Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She brings her notes about it to the meeting and reads them out . |
| 2 | When the switch is closed , the full available current flows through it to the load but again no power is dissipated in the switch since the voltage across it is zero . |
| 3 | We were further delayed getting back on station by a detour for me to the south end of Duke Street . |
| 4 | A good deal of it to the east of the Cherwell remains in use as a main road ( A41 and A4095 ) , the only important break in the line being caused by the growth of the Saxon town of Bicester , a mile to the north , in place of the now-vanished Romano-British town of Alchester . |
| 5 | There had been a small number of ‘ slum clearance tenements ’ built in 1924 , but there was major slum clearances in North Shields in the 1930s after the Greenwood Act , when the banksides were almost totally cleared and some 9000 people were moved out , the bulk of them to the Meadowell Estate where 1961 dwellings were built , of which 84% were flats . |
| 6 | ( 3 ) There may be a time lag between the occasion of the alleged rape and the reporting of it to the police . |
| 7 | As though he could see beneath her skin with those piercing dark eyes of his to the anguished pulsing ball that was her heart at this moment . |
| 8 | He told me that if I did n't agree to marry you he 'd release that tape of his to the Press … ’ |
| 9 | Her cousin always coaxed a lighter side of her to the surface . |
| 10 | But erm , it 's , it 's terrifying , and when we get , as and Jack 's made a good point and , and it is a good one , that perhaps if we spent only half a day when somebody joins the depot and said to them , this is the geography of our depot , and this is where everywhere is , and this is how you get from one side of it to the other . |
| 11 | There were reports that two religious parties , United Tora Judaism and the NRP , were pressing Labour to enter into a coalition with them to the exclusion of Meretz . |
| 12 | Vic takes the Daily Mail with him to the lavatory , the one at the back of the house , next to the tradesmen 's entrance , with a plain white suite , intended for the use of charladies , gardeners and workmen . |
| 13 | He took the two or three steps with her to the other doorway . |
| 14 | There is still the village well , now covered , with a monument above it to the memory of Sir Christopher Sykes , second baronet , in 1840 . |
| 15 | She even wondered if it might not have been Mandy 's laughter-filled anecdotes about summers at the lodge that had coaxed this deep ache of loss within her to the surface of her consciousness . |
| 16 | 8 Mark in the beds and borders on it to the dimensions required , in the required positions . |
| 17 | Students selected on the basis of success in some form of study which has placed similar demands on them to the ones which they will experience in higher education have been shown to respond as least as well as , it not better than , the traditionally qualified entrants . |
| 18 | Am I being told that the law of England is so deficient that , if one assaults a person by driving a car at them to the danger of that person 's life or property — whether or not one damages either — that is not a crime known to the common law of England , and would it not attract the most condign penalties ? |
| 19 | Instead of which too many locals see the tourists arrive in Puerto Maldonaldo and speed across it to the river without even buying a Coke . |
| 20 | In the southernmost bay we engaged most valiantly with a band of savage islanders who scaled the walls of the sloop Rebecca and torched her timbers , but we consigned the greater part of them to the sea for pasture for the fishes that teem therein . |
| 21 | Clearly , a sum paid to the settlor to discharge a liability of his to the bank would come within this section ( see IRC v Bates ( 1966 ) 44 TC 225 : the case of Potts ' Executors v IRC [ 1951 ] AC 43 held that a payment to a third party was not a sum paid to the settlor but that case is no longer good law in view of TA 1988 , s677(10) which was inserted into the former TA 1970 , s451 ( now TA 1988 , s677 ) by s42(7) of FA 1981 ) . |
| 22 | Presumably he should have shot her or let her drown , rather than make a present of her to the French , but there were some things Karelius could not bring himself to do . |
| 23 | Standing this close to Piers was enough to bring her out in goose-bumps , and she thought , I 'll fight this desperate longing for him to the end . |
| 24 | If you use ball-point pens remember that they too run out or refuse to function : test them before use and take a bundle of them to the examination or the practice session . |
| 25 | Since you will hold the seller 's share certificate until you hand it over to the buyer on completion together with a transfer of it to the buyer , it 's for you to prepare the transfer , unless you send the certificate to the buyer 's conveyancers for them to prepare the transfer . |
| 26 | As he talks a train of small boys returning from school tramps behind us to the beat of the folk-pop tape . |
| 27 | The piste was crossed now and then by gullies of sand and ran along the foot of the escarpment , which towered several hundred feet above it to the left . |
| 28 | Federman has fully digested Beckett 's influence on him to the point of formulating carefully thought-out positions on the new direction fiction will take . |
| 29 | Since the 1950s they had lost a good deal of their influence over him to the Americans . |
| 30 | From his expression there was not much chance of speaking to him at all and she cast a wary look behind her to the door . |