Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After my mother had obligingly betrayed all my confidences to him in my hearing , he said he would find the man — Michael , that is — and compel him to marry me . |
| 2 | I 'll pay my respects to him without you telling me to take a quick look . |
| 3 | At the Redoubt Mr Major told the 2,400 troops including those from the Cheshire Regiment and Royal Engineers : ‘ I wanted to see what was happening on the ground and particularly to express my thanks to you for the work you are doing . |
| 4 | At the Redoubt Mr Major told troops including those from the Cheshire Regiment and Royal Engineers : ‘ I wanted to see what was happening on the ground and particularly to express my thanks to you for the work you are doing . |
| 5 | And yet he said , when I expressed my feelings to him in public ( I am not ashamed of love — why should I be ? |
| 6 | This monolith sat atop an escarpment which accommodated the raking of the auditorium and the levelled hardcore of a car park , and cast its long shadow over an adjacent bit of parkland , a cosy corner of scrub , stream and wood that drew me and my friends to it like a magnet . |
| 7 | Dear Prime Minister , In spite of the most helpful representations and advice from my staff , I have decided to continue submitting my reports to you in the informal way I settled upon initially … ’ |
| 8 | I have decided to continue submitting my reports to you in the informal way I settled upon initially … |
| 9 | And in the afternoon , at the time he was drowned , her mother would call her inside and bolt the door , and they would kneel together and say the rosary for the soul of the father she had never known ; and when all those Hail Mary 's had been said , and the Glory Be 's and the Our Father , and they had made the sign of the Cross together , her mother would pull out the silver Madonna she always kept hidden at her breast and press her lips to it in a way that said everything you needed to know about love and death and being a woman . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , Travis ! ’ she sighed and lifted her lips to his in a kiss that sealed their fate — forever joined together . |
| 11 | Her defiance gave her the courage to lift her eyes to his for the first time , and she saw the surprise and sudden uncertainty that flashed across them . |
| 12 | She was delighted by the carefree lightness of her voice as hastily she began to move to the side of the bed , inwardly quaking but determined not to reveal by the merest movement her reservations to him about revealing her total nakedness by the growing light of day as it filtered through the perpendicular blinds . |
| 13 | He was a hippie when hippiedom was in fashion : he grew his hair long and then ( when people began to give up their seats to him on buses , under the impression that he was a pregnant girl ) he grew a straggly beard as a declaration of sex . |
| 14 | Erm it is quite unfair , and illegal , for a shop to try to duck out of their responsibilities to you by pointing to a sign that says no refunds , no money refunded . |
| 15 | Finally , at a sad time for Rosamund and myself , our sincerest thanks to so many rugby friends who have extended , through kind words and deeds , their sympathies to us on the tragic death , after a short illness , of our daughter Charlotte . |
| 16 | Louis and Charles conceded a tactful point to Lothar by sending their envoys to him at Thionville , but on the main issue they had their way . |
| 17 | Taking the case at its highest against the plaintiffs I assume for the purposes of considering this point that either Mr. Twycross or his secretary took the opportunity of the presence of the son in the office to hand the letters in their envelopes to him for the purpose of delivery to the parents . |
| 18 | Now , for the 10 per cent of house-buyers who rely on this report , or even the 15 per cent who rely on a mini-survey , that 's fine as far as it goes — and I would not wish to discourage anyone from having a professional survey , or ever advise against one — however , all the surveyors I know would prefer knowledgeable clients who had carried out their own surveys first and could present their results to them for investigation and comment . |
| 19 | " Your Memorialists would be glad if the School could be placed in such a position as to enable them to send their children to it with a reasonable expectation that their manners would not be corrupted by the admission of a class of boys more fitted for National Schools than Grammar Schools . |
| 20 | After a short while he found that the gypsies were taking their horses to him to be shod ; and he had quite a busy time shoeing gypsy horses . |
| 21 | We are confident that the Mass Democratic Movement will open its doors to her in the interest of our people and the struggle . |
| 22 | ‘ It is no surprise that JHFenner has decided to sell their shares to us at our generous increased offer price , ’ Dr Paul said . |
| 23 | He might not have meant to be comforting , but she felt a flood of warmth ; energy passed from his fingers to hers like a life-force and Jenna did n't know what to say . |
| 24 | She recalled his words to her about needing to put on weight , and she looked at her friend , for the first time ever , with a sharp stab of jealousy , then she hurriedly wiped the expression from her face . |
| 25 | He rented me a projector , and because he wanted to retire sold his movies to me for a few pesetas a twelve-reeler . |
| 26 | He raised up his arms to her in a flurry of lace . |
| 27 | We 've also er recently been talking to erm a lecturer of the University who is doing a project , a research project , and would like to er offer his services to us in in that er in that project , so we at the early stages but nonetheless I think it is er very important that we do er test the market place and find out what both think of us , so that we with a prime and only objective of improving a service |
| 28 | Secondly , it is not even probable that she would have known much about the progress of the book at the time , except in the most general terms : she was not often in her brother 's company and his letters to her during these years do not suggest that details of such matters formed any part of their common ground . |
| 29 | Edward acknowledges her effect on him in a letter — one of numerous happy , affectionate letters to ‘ My dearest Friend ’ — from his lodgings at 113 Cowley Road , Oxford , 29 January 1898 ( the third of his letters to her after his return to Oxford for the Lent Term ) : Take care of yourself my dearest friend . |
| 30 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |