Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Added to which the Reichsführer and Admiral Canaris do not always see eye to eye . |
| 2 | But these descriptions should be confined to what the heroine sees after her adventure had begun , and in them you want to aim for reality without its customary tackiness . |
| 3 | The Minister of State , my right hon. Friend the Member for Oxford , West and Abingdon ( Mr. Patten ) , was on the Front Bench yesterday and has reported to me the content of the ten-minute Bill and the vote . |
| 4 | Such is the notion uncritically entertained in the Alliance Report : competing candidates of the same party would make clear their differences on policy issues , and on the balanced slate so presented to him the voter would pick and choose . |
| 5 | Each industry must have applied to it the test of national service . |
| 6 | Kendall ( 1986 ) reminds us that accidents in infancy are related to what the child can do , so are related to stage of development , and quotes the relative incidence : |
| 7 | The gesture revealed nothing of that woman 's essence , one could say rather that the woman revealed to me the charm of a gesture . |
| 8 | If it can be proved that the pattern exists , then there is a strong possibility that by tracing this pattern , certain locations will be revealed to which the metal detectorist would be well-advised to direct his search . |
| 9 | The Administration decided that it applied to any coal owner who had actively sought to mine the coal up to the day the law was passed . |
| 10 | In the eighteenth century this undifferentiated mass nobility had tended to contract , and it was the lower ranges of this class who , as ennobled civil servants , collected to themselves the influence lost by the great court aristocracy . |
| 11 | Tell them , what I 've said to you the message that I have given to you . |
| 12 | I had been ushered into the throne room ( the throne itself , 8 feet high and needing six men to move it , was carved from a solid slab of oak and had been presented to Queen Salote by the British Government in 1951 ) , and could hear from next door the awful warble of Mr Swaggart 's daily broadcast to which the King was apparently listening . |
| 13 | Okay you 've talked to them the phone right and you 're gon na go and sign them up . |
| 14 | Long experience has , however , shown to me the danger of the good being lost through the devotion of some to what they think to be the best . |
| 15 | The Conservatives handed out the Greens ' fairly innocuous version of the 1989 Queen 's Speech gratis , too , in the belief that it was time the public had their eyes opened to what the party was really about . |
| 16 | In his attempts to understand the paths taken by projectiles and falling bodies , he had ‘ opened to us the gate of natural philosophy universal , which is the knowledge of the nature of motion ’ . |
| 17 | Mr Beckenham looked down upon him from his superior height and handed to him the lady 's portmanteau . |
| 18 | Customer research is important , too : the product or service must be geared to what the customer actually needs . |
| 19 | ‘ Our product and service standards are geared to what the customer requires , not set in concrete , ’ says ‘ The standard of service is set by the guest . |
| 20 | It maybe in a poor way compared to what the West get |
| 21 | He 's forgotten to mention , by some slip of the memory , the one fact about the pits which is known to everyone the impurity of the air breathed by the pitmen ! |
| 22 | Only a prisoner and the nurse had spoken to me the night before I cut myself . |
| 23 | Never in her entire life had she spoken to anyone the way she had just spoken to Nathan Bryce . |
| 24 | And so I was extremely surprised when no more than weeks later Émile telephoned Jean-Claude and proposed to him the idea that he should take up an appointment as composer-in-residence at an American university . |
| 25 | Counsel for the estate agents assigned to it the meaning , ‘ rent agreed between the parties ’ at the time of entering the lease . |
| 26 | It has not happened since the end of the Second World War , but before the 1987 election , when some commentators were predicting a hung parliament , much thought was given to what the Queen would do about forming a government if they turned out to be right . |
| 27 | To name a child with an English word was thought particularly propitious , though there was little or no consideration given to what the word actually meant . |
| 28 | The Führer has given to me the honour of organizing the conference and , of course , responsibility for his safety . |
| 29 | When they get hold of me twice in the one day you say hang on I 've just given to you the bus ! |
| 30 | She 'd explained to me the origin of the Paisley pattern ; I had the history of Notting Hill Gate , the use of a camera obscura by Vermeer , why Charles Lamb 's sister murdered their mother , and a history of Tamla Motown . |