Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pers pn] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She brings her notes about it to the meeting and reads them out . |
| 2 | When the switch is closed , the full available current flows through it to the load but again no power is dissipated in the switch since the voltage across it is zero . |
| 3 | We were further delayed getting back on station by a detour for me to the south end of Duke Street . |
| 4 | A good deal of it to the east of the Cherwell remains in use as a main road ( A41 and A4095 ) , the only important break in the line being caused by the growth of the Saxon town of Bicester , a mile to the north , in place of the now-vanished Romano-British town of Alchester . |
| 5 | He told me that if I did n't agree to marry you he 'd release that tape of his to the Press … ’ |
| 6 | Her cousin always coaxed a lighter side of her to the surface . |
| 7 | But erm , it 's , it 's terrifying , and when we get , as and Jack 's made a good point and , and it is a good one , that perhaps if we spent only half a day when somebody joins the depot and said to them , this is the geography of our depot , and this is where everywhere is , and this is how you get from one side of it to the other . |
| 8 | There were reports that two religious parties , United Tora Judaism and the NRP , were pressing Labour to enter into a coalition with them to the exclusion of Meretz . |
| 9 | Vic takes the Daily Mail with him to the lavatory , the one at the back of the house , next to the tradesmen 's entrance , with a plain white suite , intended for the use of charladies , gardeners and workmen . |
| 10 | There is still the village well , now covered , with a monument above it to the memory of Sir Christopher Sykes , second baronet , in 1840 . |
| 11 | She even wondered if it might not have been Mandy 's laughter-filled anecdotes about summers at the lodge that had coaxed this deep ache of loss within her to the surface of her consciousness . |
| 12 | Am I being told that the law of England is so deficient that , if one assaults a person by driving a car at them to the danger of that person 's life or property — whether or not one damages either — that is not a crime known to the common law of England , and would it not attract the most condign penalties ? |
| 13 | Instead of which too many locals see the tourists arrive in Puerto Maldonaldo and speed across it to the river without even buying a Coke . |
| 14 | In the southernmost bay we engaged most valiantly with a band of savage islanders who scaled the walls of the sloop Rebecca and torched her timbers , but we consigned the greater part of them to the sea for pasture for the fishes that teem therein . |
| 15 | Clearly , a sum paid to the settlor to discharge a liability of his to the bank would come within this section ( see IRC v Bates ( 1966 ) 44 TC 225 : the case of Potts ' Executors v IRC [ 1951 ] AC 43 held that a payment to a third party was not a sum paid to the settlor but that case is no longer good law in view of TA 1988 , s677(10) which was inserted into the former TA 1970 , s451 ( now TA 1988 , s677 ) by s42(7) of FA 1981 ) . |
| 16 | Presumably he should have shot her or let her drown , rather than make a present of her to the French , but there were some things Karelius could not bring himself to do . |
| 17 | Standing this close to Piers was enough to bring her out in goose-bumps , and she thought , I 'll fight this desperate longing for him to the end . |
| 18 | If you use ball-point pens remember that they too run out or refuse to function : test them before use and take a bundle of them to the examination or the practice session . |
| 19 | Since you will hold the seller 's share certificate until you hand it over to the buyer on completion together with a transfer of it to the buyer , it 's for you to prepare the transfer , unless you send the certificate to the buyer 's conveyancers for them to prepare the transfer . |
| 20 | As he talks a train of small boys returning from school tramps behind us to the beat of the folk-pop tape . |
| 21 | The piste was crossed now and then by gullies of sand and ran along the foot of the escarpment , which towered several hundred feet above it to the left . |
| 22 | Federman has fully digested Beckett 's influence on him to the point of formulating carefully thought-out positions on the new direction fiction will take . |
| 23 | From his expression there was not much chance of speaking to him at all and she cast a wary look behind her to the door . |
| 24 | I wo n't offer to meet the ferry — it docks at eight in the morning — but I 'll arrange transport for him to the cottage . |
| 25 | I made a gift of them to the lad , did n't I ? |
| 26 | They told of the movements of relics : the bringing of the relics of St Ouen to the court of King Edgar ; of the king 's gift of them to the monastery ; of Queen Emma 's gift of the arm of St Bartholomew ; of the translation of the body of St Elphege ; and so on . |
| 27 | So Rodrigo departed from the King , and took his spouse with him to the house of his mother , and gave her to his mother 's keeping . |
| 28 | The age-old method of casting bells was to make a clay mould of the inside shape of the bell , then build up a layer of beeswax round it to the shape and thickness of the finished bell . |
| 29 | SPY Ian Spiro took the riddle of his family 's massacre with him to the grave yesterday . |
| 30 | If he found anything of interest , he said , he would bring photocopies with him to the cinema . |