Example sentences of "a [noun] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion my father sent a runner to him in the Danakil country with an important letter . |
| 2 | Last year , you 'll remember , we had to absorb , in fact in the Tussauds group , about three quarters of a million er , pounds on the increase in V A T and that was a blow to us at the beginning of the season , you remember it was the budget more or less this time last year . |
| 3 | In all but one , the salesman went to great lengths to explain the engine and its features to my husband and to sell a car to me on the basis of its sleek lines or attractive upholstery . |
| 4 | Within three hours , a smug waiter brought a telephone to me by the pool . |
| 5 | Mr Mr Donson , yes , oh that 's right , we posed a question to you on the elephant analogy . |
| 6 | Those interested in seeing more of the sculptor 's work can visit a museum to him in the village of Sacre Monte , just north of Varese , where he died in 1950 . |
| 7 | That one of Æthelred 's chief ministers received an uncomplimentary name increases the likelihood that the king did so too , and there is possibly a reference to it in the chronicler 's sarcastic or despairing comment on Edmund 's reconciliation with Eadric in 1016 , " there was never worse unræd counselled than that " ; J.C . |
| 8 | ‘ I was a disgrace to them in the eyes of their neighbours . ’ |
| 9 | Our young people deserve honesty from ourselves and have a right to it from the Church . |
| 10 | The last Minister for the Arts but one , Tim Renton , made a remark to me about the difficulty of speaking up too energetically for the arts sector in the House of Commons , for fear that the other MPs would say , ‘ Ah , poor chap , he 's gone native ’ . |
| 11 | Positively , the theory asserts that there is something about the sensation which correlates with the stimulation being at a certain point , and which can thus , in time , become a sign to us of the stimulation being at that point . |
| 12 | They thought it was normal for Lucy ( they had never called her Mummy ) to fly from room to room looking for her watch , keys , diary , gloves , scarf , and blow a kiss to them from the garden path as the taxi-driver carried her cello out to the car , while Nissy held them up to the window to wave . |
| 13 | He will have debtors : his bank is a debtor to him for the amount standing to his credit ; his investments of money are claims to receive payment from the State or from corporations or individuals . |
| 14 | On 8 July her father , supported by her boyfriend , applied to the court for a declaration that it would not be unlawful for the hospital to administer a transfusion to her in the absence of her consent . |
| 15 | She 'd got through a call to him on the radio-phone that Kaptan was safe . |
| 16 | Put a stop to it in the end , though . ’ |
| 17 | Please try me at home on , before trying to get a message to me via the CPRW office . |
| 18 | Mrs passing a message to us through the time planner like that |
| 19 | Close though her friendship with Gary had become she had never once breathed a word to him about the new collections she saw taking shape at Mattli — and as for ‘ pillow talk ’ the notion was absurd . |
| 20 | You aroused an interest for me in literature which has been a resource to me for the rest of my life and a source of real enjoyment . |
| 21 | Indeed , says Gauntlett , ‘ Had someone suggested such a thing to me in the mid- '70s , I , too , would have been horrified . |
| 22 | If you are currently receiving income support , the DSS will send a form to you in the late Autumn . |
| 23 | ‘ Juliet — ’ David spoke earnestly , ‘ I know it seems like a disaster to you at the moment , but look at it this way . |
| 24 | It has seemed a certainty to me from the beginning ; the decision of the Council is tomorrow . |
| 25 | Erm and then we 've just done a letter to them with the new prices . |
| 26 | Rather than some forbidding official document , his report consisted of a letter to me with the disclaimer that it was not intended to be a major addition to the already considerable library of the National Health Service . |
| 27 | For instance , a letter to me from the Highways Department mentions a Forrest Road — Lothian St. cycletrack , which it says has had preliminary approval from the Transportation Committee and was ‘ shortly to be forwarded to the Department 's design and construction staff for detailing the works ’ . |
| 28 | Moi also ordered a halt to an inquiry which began in October 1990 and instructed the three judges to submit a report to him before the end of January 1992 . |
| 29 | And that meant a lot to me at the time because all the paintings I was doing were subjects from my childhood years . |
| 30 | But the meeting of intellectual endeavour and the Wanderlust , which John of Salisbury so clearly represents , is at least a symbol to us of the channels these influences found . |