Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier this afternoon I spoke to him about his party 's ailing fortunes in the year since the General Election . |
| 2 | What really annoyed Daugherty was that critics were applauding The Public Enemy , a movie which seemed to him to be just a very well-cut and scripted melodrama that would serve as good ‘ yokel bait ’ . |
| 3 | St. Margaret , Queen of Scotland from about the year of the Norman conquest to 1093 , was riding in a litter attended by a company of soldiers and a priest who read to her from a Gospel Book . |
| 4 | His scalp is valued above all others in Scotland , with Labour desperate to regain the seat they lost to him in 1983 in the biggest pro-Tory swing of the campaign . |
| 5 | ‘ But instead of being delighted with the result he complained to us about the beer . |
| 6 | It is likely that innocent partners have the implied right to be indemnified by the tortfeasor in respect of any liability which attaches to them under this section , though this would be subject to any express agreement to the contrary . |
| 7 | I have used therefore the word ‘ Nature ’ in the sense of the German ‘ Bedeutung ’ , as signifying that essential character of a part which belongs to it in its relation to a predetermined pattern , answering to the ‘ idea ’ of the Archetypical World in the Platonic cosmogony , which archetypical or primal pattern is the basis supporting all the modifications of such part for specific powers and actions in all animals possessing it … |
| 8 | At the request of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I wrote to you on 25th May concerning the state of the railway embankment on Station Lane Scorton and the mess left around the railway bridge on Gubberford Lane Scorton . |
| 9 | Choco who came to us at about seven years old . |
| 10 | It avoids one of the most familiar classroom situations in the primary school — the child who comes to you for a word which is already written down higher up the page . |
| 11 | While there may be much to be said for the views expressed in this passage it seems to me with all respect to Wilson J. that she was stating what she thought the law ought to be rather than what it is . |
| 12 | When I 'm in the kitchen she calls to me from the sitting room , where she is sewing . |
| 13 | It was an insight which came to her on the spur of the moment . |
| 14 | What he does have , though , is a fearsome grip on the band which looks to me like a dictatorship and which he maintains is just the way things have worked out . |
| 15 | Finally , after going full circle , AIB finished up in 1983 in the Department of Transport which seems to me to be where it should have remained all the time . |
| 16 | I am most grateful , therefore , to James Freeman , chairman of the PLC who spoke to me on this matter . |
| 17 | Nothing is more characteristic of churches than their attitude to assurance and the place they give to it in their preaching and systems of doctrine . |
| 18 | Here , I want to identify one feature of that relationship which seems to me to be crucial in understanding generic transformation in television , and the specific and different forms it takes in the US and the UK : the organization of the schedule . |
| 19 | The one major event which happened to me at Binbrook , and which was going to change my life , was that I met the man I was eventually to marry , although a lot of water would flow under the bridge before the wedding took place . |
| 20 | But I can offer three pieces of rather different evidence which seem to me to be highly convincing . |
| 21 | This was the start of the parrot legend which stuck to me for the rest of my career . |
| 22 | That 's what I had against my discount that way you can you got a gift for this person you give to them plus erm |
| 23 | Barry 's dad 's been on the phone he wants to you to urgently book a bus so he co |
| 24 | On one occasion he complained to them of the insubordination of two of the officers . |
| 25 | Everybody who 's had any sort of tremor or experience or much worse , they 're all individual and it 's no use me talking to you about my heart condition , because you have n't got my heart . |
| 26 | There were other things that had to be reconciled , and we hear presently of ‘ a role of inherent superiority which came to me from outside , from the servants among others . |
| 27 | One aspect of the TDC policy which seems to me to be both enlightened and enduring is the trouble which is taken to identify markets for work projects , particularly from the public sector , which again may sound surprising in capitalist Texas . |
| 28 | This seemed like a Falangist revival , for it was the first session that had been held since 1945 and Franco asserted that it was " necessary that the National Council should recover the role which corresponds to it in the political tasks , because it is hierarchically the highest body in the Movement , whose duty it is to ensure the purity of the organization and the continuity of the doctrine " .18 But many of those present , including the Vice-Secretary of FET , Diego Salas Pombo , detected behind the smokescreen of verbiage a lack of genuine commitment to Arrese 's plan for a Falange-dominated future . |
| 29 | On the whole , during what Duiker has called ‘ the Stalinist years ’ , this was something that was accepted by the Vietnamese Communist Party but one can imagine that it was not always so easy to accept the advice which came to them from their French comrades . |
| 30 | He had once seen a naturalist on the television who seemed to him to be an analogue of himself . |