Example sentences of "of [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has gone from being totally subdued and unsure of everyone to playing games , just as we used to . |
| 2 | Herein lies a big problem for managers who must take steps to ensure that everyone understands the need for involvement — To this end a series of seminars and talks should be arranged in order to explain the issue , seek ideas and the commitment of everyone to meeting the challenge . |
| 3 | ‘ A street party would be fun , ’ said a Highland lady ‘ of rank ’ in front of me to her companion who wore a dog collar . |
| 4 | It is foolish of me to be concerned . |
| 5 | Then I heard my aunt remark of me to my father , without making any attempt to lower her voice , ‘ She 's going to be stout — just like Dolly ’ ( Dolly was my mother ) . |
| 6 | ‘ I am here to plead my case with my father 's creditors and to sell the family jewels , I suppose it is selfish of me to be concerned with such trifles when you have such pressing concerns like where you shall live , in the London home or at Summer Lodge . ’ |
| 7 | And talked of me to him . |
| 8 | He spoke ill of me to his friends . |
| 9 | You wo n't be staying here for very much longer , and I do n't want your last memory of me to be the way I was yesterday . ’ |
| 10 | Now it would be invidious of me to er , speak at any rate at this juncture , er , on resolution two , that is the appointment of honorary officers , but I understand that Elizabeth Davies er , is ready to propose it . |
| 11 | What he means is that although in one sense the competitively won money is very desirable — it gives a terrific boost to Imperial 's research and , because many of the contracts are from industry , keeps the university closely in touch with the real world — it actually contributes next of nothing to the core costs of the college , of which , of course , academic salaries are the largest single component . |
| 12 | And it should be noted that the actual breaking point for Raskolnikov in the novel is the illness which induces his apocalyptic science-fiction nightmare of germs and Possessed -type madness and destruction , bringing him literally to Sonya 's feet and both of them to ‘ the dawn of a new future , of a full resurrection into a new life ’ which will be the subject of another story . |
| 13 | And he did nothing in his life of exploration to introduce any of them to the places he saw . |
| 14 | The leading one was that there were sufficient other able-bodied persons in the household to enable one of them to be freed for Soviet work . |
| 15 | Third , it analyses the influence on the political agenda and public opinion ; has it shifted either of them to the right ? |
| 16 | This might be because the time-cues are too weak , the transmission of them to the body clock is poor , the clock itself is insensitive to time cues , or it possesses an abnormally long or short free-running period . |
| 17 | Kerry Packer sold most of his stock market investments — some of them to Bond — at the height of the stock market 's bull run in 1987 . |
| 18 | Half of the 6,000 women questioned admitted to having intercourse before marriage and a quarter of them to adulterous intercourse after marriage . |
| 19 | Stopping for lunch near Messkirch , en route for Ulm , I discovered that my three days ' neglect of the groceries in the car boot , together with the intense heat , had reduced some of them to a suppurating , soggy mess . |
| 20 | In fact , an incurious person might travel from one end of them to the other without seeing a single shrub . |
| 21 | In front of them to one side were the CEGB representatives , led by Lord Silsoe with streamlined efficiency . |
| 22 | A dozen girls from the school went to universities each year , very few of them to Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 23 | ( Remember a penny then was not a penny now — there were 240 of them to £1 ! ) |
| 24 | Some people find that it 's asking a lot of them to actually use their friendship as a part of their work . |
| 25 | What makes it appropriate right now to recognise the great promise of the Orbital engine is Ford 's bold decision to manufacture 60 prototype two-stroke Fiestas and lend some of them to high-mileage users . |
| 26 | Fantasias ‘ on themes from such-an-such opera ’ were staple fare for many of the less substantial virtuosi of the first half of the nineteenth century , and even Liszt contributed a fair number of them to the literature . |
| 27 | I fetched more glasses and dealt some of them to the Lorrimores who were an oasis of silence in the chattering mob and paid me absolutely no attention : and from then on I felt I had indeed chosen the right role and could sustain it indefinitely . |
| 28 | All of the grooms , except one who was asleep on some hay bales , had chosen not to sit in the car with their charges , and I imagined it was because of Leslie Brown 's daunting presence : racing lads on the whole felt a companionable devotion to their horses , and I would have expected more of them to be sitting on the hay bales during the day . |
| 29 | There was row upon row of rooms and carpeted corridors , revealed by their tensely-held torches , the ghostly yellow pools of light allowing only the objects that slid in and out of them to be examined . |
| 30 | Rosa ‘ Dorothy Perkins ’ , with small , double , pink flowers has clambered over one of them to such an extent that a visitor to the garden once asked about the ‘ carnation tree ’ . |