Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Ruiperez told me I need not start my classes until I was quite recovered , and the women in the office and the library spoke friendly words to me for the first time . |
| 2 | At the same time he thought it desirable to submit to them a brief record of his work ( Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , 1899 , pp. 3–11 ) , in view of what were in his opinion the less than adequate references to it in the 1899 James Forrest lecture on ‘ Magnetism ’ by J. A. Ewing [ q.v. ] , in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers ( vol. cxxxviii , pp. 289–311 ) . |
| 3 | Generally she finds only support from male paddlers to her on the water though when there is a separate ladies ' event at a rodeo it is not always taken seriously . |
| 4 | The Convento de San Esteban is a magnificent plateresque sixteenth-century edifice on the Plaza Santo Domingo , approached by a small arched bridge which provides an impressive forefront to that immense carved façade , with the arcaded convent standing at right angles to it on the right . |
| 5 | A French attack was mounted on the duchy of Aquitaine , but the day was saved by the able lieutenancy exercised there by Richard of Cornwall , and by large loans to him from the cities of Bordeaux and Bayonne . |
| 6 | ‘ Being there , where Paul wrote home such humorous , hopeful and reassuring letters to us in the middle of all the trouble , will mean something very special to us . ’ |
| 7 | I think I just put up with it because he behaved in such extraordinary ways to me in the time I had known him , of showing affection at all ? |
| 8 | Based on initial assessment of application , finalists will be chosen and specially trained teams of assessors will pay on-site visits to them during the summer . |
| 9 | Constructed for the most part in terms of a technology that was , by comparison with the main technologies of the nineteenth century , primitive and unsystematic , there were few really significant improvements to them through the century and by 1900 they provided no semblance of a genuine transport service . |
| 10 | The results of those studies were published on 25 September , and on the same day I announced the start of a three-month public consultation period during which interested parties could make written representations to me on the contents of the reports produced by Hydrotechnica . |
| 11 | The battle of the gods in the Babylonian Genesis has no Old Testament equivalent , despite attempts by many scholars to discover underlying references to it in the text of Genesis 1:2 and other passages which speak of God 's power over the waters . |