Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Not until the following year , when Majorca was forced to submit , did armed resistance to him in Spain come to an end .
2 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 .
3 The Left became increasingly middle-class and this reinforced the already strong opposition to it among trade union officials .
4 There is something so fatally trivial about this movie in its elevation of appearance over substance , that I feel an irrational resistance to her as Claudia .
5 If a nursing mother has a normal-sized litter it is possible to add one or two orphaned kittens to it without much difficulty .
6 I was never consciously frightened of him and felt close to him and was regarded as a favourite child to him in some ways .
7 Anderson seems genuinely pleased to see Hollar when he appears outside his door ( as indicated by his unequivocal directive to him to " come in " , ( p. 51 ) ) .
8 The report included his ( named ) niece 's account that Fairley had terrified her by his sexual advances to her in a car .
9 When I was a 22-year-old Edinburgh University student , a tutor made unwelcome sexual advances to me in his office .
10 They should be placed where horses can have free access to them without the fear of being trapped and hurt by a more aggressive horse higher in the pecking order .
11 ‘ She said a funny poem to me about an angel spitting . ’
12 In Figure 3.1a the organisations are shown as solid lines , and the direct payments to them as broken lines .
13 Governors should take any grievance relating to employment very seriously and give proper consideration to it through a fair grievance procedure .
14 He tendered a dry , crisp hand to her on the doorstep and inclined his head in farewell .
15 The clearing banks , which are deeply sceptical about the commercial value to them of the loans scheme , have used the changed political climate to demand a higher price for their participation .
16 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 ) .
17 I was grateful for the Foreign Secretary 's friendly reference to me at the Conservative party conference , and his acceptance of my expertise on one subject — even though it was only the cinema .
18 In spite of mean and unworthy insinuations to the contrary-insinuations which I fear are always inevitable in the case of men who hold prominent but not primary positions in any administration-I have felt a strong personal attachment to you as my chief .
19 Have you obtained and studied copies of HMI reports on neighbouring schools and on similar schools to yours from other parts of the country ?
20 Hiroshima was originally written for the New Yorker magazine , which devoted an entire issue to it in 1946 .
21 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 .
22 He wanted to ask what she had to be tired about , to remind her that this dinner-party was all her idea , and there was no real point to it at all , since they had asked nobody whom they needed to impress .
23 Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them .
24 In the 1760s Catherine II of Russia had in self-defence to issue decrees ordering her subjects to petition her only through the appropriate officials and not by the direct personal presentation to her of their grievances and requests .
25 ‘ At Oxford , people defined themselves in class terms and this was all a tremendous shock to me in many ways . ’
26 It must be on-line , that is , people in the personnel department must have easy access to it by means of visual display units ( VDUs ) on their desks .
27 In this case you should make sure she has all she needs , including easy access to you by phone , and you should keep in daily contact with her .
28 ‘ Did she make an official complaint to you about the attack ? ’
29 The word itself is derived from two Greek words : holos and kaustos ; the former , ‘ wholeness ’ , has a tragically ironic edge to it in the light of Leonard 's concerns for ‘ oneness ’ .
30 ‘ The coercion may of course be of different kinds , it may be in the grossest form , such as actual confinement or violence , or a person in the last days or hours of life may have become so weak and feeble , that a very little pressure will be sufficient to bring about the desired result , and it may even be , that the mere talking to him at that stage of illness and pressing something upon him may so fatigue the brain , that the sick person may be induced , for quietness ' sake , to do anything .
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