Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I naturally came to this conclusion only with the greatest reluctance ; it was no easy matter for me , the responsible commander , to abandon my dreams of hope and victory ! |
| 2 | I just have to this crescent there . |
| 3 | Could I just respond to that Chairman |
| 4 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 5 | From all my travels , and my journeys across the galaxies , I always return to this country , in this time zone . |
| 6 | I felt preternaturally over-sexed , and despite being removed from The Fat Controller 's proximate influence I still stuck to this rule . |
| 7 | In general , it is fair to say that one can use a magnification of × 50 for each inch of aperture ( forgive my temporarily reverting to Imperial measure ! ) , so that a 3-inch refractor will bear a magnification of × 150 , a 6-inch will bear × 300 , and so on . |
| 8 | I STRONGLY object to last week 's South Durham Viewpoint ( Echo February 3 ) . |
| 9 | How can I even listen to this stuff , let alone join in ? |
| 10 | When I was in Jordan in nineteen sixty five studying Arabic , I helped the Save The Children Fund operation there for a few months and this was undoubtedly one of the most enjoyable and interesting short periods of my life and I look back on it with great warmth and affection and as your Royal Highness knows , it happens also that many , many years ago before you were our president , my father occupied your office and I therefore come to this meeting today with some knowledge of the fund 's activities and with great admiration and respect for all the that the fund has achieved . |
| 11 | I never wrote to that box number . |
| 12 | I recently wrote to all Second Division clubs asking if they wanted to retain terracing and every reply to date says yes . |
| 13 | They packed a protest meeting , which most remember to this day . |
| 14 | The lysates also contained several immunoreactive polypeptides with smaller M r s , which presumably correspond to proteolytic degradation products of the two native PLCs . |
| 15 | Rainout occurs when material is incorporated into cloud water droplets or ice crystals which eventually grow to sufficient size to overcome gravity and fall to the ground . |
| 16 | Life for Hannah Hauxwell then settled into a pattern which basically continues to this day . |
| 17 | You see , if somebody just come to that corner |
| 18 | This is achieved by carefully examining its structure and design , which usually change to some degree with time , and taking into account its general condition and appearance . |
| 19 | This protection earned the soldiers the nickname of ‘ leathernecks ’ , which still persists to this day . |
| 20 | Rather than being selected for our speciality , which also extends to French naturalism and British art generally at the turn of the century , I believe it has more to do with our publishing scholarly catalogues over the years and with our track record as dealers . |
| 21 | This is a far cry from the laws which now pertain to this crop , more familiar today under its Latin name of Cannabis sativa . |
| 22 | Recent examples of this trend are Mary Cohr 's Maquillage Hydro- Proteines collection ( introduced to this country in January ) and the Botanical Make-Up collection by French phyto-aromatherapists Sisley , which now extends to allergy-tested eye cosmetics . |
| 23 | Henceforth each successive royal election provoked party conflicts and personal intrigues which often led to civil war , as well as pressure and even forcible intervention from abroad on behalf of competing candidates . |
| 24 | Charlemagne himself sometimes referred to royal favour as a sanction , and a ruler with as great conquests of territory as his had many rewards to bestow or withhold . |
| 25 | So he goes out there and they all turn round and say , stuff you , I 'm not coming in to clean up for four pound and hour which again equates to six pound an hour . |
| 26 | Likewise with his existential emphasis , which closely relates to that humanism . |
| 27 | The ‘ statue ’ metaphor which is so chilling in ‘ The Missing ’ ; the balance of the mental conflicts in ‘ In Time of Plague ’ which never sways to either side and leaves the question unanswered : the twist in the tale of ‘ The Reassurance ’ with its bitter irony . |
| 28 | Many of its contemporaries , such as Coverdale and Swaledale , which never transferred to large-scale factory production , have recently been revived , but Wensleydale is the best known of this group . |
| 29 | The nature of Burne-Jones 's aims and predilections in art are well-enough known by this time , and have been defined by himself absolutely fitted to this thought : ‘ I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was , never will be — in a light better than any light that ever shone — in a land no one can define or remember , only desire . ’ |
| 30 | In this area , solicitors can specialise in matters such as child care and other areas which specifically relate to local government . |