Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The sad consequence on the children 's lives of the circumstances of their birth led me to the conclusion that pregnancy in elderly women might not be appropriate and the whole programme was stopped . |
| 32 | He says that at the end of the Laws of Moses one finds the following words : " Moses , having heard the words of God , transmitted them to the Jews . " |
| 33 | ‘ The William S. Paley Collection ’ ( 28 February-16 May ) consists of eighty-four mainly intimate-scaled early modern works acquired by the late founder of CBS , and bequeathed to a foundation that in turn conveyed them to the Museum of Modern Art in New York , where Paley was chairman emeritus at the time of his death in 1990 . |
| 34 | And I 'm really proud that the men in the tank recommended me to the jailers to be the trusty . |
| 35 | The regular vet — a friend of mine — has gone to live in Australia and he recommended me to the zoo as his replacement . |
| 36 | The local officers , usually J.P.s , and known as undertakers , then bought goods at market prices and sold them to the household at royal prices . |
| 37 | It closed the banks and immediately sold them to the Richmond-based Signet Banking Corp . |
| 38 | We asked them to the meeting and we look forward to listening to you later on in the agenda . |
| 39 | Only a mad dash got them to the meeting on time . |
| 40 | Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league … maybe Keith Scott can keep them there ! |
| 41 | As they conquered peninsular Italy and Sicily in the third century BC , the Romans took works of art and dedicated them to the gods at Rome . |
| 42 | So I invited them to the gig at St Martin 's . |
| 43 | Then Mum thanked them and said she would pay them later for their trouble and invited them to the funeral . |
| 44 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |
| 45 | So they moved them to the Catherine Palace . |
| 46 | Richard played me their record and invited me to the end of recording party . |
| 47 | ‘ When Peter invited me to the club I knew that Dusty was retiring and that there would be a place up for grabs . |
| 48 | Recently , the Queen invited me to the Windsor Horse show along with my little friend Mohammed Al Fayed , who has a shop in Knightsbridge , the name of which escapes me . |
| 49 | Mr Patrick Corbally Stourton , who went out to work in Australia several years ago , and is now managing director of Originals Outback Limited , invited me to the opening of the first comprehensive exhibition of Aboriginal art from the Central Western Desert of Australia to be seen in Europe . |
| 50 | When Andy invited me to the launch of the The Gadget Shop I naively assumed it would be in the shop itself , in Covent Garden . |
| 51 | I payed with my Vista card and although she was a hockey player , when she invited me to the opera I igried to go . |
| 52 | The problem with it , so far as we can see , is that if the political system is democratic and the state is relatively neutral then how is it that anyone could use the system in such a way as to ensure that it permanently advantaged them to the exclusion of other actors and interests in the system ? |
| 53 | With a gesture he drew them to the side of the corridor . |
| 54 | The Office referred them to the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 55 | Sure enough , a high-pitched peeping drew me to the stable , and there on the floor was the hen with one minute black puff-ball of a chick . |
| 56 | It was Mr Hurd 's first paragraph that drew me to the rest of the review . |
| 57 | No , what drew me to the Hall was personal . |
| 58 | ‘ Some people kept little trees in secret courtyards , and flowers in their houses , but they were n't supposed to , and if their neighbours reported them to the police the people would have their trees chopped down and the flowers taken away and they would be fined or put in prison , where they had to work very hard , rubbing out writing on bits of paper so they could be used again . ’ |
| 59 | Well no the , the owner , the baker reported them to the police . |
| 60 | Someone reported them to the authorities . |