Example sentences of "to [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which means that we talk to them about a reasonable rate at which they can pay their rent . |
| 2 | Many of them so often quite rightly describe what has happened to them as a deep wound resulting from the blow they have received . |
| 3 | By fifty percent , but I certainly would n't be I certainly would n't be referring to them as a peripheral area . |
| 4 | I certainly would n't refer to them as a peripheral area , that was |
| 5 | They walked like robots until Doyle yelled , ‘ Stop ! ’ with half his voice whirled away by the wind so that it came to them as a little thread of sound . |
| 6 | When the industry 's senior engineers and managers met him , he appeared to them as a strong-willed , humourless , puritanical idealist , but he was sane , reasonable and had a strong sense of the practical realities of power . |
| 7 | There is a tendency for members of each stratum to develop their own ‘ subculture ’ , that is certain norms , attitudes and values which are distinctive to them as a social group . |
| 8 | And as a matter of fact , as a matter of fact , the Germans th th th had thought that he would be of value to them at a later stage , because he was er he was shipped to Germany , and er er I understand that he died in Germany er at the latter end of er of of er of the of the war , the Second World War . |
| 9 | KRRS alleges that foreign seed companies buy seed from farmers , treat it and sell it back to them at a hefty profit . |
| 10 | Many potential employers complain that applicants come to them with a poor knowledge of what the job involves and no particular interest in the company . |
| 11 | And upon the way they round a leper , struggling in a quagmire , who cried out to them with a loud voice to help him for the love of God ; and when Rodrigo heard this , he alighted from his beast and helped him , and placed him upon the beast before him , and carried him with him in this manner to the inn where he took up his lodging that night . |
| 12 | She turned to them with a glowing smile . |
| 13 | Since these presuppositions that are the basis of knowledge are not normally recognized at the conscious level , an individual does not normally ‘ affiliate ’ to them with a conscious and intentional act . |
| 14 | The earliest of these were collected in a volume of Cantiones which he published in 1575 jointly with Tallis , thus marking Elizabeth I 's grant to them of a twenty-one year monopoly of music printing ; others followed in two sets of Cantiones sacrae ( 1589 and 1591 ) and two of Gradualia ( 1605 and 1607 ) , a corpus of work almost as varied in technique and sometimes as ‘ madrigalian ’ in word-painting as that of Lassus — some of which Byrd may well have known — or of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder ( 1543–88 ) who was his friend and colleague in the Queen 's service for sixteen years and wrote not only ‘ madrigalian ’ motets but simple Latin hymn-settings in a style very similar to Byrd 's . |
| 15 | Following Bono 's unsuccessful attempts to speak to George Bush at the White House during the ‘ Zoo TV ’ tour , Clinton sent a letter to the band offering his services and later spoke to them on a live radio phone-in . |
| 16 | He was sobered to find that many Tahitians were already dying from the venereal diseases bequeathed to them on a previous visit . |
| 17 | Rather than offer it to them on a first-come , first-served basis , we offer it just to new business coming in . |
| 18 | At this point some other people arrived to catch the train and his attention turned to them for a split second and within that time the sound of the scrunching footsteps disappeared into the night . |
| 19 | Voluntary Severance that staff will have individual voluntary Severance options made available to them for a limited period . |
| 20 | First-class writers can defy this rule-of-thumb , but anyone else doing so risks alienating readers who have come to them for a particular sort of entertainment . |
| 21 | ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo . |
| 22 | A solution is to make the following adjustments and stick to them for a few days while the body clock follows the lead given by your altered life-style . |
| 23 | There had been a stray mongrel whom they had named Herbert , with a large uncoordinated body and look of lugubrious disapproval who had attached himself to them for a few weeks and whose voracious appetite for dog-meat and biscuits had had a ruinous effect on the housekeeping . |
| 24 | ‘ You can tell if their attitude 's right just by talking to them for a few minutes , ’ he says . |
| 25 | He peered across the tavern , watching a group of men busy baiting a relic-seller who claimed he had Aaron 's beard in a sack and was prepared to sell it to them for a few coins . |
| 26 | She talked of her children , far away in the north at Alnwick castle with their household , and of the late Spring when she would take her husband home to them for a brief visit . |
| 27 | Most fish would not be seriously affected by temperatures somewhat outside this range especially if only exposed to them for a short time . |
| 28 | It 's one of my jobs to meet the boats and this involves assembling the visitors and talking to them for a short while about the wildlife and rules of the island . |
| 29 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 30 | They would not hate her , if she tried to sob out what would sound to them like a typical housemaid 's melodrama . |