Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in the afternoon , at the time he was drowned , her mother would call her inside and bolt the door , and they would kneel together and say the rosary for the soul of the father she had never known ; and when all those Hail Mary 's had been said , and the Glory Be 's and the Our Father , and they had made the sign of the Cross together , her mother would pull out the silver Madonna she always kept hidden at her breast and press her lips to it in a way that said everything you needed to know about love and death and being a woman . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , Travis ! ’ she sighed and lifted her lips to his in a kiss that sealed their fate — forever joined together . |
| 3 | In order to learn to master this sort of mismatch , simple context drills must be prepared such as the following one , in order to become accustomed to the way the word is used in German : N.B. ( to me ) indicates that it is implied in the English sentence , but not usually stated ; if stated , it would be followed by the preposition " in " , as in " Bring the books to me in the library " . |
| 4 | I 'll give the keys to you in a minute . |
| 5 | I was the one who would help him back to bed , I was the one who would read lines to him in the morning before he went on the set . ’ |
| 6 | The Home Office , however , had been associated with his name because of controversy over certain visits to him in an English prison and unsuccessful legal proceedings to stop his extradition to the Irish Republic . ) |
| 7 | We had decided to print birthday messages to him in the Beirut press and once again our love and thoughts went over the telex and into a vacuum . |
| 8 | The report included his ( named ) niece 's account that Fairley had terrified her by his sexual advances to her in a car . |
| 9 | First they were based on an ‘ Age Participation Rate ’ ( APR ) defined as ‘ the number of young home initial full time and sandwich entrants to HE in a given year expressed as a percentage of the 18 year old population ’ . |
| 10 | The majority of home entrants to HE in the UK are aged 17–20 — around 80 per cent of home entrants throughout the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 11 | I think I just put up with it because he behaved in such extraordinary ways to me in the time I had known him , of showing affection at all ? |
| 12 | We do , however , have some fairly clear ideas as to its whereabouts in several mammals including monkeys , near-neighbours to us in an evolutionary sense . |
| 13 | These aspects of the changing experience of the elderly will be surveyed , using primarily documentary sources , in order to reconstruct the experiences of an age group and attitudes to them in a period of significant social change . |
| 14 | He raised up his arms to her in a flurry of lace . |
| 15 | Of course , America is concerned about our debt payments to her in the event of a freeze in German reparations . |
| 16 | Thousands of people suffer the handicap of not being able to read or write properly , but that handicap could be eradicated if we put our minds to it in the coming years . |
| 17 | Than k you that we can bring our concerns for others to you in the confidence that you will hear and act . |
| 18 | She remembered Theodora 's remarks to her in a similar vein . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Dear Prime Minister , In spite of the most helpful representations and advice from my staff , I have decided to continue submitting my reports to you in the informal way I settled upon initially … ’ |
| 21 | I have decided to continue submitting my reports to you in the informal way I settled upon initially … |
| 22 | Later he spoke about references to him in a popular Sunday tabloid , scowling at the implication that his approach is essentially haphazard . |
| 23 | One particular test at hand for critics is the way Nelson is approached : references to him in the conversation of Aubrey and his fellow officers are natural and appropriate to men who were pursuing the same career at the same date . |
| 24 | The following is one of many references to him in the Society 's centenary history : Undoubtedly the activity of Mr E J D Abraham , with his fund-raising ability and flair for promoting the organisation , has led to much of our present security . |
| 25 | There are five references to him in the farewell discourses . |
| 26 | The battle of the gods in the Babylonian Genesis has no Old Testament equivalent , despite attempts by many scholars to discover underlying references to it in the text of Genesis 1:2 and other passages which speak of God 's power over the waters . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | We are confident that the Mass Democratic Movement will open its doors to her in the interest of our people and the struggle . |