Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Far from ‘ smashing ’ the Liberal Democrats , Labour is continuing to lose support to us . |
| 2 | But the biggest drawback is that there are very few places left in the world where the malaria parasites ( species of Plasmodium ) have not developed resistance to them . |
| 3 | We also have to provide support for the A N C for thirty years a banned organization having to start from scratch in a country where the majority is supported but having no party officers or structures in place because if we suspend support to them or reduce it it will be like having no support of them all this time and just when the bird is about to fly you clip its wings . |
| 4 | We are not insulting God but bringing glory to him by taking his Word as the stable , authoritative truth it is . |
| 5 | For decades , those who lent money to them assumed not . |
| 6 | So low was King Henry 's credit fallen with those who lent money to him . |
| 7 | Mother and son alike became the passive , helpless witnesses to the demise , fall and dissolution of a man who had given direction to them both . |
| 8 | A third notion is that organic life — carbon-based life — was preceded by ‘ living ’ clays , based on silicon , as described by Professor Cairn-Smith that some of these clays gathered organic molecules around them , which increased their chemical versatility , and that the organic components eventually abandoned the silicon-based templates that had given rise to them . |
| 9 | While the majority of Japanese remained ignorant of Western social values and customs , and of the background which had given rise to them , the new Meiji government was already moving fast to demolish the formal apparatus of Tokugawa society . |
| 10 | There is a growing realisation that science and technology have embodied within them many of the ideological assumptions of the society which has given rise to them . |
| 11 | It is often , at least initially , a response to social distress , and in turn , this indicates that counselling responses to problems of excessive drinking should not concentrate on the drinking alone , which can be regarded as a symptom , but on the deeper underlying social and emotional causes which have given rise to it . |
| 12 | Besides attempting to say what it was about a sensation which served as a sign of the location of whatever had given rise to it , adherents of the local sign theory had also to say in what way the reference to a part of the body was made — whether in the form of visual imagery , or of a judgement , or of something else . |
| 13 | Isabelle stayed in London and found a job as a nightclub hostess in Soho , taking monthly trips to the Isle of Man and sneaking gear to him through credibly sealed packets of Twiglets . |
| 14 | He sat up , naked and at ease , handing the swiftly discarded T-shirt to her from the floor , watching while she scrambled self-consciously into her clothes with an expression that Robyn did n't dare to read . |
| 15 | As recognised by the conditions of engagement , the report is made to the borrower and the valuer accepts liability to him . |
| 16 | and told him to go away with it and think about what he could do , and er mentioned money to him , and he liked the idea . |
| 17 | The tape has been offered to a number of research institutions who have agreed to provide feedback to us on a pilot basis . |
| 18 | Newbigin cites the evidence of not one but a variety of Christologies in the New Testament reflecting ‘ the attempts of that community to say who Jesus is in terms of the different cultures within which they bore witness to him . ’ |
| 19 | In 1963 the Yaoundé Convention had linked former French and Belgian colonies in Africa to the EEC , and provided aid to them . |
| 20 | This is in direct contrast to the department 's duty to provide assistance to her . ’ |
| 21 | Home Assist gives you rapid access on a 24 hour basis to first class tradesmen and repairers to provide assistance to you in the event of an emergency which results in loss or damage to your home . |
| 22 | Many companies allow you to try equipment and will demonstrate equipment to you in your own home . |
| 23 | " Why don " t you say hallo to him ? " |
| 24 | Referrals by GPs where outcome was informal admission were consistently characterized by familial disruption : indeed only two of these cases were referred where the woman 's behaviour drew attention to her in the wider social environment outside the family . |
| 25 | She was very brave , he thought , to wear the sari and shop in the Indian shops and have her Bengali lessons when all these things drew attention to her . |
| 26 | And she was always turned out with the meticulous make-up and clothes of a Barbie doll , an arch exponent of power dressing with padded shoulders to her grey suit and a tight pencil skirt that drew attention to her long , shapely legs . |
| 27 | Darwin knew these things perfectly well , and drew attention to them . |
| 28 | After Francis Bacon first drew attention to it in 1620 , there was endless speculation on the reason for the striking similarity in shape between the coastlines of Africa and South America . |
| 29 | A fine example of Egyptian art of the 18th Dynasty , Carter himself thought this piece important and drew attention to it in the catalogue that he compiled for the Amherst sale . |
| 30 | ‘ He drew attention to it . |