Example sentences of "[verb] to [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a new Government assuming office , AI urges members to write to their new MPs appealing for the speedy removal of the death penalty bringing the UK into line with international progress towards abolition . |
| 2 | The Royal College of Nursing in Oxford is asking its members to write to their local MPs and state their case for a pay award . |
| 3 | Now as a national organizer all the branches in your area if they had any complaints or anything that they wanted attending to used to write to their national organizer and I used to visit and deal with their complaints . |
| 4 | I found among my mother 's papers when she died a letter from my grandfather which must have wrung her heart for years after his death : ‘ … ca n't you spare a moment to write to your poor old Dad … ‘ |
| 5 | Dear Guitarist I have been meaning to write to your fine mag for a long time , but whenever I was about to put pen to paper someone else got there before me with the same topic . |
| 6 | Statements and documents filed at court are confidential and may not be disclosed to anyone other than the parties , their legal representatives , the guardian ad litem , the Legal Aid Board or a welfare officer without the leave of the court ( FPCR , r23(1) ; FPR , r4.23(1) ) . |
| 7 | Conservatories and porches — at very competitive prices — can be designed to your exact requirements and cover a whole range of specifications to suit your property . |
| 8 | Athena ( largely lost ) moved to her left , aegis stretched out before her . |
| 9 | Perhaps its remoteness has been its saving grace , coupled with the fact that by the nineteenth century the Pinney family who had built it deemed it too small and dim to live in and moved to their other house of Racedown , a mile up the road . |
| 10 | The clashes in January 1987 followed the sacking of print workers by Mr Murdoch 's newspaper group when it moved to its new print plant at Wapping , east London . |
| 11 | The brightest point for the capital has been the performance of the Traverse since it moved to its new £3.4 million home close to the Lyceum and Usher Hall . |
| 12 | The space problem was relieved to some extent when the museum moved to its modern site in the late I820s , but natural history still rubbed shoulders with art and archaeology . |
| 13 | It moved to its present site in 1879 . |
| 14 | Blindcraft moved to its present home in 1972 and in 1975 , the Region took on the role of supervisory authority . |
| 15 | Oh yes , I used to live , we used to live in a three bedroomed semi in before we moved to our present house , and one Christmas Ken said why do n't all our family to us , which was his mother , his father , his elder brother , his wife , two little girls from them , Tony , Karen and their little one |
| 16 | Nicholson 's horses have been in sparkling form this season since he moved to his new yard and Baydon Star was sent off a surprisingly generous 13-8 favourite . |
| 17 | When he moved to his present school , he abandoned individualised learning and lessons fell very much into the mode of ‘ exposition by the teacher , pupils do the exercise ’ . |
| 18 | Bhutto 's confrontation with rival governments in the provinces , particularly Punjab [ see pp. 36525 ; 37204 ] ; her differences with Muslim fundamentalist parties [ see p. 36525 ] and her uneasy relationship with the President [ see p. 37203 ] , also contributed to her political demise . |
| 19 | But Arnold seems unaware of the strain that Jellett must have borne specifically as a woman artist , and one can not help but wonder if this contributed to her early death . |
| 20 | Revenues generated by this channel did not go through the joint venture , rather through Kam Circuits , which contributed to its good performance . |
| 21 | Yellow man : Kirk Hunter gets the card treatment from referee George Keatley , one of the bookings which contributed to his long early-season suspension . |
| 22 | asked that we relay his heartfelt thanks to all Wood Group personnel who contributed to his successful visit . |
| 23 | Perhaps that contributed to his good looks , thought Charles , and bent to pull up his wrinkled socks as Dimity had told him . |
| 24 | With Dawson it was his bulk which undoubtedly contributed to his premature death along with his broad , rubber face that became his trademark and made him an ideal pantomime dame in true bawdy music hall tradition . |
| 25 | I suggest to my hon. Friend the Minister that he could simply delete that line of clause 60 . |
| 26 | She was obviously growing so attacked to her little girl and then she had to give her away . ’ |
| 27 | Yet some provisional leaders and rank and file members are committed to their Roman catholic religious belief and practice . |
| 28 | For it was in the western part of Charlemagne 's Empire that a particular combination of conditions — persisting Roman administrative and legal practices , well-organised provincial churches with longstanding traditions of conciliar meetings and the issuing of legislation , elites long-christianised and committed to their local churches , the written word in a language not too far removed from the spoken vernacular — favoured a particularly strong corporate awareness and activity on the part of churchmen within a group of provinces . |
| 29 | But even he , in his rhapsody America , in 1926 , was not fully committed to its exclusive individuality . |
| 30 | The Cambridge Board was fully committed to its existing developments in the other counties , considered earlier in this chapter , and the LEA were averse to contributing to the salary of the tutor until the scheme had become firmly established in the county — a Catch 22 situation — and the scheme petered out in 1934 . |