Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The research will monitor what coping strategies governing bodies are using to deal with the tasks and responsibilities given to them by the new educational legislation and will also focus on the identification of power relations ( including gender and race/ethnicity ) , decision making processes and networks of influence operating in the eight governing bodies . |
| 2 | The committee declined to accept the view put to them by the Joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury that tribunals ought to be regarded as part of the machinery of public administration for which the Government should retain a close and continuing responsibility . |
| 3 | Even as far away as Australia commentators talked about a quiet revolution in the way Australians and their communities were responding to the types of learning challenges being presented to them by the changing social conditions of the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 4 | Dependent on relief helicoptered to them by the American armed forces , the mountain refugees are still losing their young and their old to malnutrition , cold and disease . |
| 5 | The appeal was made to them in the early 1970s to offer their home to ‘ special needs ’ children and they responded well , Now they are being asked to accept both the challenge of ‘ special needs ’ children and the possibility of continuing contact with members of the original family . |
| 6 | The record company had been lending it to me for the last six months , but they gave it to me at the London gig as a present because Andy MacDonald — the feller who owns the company — was so into the gig ! |
| 7 | Mmi Well I 'm happy , but I 'm never happy about playing Poland because it always brings back memories to me of the early seventies . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll have you know that Tim has been a very good friend to me over the past five years . ’ |
| 9 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 10 | Before doing so I write to thank you all for the Loyal support and encouragement you have given to me during the past 14 years . |
| 11 | It was certainly a source of great pride to me in the nineteen sixties to be Personnel Manager of the Greenock plant , in an area which is noted to it 's erm , insecurity , to see the effects on the living standards and conditions and morale of the general community of having a manufacturing plant which had stability of labour , as well as it 's er , objectives . |
| 12 | So what happens to me in the great cultural revolution ? |
| 13 | Indeed , says Gauntlett , ‘ Had someone suggested such a thing to me in the mid- '70s , I , too , would have been horrified . |
| 14 | And because you 'll be reading to me in the next few months when I 'm cooking and doing chores . |
| 15 | If they do n't respond to me in the next forty eight hours I 'm going to send them a second letter er tel . |
| 16 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 17 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
| 18 | These gloomy thoughts have kept coming back to me in the last few days in the national Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum , collecting reference material on all those women artists who should have been included in Gravity and Grace : the Changing Condition of Sculpture 1965–1975 at the Hayward Gallery . |
| 19 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 20 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 21 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 22 | Any representations which you may have on the proposal should be sent to me within the next 10 days . |
| 23 | I therefore feel qualified to write to you about the French electronic machines.l |
| 24 | I have got in my diary that I 'm coming down to you on the twenty third of December ? |
| 25 | Just how petty , greedy and self-interested others really are will be made perfectly clear to you during the next few days and your reaction to them may well be to decide to turn off the charm and the money supply forthwith . |
| 26 | We can supply them from stock and shall be despatching them to you within the next few days . |
| 27 | This is the message conveyed to you by the Independent Islamic Wimbledon Day Boys ’ School ! ’ |
| 28 | He remained silent , watching her , and her embarrassment grew until in the end she set her glass down with a bang and in desperation said , ‘ So are you going to tell me what 's been happening to you in the last five years ? ’ |
| 29 | Her excitement , as she sat next to him on the narrow dirty furry seat of the bus , was almost too much for her . |
| 30 | ‘ Aye ’ I said in a trance and found myself moving closer to him on the broad warm bench . |