Example sentences of "[noun] to [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there had been no reference to them in the detailed report of Surrendered Ex-Enemy Personnel sent up by 5 Corps to Eighth Army two days earlier , on 15 May [ KP 112 ] . |
| 2 | And I oh I fought hard I never wanted a baby to be born in the wok house cos the word workhouse to me in the old it was a terrible name . |
| 3 | Referrals by GPs where outcome was informal admission were consistently characterized by familial disruption : indeed only two of these cases were referred where the woman 's behaviour drew attention to her in the wider social environment outside the family . |
| 4 | Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them . |
| 5 | ‘ Pray think of a right man wt out regard to recommendations , which hitherto have not been of great service to me in the like cases , ’ the duke suggested . |
| 6 | It was certainly a source of great pride to me in the nineteen sixties to be Personnel Manager of the Greenock plant , in an area which is noted to it 's erm , insecurity , to see the effects on the living standards and conditions and morale of the general community of having a manufacturing plant which had stability of labour , as well as it 's er , objectives . |
| 7 | The place smelt of oil , paint , damp and slow failure , and Marriage himself sat with his back to it in the cold sunshine , looking across to the willows and alders of the far bank and the fields beyond . |
| 8 | Lay the curtain out flat with the interlining uppermost and apply the hemmed lining to it in the same way as for Lined Curtains , but lockstitching along the same lines as the interlining and along all seams . |
| 9 | George , who was eight years old when Coleridge was born , became almost a second father to him in the difficult years ahead , and was , Coleridge wrote , ‘ every way nearer to Perfection than any man I ever yet knew — indeed , he is worth the whole family in a Lump . ’ |
| 10 | She is now in Towers Hospital , Leicester , where a spokesman said they expected the family to break the news to her in the next few days . |
| 11 | That at least was the rationale behind the nepotism , though in practice Nicolae Ceauşescu 's brothers were as little use to him in the final analysis as Napoleon 's brothers were to the beleaguered emperor . |
| 12 | But why did the theories of feminism develop in response to them in the 1960s and not , say , in the 1930s when novelists cast an equally critical eye over women 's lives ? |
| 13 | I shall venture my own response to it in the final chapter . |
| 14 | Forwarding a copy of this letter to his wife , he added that ‘ I quite squirm at the thought lest some successor to me in the near future should treat these chiefs in a different manner from my own ’ . |
| 15 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
| 16 | He kept asking her to get to the point as he was in a meeting , while she was waiting for him to get to the point , since , as far as she was aware , he 'd made the call to her in the first place . |
| 17 | They swam then , and Damian made love to her in the hot sea , stripping her as they floated together , wrapping their bodies around each other in unreasoning desire , kissing saltily as their hoarse cries filled the air and they nearly sank like stones as Damian went rigid with pleasure , his fingers biting into her nude body in the warm water . |
| 18 | She heard the sound of the sea , the cry of the gulls and then her own cry , as he made love to her in the same way as he had done long ago at the Angel Inn . |
| 19 | Indeed , says Gauntlett , ‘ Had someone suggested such a thing to me in the mid- '70s , I , too , would have been horrified . |
| 20 | Forming the intention to adopt beliefs only when they correspond to reality postpones the settlement of belief : we are forced to adopt rules which , while they are guaranteed to reveal reality to us in the long run , are not guaranteed to do so in the short run . |
| 21 | Thousands of people suffer the handicap of not being able to read or write properly , but that handicap could be eradicated if we put our minds to it in the coming years . |
| 22 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 23 | If you are currently receiving income support , the DSS will send a form to you in the late Autumn . |
| 24 | All voluntary organizations in the community care field face an uncertain though challenging future as a result of the government 's encouragement to them in the 1990 Act to take a more active , participative role in providing services directly to clients in the community , with finance provided by the local authority or health authority . |
| 25 | The debate as to whether this institutional framework exercised a determining ( ideological ) influence on film output has been an ongoing one , but the importance of Claire Johnston 's contribution to it in the mid seventies is that she argued for a reading of Hollywood entertainment films which made a space for ‘ collective fantasies of women 's desire ’ . |
| 26 | Dear Prime Minister , In spite of the most helpful representations and advice from my staff , I have decided to continue submitting my reports to you in the informal way I settled upon initially … ’ |
| 27 | I have decided to continue submitting my reports to you in the informal way I settled upon initially … |
| 28 | At the same time he thought it desirable to submit to them a brief record of his work ( Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , 1899 , pp. 3–11 ) , in view of what were in his opinion the less than adequate references to it in the 1899 James Forrest lecture on ‘ Magnetism ’ by J. A. Ewing [ q.v. ] , in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers ( vol. cxxxviii , pp. 289–311 ) . |
| 29 | There was nothing of interest to her in the present conversation except as a means of promoting their intimacy and retaining his arm around her waist . |
| 30 | None the less , it is broadly speaking true that the Church had exalted the monarch in the tenth century , and abased him in the twelfth ; that the Church had taught obedience to him in the tenth century when ancient rights of resistance to a king who broke his subjects ' rights and liberties still flourished ; and that in the twelfth century Church and people exchanged ideas about the bases for the right of resistance . |