Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] the [noun] " 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 | Before they had parted on the Flamingo she had given Ernest the name of the boardinghouse where the Carsons had made arrangements to stay , and he had promised to write to her the minute he and Charlotte arrived at their destination . |
| 3 | Suggest to them the fact that when they had finished this one they would know absolutely bloody everything that could be possibly known , now and for always , about Wimbledon . |
| 4 | BELVILLE : As human life is uncertain I have disposed my affairs so as to secure to you the power of living as a person ought who is my widow . |
| 5 | He described to me the glen in a storm — the darkness that mantles it , the springing into life of untold hosts of runlets , the careering in mad fury of the burns as they break through and tower above the channel wherein they are wont to flow ; the showers , the careering of the clouds , the thunderings and the lightning-flashings , and the artillery of the winds , as the air-gusts meet the peaks and explode in the hollows of the darksome corries . |
| 6 | Try to make her understand how other people feel by putting herself in their shoes ; by that , I do n't mean hitting her over the head yourself , but explaining to her the pain of the other child when she hit him . |
| 7 | I ca n't describe to you the agony of being told — and then having no means by which to find out … |
| 8 | I could try and describe to you the expression in my eyes at this moment ; but they are far too discoloured with rage . |
| 9 | The Minister of State , my right hon. Friend the Member for Oxford , West and Abingdon ( Mr. Patten ) , was on the Front Bench yesterday and has reported to me the content of the ten-minute Bill and the vote . |
| 10 | It would be helpful to David Wilson to know if either of the organisations named above or any other similar organisation has been in touch with you or any of your staff and also to indicate to him the nature of this contact and details of what was being offered . |
| 11 | Such is the notion uncritically entertained in the Alliance Report : competing candidates of the same party would make clear their differences on policy issues , and on the balanced slate so presented to him the voter would pick and choose . |
| 12 | Each industry must have applied to it the test of national service . |
| 13 | Federal Treasurer Paul Keating retained his post and added to it the title of Deputy Prime Minister , thereby increasing speculation that he would succeed Hawke as Prime Minister [ see above ] . |
| 14 | According to her the dogs are not a nuisance and she wo n't pay the fine . |
| 15 | According to her the material objects of the world provide the common source of that knowledge . |
| 16 | According to him the universe sprang from fire and will end in fire . |
| 17 | Six months ago , we put to him the problem of single-union agreements and he dismissed it . |
| 18 | We are told that the hermit was once sitting alone in his cell after dinner when there came to him the lady of the house … and many persons with her , and found him writing rapidly . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | And so , first of all , let me present to you the battlefield . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The gesture revealed nothing of that woman 's essence , one could say rather that the woman revealed to me the charm of a gesture . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | The Administration decided that it applied to any coal owner who had actively sought to mine the coal up to the day the law was passed . |
| 26 | ‘ I tried to talk to you the night before last , but — ’ |
| 27 | In fact one of the problems of a stratificational analysis is that it classifies women in a somewhat arbitrary manner , sometimes assigning to them the class of their husbands or fathers and sometimes determining their class by their own occupations . |
| 28 | Tell them , what I 've said to you the message that I have given to you . |
| 29 | Written as a result of attending a Labour Party conference , it was the product of shock at what then seemed to me the amount of time and energy politicians and journalists spent chasing each other 's tails on such occasions . |
| 30 | So delightfully muzzy was she that it seemed to her the night in Nice had never happened … |