Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judging by her tone , she might even have transferred some of it to the absent Rose . |
| 2 | Pushing those around him to the brink and saying jump . |
| 3 | The bankruptcy order is settled by the court in Form 6.25 in Schedule 4 to the rules ( r 6.33 ) , see Appendix C , form 32 , and the court must send at least two sealed copies to the official receiver who must send one of them to the bankrupt and cause the order to be entered in the register of writs and orders at the land registry and be advertised in the London Gazette and local newspaper ( r 6.34 ) . |
| 4 | Third , it analyses the influence on the political agenda and public opinion ; has it shifted either of them to the right ? |
| 5 | I adjusted one of them to the reclining position , lay back in it and closed my eyes . |
| 6 | Flake the tuna and add most of it to the bowl , together with the beans . |
| 7 | First he returned one of them to the brass container . |
| 8 | She had never met Naomi in her life , but in death she grew to love her : she had taken her into herself , had learned her likings , had read her books and tried ( although not herself musical ) to listen to her music , she had spoken much of her to the children , had insisted upon treating her as an ally , as a friend beyond the grave , had reinvented her and kept her close to them — oh , not without awareness of the dangers , of the necessary distortions and consolations , but then all life is danger , and Liz had embarked willingly upon its full tide with those three small boys , with that ambitious , importunate widower and that friendly ghost . |
| 9 | British officers on the Defence Adviser 's staff in our Washington Embassy , and in exchange appointments at US military establishments , see the products of the vast US research and development programmes and become wedded to them to the detriment of British-developed equivalents . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's remarkable that , in addition to playing 11 cities around the country , the educational programme played to over 5,000 kids and brought many of them to the main theatre in their local cities for the first time in their lives , on subsidised tickets . |
| 11 | If the linguistic side of our University Schools of English could be persuaded to give rather less of their attention to the roots of the English language and to devote more of it to the leaves it has put forth so abundantly since 1500 there would be far more data for literary scholars like Mr. Bateson to work upon . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm Loretta Lawson ’ , she said , returning and handing one of them to the American woman . |
| 13 | He was rehearsing Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and the lines had fled ; what he hung on to was the physical business , and when he did some of it to the mirror it seemed poor stuff for the old Living Boomerang . |
| 14 | I fetched more glasses and dealt some of them to the Lorrimores who were an oasis of silence in the chattering mob and paid me absolutely no attention : and from then on I felt I had indeed chosen the right role and could sustain it indefinitely . |
| 15 | Give it some of that' or ’ We 've got Sabrina on next weeks show , and you do n't get many of them to the pound , eh boys ? ’ |
| 16 | He just managed to beat one of them to the receiver . |
| 17 | He once reproached Sir Philip Sidney for his famous refusal of a cup of water on a Dutch battlefield as an act that looks ‘ aggressively holy ’ , and it is hard to imagine any other critic of the age allowing himself such a remark , or even conceiving of it : The okay thing would be to drink some of the cup himself and pass it on , leaving most of it to the other man … ’ |
| 18 | During my term of office I hope to introduce all of you to the ‘ Team ’ who are the driving force behind the Society — Friends without whom I could not manage ! |
| 19 | And he did nothing in his life of exploration to introduce any of them to the places he saw . |
| 20 | At the same time I placed a leg between his ; the object being to prevent him bringing up his knee against my balls.The plan was to throw both of us to the ground — at the right moment . |