Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The increasing loss to you reflects the expenses involved in administration and collection , the loss of use of your money , the effects of inflation and interest and finally , the cost of bad debt write-offs . |
| 2 | It is a disappointment to him to see the way canoeing is marketed and perceived , particularly the view that people ca n't be coached after a certain level . |
| 3 | But Mrs Gandhi never forgave Khan 's opposition to her scrapping the privy purses , and to his regret she did not make him a minister . |
| 4 | Also there is no legal obstruction to you taking the coffin to the crematorium in a station wagon . |
| 5 | It was a pleasure to me to see the housewifely way in which Mr Wilson set about everything . |
| 6 | It is a condition to us receiving the special transitional grant , and as we carried out last year , with drafting the agreement , we have a very short period of time in which to put the agreement together . |
| 7 | Was it not a benefit to him to have the crew sail the ship home rather than abandon him and it in a foreign port ? |
| 8 | Well that 's interesting because yes we have we have discussed that and I do n't know whether the er the clerk wants to comment further but I think that is absolutely right and and if that could be taken further it would be of very positive benefit to you know the car parking problem for those people who want to shop on King Street and have difficulties in find a car parking space . |
| 9 | I 'm not encouraging it because as I say I really , present time I ca n't see that it 's going to be of any assistance to me to have the opinion of solicitors from er from any part really , from the defendant or or someone else . |
| 10 | Accusations that have some truth to them make the most watertight defences of all . |
| 11 | It was always a shock to me to find the life of the University town going along normally , as though the war was happening somewhere else . |
| 12 | But his first request to her surprised the old servant very much . |
| 13 | It would have been no trouble to him to write the exchange in modern English : ‘ It 's always like that with the things men start off on … |
| 14 | The court will then pass the money to you to pay the judgement debt . |
| 15 | The company has then got to say : ‘ If you want to take three months ’ holiday , good luck to you provided the contracted hours are worked . ’ |
| 16 | Already I was wishing I 'd never been to see Angy , even though I knew how much being estranged from his family had hurt him and it would mean a lot to him to get the ring back . ’ |
| 17 | The way to it enters the obvious breach between Beinn Eighe and Liathach , reached from the top of the pass , a rough path climbing alongside the descending stream and then curving around the side of Sail Mhor , an outlier of Beinn Eighe , to the lip of the corrie and a sudden revelation of mural precipices on a grand scale . |
| 18 | He went back on the last-minute promise to them to delay the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 19 | Erm it came as no surprise to me to read the the issue of that that particular proposal . |
| 20 | Entrusting my garland to I started the Workshop with a talk on a functional model of language . |
| 21 | The first details we have of the latter , in the Host 's invitation to him to follow the Monk , initially suggest , if we still believe appearances and associations can be a sign of character , that he is as likely to turn out as the threadbare and serious Clerk on his horse " " as leene as is a rake " " does ( I : 284 ) as to prove to be what the Monk has proved not to be : |
| 22 | Not our questions about the problem of God , but God 's call and invitation to us determined the direction of his thought and shaped his writing ; and it was this basic orientation that led him on to the restatement of christological and trinitarian dogma as the foundation and horizon of theology itself . |
| 23 | He could see no objection to her playing the part of the Virgin . |
| 24 | While no one must know the extent to which she had been alarmed , she had no objection to them knowing the cause . |