Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To tap that requires roots that probe deep between the particles of the soil and can absorb the film of water that clings to them in all except the most arid environments . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Do you want to talk to me about that in the tutorial first or would that be ? |
| 4 | Maybe the wee dram given to me by one of the Sergeant instructors kept out the cold . |
| 5 | ‘ Given to me by one of the Sunday newspapers which chose to run a feature on my business interests . ’ |
| 6 | She sat down , and read to me from some of the most famous magazines in England . |
| 7 | Q I 'm writing to you about one of the programs on your November Mega Disk . |
| 8 | British Rail tell us that the train that should arrive at Oxford at 5.35 from Scotland is going to be two hours late this evening but I 've no problems to report to you from any of the bus companies locally . |
| 9 | A wild urge to cling to him like this for the rest of her life ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | More precisely , it is the conception of something which has the nature assigned to it above all by the independent nomic conditional ( 5 ) . |
| 14 | " Certificate of completion " has the meaning assigned to it by 5.9 of the Building ( Scotland ) Act 1959 ( s.29 ( I ) of the Act ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We walked along the intersecting tyke walls and met a voluntary warden eager to talk to us about some of the work carried out on the reserve . |
| 18 | In fact , we know that the radiation must have traveled to us across most of the observable universe , and since it appears to be the same in different directions , the universe must also be the same in every direction , if only on a large scale . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |