Example sentences of "to [pron] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To them he gave detailed care now as always : most had been with him for many years . |
| 2 | To them it represented infinite riches , well worth committing murder for . |
| 3 | ‘ When Edwards spoke to me we discussed other football matters , such as Webb leaving , Mark Hughes might be going and United returning with an increased bid for Hirst . |
| 4 | How is it that you do n't know and in your letter to me you said this trust did not know where that money had been withdrawn at the same time Andrew director of Eastern Arts was quite happy to write to me to tell me why he was quite happy to tell the press over the phone why how is it the trust did n't know ? |
| 5 | As British Governments of both colours have failed the Turkish Cypriot community in Cyprus , to whom they undertook certain responsibilities under the constitution of 1960 and the treaty of guarantee , would not it be advisable for the Government to be a bit more sensitive to the concerns of the Turkish Cypriots who do not want to see — under whatever agreement , which may be too favourable to the Greek Cypriots — a return to the situation in the 1960s ? |
| 6 | Others who may well have had reservations about him ( though we shall probably have to wait some time before their reflections can be made available to us ) were the oil-company spokesmen to whom he advanced new facts of life during the earnestly disputed discussions between OPEC and the major companies in Tehran in December 1973 . |
| 7 | Must he now grind his pride in the dust and sue for the hand of she to whom he owed that indignity ? |
| 8 | De Quincey was more or less in hiding from Edinburgh people to whom he owed large sums of money , so Glasgow , a thriving and blackening metropolis of 365 , 000 souls , was the ideal place in which to eat your opium and keep your head down . |
| 9 | George Boole 's father had been curator of the Lincoln Mechanics ' Institute when Bromhead was president , and the connection led to the latter 's support and encouragement for the younger Boole , to whom he lent mathematical books . |
| 10 | For four years of his early life he lived at the court of King Philip II , to whom he did feudal homage in 1214 . |
| 11 | Thankfully , he found St Erconwald 's fairly deserted except for Watkin to whom he gave strict instructions about the custody of the church , and Ranulf the rat-catcher who had come to remind him of his promise that if a Guild of Rat-Catchers were founded , St Erconwald 's could be their chantry church . |
| 12 | Was he ashamed to meet men to whom he talked two ways ? … |
| 13 | If Mr Clinton answers such questions with a Yes , he will disappoint the expectations of many to whom he talked last year . |
| 14 | In fact , in regard to whom it allowed free entry into Britain , the 1971 Act differed mainly in the words used . |
| 15 | Goaded beyond endurance by the reference to the headmaster 's wife , to whom she had that morning sent a boy with a high fever , only to have him sent back with iodine on his knuckles , Glenda Grower chimed in again in her rich , ringing voice : |
| 16 | Another lawyer involved in the murder case , to whom I spoke last year , described her as ‘ a woman obsessed by family names , titles , and money ’ . |
| 17 | And that being an intelligent man you planned the murder to divert any suspicion from yourself to someone who had some sort of grudge against Brian Harley or Derek Jefferson . ’ |
| 18 | It is worth noting that such important modern choreographers as Kurt Jooss and Martha Graham and the leader of the Dance Theatre of Harlem , George Mitchell , insisted that their dancershave knowledge of some school of classical technique , to which they added other exercises to develop the flexibility of their dancers ' bodies , athletic qualities and an ability to explore more thoroughly the space around them in all its dimensions . |
| 19 | The four categories of need chosen by the Authority varied considerably in the extent to which they met these conditions , at both LEA and school level . |
| 20 | They have explored the extent to which they reflected mass aspirations and their role in the political outcome of the revolution . |
| 21 | THE recent attempts made by Hong Kong to have their sevens tournament accepted by the International Board as part of the official international calendar will not have been helped by the travesty to which they reduced this year 's tournament at the weekend . |
| 22 | The secret meeting organised by MPs Tim Devlin and Michael Bates , to which they invited selected headteachers to discuss opting out , drags the education debate down into the gutter of political furtiveness and secrecy . |
| 23 | It was this biotic aspect of human behaviour to which they gave special attention in trying to understand how populations and individuals adapted to one another and how this sorting process resulted in spatial distributions of social groups . |
| 24 | On Thursday March 9 , Spare Rib hosted a forum to which we invited eleven women representing a broad range of positions within the women 's movement . |
| 25 | There were the Bingley summer courses , and those at Grantley to which we invited professional painters to meet and work with West Riding teachers . |
| 26 | The central drives are those to which we gave considerable prominence at the start of this book , and are those associated with survival and identity , as well as with the preservation and expansion of family , kin and blood relations . |
| 27 | We must entertain doubts about Baden-Powell 's enthusiasm for Hooligans , and the extent to which it represented Edwardian wish-fulfilment rather than real accomplishment . |
| 28 | In analysing the ideology of the underground , recent work has underlined the extent to which it reflected social change and popular pressure within Russia . |
| 29 | It is , however , still very easy to pick up tufa from the latter on the coast of East Africa , to which it took 6 months to float across the Indian Ocean . |
| 30 | This is not the place to conduct a survey of Karajan 's Berlin recordings but it must be said that the 1962 Beethoven cycle was a tour de force , the finest of its kind since the Toscanini to which it paid partial homage . |