Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Which means that we talk to them about a reasonable rate at which they can pay their rent . |
| 2 | Many of them so often quite rightly describe what has happened to them as a deep wound resulting from the blow they have received . |
| 3 | By fifty percent , but I certainly would n't be I certainly would n't be referring to them as a peripheral area . |
| 4 | I certainly would n't refer to them as a peripheral area , that was |
| 5 | They walked like robots until Doyle yelled , ‘ Stop ! ’ with half his voice whirled away by the wind so that it came to them as a little thread of sound . |
| 6 | There is a tendency for members of each stratum to develop their own ‘ subculture ’ , that is certain norms , attitudes and values which are distinctive to them as a social group . |
| 7 | KRRS alleges that foreign seed companies buy seed from farmers , treat it and sell it back to them at a hefty profit . |
| 8 | I 'll have to you 've got ta give me chance to buy papa and grandma 's grandpa 's and I can wrap them up and give them to them at the golden wedding or ca n't I ? |
| 9 | Anyone wanting to get in touch with the Graingers can write to them at the above address . |
| 10 | Many potential employers complain that applicants come to them with a poor knowledge of what the job involves and no particular interest in the company . |
| 11 | And upon the way they round a leper , struggling in a quagmire , who cried out to them with a loud voice to help him for the love of God ; and when Rodrigo heard this , he alighted from his beast and helped him , and placed him upon the beast before him , and carried him with him in this manner to the inn where he took up his lodging that night . |
| 12 | She turned to them with a glowing smile . |
| 13 | Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary . |
| 14 | There are many possible ways in which one may incur tortious liability through the instrumentality of an animal under one 's control , but the fact that the agent happens to be animate rather than inanimate is immaterial , for while the common law , like other legal systems , developed special or additional rules of liability for animals , it did not deny the applicability to them of the general law . |
| 15 | It is not so much that those buyers who actually consume the Qm units are having to pay the higher price Pm for them , since the higher price represents the value to them of the marginal unit bought . |
| 16 | There was the soft tinkling of pagoda bells in the wind , the scent of jasmine and forsythia , of gardenia and chrysanthemum wafting to them through the great moon door in the wall . |
| 17 | Their acute hearing had already informed them that only one set of feet was running in the night , the light footfalls vibrating to them through the drum-like quality of the primeval forest floor . |
| 18 | Although the survey vessel was now travelling at a speed faster than light , its occupants experienced no sense of progress other than that which was fed to them through the navigational telemetry . |
| 19 | A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window . |
| 20 | Davie Jess , a well known wag , entertained his mates with a flood of stories , many of which , as he said later , John Robertson , a man known to have a fine voice was asked to sing a song ; the only songs of which he knew the words were all hymns and soon rescuers gathered in the control room on the surface heard a strong , clear rendering of The Old Rugged Cross coming to them over the internal telephone system , with more than 100 trapped miners joining in the chorus . |
| 21 | Indigenous groups gained three seats in the Senate — two specially allotted to them under the new constitution and one elected . |
| 22 | Following Bono 's unsuccessful attempts to speak to George Bush at the White House during the ‘ Zoo TV ’ tour , Clinton sent a letter to the band offering his services and later spoke to them on a live radio phone-in . |
| 23 | He was sobered to find that many Tahitians were already dying from the venereal diseases bequeathed to them on a previous visit . |
| 24 | Candidates for an overseas assignment should have had the opportunity to digest all information given to them on the new job , country , life style , compensation package and effects on their careers and families before being interviewed for the post . |
| 25 | At this point some other people arrived to catch the train and his attention turned to them for a split second and within that time the sound of the scrunching footsteps disappeared into the night . |
| 26 | Voluntary Severance that staff will have individual voluntary Severance options made available to them for a limited period . |
| 27 | First-class writers can defy this rule-of-thumb , but anyone else doing so risks alienating readers who have come to them for a particular sort of entertainment . |
| 28 | ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo . |
| 29 | She talked of her children , far away in the north at Alnwick castle with their household , and of the late Spring when she would take her husband home to them for a brief visit . |
| 30 | It 's one of my jobs to meet the boats and this involves assembling the visitors and talking to them for a short while about the wildlife and rules of the island . |