Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] [noun pl] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've already given their names to the constable in the library . |
| 2 | The Comintern had not confined its attacks to the Right Social Democrats alone . |
| 3 | Michael Jackson , Ringo Starr and Madonna have already lent their voices to the popular cartoon series . |
| 4 | Among the champagne houses that have already increased their prices to the wine trade are Moet et Chandon ( 9.6 per cent ) , Laurent Perrier ( 4.9 per cent ) , Bollinger ( about 3 per cent ) and Lanson ( about 4 per cent ) . |
| 5 | As a direct consequence of our sampling decision ( see above ) , most of the schools in the survey had already submitted their reports to the Education Committee . |
| 6 | The European companies were hoping to meet the deadline set by the International Radio Consultative Committee for the presentation of technical proposals for a new system which , once chosen , would effectively set a world standard , Japan and the USA having already submitted their applications to the Committee . |
| 7 | Indeed , she was asked why she had not sent her children to the mine . |
| 8 | We have stupidly cluttered our lives to the point of frenzy , cramming our culture down our own throats until we choke on it . |
| 9 | Buoyed by their success , workstation makers have now turned their attentions to the $10 billion personal-computer market . |
| 10 | A person would only be liable as a constructive trustee of money he had received in payment of a commercial liability , and which had already passed through his hands , if it was possible to show that he knew that the money was misapplied trust money because he had actual knowledge of the breach of trust or he had wilfully shut his eyes to the obvious or had wilfully or recklessly failed to make inquiries that an honest and reasonable man would have made . |
| 11 | She had continuously offered her services to the RCM committee as a foster parent , but they had never found a suitable child and perhaps also felt that she was too poor to cope . |
| 12 | At yesterday 's welcoming press conference he declined to comment and instead confined his remarks to the job in hand : seven matches in Wales , five in Ireland and one ( against the Barbarians ) in England . |
| 13 | She had not yet raised her eyes to the frescos ; she would do so in due course ; she found them almost unbearably painful to behold . |
| 14 | Well , Inspector Drew had certainly hoisted his colours to the mast . |
| 15 | Her husband , up to the time of his death , had been a miner although there had been occasions when he had made scarcely any wage — but still he had never sent his children to the mine . |