Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It 's does smack to me a bit of in-filling and er , Northbrooks is quite a dense area already , a ve , a very dense area erm , and erm I 'm I 'm , you know , I 'd like to see any detailed plans on that before we even look at one in principle . |
| 4 | He demonstrated to me an Ergoline 35-tube sunbed in which a man lies full length . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As I questioned her during the session , Maxine described to me a life as Martha , a fisherman 's wife in a small seaport in the late eighteenth century . |
| 7 | He described to me a life of violence and hatred in which he lost no opportunity to vent his anger upon those around him — and , what is more , he actually enjoyed doing so . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Last year , I reported to you a deficit of three hundred and thirty thousand . |
| 11 | You brought me happiness that I never thought I would know again in this world , and you 've added to it every day . ’ |
| 12 | I ca n't describe to you the agony of being told — and then having no means by which to find out … |
| 13 | I could try and describe to you the expression in my eyes at this moment ; but they are far too discoloured with rage . |
| 14 | Minter , had he but known it , was right as well as wrong : right that Harry was running short of cash , wrong if he believed that currently mattered to him a jot . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Sir : I would like to relate to you an experience I recently had at a computer dealership on Oxford Road , Manchester , which I think may , in part , explain the ever downward spiralling morass computer retailing finds itself in . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It happens to me every day when people come upto me and ask me whether I 'm Clint Eastwood or not . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Each industry must have applied to it the test of national service . |
| 21 | In The Silmarillion Tolkien played through once more the drama of ‘ paradise lost ’ ; but he added to it a hint of ‘ paradise well lost ’ ( for many of the elves preferred Middle-earth even to immortal life , like Arwen ) ; and through the story there runs a delight in mutability , as languages change and treasures pass from hand to hand ; the deepest fable is of beauty forged , stolen , and lost forever in recovery . |
| 22 | 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 ] . |
| 23 | Well we listen to ours a lot though do n't we ? |
| 24 | ‘ People send you things that they think are exotic or bizarre , but when you listen to them a lot of them are just band copies of hits people just trying to sound like the Beatles . |
| 25 | According to her the material objects of the world provide the common source of that knowledge . |
| 26 | According to him an emphasis on processes makes such great demands upon the teacher ( an insight gained when he was director of the Humanities Curriculum Project ) that any proposal for curriculum development should be regarded as tentative , having the status of an hypothesis to be tested by teachers in their own classrooms . |
| 27 | According to him the universe sprang from fire and will end in fire . |
| 28 | Six months ago , we put to him the problem of single-union agreements and he dismissed it . |
| 29 | She has written to me a couple of times and seems to have managed to keep everyone busy in my absence . |
| 30 | He had written to me every week when he could , and I was longing to see him again . |