Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year later , on Tuesday , 13 April 1773 , Boswell ‘ again solicited him to communicate to me the particulars of his early life . |
| 2 | Before they had parted on the Flamingo she had given Ernest the name of the boardinghouse where the Carsons had made arrangements to stay , and he had promised to write to her the minute he and Charlotte arrived at their destination . |
| 3 | Suggest to them the fact that when they had finished this one they would know absolutely bloody everything that could be possibly known , now and for always , about Wimbledon . |
| 4 | But the second is surely contradicted by the first ; especially if one adds to it the sympathetic view he evinces of the widow 's plight . |
| 5 | BELVILLE : As human life is uncertain I have disposed my affairs so as to secure to you the power of living as a person ought who is my widow . |
| 6 | He described to me the glen in a storm — the darkness that mantles it , the springing into life of untold hosts of runlets , the careering in mad fury of the burns as they break through and tower above the channel wherein they are wont to flow ; the showers , the careering of the clouds , the thunderings and the lightning-flashings , and the artillery of the winds , as the air-gusts meet the peaks and explode in the hollows of the darksome corries . |
| 7 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 8 | Try to make her understand how other people feel by putting herself in their shoes ; by that , I do n't mean hitting her over the head yourself , but explaining to her the pain of the other child when she hit him . |
| 9 | A NEW company has been set up to exploit an automatic bicycle transmission system , which is claimed to he the biggest breakthrough in bicycle gears since Derailleur invented his system in the 1920s ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 23 ) . |
| 10 | Please confirm your acceptance of this post by signing and returning to me the docketed copy of this letter . |
| 11 | Please confirm that the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding by signing and returning to us the enclosed copy of this letter . |
| 12 | This will be achieved by including in the offer letter a clause similar to that set out below : Please confirm your acceptance of the above offer by signing and returning to us the enclosed copy of this letter within the next seven days . |
| 13 | I could try and describe to you the expression in my eyes at this moment ; but they are far too discoloured with rage . |
| 14 | I ca n't describe to you the agony of being told — and then having no means by which to find out … |
| 15 | The Minister of State , my right hon. Friend the Member for Oxford , West and Abingdon ( Mr. Patten ) , was on the Front Bench yesterday and has reported to me the content of the ten-minute Bill and the vote . |
| 16 | You can not count the features of loveliness here , but I attach some pages from my notebook to discover to you the ingenious flora of this fair isle and their many productive and rich uses . |
| 17 | For very distant objects these stars themselves are too faint to be visible , but if you look at clusters of galaxies , we find that the very brightest galaxy in a cluster is the same brightness in all clusters and so the fainter it looks to us the further away the cluster of galaxies must be . |
| 18 | ‘ Forgive me if I seem to be playing the amateur sleuth once again , but something else occurred to me the other day , which might or might not be of interest to you . ’ |
| 19 | It would be helpful to David Wilson to know if either of the organisations named above or any other similar organisation has been in touch with you or any of your staff and also to indicate to him the nature of this contact and details of what was being offered . |
| 20 | Such is the notion uncritically entertained in the Alliance Report : competing candidates of the same party would make clear their differences on policy issues , and on the balanced slate so presented to him the voter would pick and choose . |
| 21 | He has us in fits and the funny thing was we were sat listening to him the other night , all having us dinner , we 're sat at table and it was ever so quiet listening to him and he sort of erm he mimics the other bird |
| 22 | Each industry must have applied to it the test of national service . |
| 23 | Federal Treasurer Paul Keating retained his post and added to it the title of Deputy Prime Minister , thereby increasing speculation that he would succeed Hawke as Prime Minister [ see above ] . |
| 24 | You listen to it the first time you do n't like it and then after that then |
| 25 | and then listen to it the second time and you go , ah ! |
| 26 | According to her the material objects of the world provide the common source of that knowledge . |
| 27 | According to her the dogs are not a nuisance and she wo n't pay the fine . |
| 28 | According to him the universe sprang from fire and will end in fire . |
| 29 | According to them the capitalist representation of labour , the idea that labour is a thing which can be bought and sold , came about as a result of certain economic and technical developments in medieval towns . |
| 30 | According to them the random pontine activity stimulating the cortex during REM sleep therefore has the function of erasing memories , which , in their terms , have become " parasitic " — interpretations which , whatever their origin , have no place in our latest view of the world and are redundant but persistent . |