Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His American tour kicked off on day one at the Tournament of Champions in Southern California and has taken him to the two major Pro-Ams — the Bob Hope and the Crosby ( aforementioned Pebble Beach National Pro-Am ) — a trio of Florida events — Doral , the Honda Classic and the Players ' Championship — as well as The Masters , the Colonial , the Memorial , the season-ending Nabisco Championship and a slew of less-hallowed events in between . |
| 2 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
| 3 | Film historians have spent a good deal of time debating the significance of the gangster films and attempting to relate them to the whole ethos of the Wall Street crash and the onset of the depression . |
| 4 | The finings attract yeast and other particles and begin to drag them to the bottom of the tank . |
| 5 | It 's sad , you know ’ — she turned about and looked at Peggy ‘ It is sad when a mother outshines a daughter , and aims to do it to the extent of trying to fascinate her son-in-law . |
| 6 | Flora Strachan , the ecology-conscious pensioner , had chased after him , waving a copy of her pamphlet An Uncommon Common and threatening to report him to the police . |
| 7 | Pipe some icing down one short side of the hutch door and use to secure it to the hutch . |
| 8 | In August 1915 the receiver , Mr Coombes , decided he could no longer continue in charge of the club and offered to sell it to the Leeds Northern [ Rugby ] Union Club at Headingley , who were interested . |
| 9 | But his mind was quick , and his memories were all intact ; and the longing never really went away , that awful persistent longing that could find outlet only in frustration and anger , and a wish to do bad things ; to hurt and to insult like he did now while he waited for David to concede defeat and agree to take him to the auction after all . |
| 10 | MARGARET Forster completed what she thought was the final draft of her biography of Daphne du Maurier in April 1992 and had dispatched it to the publisher . |
| 11 | When Ricky began taking Jenny out she was surprised to learn that Minton paid him money and had taken him to the Caribbean . |
| 12 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 13 | Again , on the flight home from Melbourne at the end of their Australian tour in 1985 , Charles hand-wrote a long and frank letter about his thoughts on a wide range of issues , including the Greater London Council — a politically explosive subject — — and had entrusted it to the common mail , without apparently thinking it unwise . |
| 14 | I take up points of view I do n't actually support strongly and start defending them to the hilt . |
| 15 | MURTON Brass Band has been in existence for more than 100 years and to say thank you to the people of the village who have kept the band going , they are to give a concert at the Victoria Club . |
| 16 | That , and trying to recruit him to the parents ' Association committee ( which was almost the same thing , as the most active women members were divorcees ) . |
| 17 | Listening to tapes of bird calls will help you identify unseen birds too and help direct you to the best place to stand and look for them . |
| 18 | The economists Nelson and Winter in their Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change ( 1982 ) describe this information as ‘ organisational routine ’ , and have likened it to the information codified in computer programs . |
| 19 | Naturally she had not wanted to go out with him , but both her mother and father stressed how nice it was of him to take such an interest in the fact that she was going off to university and wanted to take her to the pictures as a treat . |