Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forwarding a copy of this letter to his wife , he added that ‘ I quite squirm at the thought lest some successor to me in the near future should treat these chiefs in a different manner from my own ’ . |
| 2 | Er and you 'd get some feedback to us from the Neighbourhood Watch point of view er and it 's not peculiar to Neighbourhood Watches but er from , from your point of view you also have access to the police in that er eventually there should be a liaison built up , not overnight I mean it wo n't , it wo n't happen tomorrow morning either , but there 'll be a lia liaison between the , the local police officer and yourselves er and if there 's any problems that you may have , you know and you 'll be able to communicate back to them . |
| 3 | ‘ Scouting attracts the hooligans , ’ he told the National Defence Association in 1910 , ‘ who are really the fellows of character if you can turn them in the right way ; and no doubt these fellows will be of some use to us in the future instead of being absolute waste material , fit only to be buried . ’ |
| 4 | I think that Harold himself always had a feeling , despite the nine years between us , that my succession would not make enough difference between his regime and the next , and he mentioned this argument to me on the 17th . |
| 5 | All fears are of the material world and we have to give some thought to them for the sake of our ambition and our dependants and our own physical well being , but they are not transcendent things and have no meaning there . |
| 6 | I did not pay much attention to it as the time , because we had n't decided which peak we were going to attempt . |
| 7 | There 's a advertisement er for example in a recent issue of the Guardian , if my er Dutch was erm a little better I 'd quote it into the record but erm I 'm afraid it 's , it does n't make very much sense to me at the moment . |
| 8 | But I have n't given much thought to it at the moment . |
| 9 | That at least was the rationale behind the nepotism , though in practice Nicolae Ceauşescu 's brothers were as little use to him in the final analysis as Napoleon 's brothers were to the beleaguered emperor . |
| 10 | I shall venture my own response to it in the final chapter . |
| 11 | Not even Wallace had been to Bouton , and we were unable to find any reference to it in the literature . |
| 12 | She did n't attach any importance to it at the time and it was only when she heard we were interested in anyone who had seen Garland between Saturday and Wednesday that she thought it worth mentioning . ’ |
| 13 | In early October , as Mrs Thatcher — flanked by her Cabinet — received a nine-minute standing ovation at the close of a successful party conference , few expected any challenge to her in the leadership election which had to be held within 28 days of the start of the new parliamentary session , due to open on 7 November . |