Example sentences of "[adj] to [pron] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ross — I do wish that … ’ she began , hoping even at this last moment for some word , some sign that the scorching , torrid passion that had exploded between them in the Hamptons had meant as much to him as it had to her . |
| 2 | That the cottage meant as much to her as it did to him was obvious , but it did n't occur to him that she might have been the intruder who had broken in . |
| 3 | Steel-Maitland was running Central Office like a business enterprise , not in order to make a political point , but because it was as natural to him as it had been foreign to Percival Hughes . |
| 4 | Now er in the in the An engineer if you 've any engineer friend engineering friends I could explain it all to you but it takes time . |
| 5 | The analytical approach is useful to us because it makes us familiar with the parts and the way they work together . |
| 6 | Er yeah and I think people in the first term are quite attracted to it because it does n't seem to have much on the timetable erm |
| 7 | It 's important to them because it proves where they are in life , they do n't want to stay like where their parents were , they want to prove . |
| 8 | Sight is so important to us that it dominates the way we perceive the sensory worlds of other animals , and even dictates the vocabulary available to describe those worlds . |
| 9 | It was only sometimes , in the warm dusks , that she felt this life was not perfect , not as full to her as it seemed . |
| 10 | I see even our daughter is expendable to you when it comes to safeguarding those bloody royalties . ’ |
| 11 | Like virgins to the sacrificial altar , they followed Molly Malone to the place where it all happened ; where Wrens must learn to live in a men 's world because now the war was nearer to them than it had ever been . |
| 12 | You 'll get used to it and it does n't affect you |
| 13 | Such aggression could be very disturbing to young workers submitting their first paper , although experienced researchers are used to it and it seems to be something which most people are prepared to put up with . |
| 14 | The ERPS team are very fortunate that this facility is available to them because it has enabled the reconstruction work to be undertaken more efficiently . |
| 15 | In my retelling of the Divine Drama I have made use of primitive mythological ways of speaking because I do not believe that we have a better language that is available to us when it comes to understanding God 's revelation as story — as the great epic of salvation . |
| 16 | She was as much a part of this murky landscape now as if she had been born here , every step of the way between Miss Gemma Dallam 's cloistered corner and her own — in spirit a universe apart — being so familiar to her that it seemed she had always known them , or had known them before , in another place , a dozen other places ; another life . |
| 17 | The Chopinesque left-hand arpeggios , the repeated chords of Mozart and Beethoven , Strauss 's waltz rhythms , popular song accompaniments ( with bass on the downbeats , chords on the upbeats ) , and so on — all are already so familiar to us that it has seemed superfluous and pedantic to describe them . |
| 18 | It was soul-destroying to him but it gave him money for his wife and child . |
| 19 | To blind a lamb or blind an eagle ; all the same to them if it left them with defenceless prey to kill . |
| 20 | That is , it is open to us to deliberate about the light that this fact throws on the person 's character ; but deliberation is not open to us when it comes to parsing the sentence . |
| 21 | Have been too close to it and it had , and the vents at the back had got churned up with dust at one time , I keep dusting it now . |
| 22 | No one has come near to me when it comes to boxing skills , and that 's what I 'm interested in . |
| 23 | I really hate anybody who 's being horrible to somebody because it makes me feel bad . |
| 24 | ‘ I have to live next to you and it stinks like fuck ! ’ |
| 25 | The council grew so tired of lorries cutting this corner short and hitting the casement of the listed building next to it that it had to build a specially high kerb . |
| 26 | And we went to the one next to it and it had all naked women in it . |