Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I would n't necessarily talk to them about conditions in the flats . |
| 2 | All comes from the Bible , which is offered to them as proof of the truth of what they are told , and gives them the impression that both extremes of behaviour are correct and righteous . |
| 3 | Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme . |
| 4 | It is the duty of the trustee to report to the committee all such matters as appear to him or as the committee have indicated to him to be of concern to them with respect to the administration of the estate ( r 6.152(1) ) . |
| 5 | He says he has some sympathy with retailers , but at the end of the day it 's up to them to check on the authenticity of the goods they 're selling . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Fundamentally , what was at issue was whether the army , now ideally composed of men with at least a modicum of training and military skill , should be led by men who merited their responsibilities , awarded to them on behalf of the community by the king who paid them from public funds ( ‘ la peccune publique ’ ) . |
| 8 | After parties have agreed on the method of enquiry , a time is allowed to them for preparation of the hearing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Lords quite freely use their modest powers to scrutinise and amend non-financial bills sent to them by Tories in the Commons . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If the plaintiffs ' allegations are proved , the defendants would have been liable to them in negligence before the passing of the Congenital Disabilities ( Civil Liability ) Act 1976 . |
| 13 | But he thought Attlee ought to consider the problem ‘ and send a little note to his colleagues or address some remarks to them in Cabinet about the working of the committee system ’ . |
| 14 | They are done weekly on the radio in the lunch hour , and people listen to them in factories by the million . |
| 15 | Talk to them from Monday about the trade figures due out on Thursday . |
| 16 | The reports should be sent in the first instance to me for submission to the Advisory Committee on Policy . |
| 17 | Which seems to me to impact on the same thing . |
| 18 | Or , if someone came to me with arthritis of the fingers , I might ask him to ‘ think of your fingers lengthening ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Among the items Jean-Claude chose were antiquarian books given to me by Helmut in the expectation that my reading horizons , which stretched no further than the English classics , might be enlarged by beautiful print and binding and lavish illustra-tions , and a collection of now rare pre-war recordings of the Beethoven quartets and the song-cycles of Schumann and Schubert recorded in private performances . |
| 21 | I am an elected representative of the people of Northern Ireland , three thousand three hundred of our people have been murdered , that 's the equivalent of a hundred thousand people in Britain , it is the responsibility of every elected representative to do everything in their power , everything in their power , to stop that , The least responsibility that they have , the least they can do , is enter into dialogue directly with the people involved and I apologize to no-one for that , and if anybody is telling me that I 'm tainted because I do that , you know , I do n't know what sort of minds they 've got , because I think it 's our responsibility to do everything in our power to bring this violence to an end , and what 's more , what I 'm doing has massive support of ordinary people on both sections of our community because I have never in my twenty years experienced the nature of the support and the way that it 's being expressed to me by people in the streets , by telephone , and in particular by |
| 22 | They may turn round to you for reassurance in the early stages . |
| 23 | ‘ We are simply appealing to you for help in the case of my son , John . |
| 24 | I am writing to you for information about the kind of courses I read about in the article on the Features Page of last week 's Daily Telegraph which gave the address of your organization . |
| 25 | ( Your cheque will be returned to you on receipt of the video within 7 days ) . |
| 26 | I would be grateful if you could look into the matter and send me the duplicate Agreement as soon as possible , as I have your copy of the tape ( VM on IBM at 1600 bpi ) ready to despatch to you on return of the documents . |
| 27 | The full amount of your initial investment plus bonuses is guaranteed to be returned to you on completion of the five year term — and of course you could see a healthy return on your investment due to stock market growth during this time . |
| 28 | The second thing that I would like to recommend to you on behalf of the instrument ACTS is the Scottish christian gathering which will take place this year from Friday the twenty sixth of June to Sunday the twenty eighth of June at Saint Andrew 's College . |
| 29 | We had it mounted and we 're proud and pleased to be able to present that to you on behalf of the G M B. |
| 30 | I say to you on behalf of the centre , thank you Congress , thank you very much . |