Example sentences of "[pron] to [art] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He placed the course in what was , to our minds , a very reasonable perspective , saying that we were here to teach our particular specialities , but obviously there would have to be give and take , in that we would adapt ourselves to the students ' needs , and they would adapt themselves in turn to the sort of thing which we felt capable of teaching . |
2 | Anyone who was prepared to submit himself to a debtors ' prison for a token period could apply from The Fleet or the Marshalsea for the help of the Insolvent Debtors Court . |
3 | Three of the four opposition seats went to the Singapore Democratic Party ( SDP ) and one to the Workers ' Party . |
4 | They also deny taking nude photographs of the girls , now aged eight , six and four , while they themselves were naked , and showing them to the girls ' mother . |
5 | The two men , who had escaped from a coach taking them to the magistrates ' court in Reading , were taken to hospital to have their broken arms set in plaster . |
6 | All you would have to do would be to lead them to the smugglers ' rendezvous and supervise the action . ’ |
7 | That , and trying to recruit him to the parents ' Association committee ( which was almost the same thing , as the most active women members were divorcees ) . |
8 | He received Mark in the central lobby and took him to the Members ' tea room for a chat over a pot of tea . |
9 | His talents , his wealth , and the changing times raised him to the court of assistants of the Levant Company from 1644 to 1648 , and in 1645 Parliament appointed him to the Goldsmiths ' Hall committee , through which Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions . |
10 | Then a young woman — dark , quite a looker if you liked that sort of thing but a bit too full of herself for Bennett 's liking — walked into the club and announced that she was the dinner guest of Sir Robin Day , he could only treat her to his coldly disapproving smile and direct her to the ladies ' bar . |
11 | She followed her to the ladies ' washroom . |
12 | Grumbling , Tracey followed her to the non-smokers ' seats . |
13 | The second defendant was sent a photocopy of the affidavit and he sent it to the defendants ' solicitors for advice in the context of the wrongful dismissal claim . |
14 | Eventually Lady Laetitia and Tick made it to the minstrels ' gallery . |