Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [pers pn] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The petitioning period expires , in the case of a November order on 22nd January and in the case of a March order on 23rd May , and the agent would normally then report to the client on petitions received , examine the petitions and advise on the action taken to settle them or to meet them in the inquiry . |
| 2 | There is a concern that the Panel would no longer have the same flexibility to adapt the rules to take account of new market practices , or to waive them in the interests of fairness . |
| 3 | There , men frequently migrate to the towns , leaving their families behind either to be visited at week-ends or to join them in the town at a later date . |
| 4 | In any case , if Siward knew fresh forces were coming , you 'd expect him either to gather his forces and try to reverse the battle quickly , or to muster them in the forest and get away before the rest of the enemy could arrive . ’ |
| 5 | We saw the goal of feminist socialists as raising the status of women and to include them in the share-out . |
| 6 | To buy some guided missiles and to hide them in the ground , |
| 7 | They will wish to examine it in ways contemporary users do not need to and to analyze it in the context of other datasets . |
| 8 | Unlike Alfonso , they chose to recognize his worth and to aid him in the war against the African Moors . |
| 9 | Also like Roosevelt , he attracted to Washington the brightest advisers he could find in the universities and the business community to fill places in the Cabinet and to surround him in the White House . |
| 10 | " This Meeting recommend to the Collector to procure from the County town Models of the Imperial Weights and measures , and to put them in the hands of Samuel Lamont , who is appointed to ascertain that all weights and measures within the Island be corrected and marked by the standard . " |
| 11 | He has begun to remove teacher training from the colleges which have served us so ill in the past and to put it in the hands of the best schools . |
| 12 | IBM UK Ltd has agreed in principle to pre-load Tel-Me on all its personal computers ‘ of an agreed specification ’ and will design and build a specific machine to incorporate the necessary communications devices , and to distribute Tel-Me in the UK . |
| 13 | However , we believe that unless there are exceptional circumstances , it is for people with local knowledge to look at individual proposals and to decide them in the way that best meets local requirements . |
| 14 | You will probably be relieved to hear that you 're not expected to memorize that table and to regurgitate it in the exam . |
| 15 | The usual practice in most offices is for a post-clerk or secretary to open all the incoming mail and to place it in the in-tray of the appropriate recipient . |
| 16 | And to roll you in the clover |
| 17 | ‘ And should any other prince or captain , Christian or infidel , of whatever law or sect or condition he may be , pretend to any right to these lands and seas , I am ready and prepared to deny him and to defend them in the names of the Kings of Castile present and future , whose is this empire and the dominion of these Indies , islands and mainland , northern and southern , with their seas , in the arctic pole as in the antarctic , on both sides of the equinoctial line , within and without the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn — so that each thing and part of it belong and appertain most completely to Their Highnesses and to their successors , as I declare more at length by writ setting forth all that may be said or can be said and alleged in behalf of their royal patrimony , now and for all time so long as the world shall last until the final universal judgement of all mortals . ' |
| 18 | I would emphasize first , here speaking as one who has in the past given evidence on behalf of the Government , that the value of the scrutiny process is in part that it forces those with more direct power to consider their positions and their arguments carefully and to defend them in the face of public questioning by a Committee whose members may have long experience of the subject-matter involved . |
| 19 | We need to ensure people receive proper help and counselling , both to deal with abuse now and to prevent it in the future , ’ said Chris Cullen , who holds the SSMH chair in learning difficulties at St Andrews University . |
| 20 | How they used to ask him not to go to their posh prep school , but to meet them in the town . |
| 21 | That was a plot against Rachel she had never thought of , to take up maths again but to do it in the USA . |
| 22 | I found artefacts dating back a century and felt that it was important not just to preserve them , but to use them in the education of today 's children . ’ |