Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adj] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no , I suppose he would have considered it disloyal to the old man . |
| 2 | We had no doubt that if there was the slightest suggestion that the statements differed materially from the evidence given by the witnesses the learned trial judge would have called for these statements and examined them himself and if necessary would have made them available to the defence . |
| 3 | In his memoirs he admitted that he had secretly aspired to it for decades , but had not pressed the issue for tactical reasons ( because it would have made him vulnerable to the charge of Bonapartism and perhaps also , as Debré argued in his memoirs , because popular election of the president in the circumstances of 1958 would have placed a majority of votes in the hands of the peoples of the French Community ) . |
| 4 | Susan could n't think of a film where he had made it alive to the end credits . |
| 5 | Whose age had made it sacred to the view , |
| 6 | The accountants had made it clear to the Committee that they did not accept the findings of the DTI reports ( which formed the basis for the inquiry ) , and that documents they would need to deal further with the matter were no longer available . |
| 7 | He added that he had made it clear to the IoT that the Faculty would be willing to explore co-operation over exams , but the IoT was not interested . |
| 8 | ‘ As for the County Council 's wish for the WHR freehold , we believe the course suggested by the High Court for the Ffestiniog Trust to seek the Amending Order is the best safeguard for the future of the WHR , and we have made it clear to the Council that we would respect their wishes concerning footpaths , cycle tracks and so on . ’ |
| 9 | She had made it clear to the woman that she had strong Nazi sympathies , and often attempted to talk about the war in the desert , but to no avail . |
| 10 | We should have made it clear to the Media Action team not to refer callers to named staff . |
| 11 | I have made it clear to the right hon. Gentleman and to the House that we believe that the Union between the United Kingdom and Scotland is important . |
| 12 | I have made it clear to the people who work there and to the management that I am against the encouragement of tobacco addiction and in favour of measures which will prevent the use of tobacco in public places . |
| 13 | I have made it clear to the Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , the hon. Member for Wiltshire , North ( Mr. Needham ) , that in general terms I have every sympathy with the people in the Housing Executive and the Department of Health 's occupational therapy department whom , in effect , I shall be criticising . |
| 14 | Follow up calls are not permitted if the investor has recently made it clear to the firm that he does not wish to discuss the matter . |
| 15 | He said he had already made it clear to the convention that he wanted to establish a good relationship with COSLA and local government , and to make a new start after a period of expenditure difficulties . |
| 16 | This should have made it irrelevant to the case before him . |
| 17 | Some also called him disrespectful to the Queen during a recent speech . |
| 18 | While in times of war its uneasy location between the Frankish and German kingdoms rendered it prone to the ravages of invading armies , in times of peace , it was ideally situated at the crossroads to the great trade centres of Europe . |
| 19 | Tom , when he woke later had insisted that they should absorb some culture , had chivvied them both into his car and driven them first to the Villa Lante . |
| 20 | Although these omissions suited me at the time , I have since found them incredible to the point of doubting my own powers of recollection , but when I checked recently with my sister , she confirmed their accuracy . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's only recently that I 've felt able to write about him , but the controversy about Down 's Syndrome babies has brought it all to the surface . |
| 22 | And they couldn't 've well for example with taxation , they could 've erm not taxed the rich peasants at all and then just put all their erm their sort of focus upon the poor peasants and got their income through them and also with land , they could 've just not given any land to poor peasants who were inefficient and given it all to the rich peasants and really gone for a capitalist state . |
| 23 | The tension and frustration that had built up in the claustrophobic atmosphere of their life in Northumberland had finally spilt over when Louise had taken them both to the West End to buy the birthday dress . |
| 24 | The journey from Philadelphia was a fraught one , Boyd says , principally because Johnson — an uncompromisingly direct ladies ' man whose prolonged career as a plongeur had left him unused to the excitements of the open road — offered robust salutations to every woman pedestrian they passed en route . |