Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity to do so did not arise until Racedown was offered to them six years later , by which time Wordsworth could contemplate a life whose course , since his Norfolk visit , had done much to shape his political and poetic character , and had left him with more than a little to repent . |
| 2 | Thus Verity , the generation construction engineer , replied to an enquiry in September 1949 as to why the engineers had not reacted to a draft contracts procedure sent to them six months ago : |
| 3 | The clerks and scholars of the University of Oxford were reported to have gathered ‘ to them great numbers of evil-doers in unlawful assemblies , with no small power by night and by day ’ . |
| 4 | To imagine that the Labour leaders could have thwarted and de-mobilised such a force for all these years is to attribute to them superhuman powers . |
| 5 | Each student entering , gains experience and confidence and for the winners , many doors open to them due to the kudos of the event and the talent they have demonstrated . |
| 6 | If the public is to get the message , it must be presented to them many times . |
| 7 | The first of these three problems , which is the most important in numerical terms — accounting for just under 10% of all unsatisfied requests — is also the most easily solved , and could very largely be eliminated simply by encouraging readers to consult the Library 's catalogues before submitting a call-slip , and by making available to them printed instructions on the location and interpretation of catalogue entries for serial publications . |
| 8 | What to them cheaper ? |
| 9 | The attraction of shells has often been enhanced by attributing to them symbolic meanings suggested by more or less fanciful resemblances . |
| 10 | Keep shit at bay , keep warmth at bay , those maggots of feeling , breeding in the shit , sooner or later it gets to them all , even Hilda , love at last , her very words , who would have thought it . |
| 11 | Different styles of karate perform the front kick in different ways but the effective competition front kick is common to them all . |
| 12 | He chatted to them all evening , then went home and fell asleep . |
| 13 | If a composer remembers to keep this audience entertained , think what he can say to them all at the same time . |
| 14 | At the invitation of the Soviet government , and accompanied by no fewer than 25 Swedish journalists , members of Raul Wallenberg 's family and the society which bears his name will meet , during their week-long visit to Moscow , representatives of the KGB and the Foreign Ministry , who have promised to submit to them all available material . |
| 15 | My grateful thanks go to them all . |
| 16 | Central Council would like to record its grateful thanks to them all for their work throughout 1990 , and especially for the way they have accepted the increased work load . |
| 17 | Central Council extends its sincere thanks to them all . |
| 18 | The producers of all these programmes are inundated with cassette tapes from bands , so they may take some time before listening to them all . |
| 19 | She also went up on to the stage afterwards to meet the singers , and endeared herself to them all when one of the chorus asked , ‘ Why do n't you come and audition for the company ? ’ |
| 20 | He painted this picture of his father-in-law : ‘ Over his kindred he held a wary and chary care , which bountifully was expressed when occasion so required , reputing himself not only principal of the family but a general father to them all … as for frank , well ordered and continual hospitality he outwent all show of competence ; spare but discreet of speech : better conceiving than delivering ; equally stout and kind , not upon lightness of humour , but upon soundness of judgement : inclined to commiseration , ready to relieve . ’ |
| 21 | Yet he was a kind of Christ figure , who entered the lives of ordinary people in a rich , bored , bourgeois family , made love to them all indifferently , both male and female , inexplicably , then left as mysteriously as he had come , deserting them in the hours of their greatest need . |
| 22 | It is pleasant to find that this believer in the perfectibility of mankind was a good father to them all . |
| 23 | Even if the Bookman had wanted to answer the questions , he could n't have replied to them all so quickly . |
| 24 | The thought came to them all ; ‘ While you live , Duart ! ’ |
| 25 | She would dedicate her song to them all . |
| 26 | But the little boy 's request was unusually apt , for , unknown to them all , they were not in Edendale , Southland , New Zealand , but the Garden of Eden by Gore . |
| 27 | Just to know that he was there could bring a smile to the face and to know now that he was n't brought an ineffable sadness to them all . |
| 28 | Alicia uses it only when the family has come to the end of its own resources and then it brings happiness and prosperity to them all . |
| 29 | Penelope Fitzgerald is Edmund 's daughter and she brings to them all , therefore , the quickened sympathy of family feeling , as well as of her own memories . |
| 30 | As you can imagine , she receives many requests of this nature , and it is simply not possible for her to respond positively to them all . ’ |