Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year later , on Tuesday , 13 April 1773 , Boswell ‘ again solicited him to communicate to me the particulars of his early life . |
| 2 | According to her the dogs are not a nuisance and she wo n't pay the fine . |
| 3 | When Robert II of Flanders passed Christmas at St Omer , ‘ there came to him the dukes , the counts , the lords of many regions , nobles and knights from the whole of Flanders , and many French bishops ’ . |
| 4 | I do not propose that we enter new markets at this stage , but rather that we seek strategic alliances with practices that offer professional services that we do not , and can bring to us the benefits of their expertise and client base on a reciprocal basis . |
| 5 | ‘ The defendant had been personally negligent in that he had failed to take such steps and make such inquiries as would have revealed to him the defects in his structure and the risks of fire thereby occasioned . ’ |
| 6 | Christ had entrusted the government of His Church to St Peter and his successors in the words , " Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church " ( Matthew 16 : 18 ) and " I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth , it shall be bound also in heaven " ( Matthew 16 : 19 ) . |
| 7 | You do n't , that 's why I asked whether Richard could join your committee so that he could voice to you the things he tried to explain to me which I think are |
| 8 | By 1939 he had strengthened Beechams by adding to it the firms which manufactured Macleans toothpaste and powders , Eno 's fruit salts , and the hair preparation Brylcreem . |
| 9 | Both men are reporting what seem to them the facts of the case , and they are the more confident about doing so because no Englishman has arisen to rebut their arguments . |
| 10 | Add to them the cohorts of civil servants patiently drafting and redrafting sackfuls of international Green verbiage , and whole planeloads of whingeing journalists and television crews , and the whole shebang becomes so big as to overwhelm the senses of the vast majority of the aboriginal citizens of Planet Earth . |
| 11 | Thus the implementation of the Maastricht Treaty is seen by Northern and Central Europeans as an earnest of the will and capacity of the West Europeans to extend to them the benefits of European Union . |
| 12 | After three enjoyable years as chairman I believe it 's time to stand down I shall miss those monthly meetings at thank you Betty for all the tea and coffee making but I shall have many happy memories , I suppose to me the highlights were the fiftieth anniversary celebration and the brilliant production of Stepping Out . |
| 13 | Her murderous dreams had then seemed to her the hallucinations of a soul mad with grief . |
| 14 | The capture of the huge East India contract signalled Williams 's market success over the cartel , just as Sir Nicholas Bayly 's successor , the second Earl of Uxbridge ( later first Marquis of Anglesey , q.v. ) , decided to mine the mines originally discovered with Williams as managing partner , thus giving the lawyer management of all the Anglesey mines . |
| 15 | We walked up to the fall and what would I not give if I could convey to you the images and feelings which were then communicated to me . |
| 16 | The manager had been held by the Portuguese , but when Bill Baldwin took charge of him the local population , including the Chinese , knew that the Australians intended to continue the war preferring to he the hunters rather than the hunted . |
| 17 | The odd anecdote — for instance , James Laughlin 's of 1965 about how she advanced his education in Rapallo by reading to him the stories of Henry James — brings her momentarily into focus , but then she disappears again behind a smokescreen of gracious good breeding . |
| 18 | It was Edna who had actually imparted to her the facts of life , Edna who had accurately predicted how long each governess would last , Edna who had vowed she would name her first daughter after Celia — and kept her promise . |
| 19 | I believe that he has , in a single word , delivered to us the votes of the majority of general practitioners in the country , for which I am most grateful . |
| 20 | Came the day when a robed elder Inquisitor activated a palm-tattoo that Jaq had never seen before , and spoke to him the words : |
| 21 | May I put to him the comments on BBC television this week of the commanding officer of bloody Sunday , Lieutenant Colonel Derek Wilford , who said that the present Government 's policies and those of their predecessors had failed completely ? |
| 22 | The chef , Master Worker Chang , is a caricature of a Chinese chef , very large and fat , who is very solicitous for our welfare , and comes in and explains to us the dishes in a sort of Chinese version of Hyman Kaplan 's English . |
| 23 | The giant ignored this and killed all the children , at which moment there appeared to him the ghosts of Gunda and Wolfhead . |
| 24 | If Hywel said to her the things the woman says , for a time Elizabeth would smile . |
| 25 | I had never been given the opportunity to explain to him the difficulties in making recommendations about the teaching of language . |
| 26 | I 'll sing to you the praises of the sons of Erin 's Isle — |
| 27 | Kuusinen quoted to them the obligations imposed by the Whitsun Conference decision : We propose that the following questions be raised for discussion in all the organisations of the ILP. ( l ) What concrete mass actions on the basis of the united front of the C.P.G.B. and the ILP can and must be carried out in the near future with the aim of a successful struggle for a 10% wage increase , against the Means Test , and other similar partial demands advanced by the C.P.G.B. and the ILP ? ( 2 ) Is it desirable for the ILP to join the Communist International as a Party sympathising with Communism with the right to a consultative vote … ? |
| 28 | Prabhaben , a woman in her thirties , described to me the conditions at the laundry where she works . |
| 29 | " Crist see well she shuld haue be dampned for synne " so he appeared to her in her sleep , wounded as in his Passion , and told her to put her hand into his side and even to feel his internal organs and heart , commenting that if he is thus open with her , why is she so ashamed to reveal to him the secrets of her heart ? |
| 30 | His doctor constantly suggested to him the benefits of sun and sea air ( not that he needed any encouragement to visit the sea , since it still evoked for him the happiest memories ) , and in July they travelled , with Eliot 's sister who had come from America , to the Isle of Wight for two weeks . |