Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a general expectation that people will not remember detailed facts correctly if they are only exposed to them in the spoken mode , especially if they are required to remember them over an extended period of time . |
| 2 | Had he not , through the magnetic influence he was able to exert even over those of his own race , personally seen to it at the Peace Conference that these Arabs were not sent unrewarded away ? |
| 3 | Hayling was also in charge of media initiatives , so Lowe naturally turned to him with the newspaper they had so often discussed as comrades in Big Flame . |
| 4 | The booming surf far below called to her like the beat of a jungle drum . |
| 5 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 6 | For him it held a special appeal ; the one day of the week he could break bread with his family and not have to feel that they were only loaned to him for the while — his son Joshua had no business to go to , his grandson Jacob no college lectures . |
| 7 | Information is only appended to them in the form of agreement comments during their various states . |
| 8 | True , the word star could be loosely applied to him on the basis that he had ‘ starred ’ in more than a dozen films . |
| 9 | If you have any of the conditions listed , your doctor may have already spoken to you about the importance of healthy eating , and a healthy lifestyle . |
| 10 | There 's one other area that 's just sprung to me about the trainee and their actual ability . |
| 11 | Her family had always referred to her as the ‘ egghead ’ . |
| 12 | The thought had hardly occurred to me before the diver , with a weird-sounding cry , left the water in a noisy take-off , and flew seawards in alarm . |
| 13 | He shifted under her , sliding her away so that she was still bound to him by the steel bands of his arms , but was now lying by his side . |
| 14 | Have you ever spoken to her about the problem ? ’ |
| 15 | Indigenous groups gained three seats in the Senate — two specially allotted to them under the new constitution and one elected . |
| 16 | Everything of importance has always happened to me in the autumn , every new departure has always presented itself within a dying context . |
| 17 | and maybe like read to them at the end of the day or whatever . |
| 18 | As slim as a reed and as shy as a bird with the eyes of a gazelle , were all the aspects of beauty once described to me by the Youngest Son as most desirable in a woman . |
| 19 | They should not undertake the sung parts traditionally assigned to them in the Offices and in the Eucharist . |
| 20 | They now carry deeper theological meanings , which were probably given to them by the Church in the period of the oral tradition . |
| 21 | But I flatter myself that I can meet this danger more calmly and securely than most philologists ; my philosophical seriousness is already too deeply rooted , the true and essential problems of life and thought have been too clearly shown to me by the great mystagogue Schopenhauer … " ( 1869 ) ; " I love the Greeks more and more … [ but ] … the philologist 's existence … seems to me more and more anomalous " ( 1870 ) ; " For me , everything that is best and most beautiful is associated with the names Schopenhauer and Wagner , and I am proud and happy to share this feeling with my closest friends " ( 1870 again ) ; and from the close of the same year , " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years ; let us take it as a sorrowful lesson … I realize what Schopenhauer 's doctrine of university wisdom is all about … |
| 22 | The Youngs were with the Unwins from Australia and Filmer and Daffodil shared a table with a pair Nell later identified to me as the American owners of the horse called Flokati . |
| 23 | Sarah Moon , a London acupuncturist who specialises in pain relief during labour , says that women are often referred to her through the National Childbirth Trust or an active birth group . |
| 24 | But , putting to use the superior education unwittingly handed to them by the state or paid for by their parents , they soon displaced the handfuls of old faithfuls . |
| 25 | He had never been close to his son , Mark 's father , but had doted on his grandson and had often talked to him of the old Russia . |
| 26 | That master would seem to have been Taglioni , now filtered to us through the Bournonville version . |
| 27 | Their abstract certitudes seemed far removed to him from the inherent contradictions in human nature . |
| 28 | This research is concerned with the nature of the writing submitted to the Mass-Observation Archive by a range of ‘ Observers ’ in response to ‘ directives ’ periodically sent to them by the Archive . |
| 29 | Edmund arrives to find Emily 's cat has got at the lobsters and broken her beautiful china ; and in a moment of quiet at the end of his visit a boring neighbour ( well known to him from the letters ) makes her way in — and alas , like most bores who are funny in letters , she is not so in real life . |
| 30 | We decided to walk to the waterfall to see what Gullfoss , well known to us in the summer , had to offer in winter . |