Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One evening , perched in his landing window , he shot towards my wife with an air rifle and I reported him to the police . |
| 32 | Hillier , who 's since served a jail sentence himself in connection with the fiddle , reported him to the police . |
| 33 | I suppose they might try and sellotape her to the walls of their cells . |
| 34 | 7.4 Employees and their managers must complete this form and send it to the Employees Relations Officer at Department Headquarters , , not only in circumstances in which the employee has been physically hurt but also where they may have been abused or threatened in any way or subjected to racial or sexual harassment . |
| 35 | Why not jot your suggestion on a post-card and send it to the Sports Desk , The People , 33 , Holborn Circus , London EC1P 1DQ.There 'll be a special gift for the best suggested dialogue — try to keep it clean folks ! |
| 36 | perhaps we should confine it to the specifics we 're talking . |
| 37 | The purpose of this and of other victim studies was to elicit from respondents whether they had been the victim of a crime , and if so , which types of crime and whether they had reported it to the police . |
| 38 | The attack happened 2 weeks ago , but the victim was so distressed she has only just reported it to the police . |
| 39 | The fisherman was so shocked that he let the body slip back into the water and , though he reported it to the police , no action was taken by them . |
| 40 | ‘ Dad , I found Froggy dead — murdered — reported it to the police , made my statement , and that 's it . ’ |
| 41 | However , the whole incident was witnessed by another driver who took a note of the car number and in turn , of course , reported it to the police and eventually Mrs was interviewed on the eleventh of August of this year she agreed that she was the driver at the time and she replied it 's okay , but if the little had stopped after the accident I would of sorted things out I could n't do anything after she ran off . |
| 42 | In the end it was agreed under a chivalric code that if no English forces came to relieve the beleaguered garrison by Midsummer Day 1314 , the governor would honourably surrender it to the Scots . |
| 43 | I have cast this account in the past tense in order to relate it to the developments of the late 1960s , although I know that much of this shape and many of these assumptions have survived . |
| 44 | My conception of sport elevates it to the realms of art , where the producer finds room to express himself and the consumer studies and appreciates ; both seek satisfaction . |
| 45 | On an impulse , she opened the case and took the violin out , held it and held the bow without applying it to the strings . |
| 46 | Nevertheless , the de-Marxisation of their project by him and the ‘ death of the social ’ which he has announced should alert us to the doubts raised by Raymond Williams on the issue of certain types of Utopianism . |
| 47 | Although a number of visitors had spontaneously mentioned the quality of the labels as one of the factors which attracted them to the exhibitions , the questionnaire also contained a specific question on the adequacy of the labels accompanying exhibits . |
| 48 | All you would have to do would be to lead them to the smugglers ' rendezvous and supervise the action . ’ |
| 49 | N : The best things in life are free but you can give them to the birds and bees |
| 50 | I 'll give them to the dogs . |
| 51 | They drove me to the police station . |
| 52 | I was dark , my black hair cropped close , a slight cast in one eye , and a cheeky expression which many said would send me to the gallows . |
| 53 | There is no doubt at all that heads have the power , in managerial terms , to make such decisions ; but it would be a foolish head who put them to the governors without first winning staff support . |
| 54 | Erm w why did n't you send them to the ones on the fla on the flats ? |
| 55 | Many of the pre-independence laws enabling action to be taken against privately owned media have been enforced by the new African governments , despite the fact that most new leaders issued statements which committed them to the ideals of free mass media and free expression of opinion . |
| 56 | ‘ For your own sakes , for your families ' sakes , for God 's sake , do n't let the selfish pursuit of thrills blind you to the implications of this body in the coffin and to the awfulness of the activity you are involved in , ’ he said . |
| 57 | In Ancient Rome they 'd have chucked him to the lions . |
| 58 | ‘ Why ca n't we give him to the police at once ? ’ |
| 59 | The man was a demon and he had disturbed her to the depths of her being . |
| 60 | ‘ He 's got party tricks like shaking hands , and when we walk him to the shops on a lead he loves being cuddled by children and old people . |