Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But imposition of direct management by local family health services authority executives will demotivate those many general practitioners for whom responsibility directly to patients is a major source of vocational pride . |
| 2 | I 'm a great believer in it , I , I park my car close to that and find it a most convenient way of travelling around . |
| 3 | ‘ I have n't worked for my degree just to be handed a cosy role in the family firm ! |
| 4 | Such training and preparation brought both me and my marriage almost to breaking-point . |
| 5 | I held my ticket tightly to me and smiled at the thought . |
| 6 | I have to tell the house I have in fact put my name forward to be considered as a candidate to stand to stand for Conservative |
| 7 | I 'll take my wife home to Bamburgh , Hal , and go north to Berwick myself for part of the summer . |
| 8 | If your joints are good , no cramping is necessary but I did put a couple of webbing cramps on my chair just to be on the safe side . |
| 9 | In your handout , somewhere , I 'm afraid I have n't got the pages er , cos I do n't have my handout immediately to hand , er I 've got here a short-term er programme . |
| 10 | Even today I remember my stupefaction close to terror . |
| 11 | I heard the noise , and had my hand halfway to my gun when somebody beat me over the head with the Empire State Building . |
| 12 | I slide my construction across to the windows , and build myself a desk with two more boxes . |
| 13 | I finished the section I had been writing — an idea left in mid-paragraph tends to vanish very quickly — then took myself and my candle early to bed . |
| 14 | Kind people ON Friday , May 28 , I was on my way home to Maghull from Central Station when I had a very nasty fall on the escalator . |
| 15 | As I clambered out of the trench and made my way across to Brigade H.Q I could see the jeep with the stretchers on top waiting at the entrance to the orchard . |
| 16 | For example , if I normally doff my cap only to my superiors , but on an occasion doff my cap to an equal , then I can effectively communicate an ironic regard , with either a joking or a hostile intent ( the non-linguistic example is intended to draw attention to the great generality of the phenomenon ; for a study of a particular linguistic practice and the jokes thus made available , see the study of the openings of telephone calls by Schegloff ( 1979a ) ) . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's asking a bit much of my brain even to be compos mentis , let alone capable of storming anything . ’ |
| 18 | As Charles II 's reign progressed , they were gradually to give up their earlier hopes of remodelling the established church into a closer conformity to European Protestantism , and to lend their support instead to the nonconformist struggle for the right to worship outside its boundaries . |
| 19 | The search for Surere , the first of its kind ever to be conducted by the Medjays , had been organised with precision by Merymose . |
| 20 | Their places were taken by ‘ new men ’ who owed their rise entirely to Nkrumah , Tawia Adamafio , formerly Busia 's lieutenant , and Coffie Crabbe among them . |
| 21 | These men have no industrial history and owe their presence there to men like Will Thorne , Jack Jones , etc. , who in the past gave labour the footing that it has attained … |
| 22 | Baden 's railway station is the oldest in Switzerland , and owes its existence partly to the Swiss love of hot rolls for breakfast . |
| 23 | She hugged her handbag tightly to her sides , comforted by the thought of the Pathfinder inside . |
| 24 | It began by quoting Pope Paul VI — ‘ the church is certainly not willing to restrict her action only to the religious field ’ — and continued with a critique of Malawi as fashioned by Dr Banda : ‘ A growing gap between rich and poor … a struggle for survival … deplorable wage structure … a deplorable price paid to farmers for some of their crops … bribery and nepotism … an atmosphere of resentment … a climate of mistrust and fear . ’ |
| 25 | For 113 years Somerville College , Oxford , has limited its entry strictly to women only . |
| 26 | The normal rule in such circumstances is for the convictions to be set aside : ‘ no reasonable jury who had applied their mind properly to the facts in the case could have arrived at the conclusion , and once one assumes that they are an unreasonable jury , or they could not have reasonably come to the conclusion , then the convictions can not stand . ’ |
| 27 | If , on the other hand , the teacher has it in the back of their mind always to be aware of the possibility of bringing into the work that 's going on in the classroom and bringing all they 're usually very excellent pedagogic skills to bear on it , aspects of the physical sciences , so that the children can get an early and meaningful introduction to it , then it will happen . |
| 28 | If , on the other hand , the teacher has it in the back of their mind always to be aware of the possibility of bringing into the work that 's going on in the classroom and bringing all they 're usually very excellent pedagogic skills to bear on it , aspects of the physical sciences , so that the children can get an early and meaningful introduction to it , then it will happen . |
| 29 | She knew how Beth had gone to the lodging house on the night when her own father disowned her ; how she had run to her lover only to be turned away from there broken-hearted when the girl claimed that Tyler was the father of her own mythical child . |
| 30 | She turned her mouth again to Mallachy 's . |