Example sentences of "to [pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which means that we talk to them about a reasonable rate at which they can pay their rent . |
| 2 | Many of them so often quite rightly describe what has happened to them as a deep wound resulting from the blow they have received . |
| 3 | By fifty percent , but I certainly would n't be I certainly would n't be referring to them as a peripheral area . |
| 4 | I certainly would n't refer to them as a peripheral area , that was |
| 5 | They walked like robots until Doyle yelled , ‘ Stop ! ’ with half his voice whirled away by the wind so that it came to them as a little thread of sound . |
| 6 | There is a tendency for members of each stratum to develop their own ‘ subculture ’ , that is certain norms , attitudes and values which are distinctive to them as a social group . |
| 7 | KRRS alleges that foreign seed companies buy seed from farmers , treat it and sell it back to them at a hefty profit . |
| 8 | Many potential employers complain that applicants come to them with a poor knowledge of what the job involves and no particular interest in the company . |
| 9 | And upon the way they round a leper , struggling in a quagmire , who cried out to them with a loud voice to help him for the love of God ; and when Rodrigo heard this , he alighted from his beast and helped him , and placed him upon the beast before him , and carried him with him in this manner to the inn where he took up his lodging that night . |
| 10 | She turned to them with a glowing smile . |
| 11 | Following Bono 's unsuccessful attempts to speak to George Bush at the White House during the ‘ Zoo TV ’ tour , Clinton sent a letter to the band offering his services and later spoke to them on a live radio phone-in . |
| 12 | He was sobered to find that many Tahitians were already dying from the venereal diseases bequeathed to them on a previous visit . |
| 13 | At this point some other people arrived to catch the train and his attention turned to them for a split second and within that time the sound of the scrunching footsteps disappeared into the night . |
| 14 | Voluntary Severance that staff will have individual voluntary Severance options made available to them for a limited period . |
| 15 | First-class writers can defy this rule-of-thumb , but anyone else doing so risks alienating readers who have come to them for a particular sort of entertainment . |
| 16 | ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo . |
| 17 | She talked of her children , far away in the north at Alnwick castle with their household , and of the late Spring when she would take her husband home to them for a brief visit . |
| 18 | It 's one of my jobs to meet the boats and this involves assembling the visitors and talking to them for a short while about the wildlife and rules of the island . |
| 19 | Most fish would not be seriously affected by temperatures somewhat outside this range especially if only exposed to them for a short time . |
| 20 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 21 | They would not hate her , if she tried to sob out what would sound to them like a typical housemaid 's melodrama . |
| 22 | Less consciously , their desire was for a baby to be given to them by a symbolic mother ( the female doctor ) . |
| 23 | Two loyal members of the Hunt , a hawk-faced lady and a meeker male partner , his coat a warm flame in the dark crevice where they sat , took their tickets , and money from Dada , and handed programmes , a Hunt button engraved on their backs and a tiny pencil attached to them by a red string . |
| 24 | Angus talked to them in a strange tongue . |
| 25 | The region 's new political masters turned to them in a desperate hope that their expertise would make good their own helplessness . |
| 26 | The , the amount of money is allocated on a weighted mileage basis so it 's to do with the length of mileages in the area and it also reflects the various types of surveys that are done to assess the condition of the , the roads in the various areas , so that 's how the money is first divided up on an area basis , but within that all the schemes that are listed here have been promulgated either from such as yourself , from members of the general public , or as a result of our own inspections er and a priority has been assessed to them in a methodical way . |
| 27 | He says that ‘ when children have limited communication and language skills , you often need to reinforce what you say to them in a physical form . |
| 28 | Are there displays of children 's work placed around the room and is the attention of governors drawn to them in a meaningful way ? |
| 29 | And your answers should be couched in the terms that you would answer somebody in the pub , in that you 're giving them the information , you 're giving it to them in a clean way . |
| 30 | The animals flinched as they felt it , but Isay held them firmly , talking to them in a quiet voice . |