Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 2 | Similarly , all the forms of human culture — art , law , religion and so on-are objectifications of the human spirit by which it projects itself externally in order then to move on through them to a higher self-realisation . |
| 3 | Then he took the wallet of photographs from his pocket and leafed through them to the ninth picture in Heather 's collection . |
| 4 | In 1790 a great meeting of tanners held in London elected him to speak for them to the prime minister , William Pitt , concerning the distressed state of the tanning trade ; and in 1793 he wrote to parliament on behalf of Bristol tanners to suggest remedies for the scarcity of the oak bark used in tanning . |
| 5 | And Marcus came to be walking between them to a partitioned corner of the changing room . |
| 6 | Harold acceded at once and I trotted dutifully after him to a small anteroom adjoining the Cabinet room . |
| 7 | The path took me under trees in full leaf and out across open fields where below me to the left the river Bain , the shortest river in England , flowed on its two-and-a-half-mile journey from Semer Water to the river Ure . |
| 8 | Thus an association of features leads to the attribution of all of them to a common agency , rather like the association of subglacial channels with eskers in a different context . |
| 9 | ‘ I would sell any of them to a non-Asian but I do n't know who they are . |
| 10 | I thought well , there 's two of them to every one of them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The dream that had brought the two of them to the other side of the globe was wedging a distance between them . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm Loretta Lawson ’ , she said , returning and handing one of them to the American woman . |
| 14 | I adjusted one of them to the reclining position , lay back in it and closed my eyes . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's remarkable that , in addition to playing 11 cities around the country , the educational programme played to over 5,000 kids and brought many of them to the main theatre in their local cities for the first time in their lives , on subsidised tickets . |
| 16 | It is also provided that where a person , not named as a respondent , is in occupation , the originating application and other documents may be served by affixing a copy of them to the main door or other conspicuous part , and , if practicable , inserting them through the letter box , or by placing stakes in the ground with the documents ( in a transparent sealed envelope ) attached . |
| 17 | The bankruptcy order is settled by the court in Form 6.25 in Schedule 4 to the rules ( r 6.33 ) , see Appendix C , form 32 , and the court must send at least two sealed copies to the official receiver who must send one of them to the bankrupt and cause the order to be entered in the register of writs and orders at the land registry and be advertised in the London Gazette and local newspaper ( r 6.34 ) . |
| 18 | The cultural and psychological elaboration of these various motives of course raises difficulties for any simple relation of them to the biological . |
| 19 | Isabel 's gaze skittered nervously past them to the two men-at-arms , now held at the end of a very businesslike sword attached to the hand of the young man she had seen with Guy at the church . |
| 20 | As though he could see beneath her skin with those piercing dark eyes of his to the anguished pulsing ball that was her heart at this moment . |
| 21 | Indeed , he has invited both of you to a special tournament to be held at Smithfield the day after next and , following that , later in the evening , a banquet in the Savoy Palace . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've got to go , ’ he blurted out , skirting past her to the front door . |
| 23 | ‘ The Test , ’ he said , pointing past her to the silvery flash of sunlight on water beyond the village . |
| 24 | I had the impression of a cautious , reflective man , who would take his work seriously and perform what was required of him to the best of his ability . |
| 25 | Her pulses racing , she looked past him to the dizzy drop through the hole in the cliff , to the sea below . |
| 26 | Swear that you will never speak of it to a living soul ! " |
| 27 | Edward promised further help , and a force of almost 5,000 men under the Earl of Salisbury was mustered in March 1373 ; but du Guesclin invaded the duchy and subjected much of it to a French military occupation . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He once reproached Sir Philip Sidney for his famous refusal of a cup of water on a Dutch battlefield as an act that looks ‘ aggressively holy ’ , and it is hard to imagine any other critic of the age allowing himself such a remark , or even conceiving of it : The okay thing would be to drink some of the cup himself and pass it on , leaving most of it to the other man … ’ |
| 30 | When I reached the House of Andrus I spoke of it to the other women and we said a prayer . |