Example sentences of "a [noun sg] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " 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 | Must be a bit of a blow to her in a way , Clemence coming back . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Why devote a chapter to him in a book which explicitly encourages its readers to pay attention to this music ? |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Within three hours , a smug waiter brought a telephone to me by the pool . |
7 | Mr Mr Donson , yes , oh that 's right , we posed a question to you on the elephant analogy . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | It was good to see a reference to me in a fanzine ( however indirect ) . |
10 | He had stumbled on a reference to it in an English journal — a painter had once disappeared into the peat fields to escape civilisation . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | ‘ I was a disgrace to them in the eyes of their neighbours . ’ |
13 | Our young people deserve honesty from ourselves and have a right to it from the Church . |
14 | 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 ’ . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | She 'd got through a call to him on the radio-phone that Kaptan was safe . |
20 | Put a stop to it in the end , though . ’ |
21 | Please try me at home on , before trying to get a message to me via the CPRW office . |
22 | Mrs passing a message to us through the time planner like that |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Indeed , says Gauntlett , ‘ Had someone suggested such a thing to me in the mid- '70s , I , too , would have been horrified . |
26 | If you are currently receiving income support , the DSS will send a form to you in the late Autumn . |
27 | ‘ Juliet — ’ David spoke earnestly , ‘ I know it seems like a disaster to you at the moment , but look at it this way . |
28 | It has seemed a certainty to me from the beginning ; the decision of the Council is tomorrow . |
29 | Erm and then we 've just done a letter to them with the new prices . |
30 | 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 . |