Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His honest suffering reveals to her the nobility of selfless love and the truth of language which is metaphoric yet direct . |
| 2 | Professor Donaldson was so irate at my letter in the Times , which he considered to reflect upon English architects in general , that he proposed moving the Institute to reverse the recommendation of their council to award to me the annual Royal Gold Medal of the Institute , and was only dissuaded from attempting to inflict that gratuitous dishonour upon me by strong remonstrances . |
| 3 | Boutros Ghali , last Monday , I took the opportunity to suggest to him the need for more action in Somalia . |
| 4 | As such , no one would deny the unfairness and the imbalance in the system , and the need to reintroduce to it the fundamental legal precept of justice . |
| 5 | The manager had been held by the Portuguese , but when Bill Baldwin took charge of him the local population , including the Chinese , knew that the Australians intended to continue the war preferring to he the hunters rather than the hunted . |
| 6 | However , this job revealed to me the big , wide , illegal world of the homosexual . |
| 7 | Second , she contended that her husband misrepresented to her the effect of the legal charge . |
| 8 | So far as the present case is concerned , both the failure to serve Form N79 upon the respondent for 13 days and the failure to attach to it the schedule containing the facts found proved by the court are , in my judgment , fatal to the legality of this order , and the appeal should be allowed and the respondent discharged from custody . |
| 9 | But these are some of the things , faith opens to us the door to every blessing that is ours in Christ . |
| 10 | What had the vacillating vamp said to her the last time they were together ? |
| 11 | So many of the literary works having hypocrisy in their title add to it the word exposed , or a synonym . |
| 12 | Last year 's assembly remitted to us the task of working out the consequences for the service known as confirmation if children are admitted to the sacrament of the lord 's supper . |
| 13 | The gesture revealed nothing of that woman 's essence , one could say rather that the woman revealed to me the charm of a gesture . |
| 14 | This theory seems to me the most sophisticated method at present available of conceiving the relationship between musical forms and practices , on the one hand , and class interests and social structure , on the other ; more sophisticated , say , than the theories of homology put forward by some ethnomusicologists and subcultural theorists , which suggest the existence of structural ‘ resonances ’ , or homologies , between the different elements making up a socio-cultural whole. ; Such theories always end up in some kind of reductionism — ‘ upwards ’ , into an idealist cultural spirit , ‘ downwards ’ , into economism , sociologism or technologism , or by ‘ circumnavigation ’ , in a functionalist holism . |
| 15 | And I used to load the boot up and bring them and load home like in the boot of my car my Sales Manager said to me the other day , how the hell did you get bright red dust in your boot ? |
| 16 | ‘ I have been alarmed at the easy way the Labour Party has in recent years allowed certain factions in society to dictate to them the philosophical approach they should be following . |
| 17 | The entire city represents to him the place where a dead man he 's obsessed with lived . |
| 18 | You can not count the features of loveliness here , but I attach some pages from my notebook to discover to you the ingenious flora of this fair isle and their many productive and rich uses . |
| 19 | Before Peter leaves the ward the doctor explains to him the regime of drugs which are to be prescribed . |
| 20 | Fellow said to me the other week you do n't live here . |
| 21 | I had never been given the opportunity to explain to him the difficulties in making recommendations about the teaching of language . |
| 22 | I did n't did n't get the opportunity to explain to you the joke beside behind your writing do n't use contractions in written material . |
| 23 | This reversion to Peronism represents to him the contradiction that runs through Argentina . |
| 24 | The chapel seemed to me the focal point of our small , humble community . |
| 25 | And do you know what her mother said to her the night before her wedding ? |