Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good deal of it to the east of the Cherwell remains in use as a main road ( A41 and A4095 ) , the only important break in the line being caused by the growth of the Saxon town of Bicester , a mile to the north , in place of the now-vanished Romano-British town of Alchester . |
| 2 | There had been a small number of ‘ slum clearance tenements ’ built in 1924 , but there was major slum clearances in North Shields in the 1930s after the Greenwood Act , when the banksides were almost totally cleared and some 9000 people were moved out , the bulk of them to the Meadowell Estate where 1961 dwellings were built , of which 84% were flats . |
| 3 | ( 3 ) There may be a time lag between the occasion of the alleged rape and the reporting of it to the police . |
| 4 | He told me that if I did n't agree to marry you he 'd release that tape of his to the Press … ’ |
| 5 | Her cousin always coaxed a lighter side of her to the surface . |
| 6 | But erm , it 's , it 's terrifying , and when we get , as and Jack 's made a good point and , and it is a good one , that perhaps if we spent only half a day when somebody joins the depot and said to them , this is the geography of our depot , and this is where everywhere is , and this is how you get from one side of it to the other . |
| 7 | In the southernmost bay we engaged most valiantly with a band of savage islanders who scaled the walls of the sloop Rebecca and torched her timbers , but we consigned the greater part of them to the sea for pasture for the fishes that teem therein . |
| 8 | Clearly , a sum paid to the settlor to discharge a liability of his to the bank would come within this section ( see IRC v Bates ( 1966 ) 44 TC 225 : the case of Potts ' Executors v IRC [ 1951 ] AC 43 held that a payment to a third party was not a sum paid to the settlor but that case is no longer good law in view of TA 1988 , s677(10) which was inserted into the former TA 1970 , s451 ( now TA 1988 , s677 ) by s42(7) of FA 1981 ) . |
| 9 | Presumably he should have shot her or let her drown , rather than make a present of her to the French , but there were some things Karelius could not bring himself to do . |
| 10 | If you use ball-point pens remember that they too run out or refuse to function : test them before use and take a bundle of them to the examination or the practice session . |
| 11 | Since you will hold the seller 's share certificate until you hand it over to the buyer on completion together with a transfer of it to the buyer , it 's for you to prepare the transfer , unless you send the certificate to the buyer 's conveyancers for them to prepare the transfer . |
| 12 | Then , bracing herself , she strode to the top of the staircase and stood gazing down the wide , sweeping curve of it to the imposing hallway and the big front door . |
| 13 | They told of the movements of relics : the bringing of the relics of St Ouen to the court of King Edgar ; of the king 's gift of them to the monastery ; of Queen Emma 's gift of the arm of St Bartholomew ; of the translation of the body of St Elphege ; and so on . |
| 14 | I made a gift of them to the lad , did n't I ? |
| 15 | Dr. Briant is doing the right thing — doing his own job to the best of his ability and leaving the rest of it to the people he 's doing it for — you . ’ |
| 16 | If a councillor has any matter to bring before a committee he must give notice of it to the clerk of the council . |
| 17 | The awful , abrupt finality of a man pitching forward , so easily , so arbitrarily terminated — the convenience of it to the killer : they were things to which I could never become habituated , however many times I saw it . |
| 18 | A. The Authority delegates to governors of primary and secondary schools oversight of the curriculum , and control of it to the head teacher in consultation with his staff … |
| 19 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 20 | Aggie looked up and down the narrow street ; then , taking a chain with a lock attached to it from under a piece of sacking in the corner of the cart , she pushed the cart close to the gate , and tied a leg of it to the iron post . |
| 21 | For once he pushed the vision of her to the back of his mind , his thoughts focusing instead on the events of that night . |
| 22 | Fantasias ‘ on themes from such-an-such opera ’ were staple fare for many of the less substantial virtuosi of the first half of the nineteenth century , and even Liszt contributed a fair number of them to the literature . |
| 23 | This might be because the time-cues are too weak , the transmission of them to the body clock is poor , the clock itself is insensitive to time cues , or it possesses an abnormally long or short free-running period . |
| 24 | Some tests may involve chemicals which need to be handled with care , but this should not preclude the sale of them to the general public in kits which include protective goggles and detailed instructions on their handling . |
| 25 | The cultural and psychological elaboration of these various motives of course raises difficulties for any simple relation of them to the biological . |
| 26 | In fact , an incurious person might travel from one end of them to the other without seeing a single shrub . |
| 27 | She plucked a great hank of silk thread from the girdle of her spinsterhood ; tied one end of it to the wedding ring of her virginity and , looping the two ends of the hank over either wrist , spread her hands and invited Maggie to take the other end and wind a neat ball . |
| 28 | Hendrique , using two paper napkins to protect his hands , removed the strip light from its socket on the ceiling of the carriage directly above the table then unravelled a length of flex and secured the two crocodile clips at the end of it to the respective overhead power points . |
| 29 | Out of her own clothing , into the clothing marked off for her on the design board , a quick check of hair and make-up , smile , toss back your shoulders , strut out from behind the curtain that separated the studio from the private showroom and stride the length of it to the platform and turn , step , step , turn . |
| 30 | In short , it may be illuminating to start with the damage and work back through the cause of it to the possible duty which may have been broken . |