Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , may I ask all hire car users to write to me with their comments on the use of a mobile phone . |
| 2 | Candidates must now set up personal machines manned by workers attracted to them by their individual qualities and stands on the issues with little or no reference to party loyalty . |
| 3 | ‘ So the folk of the village capitalized on this gift from the gods , that had come to them in their darkest hour . |
| 4 | They were free to raise funds elsewhere if they could , and one at least got a substantial sum from a local authority which would not have supported a project of that nature if it had not come to them from their own school children . |
| 5 | What happens to them on their retirement from their working life ? |
| 6 | Mr Burns said he did not speak to them about their past life because he felt that would have been ‘ insensitive ’ . |
| 7 | Now I never if I was going through a train or going down a platform , and there were two or three carriage women carriage cleaners you know , I would n't speak to them about their work . |
| 8 | Any teacher who tries to devise a syllabus for a music class that will appeal to the members of the class for its relevance , or who attempts to attract the English class by giving them things to read or act that will speak to them in their own language is in danger of falling into the trap of ‘ thinking down ’ to his pupils , of condescending to them . |
| 9 | See now , there 's a lot of people who will speak to you friendly out on the street and there 's a lot more of them who 'll speak to you inside their own homes . |
| 10 | The old tight links between banks and firms related to them in their industrial groups have gone . |
| 11 | It is almost as if they were lent to us for their infancy and formative years , and are then entirely free to go their own way . |
| 12 | On the whole , during what Duiker has called ‘ the Stalinist years ’ , this was something that was accepted by the Vietnamese Communist Party but one can imagine that it was not always so easy to accept the advice which came to them from their French comrades . |
| 13 | You just say , ‘ Come on ’ — speak to them in their own language and they 'll understand you . |
| 14 | Even when people appear willing to talk to us about their difficulties , it is not always the real problems that they will initially present . |
| 15 | I suggest that the figures you 've got before you are not terribly , terribly useful , and that you do invite domiciliary health to come back to you for three months to talk to you about their work in terms of the visits , the visits that they do . |
| 16 | Anxious readers of the Daily Telegraph have been writing to me in their thousands to ask : what happens to these celebrities in the event of a hung parliament ? |
| 17 | This list contains all the dichotomies , either explicit or implicit , in comments the physics students made to me about their discipline . |
| 18 | In fairness to the mother he should have directed that she be given notice of the foster mother 's application ; had he done so he would have learned — as we have learned from the mother 's statement which clearly should be admitted in evidence before us for this purpose at least — that if the matters to which she spoke were correct ( viz. the foster mother 's preventing her having access to and contact with the children , and allegations which she says the children made to her of their physical and emotional abuse by the foster mother and other members of her ‘ family ’ ) , then the mother 's wishes and feelings were not lightly to be ignored . |
| 19 | Honesty and courtesy were to be their guides when phoning potential customers , with no misleading statements , exaggerations or partial truths , and no unsolicited calls made to them at their place of work . |
| 20 | Many horses have a lot of negative things happen to them in their lives , like Anna ; but unlike with Anna , they are usually interspersed with good things too — which fortunately have an undoing effect . |
| 21 | Edward I and Edward II had two principal courses of action open to them in their rivalry with the king of France over judicial supremacy in Aquitaine . |
| 22 | Even today , children retain vivid impressions from the stories told to them by their mothers and grandmothers about their own childhoods ‘ long ago ’ . |
| 23 | The Scottish Division look forward to your company at Peebles and the National President , Steve and his lady , Doreen , hope to reciprocate the kindness and hospitality shown to them during their year . |
| 24 | This book has been written with the objective both of making knowledge gained by research more easily accessible , and of demonstrating how in the course of providing services practitioners can use the knowledge and add to it by their own skill and commitment . |
| 25 | Nothing is more characteristic of churches than their attitude to assurance and the place they give to it in their preaching and systems of doctrine . |
| 26 | WALL AFTER WALL of raging water rose up and thundered on to the strange craft intent on destroying it and the frail humans clinging to it for their lives . |
| 27 | calling to him in their stone language |
| 28 | They talked to him of their lives as if by that they smeared some ointment on their existence . |
| 29 | They talked to me about their past and told me what sort of things they like doing . ’ |
| 30 | If I can just endorse what Stewart was saying the Parish Council talked to me as their consultant for a while and said look it seems that that with the with the actions of the er County Council writing to the Secretary of State to preempt the call-in procedures and the attitude of the District Council that this thing might well get local planning permission . |