Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | JEWKES : He is my master and if he bids me do anything I can do I think I ought to do it and let him who has power to command me look to the lawfulness of it . |
| 2 | The fact that the local authority had the legal right to control the premises made them occupiers to the exclusion of the previous owners of the house . |
| 3 | Me ankle hurts every time I put me foot to the ground . |
| 4 | After fifteen years some may have emigrated died … would all of them spring to the colours when called ? ’ |
| 5 | If members of a conquering nation called upon the nation they had conquered and continued to hold down to forget their specific nationality and position , to ‘ sink national differences ’ and so forth , that was not internationalism , it was nothing else but preaching to them submission to the yoke , and attempting to justify and perpetuate the domination of the conqueror under the cloak of internationalism . |
| 6 | The following day it gained me entrance to the main gate of the embassy . |
| 7 | The second place is that probably one of the reasons that physicians feel threatened by these kind of laws is that , without the law , I can cruise along and maintain my patients ' comfort and my sanity to the best of my ability . |
| 8 | As an Englishman I express my subordination to the political authority under which I live by paying a certain fraction of my money income to the appropriate official . |
| 9 | With this in mind , I sent my plans to the Special Air Service Regiment , reputedly the best collective authority in Britain on desert survival , and asked them to comment . |
| 10 | While he was knocking himself off , I was preparing to make my introductions to the sidewalk . |
| 11 | I had lost my heart to the little , golden flowers that brightened the meadows like a thousand suns . |
| 12 | When I had told my story to the minister , he introduced me to Ivan Feigelson ( known to his friends as Ika ) , a young medical student of Russian emigré parentage . |
| 13 | The gentleman who saved me suggested I tell my story to the French authorities . |
| 14 | ‘ I put my views to the Chief Secretary , ’ he said calmly , ‘ before he left for London . |
| 15 | I mean in so I I come here today with a petition that I presented that also talks about proposing to abolish the merger , I mean this is a move just one step away from that but I still feel in what was proposed at the last full council meeting and I would express my views to the officers that in light of what has been suggested today is actually implemented to the wording as it stands because the joint working party that had been er written up previously never did meet although if I can inform it was only the officers who actually met up and I hope that in light of all the working group and the two heads of centres covering for each other would be implicitly applied . |
| 16 | My exposure to the energy and subtle abilities of my Subud brothers in Java had so ignited my optimism and sense of wonder concerning our hidden natures that I had wangled my way into Lancaster University 's Department of Comparative Religion to write a doctorate on transformational consciousness , in a field which was later to be referred to as psycho-anthropology . |
| 17 | At a very early stage in my career I learned that a sympathetic response on my part to the child 's needs within the family setting made my work as a classroom teacher considerably easier . |
| 18 | He would fight my case to the bitter end , he vowed . |
| 19 | The fact that it has been written about so perfectly inhibits my response to the place : I have no feelings about Tipasa , only to what Camus has written about it . |
| 20 | And so it came to pass that when we broke up for the summer holidays in 1941 , I set off on my bike to the farmer 's new settlement . |
| 21 | ‘ And this is my present to the bride , ’ said Syl . |
| 22 | He took my money to the bank for me yesterday — after Madge 's house being broken into . |
| 23 | ‘ I sent my money to the treasurer . ’ |
| 24 | In his desire to make sure that I do justice to the Masai cosmic vision , the professor overestimates my attachment to the logical . |
| 25 | A week later I was invited to take a look at the finished model , discovering then to my horror they had reproduced my sketch to the letter . |
| 26 | When I took my knitting to the window and sat working there , I thought of Mother . |
| 27 | Mrs Thatcher does n't care and Katie 's pregnant and alone , ravishing Reagan 's over there and I 'm working my fingers to the bone . |
| 28 | ‘ You could say that I had worked my fingers to the bone for you ! ’ |
| 29 | I 've never made athletics my route to the top . |
| 30 | I 'm gon na go and shoot that woman cos I gave my cheque to the office . |