Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I therefore proposed an account of law , ‘ normative positivism ’ , which I take to synthesize salient features of positivism and natural law thinking and which seems to me wholly to fit the nature of criminal law . |
| 2 | We think someone in the community is protecting the killer and we want to be sure we 've spoken to everyone |
| 3 | But the question is you have to design the experiment and you have to be the expert . |
| 4 | something to be dropped on from a great height as frequently as possible er particularly if it 's the G L C. In the United States , however much the federal government is irritated by the state government , it can not attack its constitutional powers nor can it undermine its financial base so that 's a different relationship , it 's a relationship based , not on dominance , but on partnership and there has to be an understanding , a trade off between federal and er a and state government . |
| 5 | On another occasion , she wrote : ‘ We were in the bedroom and I said to mother : ‘ What is that ? ’ , referring to an overmantel mirror . |
| 6 | As she ran down the driveway of the semi-detached house , a shot was fired from an upstairs front bedroom and she fell to the ground . |
| 7 | However , this is only a recommendation and it remains to be seen just how much notice the courts will take or whether legislation will follow . |
| 8 | John Buchan was President and I wrote to him asking for his advice . |
| 9 | Er , er I would say Spock because Spock er is the second in command and he tends to be critical of Jim , I mean he gives Jim good advice . |
| 10 | John had been moved to Norfolk and promoted to Corporal and he wrote to Anne nearly every day , loving letters which helped to make her grief for her mother more bearable . |
| 11 | Sadly for us , George found it necessary to reach the top via a Football League club and he moved to Oldham in September 1910 , for a fee variously quoted as between £450 and £800 , in order to gain his England recognition . |
| 12 | We always march in the parade on Armistice Sunday and this year erm I picked my poppy wreath up from the vic from vicarage and I said to the Vicar , you do n't mind if I wind some white poppies in this one do you , because it was the Earl Hague poppy you know . |
| 13 | Continuity and progression have to be built in to the programme and there has to be scope for differentiation and extension . |
| 14 | ‘ The world championships are in the forefront of my mind and I have to be patient . |
| 15 | I fetched the glasses , broke the seal and we set to . |
| 16 | Mother watched in horror as the fly fell from its mouth and it swam to freedom . |
| 17 | Because I went up to their fabric department and I want to after Christmas I 'm going to wash all the covers on the er settees , you know er the dralon . |
| 18 | We have to live with uncertainty and we have to a far more adaptable than previous generations . |
| 19 | Then might not the rotting stump of the tree split under their weight and they come to grief ? |
| 20 | She picked it up , misjudged its weight and it fell to the floor with a thud . |
| 21 | There was all this unstated sexual intention and we went to the toilets at Finchley Road tube station and I did n't know what was going to happen . |
| 22 | the the two brothers that went away and they were driving a car and one said to the other , watch what you 're doing and the other said to him , but I 'm not driving so . |
| 23 | Have one of those things in the car and you speak to the R A C or the A A |
| 24 | And of course er when an article became , when you needed an article or something broke down in the car and you needed to m=make something up on the lathe o it was made on the premises . |
| 25 | Thankfully our landing was cushioned by the deep new snow and we came to a rest 100 metres lower , badly bruised and half strangled by the rope , but somehow down the couloir in one piece . |
| 26 | It was a great relief to him when she stumbled in through the door in a flurry of snow and he set to and made a cup of tea to warm her . |
| 27 | a lovely course for re reflexology and one day , I went to Shambrook College and he said to me you 've got , you 've got a great feeling with your hands he said , you , you , you 'd make a good reflexology , but the courses were in Luton |
| 28 | I visited a college there in , in that offshore island in the Indian Ocean and met the principal of that theological college and I said to him , I asked him how the college was going and he gave the same blandness to his answer as to my question and then he said of his theological college we are still training an aristocracy for the church and ensuring the inertia of the people of God . |
| 29 | ‘ With free trade the European community is becoming a strong force and we want to be a part of it ’ , says Nereaux-Weber . |
| 30 | The word came from her with sudden and frightening force and it seemed to Creggan as if it was a burden he would carry always in this place . |