Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the second is surely contradicted by the first ; especially if one adds to it the sympathetic view he evinces of the widow 's plight . |
| 2 | 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 ’ |
| 3 | I found it interesting , however , that Maxine — or Martha — experienced no anxiety due to the nearness of the sea , even when she described to me a violent storm when giant waves lashed the walls of the seaside dwellings . |
| 4 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 5 | A NEW company has been set up to exploit an automatic bicycle transmission system , which is claimed to he the biggest breakthrough in bicycle gears since Derailleur invented his system in the 1920s ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 23 ) . |
| 6 | Please confirm your acceptance of this post by signing and returning to me the docketed copy of this letter . |
| 7 | Please confirm that the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding by signing and returning to us the enclosed copy of this letter . |
| 8 | This will be achieved by including in the offer letter a clause similar to that set out below : Please confirm your acceptance of the above offer by signing and returning to us the enclosed copy of this letter within the next seven days . |
| 9 | ‘ Forgive me if I seem to be playing the amateur sleuth once again , but something else occurred to me the other day , which might or might not be of interest to you . ’ |
| 10 | He has us in fits and the funny thing was we were sat listening to him the other night , all having us dinner , we 're sat at table and it was ever so quiet listening to him and he sort of erm he mimics the other bird |
| 11 | Here was this young creature , beautiful and restless , married to a man almost old enough to be her grandfather , and apparently setting out to make the very best of it , too , with no signs of regret or self-pity ; but the prospect of having a girl of her own age in the house , even for a few days , might well matter to her a great deal more than the extension and acceptance of a mere conventional politeness . |
| 12 | You listen to it the first time you do n't like it and then after that then |
| 13 | and then listen to it the second time and you go , ah ! |
| 14 | According to them the capitalist representation of labour , the idea that labour is a thing which can be bought and sold , came about as a result of certain economic and technical developments in medieval towns . |
| 15 | ‘ To be sure , the lad 's name is Gabriel , and he came to me the very day I was needing an angel . |
| 16 | My worst country I think would be New Zealand as I do n't remember any of the country and it would appear to me a complete stranger if I moved there . |
| 17 | The following case study is unusual because Charlotte ( not her real name ) had not revealed to me the actual reason why she felt the need for aromatherapy . |
| 18 | We do n't have to get to a certain stage of sinlessness , before God will give to us the Holy Spirit . |
| 19 | The approach I am going to adopt now applies to the present section only and acknowledges the fact that a superconductor is not an " ordinary " magnetic material ; it can not be described by a " magnetic " constant , by assigning to it a certain value for |
| 20 | Unfortunately , in 7 BC this neat arrangement was interfered with in order to honour Augustus by renaming the month Sextilis after him ( he believed that it was his lucky month ) and assigning to it the same number of days as the preceding month that had been renamed after his murdered great-uncle by Mark Antony . |
| 21 | Reveal to me the great secret . |
| 22 | That God will give me a clear vision for the future and reveal to me the next step after DTS . |
| 23 | Before they left I could not forbear to draw Gillian closer and impart to her the glittering counsel that wearing 501s with trainers was frankly un désastre and that I was amazed she had walked the streets to my apartment in broad daylight and escaped pillory . |
| 24 | As said to me a long time ago , ‘ You use too much water over there ’ , but what he really meant was , we do not use enough fluid , and the right types of fluid . |
| 25 | What had the vacillating vamp said to her the last time they were together ? |
| 26 | The word stirred her , and she recalled what her mother had said to her the previous day : that Cork had been her home all her life , with no suffering and no want — a safe and secure home . |
| 27 | If I got a question wrong , which I did more often than not , he would repeat it in what seemed to me a contemptuous tone until I got it right . |
| 28 | This seemed to me a poor reason for making the announcement and I told him that I strongly disapproved of his breach of trust . |
| 29 | I went into what seemed to me a Burmese restaurant . |
| 30 | Marjorie and Heather spent hours poring over cookery-books , which seemed to me a strange occupation for Oxford graduates , especially in the face of wartime rationing ; but perhaps it was a matter of the fox and the grapes , for I myself had not acquired any culinary skill . |