Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Betty noticed however that Lydia contrived to carry nothing but a bottle of cider which she had clearly earmarked for herself . |
| 32 | The Sheikh spoke quietly to his chauffeur , then stepped forward to acknowledge them with a courteous inclination of the head . |
| 33 | The gypsies themselves are puzzled by the apparant determination of the council to evict them from a site well away from public view . |
| 34 | ( That is why we refused to treat them as a separate school . ) |
| 35 | Opening the conference Havel stressed that " in the extremely sensitive and risky stage of economic transformation of the post-communist countries , any attempt to treat them as a more or less institutionalized zone of semi-developed countries surrounding the prosperous countries of the European Communities [ EC ] and the European Free Trade Association [ EFTA ] would be an extremely dangerous step for all concerned " . |
| 36 | Unless the EC decides to treat them as a special case , it seems the only way out for them will be to give the toys away . |
| 37 | Well , of course , it did not take very long for people to realize that if someone wanted to sell his company and retire to the country with the proceeds , these provisions could be used to postpone payment of capital gains tax almost indefinitely so long as he was prepared to continue to hold the shares issued to him and to treat them as an investment . |
| 38 | Both types have snap-on terminals used to connect them to a detector in a similar way to a PP3 . |
| 39 | Having briefly described ten tests of language , it is now possible to compare them on a range of criteria . |
| 40 | So it 's not too ridiculous to compare them to a cross between Marc Almond , Nick Cave and The Chameleons . |
| 41 | When I did find her , she always managed to evade me like a will-o'-the-wisp , and then I would lose her again . |
| 42 | These groups are known by a variety of names , but the central idea is to bring together a small number of people who have certain interests or characteristics in common and to interview them as a group . |
| 43 | I first met him when he came to interview me as a young reporter . |
| 44 | These districts were not very fruitful in peat , and they would have to carry them from a distance of many miles ; in some cases a pavement of large stones led from the main road to the door of the dwelling . |
| 45 | An intelligence , guided by a purpose , must be continually in action to bias the direction of the steps of change — to regulate their amount — to limit their divergence — and to continue them in a definite course … |
| 46 | We got about six sentences too deep in our conversation for her to institute personal questions about my background , without appearing offensive ( she had to treat me as a person now and not a peon ) , even for Asians who delight in asking pertinent questions as to age , income , etc. , unthinkable for more backward Europeans . |
| 47 | But I will not be ordered this way and that , she said , I will do the work in my own time , as I choose , for my sister has no right to treat me like a maid , to give orders and expect me to run her errands . |
| 48 | ‘ My mother used to treat me like a stranger , ’ he reflected . |
| 49 | That still does n't give you the right to treat me like a child , ’ Robyn persisted . |
| 50 | They acquired a wider notoriety five months later , when de Gaulle decided to champion them in a press conference ( 4 February 1965 ) . |
| 51 | And s and begin to drive them with a consolidated plan . |
| 52 | From long experience Blanche knew it was pointless to confront most interviewees , foolish to drive them into a corner . |
| 53 | As she notes , ‘ economic rationality led in neighbouring villages to the creation of rules of cultivation which sufficiently resembled one another for us to classify them as a system ’ ( p. 273 ) . |
| 54 | The organisers of the conference had amassed the hundreds of rights suggested under 17 different principles , hoping eventually to amalgamate them into a single-page charter and a declaration similar to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 55 | Yet in Greek philosophy , it appears , these two senses of to be were not always very clearly distinguished from each other , and sometimes moreover there was a strong tendency to amalgamate them in a single concept . " |
| 56 | CICS for OS/2 is not the only ‘ middleware ’ that IBM was touting at the end of March ; the company continued the theme by unveiling the first implementations of its Message Queue Interface , dubbed the MQSeries , and said that it will try to promote them as a cross-system standard . |
| 57 | It may be possible to find such books in your office , or to arrange to borrow them from a public library . |
| 58 | Once you 've arranged your flowers , make sure you keep your container topped up with water , and do n't forget to refresh them with a quick spray . |
| 59 | Barclays Bank is one of the cheapest widely-available sources of travellers ' cheques , charging 1 p.c. to issue them with a minimum fee of £2 . |
| 60 | Pupils should be well prepared , and it is advisable to issue them with a guidance sheet that can be shown to the staff . |