Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Dennant v. Skinner ( 1948 K.B. ) the buyer had a van knocked down to him at an auction . |
| 2 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 3 | What decisions , made arbitrarily and in anger , would be handed down to him in the morning ? |
| 4 | The connotations of this in the creation of manhood were made clear by Baden Powell , founder of the Scout movement , who observed that masturbation checks the semen from getting its full chance of making the strong , manly man : ‘ You are throwing away the seed that has been handed down to you as a trust instead of keeping it and ripening it for bringing a son to you later on . ’ |
| 5 | I have got in my diary that I 'm coming down to you on the twenty third of December ? |
| 6 | The , if any of the ladies would like to go down to the village or anybody , the church is open and I think there 's somebody there who would welcome you to show you round the church down in the village which , I know , during the war years at different times , quite a lot of you chaps did attend and er so we do hope you will see and , and of course later on I hope you 'll be coming down to mine for a cup of tea . |
| 7 | There seems little doubt that Trow Gill once brought down a stream , this entering as a waterfall at the gap now occupied by boulders , and this theory is confirmed by the dry channel coming directly down to it from the heights above . |
| 8 | Affective rather than rational , originating by chance hundreds of years ago and according to individual choices made in small communities , later expanding through the demographic growth of tribes and peoples , family systems perpetuate themselves by inertia … this combination of anthropological types , coming down to us from an indeterminate past , has in the twentieth century played a trick on the ideal of modernity . |
| 9 | We have a traditional culture , which comes down to us from the time of the Renaissance , and our literature , which is rich , draws its life blood therefrom . |
| 10 | Much medieval painting has come down to us in a fragmentary condition , and often in a very poor state of conservation . |
| 11 | Biblioth. , P.L. 28.556 ) , and Origen still knew its Hebrew title , which has come down to us in a corrupt and unintelligible form , Sarbethsabanaiel ( ap . |
| 12 | The mutilated text of the passage of Polybius has come down to us in the Excerpta de sententiis and the keyword " he wept " , has to be supplied from Diodorus ( 32.24 ) with the support of Appian , Punica 132 : they are known to have used Polybius directly or indirectly . |
| 13 | Singing along to them in the middle of the jungle did seem a little odd , but it kept our minds off things , even if it invited torrents of abuse . |
| 14 | He asked permission to make the tea , which he did — and brought it in to them with the air of an old family retainer . |
| 15 | So are gilts , especially if you nip in to them before the next — perhaps imminent — interest rate cut . |
| 16 | But there was a part of her that still would n't give in to him without a fight . |
| 17 | I want you to send them in to me , and here 's where er it becomes a little bit different from other competitions , I want you to send them in to me on a Christmas card please . |
| 18 | 1991 we had two trees with flashing lights , and a local family , whose children had written in to us about the trees , were invited to switch them on . |
| 19 | It has come through to me as a firm conclusion that , if there is such a thing as premonition , it is something which is instantaneous — a flash of intuition … . |
| 20 | He would always teach trainees : " If a client asks you a question you do n't understand , say — " Hold on a minute sir , a call has just come through to me from the States " — put him on hold then , and ask me . |
| 21 | You got right through to me in a way nobody has ever done before . |
| 22 | Piper may be articulate and polite , but he is genuinely tough and a real threat to Benn — who I believe must get through to him in the first six rounds or face disaster . |
| 23 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 24 | The message seeped through to her via the depth of his kisses , the gentle strength in the fingers that ruffled her hair before kneading their way down her spine — and his arousal , which betrayed his hunger to make love . |
| 25 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 26 | The pollution did n't kill the ripple , and could n't get through to you in a skin-tight SCE unit . |
| 27 | Then Ted can work out a market price and phone it through to you in a day or so . |
| 28 | Remember what I did there I got three themes and for each one I got three subthemes so that what you put over to them to the audience are those three themes . |
| 29 | When Sigarup climbed up the ladder , straining under the weight of his basket , the dog sidled over to him with a low unearthly grunt of pleasure . |
| 30 | Aitken asserted at the trial , and this view was certainly supported by independent witnesses , that no word about confidentiality was ever uttered , but the document was handed over to him on the footing that it would be returned within a very short time . |