Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Telecommunications Act 1981 established BT as a public corporation and transferred telecommunication functions to it from the Post Office . |
| 2 | The majority of home entrants to HE in the UK are aged 17–20 — around 80 per cent of home entrants throughout the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 3 | One practical problem was providing everyone with suitable places to work — in the end we allocated one of our conference rooms to them for the fortnight . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Your promises , phone calls to me at the university … |
| 5 | And I oh I fought hard I never wanted a baby to be born in the wok house cos the word workhouse to me in the old it was a terrible name . |
| 6 | We had decided to print birthday messages to him in the Beirut press and once again our love and thoughts went over the telex and into a vacuum . |
| 7 | On the memorial tablet to him in the church are the words , " Remember Thomas Stearns Eliot , poet " . |
| 8 | Of course , America is concerned about our debt payments to her in the event of a freeze in German reparations . |