Example sentences of "to the [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right now , those hip hop beats have been taken to the max and they 've got to be real careful it does n't become like Muzak |
| 2 | Tom 's mother was highly critical of the way the mainstream school was handling him but agreed to the assessment because she felt it might help him . |
| 3 | As Norman Cohn shows in his classic Europe 's Inner Demons , infanticide — slaughter of the incontrovertibly innocent — was always crucial to the psychodrama and it soon got pinned on the Jews . |
| 4 | It seemed to be given up to the birds and their morning hymns … |
| 5 | It 's true that that is a common feature really from the time of for the last five hundred million years , from the time of the earliest fish to ourselves and to the birds and everybody else , but it 's like that not because there is some kind of profound law of form , which says that 's the kind of organism which is in permitted by the laws of development to arise , erm I mean the law form would be something like erm a law of physics which says that if objects move round the sun they 're going to do so in ellipses with the sun at one focus . |
| 6 | I pay tribute to the efforts that he has made since he has held the office of Secretary of State to bring all constitutional politicians together . |
| 7 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 8 | For the rest of the afternoon she simply sat in the front room of the old farmhouse , surrounded by paint pots and rolls of wallpaper , oblivious to the chaos as she went over everything that had happened in her mind . |
| 9 | When appropriate , it is gently suggested to the organisers that they should themselves donate an agreed percentage of their takings to my chosen charity for the year . |
| 10 | She and her detective rushed over to the photographer and she pleaded with him to hand over his film , and tell nothing of what he had seen . |
| 11 | The headmaster from 1927 to 1953 ( from the year before I was born to the year before I joined the staff ) was C. G. M. Broom : a scholar of Brasenose and , like all his predecessors , a classic in the old manner . |
| 12 | has made an excellent start to the year and I shall have more to say about them next time as I plan to visit Faverolles in August to see the additional breakfast cereal production capacity which will be coming on stream this autumn . |
| 13 | I strolled down to the Tormes and its Roman bridge : in the Plaza del Puente at its northern end stands an ancient , battered statue of the Roman lion mentioned in Lazarillo de Tormes . |
| 14 | And so therefore if anybody has amendments that they wish to make to the deliverance as it is , we will take them if necessary one by one and vote for them as they are presented to us , and then we 'll come to any other counter motions that may be on hand . |
| 15 | Despite these problems , manorial court rolls provide a great deal of information that is of use to the genealogist and they enable the family historian to gain insights into how the local society in which his ancestors lived was administered and to see what disputes arose . |
| 16 | She heard him call after her and got into one of the swing boats with a pale , freckled little boy who was hanging nervously on to the rope while his plain , doting parents stood beside the boat , saying encouragingly , ‘ Go on , Sidney , it 'll be such fun . ’ |
| 17 | The unknown adds spice to the adventure whether it is a relative newcomer 's first trip to windsurf on the sea , or a move to a place that produces more of a challenge with better waves for an aspiring expert . |
| 18 | As we approached we could hear the real Chairman of the Ontario Jockey Club welcoming everyone to the adventure and we could see Zak and the other actors waiting for him to finish so that they could get on with the mystery . |
| 19 | As soon as they came in from the fishing , John — Augustus left Robinson and his potboy to take the tackle and the satisfactory number of dead char back to the inn while he went over to Hause Point . |
| 20 | Storm or no storm , she could no more have returned to the inn than she had been able to return penitent to the bosom of her family six long years ago , when the same stigma would have been laid to her then as had been laid to her now . |
| 21 | I am excited and absorbed in my purpose to return to the inn but I never find my way there again . |
| 22 | and he made me feel right guilty yesterday I , I had to buy a packet about three o'clock , so I did n't have any until three o'clock and then talk to the cat and I thought no it 's no good , Margaret I 'll have to hide this packet up |
| 23 | Please pass on my congratulations to the Editor and his team for what must have been a considerable amount of sustained commitment , in producing such a high quality publication for the benefit of all members and the industry in general . ’ |
| 24 | Regardless of who we are or what we may do in life all of us have an upper limit to the stress that our bodies can take . |
| 25 | Kevin Earnshaw , of the Flanders Scottish Alliance , a war charity which took more than £1 million of aid to Romania three years ago and has since taken hundreds of thousands of pounds of supplies to the former Yugoslavia , said he agreed to the request but he needs help to keep his word . |
| 26 | When the coup in Yugoslavia in spring 1941 interfered with Hitler 's plans for an attack on the Soviet Union ( Britain 's last potential Continental ally ) and a deterioration in mood set in owing to the threatening extension of the war to the Balkans , SD soundings of opinion again registered ‘ with what childlike trust the most ordinary people in particular look up to the Führer and our leadership of state ’ , convinced that ‘ the Führer has taken it into account and will deal properly with it ’ . ’ |
| 27 | At the same time there were others who were resolutely opposed to the APU and its philosophy . |
| 28 | To the rejoinder that he wear the gown showing his ‘ highest proficiency ’ he replied , ‘ Ah , well , 1 should not need to put any other gown in my bag than 1 usually carry ’ , by which he meant his night-gown , as ‘ that represents my greatest proficiency ’ . |
| 29 | In 1297 an Irish attorney acting for the abbot of Mellifont in a case before King 's Bench suggested to the abbot that he would be guaranteed success in his litigation if he paid Rothbury a bribe of twenty marks through the attorney . |
| 30 | Projects least vulnerable to the accusation that they are dealing with non-problems are those initiated by the International Chamber of Commerce , the membership of whose Com-missions is drawn preponderantly from the world of industry and commerce , banking , shipping , and arbitration . |