Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 2 | In 1790 a great meeting of tanners held in London elected him to speak for them to the prime minister , William Pitt , concerning the distressed state of the tanning trade ; and in 1793 he wrote to parliament on behalf of Bristol tanners to suggest remedies for the scarcity of the oak bark used in tanning . |
| 3 | Some tests may involve chemicals which need to be handled with care , but this should not preclude the sale of them to the general public in kits which include protective goggles and detailed instructions on their handling . |
| 4 | The dream that had brought the two of them to the other side of the globe was wedging a distance between them . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm Loretta Lawson ’ , she said , returning and handing one of them to the American woman . |
| 6 | I adjusted one of them to the reclining position , lay back in it and closed my eyes . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's remarkable that , in addition to playing 11 cities around the country , the educational programme played to over 5,000 kids and brought many of them to the main theatre in their local cities for the first time in their lives , on subsidised tickets . |
| 8 | It is also provided that where a person , not named as a respondent , is in occupation , the originating application and other documents may be served by affixing a copy of them to the main door or other conspicuous part , and , if practicable , inserting them through the letter box , or by placing stakes in the ground with the documents ( in a transparent sealed envelope ) attached . |
| 9 | Another key element in Russian culture was alcohol , the unscrupulous introduction of which to the unsophisticated natives by traders led in many cases to addiction , loss of the means of livelihood and eventual pauperization . |
| 10 | Divide the party players into pairs of roughly equal sizes and tie the right leg of one to the left leg of the other . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've got to go , ’ he blurted out , skirting past her to the front door . |
| 12 | ‘ The Test , ’ he said , pointing past her to the silvery flash of sunlight on water beyond the village . |
| 13 | Her pulses racing , she looked past him to the dizzy drop through the hole in the cliff , to the sea below . |
| 14 | In short , it may be illuminating to start with the damage and work back through the cause of it to the possible duty which may have been broken . |
| 15 | He once reproached Sir Philip Sidney for his famous refusal of a cup of water on a Dutch battlefield as an act that looks ‘ aggressively holy ’ , and it is hard to imagine any other critic of the age allowing himself such a remark , or even conceiving of it : The okay thing would be to drink some of the cup himself and pass it on , leaving most of it to the other man … ’ |
| 16 | When I reached the House of Andrus I spoke of it to the other women and we said a prayer . |
| 17 | Then , bracing herself , she strode to the top of the staircase and stood gazing down the wide , sweeping curve of it to the imposing hallway and the big front door . |
| 18 | Judging by her tone , she might even have transferred some of it to the absent Rose . |
| 19 | Sift the flour and ground rice together and add one third of it to the creamed mixture . |
| 20 | When an order has been made , the district judge sends a copy of it to the Senior Master of the Supreme Court , Queen 's Bench Division , for transmission to the Registrar of the European Court . |
| 21 | A. The Authority delegates to governors of primary and secondary schools oversight of the curriculum , and control of it to the head teacher in consultation with his staff … |
| 22 | And there are scenes of great moral effectiveness , as when Ransom , plucking up his courage far the struggle with Weston , recalls that ‘ at that moment , far away on earth … men were at war , and white-faced subalterns and freckled corporals who had but lately begun to shave , stood in horrible gaps or crawled forward in deadly darkness , awakening like him to the preposterous truth that all really depended on their actions . ’ |
| 23 | A waiter smoothed his blue waistcoat and padded behind her to the round table where she always sat , next to the band and the dance floor . |
| 24 | She looked from the magnificent Renaissance oil-paintings that graced the wall behind her to the perfect symmetry of the mosaic floor in the atrium . |
| 25 | Now they have developed , with the help of Professor Van Aken of Utrecht University , a simple method of Roentgen photography , whereby a low-powered X-ray ( 220 volts exactly , which are converted to 5000 volts ) passes through the paper and exposes the negative directly behind it to the exact amount of radiation needed to show up the detailed structure of the impression left by the mould and the watermark . |
| 26 | Films like dreams come and go and are soon forgotten , yet King Kong , which I must have seen in 1933 , or early 1934 , with its scenes of adventure in a fabled land , was the one to overwhelm my mind and stay with me to the present day . |
| 27 | Undaunted , the young Scot chased after the opposition in one shoe and came in with them to the final take-over . |
| 28 | Yet even scientific curiosity in such places is minute in this country , and I fear that our national outlook is still tainted by that Anglo-Saxon authoritarianism that the first English settlers took with them to the New World . |
| 29 | Until his family was safe , he had declined to make any formal statement , but now he went with them to the American Embassy and swore out an affidavit about what he had seen as a DIA agent assigned to DEA NARCOG , Nicosia . |
| 30 | Migrant families have brought the tradition with them to the urban shanty towns . |