Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [pron] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know what you 've got planned , there , but a decent boys ' day school is not something to be entered into lightly , it 's a hell of a commitment , I mean I send mine to the local primary and hope for the best … |
| 2 | And I put it to the some of the women and men cleaners you see , How would like a rest day roster ? |
| 3 | If I set it to the same frequency as the only Mark I Super C64 in existence , I might just be able to contact an old friend of ours . ’ |
| 4 | I devote myself to the modest task of first abstracting from the actual economic policy of the State , which is the resultant of the struggle between two systems of economy , and the corresponding classes , so as to investigate in its pure form the movement towards the optimum of primitive socialist accumulation , to discover the operation of the conflicting tendencies , as far as possible in their pure state , and then try to understand why the resultant in real life proceeds along one particular line and not another . |
| 5 | However , I refer him to the recent report on our manufacturing performance produced by the CBI entitled ’ Competing with the World 's Best ’ . |
| 6 | I refer him to the independent Centre for Economic Policy Research , where Professor Denis Snower recently published a document saying : ’ Implementing the social charter may be expected to hurt precisely those workers it seeks to help , in addition to raising unemployment and reducing investment ’ . |
| 7 | And yet if I refer you to no other example than that little one-legged girl whom we saw not so long ago in our Provence , does n't your universal statement collapse ? ’ |
| 8 | The expression " New Deal " was first used by Roosevelt in his speech accepting the Democratic Party nomination as its presidential candidate in July 1932 , when he said " I pledge you , I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people . " |
| 9 | ‘ Would you have preferred I leave you to the tender mercies of your American admirer ? ’ |
| 10 | BELVILLE : I take her to an artful young baggage and had I a young handsome butler or steward she 'd soon make her market of one of them and snap at him for a husband . |
| 11 | ‘ Sometimes when I take him to the local toddler group and watch him playing with the other children , I think it would be great if he could just feel the sand in the sandpit between his toes and know what it 's like to get his hands all messed up with play dough or paint — the things other children take for granted . ’ |
| 12 | I take them to a certain stage , but I tend to find finishing a painting much more difficult than starting it , so I 'll leave it to one side , maybe for a week or more , where I can see it , and as I pass it suddenly something will click . |
| 13 | If I run after the goals which I see everyone around me running after , I reduce them to no more than means to the well-being of feeling at one with the many . |
| 14 | I take out my sketch pad , but the results are not food and I consign it to the ancient lavatory and oblivion on the track . |
| 15 | So the process that you have to carry out , then is to find a way of transferring your literal translation once you 've worked out word for word what is being said , into terms which mean something to a modern reader or , listener . |
| 16 | I wish to suggest , also , that in describing physics , for example , as a particular kind of subject , students are also saying something about themselves , as people : the qualities which attract them to a particular subject are also , to some extent , qualities which are central to their own self-image . |
| 17 | As long as people want to buy cakes which suggest that an old lady wearing a mob-cap is baking them in a Victorian farmhouse , the food firms will continue with dotty deceptions which add nothing to the nutritional value of our food . |
| 18 | In that sense , their political attractiveness is not likely to be as great as that of present policies which emphasize training , selecting and matching , and which address themselves to the individual qualities and characteristics of the teachers themselves . |
| 19 | That 's that 's the way we do fractions that 's the way you do adding up fractions or taking away fractions you change them to the same . |
| 20 | It is clear that this change is highly evaluated in Belfast in terms of social class hierarchy and status , as it is the more prestigious groups that tend to adopt it and the more ‘ advanced ’ ( generally female and younger ) group who introduce it to the conservative inner-city communities ( which are characterized by dense and multiplex network ties that tend to resist innovation and maintain conservative forms ) . |
| 21 | In the case of a joint purchase it will save time if , as buyers ' conveyancer , you have them execute the engrossment print before you send it to the other side . |
| 22 | It 's not expensive if you couple it to an off-peak Economy Seven meter . |
| 23 | If you copy it to a different place , does it leave the blank formulas |
| 24 | If you , you get it to a certain length and it 's a bit too short to have the layers cut out , cos you need it all the same length really and it pisses you off so much . |
| 25 | You pass it to the two blokes . |
| 26 | The Warwickshire nature trust is tiny when you compare it to the total amount of woodland managed for sports use . |
| 27 | The Warwickshire nature trust is tiny when you compare it to the total amount of woodland managed for sports use . |
| 28 | I mean when you compare it to the new one in the which is awful . |
| 29 | Instead of determining the sex of your children yourself , as bees , crocodiles and other creatures do , you leave it to a genetic lottery between X and Y chromosomes . |
| 30 | Well you you do it to a certain extent you 've got descriptions |