Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford Molecular exists to ensure that the latest research software is made available to them at acceptable prices . |
| 2 | India , Pakistan , Indonesia , Brazil and Kenya have asked to receive data from ERS-1 , which will be made available to them within three hours of it being transmitted from the satellite . |
| 3 | They seemed expensive to her at nineteen shillings and elevenpence but the small boy loved them . |
| 4 | 7.4 Whenever any sum of money is recoverable from or payable by you to us as a result of the operation of any of these conditions or any breach by you of the same , such sum may be deducted by us from any sum then due or which at any time thereafter may become due to you under any other order or transaction placed or entered into by us with you . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't believe she 's doing this to me after 33 years of marriage , ’ said Bill , who had retired with Anne to Guernsey after selling his shopfitting business in north London . |
| 6 | ‘ Your appeal against the above offer of permanent accommodation made available to you on 12-9-91 has been considered carefully but I regret to inform you that the appeal has not been allowed and you should sign for the tenancy at the local housing office by 2-12-91 . |
| 7 | In the French class nowadays the important thing is to SPEAK French — the sound of your voice in French may seem strange to you at first but you have a go right away and you will see what fun it can be . |
| 8 | I could n't get used to it at all . |
| 9 | I remember the pleasant surprise I had when Olivia Manning , sitting next to me on some poetry-reading platform ( the ICA ? ) turned to her husband after my reading and remarked to him — a BBC radio producer — ‘ Now there 's a poet who knows how to read poetry . |
| 10 | ‘ If I 'd been fitter I would have been sitting next to him on that aeroplane , ’ said heartbroken Fiona , who had nicknamed her lover the ‘ Kiwi Crocodile Dundee . ’ |
| 11 | At the time I was surprised by the information ; yet in retrospect it struck me that this , above everything else , was what had meant most to him during that afternoon 's work . |
| 12 | Similarly , through Lata 's sister 's marriage to Pran you 're led into the world of politics and the subject of land reform , which sounded dull to me at first but became much more interesting as I got into it . ’ |
| 13 | The forward ceptors had been showing a bright little disc that was the planet Fraxilly , steadily enlarging as we crept near to it on planetary drive . |