Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [verb] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Pardon me for jumping to erroneous conclusions . |
| 2 | ‘ Only a few years ago he criticised me for speaking to the press and said I should never do it again . |
| 3 | ‘ You blame me for returning to England because of my job but it was n't just that and it was n't all my fault . ’ |
| 4 | And can you pardon me for coming to such a conclusion as that in the last line of my verses ? |
| 5 | It would have suited his purposes admirably well to have had the police arrest them for responding to his antagonism . |
| 6 | But er and then when television come her mother was sat over it all times and she used to tell me about going to pictures . |
| 7 | She said , ‘ The other day Silvia said something to me about going to Alghero . ’ |
| 8 | We have seen how ‘ the street ’ and ‘ the city ’ played important roles in middle-class demonology , so it is easy to understand why youth workers sought to provide counter-attractions to them , believing as they did that ‘ there is nothing worth doing to be done there ’ . |
| 9 | It so happened that Hugh was the man who had been producing Tony Newley and he said to me after listening to those tracks that this was the most exciting thing to come into his room since Tony Newley which I thought was quite amazing since , some time later , David was quite infatuated with the work of Newley . |
| 10 | May we come to respect ourselves for sticking to our principles and living our lives with honesty and integrity . |
| 11 | Because nobody understands us , and we hate ourselves for needing to be understood . |
| 12 | I think we proved ourselves with Go To Hell ( a tune written for the movie ‘ Bill And Ted 's Bogus Journey' — NJB ) , which we all played a part in writing . ’ |
| 13 | Janice beamed at him and slipped an arm through his before turning to Shiona . |
| 14 | ( Does n't seem to be a strength of his since moving to Leeds ) ? |
| 15 | Roger L'Estrange produced a pamphlet condemning the Whigs and Nonconformists as republicans , accusing them of wanting to " pursue their Revenge on us [ the Church of England ] " , and he asked " Whether the Clergy of the C. of E. are not concern 'd to be as diligent against Phanaticism now , as of late against Popery " . |
| 16 | And he 's got all , do n't think nothing of getting to any trouble with it , you know . |
| 17 | ‘ It almost broke me to hear you accuse me of going to bed with you to get a story . |
| 18 | Gradually , over the years , the colour of the breed became darker through mahogany to black , and there was plenty of crossing to the Hereford for its grazing characteristics and to the Ayrshire to restore milk yields . |
| 19 | TREE surgeon Robin Teasdill , 34 , stopped himself from bleeding to death by holding the main artery of his leg together for 15 minutes . |
| 20 | Then he slipped , and caught at the grass to stop himself from going to the bottom . |
| 21 | If he misdirects himself in coming to his decision , the court can say : ‘ Very well then . |
| 22 | In temperament he was not unlike Surere , a career official who had dedicated himself to climbing to the top of the power structure , though he had chosen the priesthood as his channel . |
| 23 | In the reply he is not allowed to introduce any new matter and must confine himself to replying to the points made in the discussion and to summarising the main arguments he put forward when moving the motion . |
| 24 | On another occasion he bravely went on to the roof to assess the wind damage to his television aerial but slipped and just managed to save himself by clinging to the guttering — not however , before dislodging a slate which bulleted downward and sliced its way effortlessly into the bonnet of his neighbour 's brand new car to form a kind of dorsal fin . |
| 25 | In arable districts most usable lad must already have been taken up , and with the commons jealously guarded by farmers to whom they were essential for keeping the animals on which cultivation depended , the landless man stood a better chance of carving a niche for himself by drifting to a less-developed , mainly pastoral terrain . |
| 26 | Ravana captured Hanuman and set fire to his tail , but the monkey avenged himself by growing to the size of a giant and setting fire to the city . |
| 27 | At its worst this results in a sort of tasteless Euro-soup , which by trying to be all things to all men , ends up being nothing to anybody . |
| 28 | I 've got to decide what I 'm going to say to Mum and Dad — I 've got to picture them , feel what they always make me feel like and somehow change it … speak to them like speaking to a dream , make it my dream instead of their dream … |
| 29 | ‘ Your plans are quite praiseworthy , Sophie , and I respect you for sticking to them . |
| 30 | We , the young people of this area , extend our greetings to you and thank you for listening to us on this Youth Sunday . |