Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Aldershot method because er it it sort of explained to me the most effect way of getting across whatever you want to say so that made me a feel a bit happier about that . |
| 2 | She made no pretence of great musical knowledge and I had the satisfaction of describing to her the plot of L'Elisir d'Amore when no one else present in the Covent Garden box could remember it . |
| 3 | However , the dissemination of this knowledge to newcomers has the additional purpose of inculcating in them the common sense that is necessary to police Easton . |
| 4 | If children are allowed and encouraged to work in areas which interest them , this ought to be a useful means of demonstrating to them the usefulness of developing their reading skills . |
| 5 | Our generation must take on the task of thinking about the future , of assuming towards it the responsibility that we assume towards our children . |
| 6 | The complication has been that because last year 's trading profits were lower than expected we did n't have any taxable profits against which to claim back this A C T so as this would be the first year in which taxable profits would arise unless we 'd not been unless we 'd been able to find some other way of dealing with it the A C T which we pay would not have been recoverable till January ninety five . |
| 7 | As a result , the nineteenth-century approaches had misconceived the nature of God 's Word itself , turning it into a spiritual ideal , a heroic example , or a set of ethical norms , and interpreted Jesus accordingly , instead of recognising in him the perennially contemporary event of the encounter of time with eternity , the intersection of the finite by the infinite , by which everything human and creaturely is contradicted in its self-enclosedness and opened up to the reality of God . |
| 8 | The morally estimable act of exposing to us the worst in ourselves nearly always has something morally equivocal about it . |
| 9 | Indeed the obstinacy with which company law has clung to the traditional legal model of the division of power in the company between the managers and the shareholders has sometimes had the effect of concealing from us the fact that company law regulates a variety of different sorts of companies . |
| 10 | He does his readers the service of conveying to them the life and living of a family they might never encounter , or have had occasion to consider . |
| 11 | The Leader of the Party in the House of Lords , the Chief Whip in the House of Lords , the chairman of the National Union and the chairman of the Executive of the National Union , together with the president of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association , will on the Monday attend a meeting of the Executive of the 1922 Committee for the purpose of conveying to them the collective views of the peers in receipt of the Conservative whip , the National Union and the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association respectively . |
| 12 | Can I thank you for sharing with us the the example of the concentration , that you put so much in such a short time . |
| 13 | Merger with the Southampton based British Seafarers was not merely a convenience , but a necessity , and Wilson , writing in his journal The Seaman exulted that " Shinwell 's patched up old derelict has run bow against the rock of the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union and ignominiously gone to the bottom " Later he gave his own version of how Shinwell had flattered the susceptible French into leaving to him the day-today business of the Glasgow branch and poisoned the minds of the members against him . |
| 14 | Lawrence does not neglect sound effects in impressing on us the harsh sensory qualities of the industrial scene . |
| 15 | Where the Ministry of Defence has occupied land for generations or even for centuries , will my hon. Friend ensure that in disposing of it the Ministry will work as closely as possible with local authorities to ensure that it is developed consistently in accordance with the wishes of local people ? |
| 16 | The reader will not , however , begrudge the author 's serendipity which , especially at election time , succeeded in extracting for him the following from Smollett 's Humphrey Clinker ( 1771 ) : I know nothing so abject as the behaviour of a man canvassing for a seat in Parliament . |
| 17 | Working directly from nature , he was admired by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ( attending their ‘ house-warming ’ at Newman Street on 12 January 1850 ) ; he was a great friend of Ford Madox Brown [ q.v. ] , mentioned frequently in Brown 's diaries ; and D. G. Rossetti [ q.v. ] was instrumental in securing for him the patronage of the important Newcastle collector James Leathart in the 1860s . |
| 18 | I myself had never witnessed a stoning , but Omar had done so on three occasions and had taken great delight in describing to us the fate that awaited weak women who did not carefully guard their honour which was so prized by their men . |
| 19 | Before moving into it the family had lived with Sally 's grandparents and it had been very cramped . |
| 20 | This ‘ conventional ’ behaviour is described with scare quotes because it is not clear that one would be justified in reading into it the constellation of reciprocal beliefs and intentions that someone like Lewis takes as constitutive of conventional behaviour . |
| 21 | Do n't be silly , and erm he just , he just said er that erm that I 've , either he put the phone down from talking to me the agent , our agent rang him , tell us that our buyer has got the cash agreed . |
| 22 | Most people have experienced directly or through reading about it the business of opinion research . |
| 23 | Nineteenth-century liberalism was to inherit hostility to religious charity without substituting for it the planned charity of the state . |
| 24 | She did not expect letters but on hearing from her the news of Hal 's birth , they had at once despatched an enormous bearskin : a gift for the child . |
| 25 | Who would like to have a go at describing for us the General Assembly of the United Nations ? |
| 26 | By accepting the post Kanemaru had immediately bolstered Miyazawa 's position by bringing with him the support of the Takeshita faction , the largest of the LDP 's internal groupings . |
| 27 | In his very first book his admonitions about the indiscriminate use of stock , even of fine stock , were news , and good news : Do not spoil the special taste of the gravy obtained in the roasting of beef , veal , mutton or pork by adding to it the classical stock which gives to all meats the same deplorable taste of soup . |
| 28 | By 1939 he had strengthened Beechams by adding to it the firms which manufactured Macleans toothpaste and powders , Eno 's fruit salts , and the hair preparation Brylcreem . |
| 29 | The effect or their legislative changes , however , was to initiate the dismantling of the Poor Law from without , by withdrawing from it the most obviously deserving groups , though in accordance with principles little different from those of the Poor Law . |
| 30 | ‘ I got round them by selling to them the fact that I was doing what they wanted me to do which was to get out into the business world and make contacts . |