Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coming back , she saw for the first time that a letter addressed to herself lay on the kitchen table . |
| 2 | You would have forfeited Tracy Castle immediately , and ‘ t would have been granted to me to hold for the King . |
| 3 | If any forester do find any trespasser wandering within his liberty … within the forest … and after hue and cry made to him to stand unto the peace , will not yield himself , but flee or resist … if the forester do kill any such offender , he shall not be impeached for this felony . |
| 4 | Whenever a trust is left , it can be left in precatory words so that someone may ask , enjoin , seek , or hope that the trustee should cause what has been entrusted to him to pass to the person the testator wished , just as he enjoined . |
| 5 | it was too late to try and stop the marriage now , and it certainly had n't occurred to him to try at the time . |
| 6 | Both victims were brought to him limp in the arms of their supporters and their condition appeared dire . |
| 7 | But the primacy given to it depends on the belief that other explanations ( including smallpox ) have been excluded . |
| 8 | When I 'd checked the pin positions in the morning I 'd decided that it was going to be someone already under par who would be in a position to win next day as opposed to someone coming through the field , because I just could n't see anybody scoring well . |
| 9 | Nor do I see any support in earlier judgments which have been cited to us relating to the predecessors of section 236 or to comparable sections for such a limitation to ‘ reconstituting the company 's knowledge . ’ |
| 10 | If the choice facing us were legal , clean , decently performed abortion or none at all , no doubt many of us would be hard put to it to vote for the former ; but in fact the choice is between the legal , clean sort and backstreet self-induced efforts of the Ottey 's Pills variety . |
| 11 | First , experience does nothing to reassure us that the Government will use the powers they have taken to themselves to interfere with the untrammelled workings of the market place . |
| 12 | Against Poland at Lansdowne Road , the underfoot moon-rock masquerading as a soccer pitch put paid to anything going into the Polish net other than by fortuitous ricochet , or some such happy accident . |
| 13 | Section 11(3) exonerates the accused " if he believes that he has lawful authority for the removal of the thing in question or that he would have it if the person entitled to it knew of the removal and the circumstances of it " . |
| 14 | This practice , borrowed from the United States , recognises that until shares are issued they confer no rights at all , and that the rights ultimately attached to them depend on the company 's decision at the time when they are issued . |
| 15 | They can not , it is submitted — and certainly the plaintiffs themselves can not — be held responsible if , after the documents are returned to them executed in the presence of a solicitor , it subsequently transpires that the addressee has chosen to ignore the counsel that he was given . |