Example sentences of "[pers pn] [art] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this sense of identification that gives hope to the newcomers that others will understand their fears and actions and show them the route to recovery . |
| 2 | I could give them the key to Father 's safe and they 'd be so grateful they 'd have a pair of boots made specially for me . |
| 3 | Tait , with William Thomson , had published a Treatise on Natural Philosophy in 1867 which became a standard advanced textbook because it treated physics from the point of view of conservation of energy — fathering the doctrine , as became two Cambridge men , upon Newton : the ‘ return to Newton ’ was for them the key to modernity . |
| 4 | There is no one that will give you the keys to paradise . |
| 5 | Yeah erm one thing , you were a little bit nervous to start with and what that can do is to give you a tendency to piggyback questions , is that something you 're aware of ? |
| 6 | ‘ What was your daddy doing not giving you a lift to school ? |
| 7 | It also gives you a guide to entitlement does n't it because if you 're saying you expecting |
| 8 | Adam Pasco , editor of the new BBC Gardeners ' World , brings you a guide to kitchen crops |
| 9 | A metronome ticks away in the background to give you a rhythm to type to . |
| 10 | The Sale of Goods Act 1979 only gives you an entitlement to money back if the goods are faulty , misdescribed or not fit for the purpose you requested them to perform . |
| 11 | I took me a while to cotton on . |
| 12 | He gives me a lift to work . |
| 13 | ‘ Could you possibly give me a lift to town if that 's where you 're going next ? ’ |
| 14 | All teachers ' salaries shall be no less than $30,000 a year to give them an incentive to education in our districts . |
| 15 | Finally he 'll decide to go and tinker with his terminal to tell him the tally to date . |
| 16 | Anne had given her the parcel to post two days ago and she had completely forgotten all about it . |
| 17 | Some Tory loyalist backbenchers said last night that this episode could not be compared to the attack on Mrs Thatcher by the then Sir Geoffrey Howe , which is acknowledged to have cost her the keys to No. 10 . |
| 18 | When there is a stay or a suspension of execution , he can not rely on the order for possession as giving him a right to possession . |
| 19 | Indeed , as we shall see , Gregory VII rebuked his too active agent Hugh , now archbishop of Lyons , for his officious energy in harrying the king of England to carry out papal decrees , without regard to the king 's virtues which earned him a claim to forbearance . |
| 20 | May I commend to him a visit to north Devon and ask him to remember Coutant 's of Ilfracombe and firms like High Temperature of South Molton , Hobart 's , CQC and others ? |
| 21 | I sent him an amendment to clause 5 of the Bill in December ; it sought to improve the Bill by taking account — the wording was carefully considered — of existing providers of quality further and adult education . |
| 22 | one which does not exclude the bailor from possession , an action for conversion against a third person is maintainable by either bailor or bailee ; by the bailee because he is in possession , by the bailor because it is said that his title to the goods draws with it the right to possession , that the bailee is something like his servant and that the possession of the one is equivalent to that of the other . |
| 23 | From there the single line emerged onto the road , and along one side of it the train to West Cork would puff and blow at a brisk but not incautious pace , its smoke staining the leaves of the roadside trees , the guard ringing his bell almost without stop until they were approaching Carrigrohane and could reasonably expect to be out of range of busy pedestrians , excited children , and messenger boys on bicycles plaguing the engine-driver by trying to outspeed him . |
| 24 | ‘ You could call it a return to drama for the Plymouth , ’ say the organisers . |
| 25 | For although its twin-cam , straight-six 2960cc engine develops an impressive 231bhp at 6300rpm and 201lb ft of torque at 4600rpm , it has 3954lb of car to propel , giving it a power to weight ration of 129bhp/ton — unremarkable even by hot-hatch standards . |
| 26 | But like er , she took it sch to school and Scott was giving us a lift to school so did n't have to walk and she 's in the car and she 's going if this gets if this gets all smashed up Scott I hope you realise I 'm blaming you ! |