Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her defiance gave her the courage to lift her eyes to his for the first time , and she saw the surprise and sudden uncertainty that flashed across them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Finally , at a sad time for Rosamund and myself , our sincerest thanks to so many rugby friends who have extended , through kind words and deeds , their sympathies to us on the tragic death , after a short illness , of our daughter Charlotte . |
| 4 | Mmi Well I 'm happy , but I 'm never happy about playing Poland because it always brings back memories to me of the early seventies . |
| 5 | Spain , Portugal , Ireland and Greece also oppose an early enlargement , albeit for rather different reasons : they fear that the current transfer of resources to them from the richer countries — above all , from Britain and Germany — might be put at risk , and have made it clear that their support for any growth in the size of the Community is contingent on their receipt of guaranteed levels of Cohesion payments . |
| 6 | Thousands of people suffer the handicap of not being able to read or write properly , but that handicap could be eradicated if we put our minds to it in the coming years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One is that that registered disabled employees and we will be bringing forward further proposals on initiatives to you at the next meeting , and I hope that if you agree , that will be amongst other things with the issue of non-registered disabled employees , and the other consideration in looking at movements in targets and so on , is inevitably the whole job market situation and the opportunities for achieving that . |
| 9 | Dear Prime Minister , In spite of the most helpful representations and advice from my staff , I have decided to continue submitting my reports to you in the informal way I settled upon initially … ’ |
| 10 | I have decided to continue submitting my reports to you in the informal way I settled upon initially … |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | The problem which arises from this is that we are never given any inkling of the totality of a king 's estates , and there is a particular difficulty in trying to construct a picture of crown land by listing all references to it from the whole Merovingian period ; if kings rewarded their followers by conferring estates on them , even though the grant might not be hereditary , the pool of land must have changed constantly . |