Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you 're in the middle of a supermarket , you can talk to them right in the middle of a supermarket . |
| 2 | Both Morse and Lewis stood , rather warily , beside the car as Downes began to fiddle ( once more ) with a hearing-aid one which looked to them suspiciously like the model that had earlier given rise to such piercing oscillation . |
| 3 | I pay tribute to them tonight for the work that they have undertaken in an attempt to keep us aware of what is happening out there . |
| 4 | Up to the passing of the new Act , the loan societies recovered money owed to them either by a summons to a Court of Requests or to a Police Court . |
| 5 | When we talk about exemptions , the Government refer to them simply from a basis of ideology . |
| 6 | We find it helpful to number modes so that we can refer to them simply in the form νsubn ; . |
| 7 | ‘ By the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 , the defendants are placed in the same position as the ordinary subjects of the Crown ( see section 21 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 ) and I see no reason why they should not in appropriate cases refuse to refund money paid to them voluntarily under a mistake of law , as the revenue authorities were held to be entitled to do in the case of William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King and National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King . |
| 8 | as if he suddenly wanted to return the girls ' favour on this Monaghan Day , he spoke to them openly about the war for the first time in their lives . |
| 9 | Get a claim form from your council and return it to them together with the receipt or bill . |
| 10 | So , in fact you 're not going to do anything to them much in the way of discouraging them from removing their forest , by stopping them exporting small amounts of . |
| 11 | At one time his patents even tried giving him mineral water shipped to them specially from a mine , believing their son could be allergic to the fluoride in tap water . |
| 12 | This seems to them more like a building site than a City office . |
| 13 | But no cries came to them there on the terrace , the darkness lit by the moon , the bright stars spread like a net across a sky that never lost its blueness , the scented tapers burning between the statuary of the amorous god . |
| 14 | They would phone people all over the UK , and read to them verbatim from a script worded as follows : " Hello . |
| 15 | The chemicals that make up living things are all based on chains of carbon atoms , with hydrogen atoms attached to them all along the chain — such molecules are known as hydrocarbons . |
| 16 | But , secondly , it seems to me plain as a pikestaff that the building society , in parting with its money , relied on the transfer . |
| 17 | Sharon 's father talked to me both of the building and the killing of a community . |
| 18 | ‘ Carel Weight has always been important to me both as a painter and as a father figure . |
| 19 | However , in the present context , Mr. Philipson 's arguments seem to me completely beside the point . |
| 20 | This meant very little to me apart from a salary increase and a move from my position at the extreme right of the Cabinet table to the extreme left . |
| 21 | There are one or two old professors here left over from before the liberation ( apparently no profs have been appointed since ) and the professor of English , Prof. Chen Jia , is a charming though deaf old fellow who studied in the U.S.A. , and who used to write books on English literature before the Cultural Revolution put a stop to all that sort of thing — but even so he quoted a bit of Chaucer to me surreptitiously at the dinner table . |
| 22 | I , I want to talk to you about er the conversation I had with Alec yesterday , he seems to be inundated with having to get details about on his er , all his paperwork and so on , and he seems to be inundated and he sounded a bit low , quite frankly , to me yesterday on the phone that he was getting inundated with all this |
| 23 | I am afraid the latter-day Pop artists think of themselves as being a culmination of the expression of cultural realism and they regard what happened in the Sixties as a primitive expression of their more developed ideas , which seems to me far from the truth . |
| 24 | ‘ An accountant came up to me once at a party and said , do n't you find it boring doing the same thing night after night . ’ |
| 25 | No well erm , I did ask , old Chris spoke to me once in the park and then there 's and things like that , cos a certain amount of secrecy in the , things like that and erm I I sort of turned it down and he even er er er well while and and Len that said Stanley did you ever think about joining the Masons ? |
| 26 | The Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy apologised to me earlier for the fact that he has had to leave the Chamber because he is due to make a speech on clean coal technology elsewhere in London . |
| 27 | I 'm afraid I have n't a spare copy to forward to you even on a loan basis , one never allows for the contingencies which arise . |
| 28 | ‘ I will speak to you again in a moment , Madame . |
| 29 | We 'll try and bring it to you later in the programme . |
| 30 | ‘ I will speak to you today on a text from that book , the Book of Exodus , which is so replete with wisdom concerning the leader and the led . |