Example sentences of "to [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the drift of the argument was essentially that men did not assume leadership , but that it was granted to them according to criteria which took merit and experience , as well as birth and social standing , into consideration . |
| 2 | As far as personnel are concerned , every attempt will be made to refer to them according to skills , professions or areas of activity ( e.g. audio-visual technicians , media producers , design consultants ) , and normally the expression " educational technologist " will imply someone consciously identifying himself with the theory and methodology of the movement . |
| 3 | In Jacobs v Wessex Regional Health Authority [ 1984 ] CLY 2618 the respondents were ordered to pay the costs in any event where the plaintiff 's solicitors had written letters to them referring to the reasonableness of their request for discovery , the relevant authorities and the saving in public expense from voluntary discovery to a legally aided plaintiff . |
| 4 | He has also earned the respect of the players who know that Nigel can hold the key to them returning to the side quickly . |
| 5 | There are many more , and to them have to be added the spores of fungal diseases , always produced in countless millions and ever-present , carried on the wind , ready to take advantage of easily-penetrated soft flabby tissue , a wound or a point of entry perhaps left open by insect damage , to invade , debilitate , deface and even destroy an entire plant . |
| 6 | What facilities are available to me to respond to my assignment in multimedia terms ? a question which should importantly remind us all of the ready way in which many young people today think in visual or audio-visual terms . |
| 7 | All of these factors seem to me to point to the desirability of the judgment being exercised by the local authority , with their unique knowledge of the facts , rather than by the courts . |
| 8 | The remarkable quality of the New Hall collection , a voluntary assembly of donated works , and the likewise extraordinary disproportion of successful women artists in the final selection of the New Contemporaries this year seem to me to point to a crucial shift that is happening in symbolic utterance and representation : women 's bodies , women 's nature have long been ‘ good to think with ’ , their flesh has served artists as founts of meaning , allegorical and personal . |
| 9 | John wrote at length to Hanns about colour , shapes and general effect desirable , and asked him to ‘ do a few rough sketches and send them to me to give to Cecily ; number them so that I can just send you back a telegram saying ‘ Do number three ’ say , unless there is more to be said . ’ |
| 10 | He stops short of handing it over himself , but gives it to me to give to her . |
| 11 | And she says , soon as she gets the money she 's gon na give it to me to give to yous . |
| 12 | Tomorrow , are you going to give it to Mr or do you want to give it to me to give to him or whatever suits you |
| 13 | But even if Sheridan 's case was rightly decided and a ‘ conviction ’ in the narrower sense will support a plea of autrefois convict , that does not appear to me to lead to the conclusion that a ‘ conviction ’ in the narrower sense must end the power of the court to allow a plea to be changed . |
| 14 | ‘ I begged a bed at my brother 's place — a room just a carpet away from you was much too close , the state I was in , ’ he confessed , and , while her pride recovered by leaps and bounds at his confession , ‘ Have you any idea , woman , what it did to me to return to that hotel to find you gone ? ’ |
| 15 | She was willing to be used by him and the outrageous request received the obedient , ‘ Let it be to me according to your word ’ ( Luke 1.38 ) . |
| 16 | Because wh when , when we were looking at , at , at the I mean sort of things the implication to me seemed to be that , that this in itself is a successful policy , rent reduction , interest rate reduction methods improving er productivity , increasing input , in themselves are satisfying the demands of the peasantry and you would not need to go beyond that , I mean well did n't need to , he is n't the ideal , but he did n't need to go and he , he was doing very well out of it . |
| 17 | Do you remember how you were on to me to write to him ? |
| 18 | Other similarities between the suicide and the anorexic seem to me to relate to the individual 's reactions to an impinging world . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , my dear , ’ he said , ‘ you 'll really have to get used to me going to Mass . |
| 20 | Many kibbutzim are founded on the Marxist principle of ‘ from everyone according to ability — to everyone according to need ’ , the guiding ideal being the creation of an egalitarian society . |
| 21 | I hope you like its new look and find its approach to yours needs to be equally professional . |
| 22 | And they used to they used to I had to I had to pluck them and clean them ready to put in the oven . . |
| 23 | I have to I have to fucking sleep around ! |
| 24 | and er , I told him all about it , and I said I do n't know what happened to I spoke to somebody last Monday and he was coming down immediately for it , so he sort of said , well I 'll come down for it , there 's a different one , he got , and he came down for it and he took it , so er , . |
| 25 | b. goes to his goes to a club + has a drink talks to the barman + then he starts dancing with a beautiful girl long black hair + has a good time + |
| 26 | and woman sitting in the living room … the man 's bored goes to the window looks out the window … and goes out + goes to his goes to a club + has a drink talks to the barman |
| 27 | On the present argument , the recognition that in widening awareness , exploring from his own former viewpoint as child and future as old man , and generalizing to the viewpoints of all , his spontaneous dislike of the obligation as a hindrance to himself turns to approval of it as beneficial to all . |
| 28 | The programme was of limited value to the people of Bangladesh owing to its failing to be able to cope with a poor infrastructure and a large population . |
| 29 | The first is the extent to which consent to injury can be a defence in circumstances such as these . |
| 30 | As to which chair to which to start , a more rectangular , less curved style will be easier , and you can progress in due course to more ornate and complicated styles . |