Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] to [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 To deny them to the least of our brethren is to deny them to ourselves , for in saying they are irredeemable we are saying there is no hope for us either .
2 She wants to send them to the same private boarding school as her other partially sighted son , but her local council has refused .
3 His agent , Giles Gordon of Sheil Land , had reacted to the sight of the manuscript with alarm , but was won around by reading it : ‘ He said that perhaps it should be cut a bit , but that we should aim to keep it to the same kind of scale . ’
4 See if you can get our people to introduce you to a few American officers ; broaden your mind .
5 An expensive all-concrete , all-dredge , work-from-both-sides approach may in certain cases have much to recommend it to a few of the more old-fashioned river managers , especially since the cutting of straight ditches involves minimum initial design and subsequent supervision , combined with maximum actual earth-moving and construction works on the ground .
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