Example sentences of "to [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later still again , she was doing her A's , there was Daddy talking to them over the shepherd 's pie about Keir Hardie , and her saying , ‘ Oh gosh I see , yes — ! ’ and Mummy laughing , ‘ Can we all eat and not so much learned talk . |
| 2 | They said that they were members of the MRF and that the Thompson had been issued to them by the RUC 's own Special Branch at Castlereagh , Belfast . |
| 3 | I talked to them in the Friends ' Meeting House on a dark and stormy summer night . |
| 4 | Speak to me in a year 's time and I 'll tell you . |
| 5 | The English writer Max Beerbohm spoke of how the music-halls had ‘ grown up with reference to nothing but the public 's own needs and aspirations ’ , of how the audience was ‘ the maker of the form ’ , and of how music-hall had always offered ‘ a great chance to any student of humanity at large ’ . |
| 6 | For my first tournament you were paid next to nothing from the caddie-master 's box , and your tips depended on how far you progressed in the tournament . |
| 7 | Carrefour sat on a low wall that stretched out from the side of a building , leaning his back against the building 's wall and tootling to himself on a child 's flute . |
| 8 | Oliver , being left to himself in the undertaker 's shop , set the lamp down on a workman 's bench , and gazed timidly about him with a feeling of awe and dread , which many people a good deal older than he will be at no loss to understand . |
| 9 | There , they would check it off and whoosh it back to you with the customer 's change and the docket stamped . |
| 10 | ‘ It is not often , ’ said Hugh with a rueful smile , ‘ that I must listen to you as the devil 's advocate , where a youngster in trouble is concerned . |
| 11 | Notice is commonly given by a printed form obtainable from law stationers in duplicate ( the duplicate for receipting and return to you by the lessor 's solicitors as evidence that the covenant has been complied with ) . |
| 12 | Erm what , what was the feeling that came over to you from the tenants ' group at the time ? |
| 13 | Er , perhaps , er , something like that is gon na happen to you in a fortnight 's time , this Christmas . |
| 14 | The following data is made available to you regarding the firm 's operations : |
| 15 | The exporter will send the shipping documents with the bill as a ‘ documentary collection ’ , via his own bank to one in the importer 's country . |
| 16 | I was as much arsonist as alchemist now , swinging the axe gleefully , impervious to everything but the fire 's appetite . |
| 17 | Mr Christie , backed by the campaigning organisation Liberty , yesterday announced he was making a formal complaint to the European Commission on Human Rights over the routine interception of telexes sent to him at the STUC 's Glasgow headquarters by a special unit within GCHQ . |
| 18 | There on the television monitors was a body lying alone in the middle of the track with his seat still strapped to him like a pilot 's parachute pack . |
| 19 | How differently did it appear to him from the Berelands ' assessment ! |
| 20 | Their response to the Lord Chancellor 's green papers , sent to him by the Judges ' Council , broke a long-standing convention that the judges made no comment as a group on proposed changes in the law . |
| 21 | In the more likely event that the seller makes a loss on the resale , he can claim that loss from the original buyer as damages together with any other damage caused to him by the buyer 's failure to pay . |
| 22 | All the time Wyn lived next to him in a nurses ' home , helping every day on the long haul to some form of recovery . |
| 23 | The following is one of many references to him in the Society 's centenary history : Undoubtedly the activity of Mr E J D Abraham , with his fund-raising ability and flair for promoting the organisation , has led to much of our present security . |
| 24 | Arran had to promise to destroy the ‘ contract and bond ’ made to him concerning the queen 's marriage , and discharge all noblemen who had consented to it — a considerable number , according to the letter written to the dowager by John , son of lord Somerville , in October 1545 . |
| 25 | I was talking to her at a women 's group meeting — we were playing records . |
| 26 | Lightness and truth came to her with the wind 's speed . |
| 27 | ( One campus I knew of in a large industrial city used to be so strictly guarded that the students referred to it as the town 's ‘ second prison ’ . ) |
| 28 | Unisys has created the marketing rationale of the customer selecting the timing of its jump to the next generation rather than being forced to it by the vendor 's phasing out existing technology . |
| 29 | To cover the glitch Intel Corp has created with Pentium — see front page — Unisys Corp has created the marketing rationale of the customer selecting the timing of its jump to the next generation rather than being forced to it by the vendor 's phasing out existing technology . |
| 30 | 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 . |