Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not insulting God but bringing glory to him by taking his Word as the stable , authoritative truth it is . |
| 2 | He sat up , naked and at ease , handing the swiftly discarded T-shirt to her from the floor , watching while she scrambled self-consciously into her clothes with an expression that Robyn did n't dare to read . |
| 3 | The tape has been offered to a number of research institutions who have agreed to provide feedback to us on a pilot basis . |
| 4 | Home Assist gives you rapid access on a 24 hour basis to first class tradesmen and repairers to provide assistance to you in the event of an emergency which results in loss or damage to your home . |
| 5 | Many companies allow you to try equipment and will demonstrate equipment to you in your own home . |
| 6 | Referrals by GPs where outcome was informal admission were consistently characterized by familial disruption : indeed only two of these cases were referred where the woman 's behaviour drew attention to her in the wider social environment outside the family . |
| 7 | After Francis Bacon first drew attention to it in 1620 , there was endless speculation on the reason for the striking similarity in shape between the coastlines of Africa and South America . |
| 8 | A fine example of Egyptian art of the 18th Dynasty , Carter himself thought this piece important and drew attention to it in the catalogue that he compiled for the Amherst sale . |
| 9 | The technology exists to clean up truck and bus exhaust and JM has access to it through its controlling share of Svenska Emissionsteknik in Sweden . |
| 10 | In other words , some of that subconscious world which has access to us in dreams may seep through under cloak of night , giving us better apprehension of the dawn of the world , when we were children — or when mankind was in its childhood . |
| 11 | She caught sight of the children and , in a sudden paroxysm of words , tried to admonish them in her own language interspersed with Arabic , while announcing breakfast to me in English . |
| 12 | In whatever form the respondent 's case is pleaded he must prove not only that the appellants acted fraudulently but also that their fraud caused damage to him by causing the enactment of section 18 . |
| 13 | The answer to that was made plain to him with a stab of dread when he ventured to peer out of his embrasure , for the tall figure was already at the top of the staircase and advancing silently and at leisure along the stone corridor . |
| 14 | Our database is large and the two principle factors we employ are a ) Cost Price to us from estate , foundry , artist or representative dealer and b ) proposed and/or actual selling price to our client . |
| 15 | could carry water to him in a basket . |
| 16 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 17 | Leonora took a deep breath and informed Penry that Guy had , indeed , made love to her to a certain extent . |
| 18 | Another problem is that if you 're trying to deal with other manufacturers in the way that we do , where we have this extremely close relationship and they are very reliant on our forward forecasts of volume , they feel if you have your own manufacturing plant that you would always give preference to it in bad times and the other suppliers would be the people to suffer if sales declined . |
| 19 | The bantering tone remained in Surere 's voice but he added edge to it for the last word or two . |
| 20 | Because my hon. Friend looks so disconsolate , I will give way to him after all . |
| 21 | A group of thirty horsemen had come against Forteviot from the east an hour before , and had tried to set fire to it with burning arrows , and strike down the defenders with slingshot and spears . |
| 22 | three brass things , no it should n't be seen really , so I do n't know whether I 'm drawing attention to it by putting brass things |
| 23 | And further : We can , in summary , at the very least draw this conclusion : that it is , by reference to modern biological thought , a tenable view of society which — so long as its component classes are not exclusive — sees advantage to it in the variety of aptitudes and attitudes implied by class structure in a mixture of co-operation and competition between them . |
| 24 | do n't you dare talk to me like that Clare , I 've had enough |
| 25 | do n't you dare talk to me like that Clare , I 've had enough |
| 26 | Anne herself found that when she voiced her grievances quietly and calmly , rather than screaming them , her family paid attention to her for the first time . |
| 27 | Never before had any American president , not even his greatest friend and admirer Richard Nixon , paid tribute to him in terms quite as fulsome as that . |
| 28 | Today it has become fashionable to disparage Lawrence and his achievements but Churchill , Allenby , Wavell , men of action and men of letters and humble aircraftmen who knew him , paid tribute to him in T. E. Lawrence By His Friends . |
| 29 | Paying tribute to him before last night 's show , Mr Barraclough said the best thing about working with Les Dawson was the laughter . |
| 30 | The mother had not had access to her since January 1987 . |