Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Ruiperez told me I need not start my classes until I was quite recovered , and the women in the office and the library spoke friendly words to me for the first time . |
| 2 | If a nursing mother has a normal-sized litter it is possible to add one or two orphaned kittens to it without much difficulty . |
| 3 | Instead of talking about the job he said some words to me in Punjabi or Urdu and looked as if he wanted to get into a big conversation about Ray or Tagore or something . |
| 4 | Some goes to us from the junction , the rest goes to the barracks . |
| 5 | The report included his ( named ) niece 's account that Fairley had terrified her by his sexual advances to her in a car . |
| 6 | When I was a 22-year-old Edinburgh University student , a tutor made unwelcome sexual advances to me in his office . |
| 7 | The first lady nodded and went on nodding for several seconds in quiet contemplation before putting two further questions to him concerning European regional incentives , Government grants and subsidies and their cost distorting influence on investment location decisions . |
| 8 | She was immediately businesslike and succeeded in putting some suggestions to him in her crisp English way , which banished from her mind again any other thoughts . |
| 9 | ‘ As you know a little while ago there were discussions between this Office and Stephenson Harwood [ the applicant 's former solicitors ] about a proposed interview to be conducted under the terms of section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 and I promised to provide further details to them of our proposed course of action which is now given to you instead of them : ( 1 ) This Office intends to hold an interview with you under section 2 on Thursday , 13 June 1991 . |
| 10 | In Figure 3.1a the organisations are shown as solid lines , and the direct payments to them as broken lines . |
| 11 | But he thought Attlee ought to consider the problem ‘ and send a little note to his colleagues or address some remarks to them in Cabinet about the working of the committee system ’ . |
| 12 | At the same time he thought it desirable to submit to them a brief record of his work ( Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , 1899 , pp. 3–11 ) , in view of what were in his opinion the less than adequate references to it in the 1899 James Forrest lecture on ‘ Magnetism ’ by J. A. Ewing [ q.v. ] , in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers ( vol. cxxxviii , pp. 289–311 ) . |
| 13 | Have you obtained and studied copies of HMI reports on neighbouring schools and on similar schools to yours from other parts of the country ? |
| 14 | Following the ongoing story of access on the Letterewe estate , perhaps other readers share similar experiences to ours in Heacham , where we feel we are virtually a village under siege . |
| 15 | I ca n't say such things to you without turning your head . |
| 16 | In Elizabeth 's reign there was a Government campaign to glorify his memory , and Foxe devoted 100 pages to him in his Book of Martyrs . |
| 17 | There are thirteen references to me in it , all of them complimentary ; sometimes I appear as ‘ Burton ’ and at other times as ‘ Mr Burton ’ . |
| 18 | Generally she finds only support from male paddlers to her on the water though when there is a separate ladies ' event at a rodeo it is not always taken seriously . |
| 19 | The Convento de San Esteban is a magnificent plateresque sixteenth-century edifice on the Plaza Santo Domingo , approached by a small arched bridge which provides an impressive forefront to that immense carved façade , with the arcaded convent standing at right angles to it on the right . |
| 20 | In fact she 'd said some pretty rude things to him regarding his speedboat-driving , which made the prospect of working with him decidedly awkward . |
| 21 | He says I 'm writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray . |
| 22 | People dressed in slacks and trainers kept walking by , saying jolly things to me like , ‘ Do n't worry . |
| 23 | A French attack was mounted on the duchy of Aquitaine , but the day was saved by the able lieutenancy exercised there by Richard of Cornwall , and by large loans to him from the cities of Bordeaux and Bayonne . |
| 24 | He was a dear , lively little man with the bluest of blue eyes who had himself became a fanatical Anglophile , devoting his life until well into his eighties to the furtherance of Anglo-German relations ; and I was proud to be asked to give one of the brief tributes to him at his memorial service at the German Embassy . |
| 25 | In any case , enveloped though it is in ingratiating compliments to us on how charming we are in the bosoms of our families , the indictment is quite firm and it is unsparing : ‘ Suffocating insular coziness ’ . |
| 26 | I 'd rather be constructive about this and meet Virginia Bottomley , put these points to her as an all party thing cos we 've all said in Social Services that that is the problem that we 're faced with . |
| 27 | Colinvaux therefore suggests that the so-called refugia were thus denied to some rain-forest species presently there , i.e. the supposed migrations to them of lowland species in inducing today 's diversity is questionable . |
| 28 | ‘ Being there , where Paul wrote home such humorous , hopeful and reassuring letters to us in the middle of all the trouble , will mean something very special to us . ’ |
| 29 | She measures out her guarded replies to him in neat , carefully checked words , as once she had suggested , from the top of the steps outside their front door , that Millie might like to invite me in for a few minutes . |
| 30 | This concludes Mr Birdwood 's article and again many thanks to him for the talk he gave last March and for permission to reprint same . |