filling and springs unless you are shown a sample cross section and have it all explained to you in the shop . |
| 11 | It 's what they all say to me in the end . |
| 12 | . The damage done to industry by any of these three methods would probably be more than the good done to it by the direct help and , anyway I am not clear on the sort of direct help that might be intended . ’ |
| 13 | She is the most powerful magician ever to wear the crown of Kislev , and her aloof majesty and inscrutable disposition has caused many to refer to her as the Ice Queen of Kislev . |
| 14 | Experienced solicitors took turns in seeing defendants in custody and those referred to them by the court so that they could advise ( not represent ) an appropriate course of action . |
| 15 | The question before me today is whether Parliament , in using similar language in section 265 , intended those words to bear the same meaning as those given to them by the House of Lords under the Act of 1914 . |
| 16 | I therefore feel qualified to write to you about the French electronic machines.l |
| 17 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
| 18 | Alternatively , we would be happy to talk to you on the telephone if that is more convenient . |
| 19 | ‘ Senior Valuer Peter Ferguson and I will be very happy to talk to anyone from the Finaghy area who is considering a move in the near future and , of course , we offer a free valuation service at a time to suit any potential vendor . |
| 20 | you might be able to do it off that , you wo n't be able to listen to it at the same time |
| 21 | Some parents find it easier for everyone concerned to talk to someone outside the immediate family . |
| 22 | At eighty , eighty five , ninety ninety five , a hundred pounds and ten going to you at the back , going on , sir ? |
| 23 | He would then be able to judge to which of the latter he could most advantageously give his second preference , and this informed choice could well not be the same as the " blind " choice the STV obliges him to make . |
| 24 | Do you want to be able to add to them over the years or is the manufacturer likely to discontinue that particular pattern ? |
| 25 | It is a relief I suppose today , that I am able to speak to you on the basis erm of financial output which is a good deal more favourable than we expected even six months ago . |
| 26 | Mrs Adams has been unable to speak to anyone since the tragedy . |
| 27 | British Rail tell us that the Banbury to Paddington train , which was due to arrive at Oxford at three minutes past seven , has been cancelled this evening , but I 've nothing disadvantageous to report to you from the buses . |
| 28 | Just the same as you can accept the fact that somebody says to you that I can not really afford your windows , right , just the same as when you first speak to them on the phone , you can say oh sorry , sorry to bother you and put the phone down because it said you |
| 29 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 30 | When I first bowled to him in the nets I said it was like bowling to Zaheer Abbas . |