Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to 5,000 ethnic Turks and members of the Pomak community ( descendants of Bulgarians converted to Islam during Ottoman rule ) had held a vigil outside the National Assembly building on Dec. 28-29 , but had dispersed after the contents of the resolution had been disclosed to them by National Assembly Speaker Stanko Todorov . |
| 2 | Their excellent long-distance vision spots something suspicious and they fly to it at high speed . |
| 3 | It 's the oldest lyrical theme in the world and David Gedge adheres to it with laudable steadfastness . |
| 4 | My friend , who has stayed at the cottage before , is going up 24th or so for about a week , so there will be her rent @ £7 per day and electricity @ 10p per unit ( to cover standing charges etc ) to come to you in due course . |
| 5 | Chris described to her in painstaking detail the story of the cartoon they 'd been watching . |
| 6 | They have not come to us for specific assistance under the know-how fund . |
| 7 | He was convinced that , in the words of the Barmen Declaration which he with others drafted in May 1934 in opposition to the German Christians , ‘ Jesus Christ as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture is the one Word of God , which we have to hear , and which we have to trust and obey in life and in death . ’ |
| 8 | In line with this , his observations are drawn , not from the consulting room , but from the mundanities of everyday intercourse , while very great pains are taken to record only what the narrator directly observed , or had reported to him on good authority . |
| 9 | The world looks to them for decisive leadership on this issue , as on others " . |
| 10 | Because , it occurred to her with heart-stopping suddenness , the last thing in the world she wanted was to be around when Rohan Saint Yves married Antoinette — or anyone else . |
| 11 | On waking , it occurred to her with renewed conviction that the experience of two days before might have been no more than a temporary aberration of an exhausted mind . |
| 12 | I pictured this Somebody as a kindly woman sitting on the other side of a roaring log fire knitting a thick brown woollen sweater and listening to me with rapt attention . |
| 13 | A vision of Colonel Beamish , listening to her with undisguised scepticism , loomed before her . |
| 14 | Although it has been argued that most of the ideas central to general systems theory are certainly valuable , they had been applied to it without formal knowledge of the theory ( Jennings , 1973 , p. 124 ) , nevertheless the theory has focused thinking and has probably been responsible for a more comprehensive view of many environmental situations . |
| 15 | You see , he does n't just speak to us for small talk , he does n't just speak to while away the time with , with conversation . |
| 16 | The links between what the medical profession had done to me in British patriarchy and the cruelties and outrages perpetuated by every patriarchy throughout the world were glaringly obvious . |
| 17 | Sir John Harington relates , however , how ‘ he would walk at certain hours in one of the aisles of St Paul 's , that if any came to him for spiritual advice and comfort ( as some did though not many ) he might impart it to them ’ . |
| 18 | His offence against those who came to him for medical help was less easy to punish . |
| 19 | ‘ But he came to us through normal casting , ’ said Rogers . |
| 20 | But it does not feel to them like real work and there is no financial reward and rarely any specific long-term achievable objectives which can be shared with others . |
| 21 | In that horrid state , the mind may be considered as a city without walls , open to every insult , and paying homage to every invader ; every idea that then starts with any force , becomes a reality ; and the reason , over fatigued with its former importunities , makes no head against the tyrannical invasion , but submits to it from mere imbecility . |
| 22 | These pieces speak to me of boundless beauty and passion and I rejoice in my tears but I use them too , intuitively , when I feel depressed or despairing , to release tears . |
| 23 | ‘ Does not the whole ensemble speak to you of imperial confidence , a global network of industry ? ’ |
| 24 | People looking to it for educational use , or a big company HQ . |
| 25 | Now that we are beginning to understand the basic mechanisms of calcium release and entry , the next challenge is to describe the complex spatiotemporal patterns of calcium signalling revealed to us by single-cell imaging techniques . |
| 26 | She did n't because the moment was not right ; she did not yet know that she could not plead from her position of privilege that she had suffered too — ‘ So you want to annex our wrongs as well , do you ? ’ he might well have answered to her in just bitterness . |
| 27 | A further three years ' non-residence , as well as the revenues of Ightham , were also granted to him by papal indult . |
| 28 | These I shall send to you for harsh criticism and very helpful suggestions re set . ’ |
| 29 | Ludens had , as it seemed to him with helpless fascination , seen , in the last days , perhaps more obscurely weeks , his feelings about Irina undergo a transformation . |
| 30 | A county council spokesman said : ‘ We have received Rev Harper 's letter and will be replying to it in due course . ’ |