Example sentences of "to [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japanese collectors also value the psychological security offered by the multiple image — to like exactly what other collectors like seems to them a good and reassuring thing . |
| 2 | This courting dance seemed to them a grotesque parody . |
| 3 | His current offer would have seemed attractive to them a couple of years back , but not now . |
| 4 | Once again , it was fear of Charles and his military might that converted the Saxons , not love of Christ ( who must have seemed to them a very hard , vengeful god indeed ) . |
| 5 | For example , to them a thousandth of a litre is 1cm 3 . |
| 6 | Goleniewski had been in touch with the CIA since 1958 during which time he had passed on to them a considerable amount of information that had led to the arrest of several important spies . |
| 7 | Next to them a baby shrieks in its mother 's arms . |
| 8 | Suddenly the woman seemed to relax and Jack warmed to them a little more . |
| 9 | On the other hand there was some investment in being able to assess performance such that it was possible to reward people for ‘ good ’ performance , and the group were not entirely able to sort this one out in that it was representing to them a dependent desire to be judged and be judged as good , and yet a refusal to accept the terms upon which judgement was being made in that they felt depersonalized by it ’ |
| 10 | Some people can not live in their own homes without serious risk , and to them a D.G.A.A. Home will bring safety and comfort . |
| 11 | PAGE 3 girls apparently are feeling the chill and quite unable to earn the sort of mega money available to them a few years ago . |
| 12 | All three were aware that the King and Queen had , after four years of war , come to represent to their subjects all that was best in the domestic and public virtues , and that there had been current for some time an idea of presenting to them a gift as a mark of national respect , thanks and loyalty . |
| 13 | I write to them a lot . ’ |
| 14 | But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life . |
| 15 | The leader and the ideas have ascribed to them a mysterious and irresistible power which Le Bon called ‘ prestige ’ , a notion close to , if not identical with , Weber 's concept of ‘ charisma ’ . |
| 16 | It is such questions which one must ask of Christians , particularly Christians who would be feminist , who explain that the creation story ( or any other part of the Christian story which may be said to be sexist ) is to them a ‘ true myth ’ . |
| 17 | The electrons may be emitted from a hot cathode maintained at a fixed temperature and then conducted through a stable arrangement of electric and magnetic fields which imparts to them a certain amount of energy and focusses them in a particular region of space . |
| 18 | These included creating some kind of social security for women artists and making available to them a basic training . |
| 19 | they desperately want a child between them and to them a child that is born by the mother but is from a different origin than than the partner is is the next best thing an , and most of the couples , and we do n't advise them that this should all be kept secret , we leave that decision to be something that they will erm , come to later on when the child is older , and many of these couples will decide that this child will be brought as their own biological child , and I do n't really see that as being any different than many relationships where children are conceived out of wedlock , or out , with the relationship and people make a a a decision to keep this erm to themselves . |
| 20 | It is well known that speakers of French have open to them a number of different ways of forming interrogatives ; for example , Coveney ( 1986 ) has distinguished five different variants of the wh interrogative , two of which are [ SVQ ] and [ QSV ] . |
| 21 | A ferocious-looking man whose tangled hair resembled the roof of his own tent held up to them a rough bowl . |
| 22 | Grandison described him as a ‘ dearly loved member of our household and a valuable and willing servant to us and to our church of Exeter ’ ; and next year wrote to the abbot and convent of Sherborne to commend to them a young man , J. de Sparkeforde , son of Master Thomas de Wytteneye ‘ whose industry is of special value for the repair and in part new building , by his skill , of the fabric of our church of Exeter ’ . |
| 23 | At the same time he thought it desirable to submit to them a brief record of his work ( Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , 1899 , pp. 3–11 ) , in view of what were in his opinion the less than adequate references to it in the 1899 James Forrest lecture on ‘ Magnetism ’ by J. A. Ewing [ q.v. ] , in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers ( vol. cxxxviii , pp. 289–311 ) . |
| 24 | And every time the Sun shall display His Rising Light , It shall be to them a new Wedding-Day ; And when he sets , a new Nuptial-Night , |
| 25 | I usually read to them a bit , but there 's no need for you to . |
| 26 | Er you said you 've had a erm contact with , discussions with the officers over this and certainly I 've spoken to them a an they this is the case . |
| 27 | The National Council of the League passed a resolution in March 1933 urging the Labour party and TUC to arrange " a meeting with the representatives of the Co-op movement , the ILP and the CP for the purpose of proposing to them a basis for United Action " . |
| 28 | Their twenty seven year old son had returned home around eleven thirty last night and found his parents dead … next to them a shotgun . |
| 29 | ‘ People send you things that they think are exotic or bizarre , but when you listen to them a lot of them are just band copies of hits people just trying to sound like the Beatles . |
| 30 | So you 're feeling relaxed and comfortable and good because you 're telling me , you know , what a great tennis player I am and I really enjoy it , you 've just given me a couple of names that I 'll either make a note of or I 'll say that 's interesting cos I actually deal with Joe on a business relationship anyway erm maybe we could meet some other people from the tennis club , self employed people , professional people such as yourself , who might be interested in looking at financial planning but today I 'm more interested in talking about you Bill , erm we 'll come back to them a bit later if I may so let's press on . |