Example sentences of "['s] [noun] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Two days later , Gloucester 's arrival in the inner court circle was further emphasized by the queen 's grant to him of the stewardship of her land with an annual fee of £100 . |
2 | Two days later , Gloucester 's arrival in the inner court circle was further emphasized by the queen 's grant to him of the stewardship of her land with an annual fee of £100 . |
3 | The earliest of these were collected in a volume of Cantiones which he published in 1575 jointly with Tallis , thus marking Elizabeth I 's grant to them of a twenty-one year monopoly of music printing ; others followed in two sets of Cantiones sacrae ( 1589 and 1591 ) and two of Gradualia ( 1605 and 1607 ) , a corpus of work almost as varied in technique and sometimes as ‘ madrigalian ’ in word-painting as that of Lassus — some of which Byrd may well have known — or of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder ( 1543–88 ) who was his friend and colleague in the Queen 's service for sixteen years and wrote not only ‘ madrigalian ’ motets but simple Latin hymn-settings in a style very similar to Byrd 's . |
4 | Latterly , however , she became a powerful spirit and practitioner of witchcraft , witness Shakespeare 's Macbeth 's reference to her as a ‘ secret , black and midnight hag ’ . |
5 | Bede 's reference to it in the context of the situation in 731 could suggest , on balance , that it was concluded when Ceolwulf became king or very soon after . |
6 | Raynal 's gallant defence so impressed Crown Prince Wilhelm that he personally returned Raynal 's officer 's sword to him as a mark of respect . |
7 | In that event his creditor was entitled to ask the court to register the borrower 's indebtedness to him for the sum claimed as a fact without further to-do , and without the borrower 's case being heard . |
8 | They 're more likely to leave George 's reins to you for the time being . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | ‘ I have considered all the facts that you describe relating to the circumstances and they are substantially as in my officer 's report to me about the death . |
11 | She remembered Theodora 's remarks to her in a similar vein . |
12 | 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 ’ . |
13 | Further to Neil 's Memo to you of the 24th June , I am sorry to say that Newport Borough Council came back to us saying that they could not meet with us on Friday 24th July after all . |
14 | All Leslie 's letters to me from the sealed camp at Fairford bore ( as well as the R.A.F. censor 's stamp ) undated postmarks . |