Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] [num] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Lesley says : ‘ My husband is getting very frustrated with trying to talk to me at 9.30 in the evening when I 'm in a heap .
2 Maybe the wee dram given to me by one of the Sergeant instructors kept out the cold .
3 ‘ Given to me by one of the Sunday newspapers which chose to run a feature on my business interests . ’
4 Q I 'm writing to you about one of the programs on your November Mega Disk .
5 His scalp is valued above all others in Scotland , with Labour desperate to regain the seat they lost to him in 1983 in the biggest pro-Tory swing of the campaign .
6 The most vivid memory I have of that Christmas Day is of Shanti , now almost two years old , walking round and round the long dining-room table , pulling a little toy engine given to her by one of the boys , round and round , smiling and smiling .
7 On my return to London I tried to find out about the Ober Gabelhorn but there was little information readily available , apart from a couple of references to it as one of the great alpine peaks .
8 " Certificate of completion " has the meaning assigned to it by 5.9 of the Building ( Scotland ) Act 1959 ( s.29 ( I ) of the Act ) .
9 It has also been argued that the halting of peasant movement in the Ukraine and the extension to it in 1783 of the poll-tax , which doomed the Ukrainian peasant to serf status , were inspired by a desire to end the privileged position enjoyed by many border areas of the empire , and to some extent by the need to increase revenue , rather than by the extension of serfdom as a matter of policy .
10 During the same time , the size and the shape of the company has changed to such a point that some of our assets are no longer meaningful to us as one of the world 's leading independent exploration and production companies .
11 It was found among a collection of magazines , news-sheets and leaflets which were sent to us by one of the researchers for our archives on feminism in the 20th century .
12 The Haren guests were treated to a round of events which may sound rather unexciting and unsophisticated to us in 1992 in the week that Euro Disney opens , but were good wholesome fun in a post war Britain still on rationing .
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