Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb -s] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | What began as an exotic flirtation with the Other , a pop foray into a perceived Heart of Darkness , soon turned into a full-blown dance initiative in those irony-clad years of 1980–81 , with everyone from Japan to ABC to Cabaret Voltaire to Spandau Ballet to Heaven 17 conspiring to venture a white funk whose snappiness was a jeer at the indies , a white funk that would saunter easily into the charts and every other public place and , with their manifestos , make them better places to be . |
| 2 | I just says to Mrs Sneddon that she needed a new battery for her hearing aid and that a daimen-icker in a thrave didny mean whit she thought it did ! |
| 3 | I am already aware of some of your extremely worthwhile efforts and send my best regards to all those involved with the Association and wish you every success in the future . |
| 4 | Please give my best regards to your Uncle Charles ; |
| 5 | In early 1958 he received a stream of well-placed visitors during his fortnightly trips to the capital . |
| 6 | What business is it of the State if someone now wishes to be known as a woman , where previously she was considered a man ? |
| 7 | ‘ The Wicked Witch Of The West , ’ is one crew member 's assessment , while someone else refers to Kurt being a nice guy BC — ‘ Before Courtney ’ . |
| 8 | Most writers of whatever kind know what it is to write and to discover in the process that someone else seems to be standing by . |
| 9 | Italy is of course the country where anything is possible , but legitimate concern has been expressed at the way in which the young Florentine judge has seen fit to take upon herself a role which properly belongs to the competent institutional authorities that of evaluating the appropriateness and the implementation of a particular restoration project . |
| 10 | The duty arises from the real concern that management may benefit from an opportunity which properly belongs to the company and its shareholders . |
| 11 | Prior to the block exemption , such agreements would have had to be cleared individually by the Commission , a practice which effectively amounts to notification . |
| 12 | This " combination " which effectively amounts to no more than the adjective itself is then linked by explicit assignment to the entity of the subject . |
| 13 | Such a wish , which presumably applies to both men and women , seems as impossible of fulfilment as my determination , ‘ That wo n't be me ’ . |
| 14 | It is frustrating on occasions when a side puts together an exciting movement of forwards interpassing to be concluded by a piece of driving play which eventually comes to a halt and the opposition get the put-in . |
| 15 | Trudge up this to find a well-defined narrow path which eventually leads to the south-east face of the crag . |
| 16 | The whole reason for the existence of finite time appears to have been to bring about that conflict of good and evil which eventually leads to the triumph of the former . |
| 17 | The possibility exists of a friendship developing between a transsexual and someone else , which eventually leads to thoughts of marriage . |
| 18 | Still compulsive viewing after all these years , the story tells of a sexual attraction between alluring femme fatale Matty ( Kathleen Turner ) and sleazy lawyer Ned ( Hurt ) which eventually leads to a murderous crime of passion . |
| 19 | Some miles beyond Ellon , the A92 bifurcates : the right-hand fork becomes the A952 which eventually leads to Peterhead and its gaol by the sea . |
| 20 | This establishment of subduction zones results in a change from continental dispersal to continental aggregation which eventually leads to the reassembly of a large land mass . |
| 21 | Bone is a living tissue which constantly adapts to the body 's changing requirements . |
| 22 | For Christianity is a historical religion , one which necessarily relates to history . |
| 23 | These concepts require self-reflection for their meaning to be grasped , which necessarily leads to an ontology privileging the individual as a knowing subject . |
| 24 | Life for Hannah Hauxwell then settled into a pattern which basically continues to this day . |
| 25 | It certainly seems to escape the circularity inherent in a Kantian attempt to link the particularity of entities with the numerical identity of the places that such entities occupy in a general spatio-temporal framework , which only leads to the problem of having to presuppose the existence of numerically identical entities in order to be able to refer to identical places . |
| 26 | ( i ) The facts of the case must come within the section , which only applies to , the " faulty execution of … construction , maintenance or repair … |
| 27 | Why not do it and leave it ready the day before , then all that is needed is one minute to set the garter carriage in operation and you will come home to a sleeve which only has to be cast off . |
| 28 | Long 's playing in the Concerto possesses feather-light dexterity with sly , wittily contrasted phrasing , which only serves to emphasis the nonchalant brilliance and simplicity of her interpretation . |
| 29 | From this you might learn about Richardson 's method of writing , as well as about differences between writing which is really private compared to writing which only pretends to be private . |
| 30 | Three hundred thousand foxes are killed annually in this country , either through hunting , which only attributes to a small two point percent , shooting , gassing , snaring , all of which happen during the hunting season as well . |