Example sentences of "to [indef pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless he was a most intelligent ad gifted ma , even , so to say , a scholar , though , as far as his scholarship was concerned , well , in a word , his scholarship did n't amount to much , to nothing at all I think . |
| 2 | Monthly rainfall in the area drops from 4 inches/100mm in January to nothing at all in the four summer months . |
| 3 | Yanked above hounds , reverts to nothing at all , |
| 4 | I 'm a nobody — in material terms I possess next to nothing of any monetary value . |
| 5 | An ambitious reclamation scheme on the south coast also came to nothing around this time . |
| 6 | I am an elected representative of the people of Northern Ireland , three thousand three hundred of our people have been murdered , that 's the equivalent of a hundred thousand people in Britain , it is the responsibility of every elected representative to do everything in their power , everything in their power , to stop that , The least responsibility that they have , the least they can do , is enter into dialogue directly with the people involved and I apologize to no-one for that , and if anybody is telling me that I 'm tainted because I do that , you know , I do n't know what sort of minds they 've got , because I think it 's our responsibility to do everything in our power to bring this violence to an end , and what 's more , what I 'm doing has massive support of ordinary people on both sections of our community because I have never in my twenty years experienced the nature of the support and the way that it 's being expressed to me by people in the streets , by telephone , and in particular by |
| 7 | He insisted on calling me the Professor of French Letters — introduced me to everyone as that in the pubs . |
| 8 | That is a great credit to the improved quality of our service , and to the commitment of all our staff , and I pay tribute to everyone for that . |
| 9 | The other point on that is that the draft matters for the E I P including matter two D have been known to everyone for some considerable time . |
| 10 | The D O E objection has been known to everyone for some considerable time and their statement is quite explicit in what it says in relation to the matter of one D. |
| 11 | Opportunities range from those which are more or less obvious to everyone to those which are only spotted by someone who makes the conceptual breakthrough . |
| 12 | The school stories are still the major fodder of the magazine , if only because it is something universal to everyone in this country . |
| 13 | That is the most tangible way to demonstrate our concern for the health service and to continue to improve the service available to everyone in this country . |
| 14 | It was this fundamentally sound structure which made the game readily accessible to everyone in those unions and led to the South African game being so strong , so great , and so famous . |
| 15 | The Republican Movement has general orders which apply to everyone within that movement . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , I have as much of a need to hand my legacy on to someone as any biological parent . |
| 17 | He 'd desperately needed to talk to someone about this and when he 'd thought about it , William was the only person he could talk to . |
| 18 | When young people form a strong attachment to someone of another race or religion , parents and elders may well express surprise . |
| 19 | This means that the framework for any activity is itself communicative i.e. that there is something to be communicated to someone for some purpose . |
| 20 | How curious that someone with such a short , neatly waved cap of brown hair should be talking to someone with such a fuzz of ginger hair — and talking so seriously , with no sense of disparity ! |
| 21 | Lady Kitty 's wardrobes were crammed with clothes , and she would give those for which she had no further use to someone with little money — in exchange for some of their coupons , of course . |
| 22 | Another older woman , who had lived alone with her mother since her father died , recalled the satisfaction of coming home to someone with all the time in the world to listen to what she had to tell about her day in the office or an evening at choir practice . |
| 23 | To someone without this discriminative capacity , either congenitally or because it has not been developed , a thing can present a blue appearance , but he can not see it as blue . |
| 24 | When we speak to a child , or to someone from another culture , we can easily estimate this knowledge incorrectly . |
| 25 | I mean , what do you say to someone like that ? |
| 26 | Why on earth should she want to tie herself to someone like that ? ’ |
| 27 | To open yourself up to someone like that , I am a failure , then you 're kind of establishing a different level of relationship are n't you . |
| 28 | Is the Minister confident that the counselling services offered to someone in such circumstances are of the highest quality ? |
| 29 | They let me have one last look and told me that it belonged to someone in another band — which made me feel really guilty . |
| 30 | Low levels of class consciousness are exacerbated by clientelism , which links the peasant through personal relationships to someone in another class . |