Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before they had parted on the Flamingo she had given Ernest the name of the boardinghouse where the Carsons had made arrangements to stay , and he had promised to write to her the minute he and Charlotte arrived at their destination . |
| 2 | BELVILLE : As human life is uncertain I have disposed my affairs so as to secure to you the power of living as a person ought who is my widow . |
| 3 | Sir : I would like to relate to you an experience I recently had at a computer dealership on Oxford Road , Manchester , which I think may , in part , explain the ever downward spiralling morass computer retailing finds itself in . |
| 4 | It would be helpful to David Wilson to know if either of the organisations named above or any other similar organisation has been in touch with you or any of your staff and also to indicate to him the nature of this contact and details of what was being offered . |
| 5 | I 'll leave you to talk to him a minute . |
| 6 | She tried to talk to me a job , but we sort of joked away . |
| 7 | ‘ You see — naturally she wants to talk to you a bit , to talk frankly about how things are , she wants to explain — ’ |
| 8 | But because Mrs did that work with you yesterday you did not do your history work , so I 'm going to talk to you a bit and ask you some questions about the tiny bit we talked about to do with Roman Britain and how the Romans invaded Britain two thousand years ago . |
| 9 | I need to talk to you a minute ! |
| 10 | ‘ I tried to talk to you the night before last , but — ’ |
| 11 | Boutros Ghali , last Monday , I took the opportunity to suggest to him the need for more action in Somalia . |
| 12 | To belong to it a man had to be ‘ someone ’ , a person who counted as an individual , because of his wealth , his capacity to command other men , or otherwise to influence them . |
| 13 | A turning point in the history of the republic came in 1358 , when Ludovic of Hungary forced the Venetians to cede to him the whole of Dalmatia , except for Ragusa . |
| 14 | Davide ran his finger over the knubbled ear , and it began to seem to him a charm to bring good luck , prosperity , the ease he hoped to find , if only he could leave for America . |
| 15 | That announcement to W. could , in my judgment , only serve to underline to her the extent to which she is in control . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't need , perhaps , to underline to you the temptation that faced Mr Stratton , himself a virtually penniless man , and a man who knew for such seems to be the case — that his wife had run through almost all of the considerable money she had inherited from her first husband . ’ |
| 17 | The traditional Keynesian view of the conduct of monetary policy has been to assign to it the role of interest rate and/or exchange rate stabilization . |
| 18 | Mesmerised , Kate shook her head , unable to deny to him the truth of his words . |
| 19 | A libel which falsely accused a local authority of applying policies of sex or racial discrimination in the recruitment of staff could , in my view , damage that authority in its reputation in the performing of its statutory functions and I can see no reason , other than the public nature of the authority , to deny to it the remedy which the law allows to a trading corporation in respect of similar damage . |
| 20 | But she did let slip that she had to curtsey to her every day and say : ‘ Good morning Your Highness . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Clarice Cliff was a hard taskmistress — I had to report to her every day — but she took great interest in the progress of young trainees and her husband , Colley Shorter , the chairman of her company , arranged for me to take day classes at Newcastle College of Art when I was doing National Service with the RAF stationed in Northumberland , ’ he recounted . |
| 22 | They asked me to report to them every week , but I did n't go , and they stopped my benefit . |
| 23 | It needed all the pride she possessed to turn to him a moment later , ashen-faced but in control . |
| 24 | can I say that as long as the integrity of each religion is preserved , then education is a very sound er erm is very sound in prospect , but sadly it has become a melting pot and as my Noble Friends like to refer to it a mish-mash and I do n't think it does anything more than serve to confuse children if it 's done badly . |
| 25 | Thereupon the applicants , who had been unable to plead justification as defence in the libel action , applied to the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) , as the court to whom the implied undertaking had been given by B. , to vary the undertaking to permit B. , who was anxious to co-operate , to disclose to them the authority 's documents in the interests of justice to enable them to plead justification with full particularity and in the expectation that admissible evidence would become available to support the plea at trial of the action . |
| 26 | Nippon Steel Corp has now reached agreement for Hitachi Ltd to transfer to it the technology to manufacture 4M-bit memory chips : the chips will be made at NMB Semiconductor Ltd , which will become Nippon Steel Semiconductor Corp when the steel company acquires the Minebea Co unit later this month ; Hitachi will take some of the parts and sell them under its own name ; Nippon Steel says it has already concluded similar agreements with Intel Corp and Sony Corp on production of other types of memory chip . |
| 27 | I know members will be sorry to hear that Mr Robert and Mr Ken are both unwell and will wish me to convey to them the council 's best wishes for a speedy recovery . |
| 28 | I am to convey to you an expression of the sincere sympathy of the Army Council . |
| 29 | Firstly , an emotion may be expressed involuntarily or voluntarily ; if I say something in a ‘ happy ’ way , this may be because I feel happy , or because I want to convey to you the impression that I am happy . |
| 30 | And so therefore I think it would be appropriate er to deliver to you the report of Summers and Partners for your information . |