Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I would n't necessarily talk to them about conditions in the flats . |
| 2 | Either way , the westward move of Odo and Robert and the distribution to them of lands in the Rheims area , can be linked with Charles 's marriage to Ermentrude . |
| 3 | Market research firms , government research agencies , academic research units and many other organizations which carry out survey interviews depend for their success on the voluntary help given to them by members of the general public . |
| 4 | The Lords quite freely use their modest powers to scrutinise and amend non-financial bills sent to them by Tories in the Commons . |
| 5 | It should be made clear that the value of this information for consumers would be chiefly as a yardstick against which they could measure the rates offered to them by lenders of the same type , or for credit of the same type . |
| 6 | They are done weekly on the radio in the lunch hour , and people listen to them in factories by the million . |
| 7 | That does n't make her schizophrenic , of course , but it 's the little things , her paranoia , her unkempt appearance … and yesterday she was whispering to me about microphones in the lecture room . |
| 8 | And what we would do in those circumstances sir is if the late objections er the objections or representations that were to arrive er up to let us say five o'clock tomorrow , we would er deal with and then send on to you with copies to the objector of course . |
| 9 | In these circumstances , where a director alleges an agreement with a committee of the Board for payment of remuneration , the court will not , in law or equity , award a sum to him for services to the company , as in relying on such an alleged agreement the director involves himself in an irreconcilable conflict between his duties as a director and his personal interests . |
| 10 | It was n't just the unmistakable aura of wealth and ruthless power which drew women to him like moths to the flame . |
| 11 | He rubbed at his eyes , then yawned , his tiredness returned to him like ashes in the blood . |
| 12 | There were other things he added herbs sent to him from friends on the Plantations , and other , special things . |
| 13 | The character or reputation a person has amongst his fellows is partly a product of his own efforts at self-presentation , partly an ascription to him by others on the basis of their readings of his life performances , partly in situations which can be seen as occasions of hazard . |
| 14 | The Doctor had never spoken to her about sockets under the console . |
| 15 | Her parents only came to appreciate the impact the plaintiff had made on others before her accident from the tributes that were paid to her by outsiders of the family during the months the plaintiff was in a coma at Addenbrookes . |
| 16 | She is known from her single volume of Poems on Several Occasions , published anonymously in Canterbury in 1740 but attributed to her in inscriptions in the Bodleian and British Library copies of the book . |
| 17 | The rise to prominence of the Dzhungar state in what is now Chinese territory , and the submission to it of tribes in the Altai and further west in present day Kazakhstan , were causing problems ( see below for more detail on the Teleuts ) . |
| 18 | The medium had been too strong for them , they had taken to it like aborigines to the bottle . |
| 19 | I think the persons who helped me most were the professional actors who were playing in the West End and came to us as teachers during the day . |
| 20 | up to us as examples of the kind of living faith which overcomes the pressing difficulties of inner conflict of these kinds . |
| 21 | Some descriptions of armies on the move , left to us by writers of the chivalric tradition , notably Froissart , glow with light and colour . |
| 22 | As the slopes grew steeper people clung to us like limpets in the hope of a drink . |
| 23 | Recently , Susan Keefe has listed no fewer than sixty-one treatises on baptism which have come down to us in manuscripts from the Carolingian age . |