Example sentences of "to [pron] [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Men might reject the guiding hand of Providence and increasingly take control of their own lives , but death , when it came to them or their loved ones , had the same countenance that had frightened their ancestors . |
2 | I had been allocated an efficient back-up team from the Civil Service : Jane Benham ( promoted near the end and replaced by Martin Howarth ) , Michael Phipps and Jenny Bacon , all of whom impressed me with their loyalty to me and their diplomatic skills . |
3 | ‘ By this time I had already been fooling around with sound on sound recording , and then in 1971 some aunt that I never even knew left a small house to me and my two brothers . |
4 | The magazine will just have to lurch along snuggled up to me and my ageing haemorrhoids for a few weeks . |
5 | Conversely , the sufferer from addictive disease can not stop and denies the causal connection even up to his or her own death while blaming environmental pollution , an influenza epidemic , stress or any other external factor as the cause of his or her increasing disability . |
6 | We shall highlight the options available to you and their potential benefits and hazards to enable your final decision to be based as far as possible on a complete understanding of the available alternatives . |
7 | Next , you have to consider the options open to you and their likely consequences . |
8 | Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) . |
9 | This special low rate is available only to you and your fellow developers . |
10 | All too soon , I regret , we shall be forced to say adieu to you and your distinguished father . " |
11 | ‘ I 've listened to you and your sanctimonious blabberings for the last time ! |
12 | ‘ In an enclosed community , Master Corbett , people chatter — to themselves , to their sister , to me , or even to you or your ubiquitous servant , Master Ranulf . ’ |
13 | Lopsided , belonging not to herself and her inner love , but to doctors and chemotherapy and the loss of all her hair . |
14 | With the court having ordered the husband 's interest to be conveyed or transferred to the wife , or agreement to that effect having been reached , it may be that the wife requests or desires that the house be conveyed or transferred to herself and her new husband . |
15 | If the court has ordered the husband ( or the husband has agreed ) to convey or transfer his interest in the former matrimonial home to the wife , there is no reason why he should agree , at the request of the wife , to convey or transfer it to herself and her new husband . |
16 | A person whose identity was not known to him and whose very existence remained to be proved ? |
17 | Whitaker died 15 April 1654 and was buried in St Giles , where memorials to him and his first wife were erected . |
18 | Max had heard from his office that I was seeking to speak to him and his friendly response was to telephone me himself . |
19 | The case , which is being heard in secret , is believed to centre on payments to her and their two children , Daniel , 9 , and Lauren , 5 . |
20 | The suicide theory wo n't occur to her and her common sense would tell her it 's unlikely to be written off as another accident . |
21 | My father feared my mother as much as I did and wished me to please and agree with her always , for when I did not she would complain to him of my behaviour and I suspected that when this happened his new wife would complain in her turn that he paid too much attention to us and too little to her and her own children . |
22 | So , no she 's very much in the background she was and then course little old boy he goes down to her and his old eyes lit up again s , so then eventually come in , so he said erm oh here 's that trophy they wanted , she come third in Great Britain , little old gran . |
23 | Rather than let their cottages become occupied by potential sitting tenants , some farmers may prefer to let them to anyone but their own employees . |
24 | to it but he actual dance is lost . |
25 | In these life stories , then , each user is providing an interpretation of past actions which is intimately linked to his or her present-day existence . |
26 | The child in such an environment is given maximum protection from exposure to his or her real self , or from those who will act as a mirror to reflect the child 's racial image . |
27 | The National Record of Vocational Achievement ( NROVA ) us a folder or personal file within which an individual can keep certificates and other documentation relating to his or her vocational education and training . |
28 | provided the pupil is mainly taught programme of study material within the range of levels appropriate to his or her key stage , schools may teach the pupil for part of the time at a level falling outside the key stage … |
29 | Rather , each patient should be assessed individually before operation with respect to his or her general fitness for major surgery , motivation to avoid an ileostomy , and clinical function of the anal sphincter . |
30 | You should point out the necessity of co-operating with the doctor but you should warn the plaintiff that this is limited to matters relating to his or her medical condition . |