Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] to [det] [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 | How can I even listen to this stuff , let alone join in ? |
8 | 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 . |
9 | I never wrote to that box number . |
10 | I recently wrote to all Second Division clubs asking if they wanted to retain terracing and every reply to date says yes . |
11 | They packed a protest meeting , which most remember to this day . |
12 | Life for Hannah Hauxwell then settled into a pattern which basically continues to this day . |
13 | You see , if somebody just come to that corner |
14 | 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 . |
15 | This protection earned the soldiers the nickname of ‘ leathernecks ’ , which still persists to this day . |
16 | This is a far cry from the laws which now pertain to this crop , more familiar today under its Latin name of Cannabis sativa . |
17 | Likewise with his existential emphasis , which closely relates to that humanism . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . ’ |
20 | The name of " Jhesu " concentrates an understanding of the energy of love which continually works to this end and used in prayer becomes a kind of brief mnemonic for this whole area of understanding and longing . |
21 | ‘ Go away , Ryan ; we have nothing further to say to each other . ’ |
22 | ‘ She 's been so conditioned by her husband that she instinctively kowtows to any man who says ‘ boo ’ to her . ’ |
23 | AN OBJECT lesson for all those who bemoan the artistic indifference of government , last night 's Omnibus ( BBC 1 ) looked at a political leader who took the closest interest in art , a mediocre and embittered water-colourist who eventually turned to another medium — mass emotion and warfare . |
24 | How superior she suddenly felt to that woman in the bed , the woman whom she had so long admired , even idolised , but who knew little of human nature after all . |
25 | This was a man who perhaps gave to all tube buskers indiscriminately , without even looking at them , for he tossed a 5P piece on to the ground as he strode past . |
26 | Moving clockwise on the map from the Valcarlos road , you soon come to another road leading due west from Saint-Jean . |
27 | To the er , because there 's no other management in the place , you just delegate to another member of staff . |
28 | . How could you possibly get to this hospital in a boat ? ’ |
29 | In Washington , Watson and his wife took lunch with President and Mrs Cleveland who later came to that night 's lecture . |
30 | It will be difficult if not impossible to secure payment from those who frequently move to another address . |