Example sentences of "to [pers pn] of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reporters and photographers recorded the images presented to them of a couple who smiled and carried out their duties professionally , but barely exchanged a word , a touch or a glance . |
| 2 | It is an important point of reference to banks because it is probably the best indication to them of the cost of raising immediate marginal funds . |
| 3 | Lamech takes two wives , and boasts to them of the murder he has committed , outdoing Cain . |
| 4 | ‘ Mrs. Bihi and the party she represents do not call for payment out to them of the sum presently in court . |
| 5 | On one occasion he complained to them of the insubordination of two of the officers . |
| 6 | If the application is made on the grounds that debts have been paid or secured and it is known that there are creditors who have not proved their debts , the court may direct that notice be given to them of the application and order the trustee ( or official receiver ) to advertise the application and , in the meantime , adjourn the application for not less than thirty-five days ( r 6.209 ) . |
| 7 | A pretty nest is selling puppies , he said , and sang to me of a nest ( not nurse ) from which puppies are hatched and sold , and there was a fireman and pedestrians with raincoats and walking-sticks , strolling the length of the roof as though it were an avenue , with a bright barber shop perched upon an antenna whose rust I could n't see . |
| 8 | An extremely fat and gummy bus conductress wobbles and frets and poddles and wets on the opposite seat to me of the bus 's lower , non smokers deck in fierce counterpoint to the holey road beneath . |
| 9 | In a more serious vein , the attribution to me of the statement that Super-SARA was a tremendous hindrance to negotiations for a LOFT consortium was a surprise to me and , I submit , to anyone who knew that the funds for Super-SARA had already been set aside . |
| 10 | MB and MC measure the marginal benefit to your neighbour and marginal cost to you of a tree of size S. The efficient size is S * where the marginal cost and benefit are equal . |
| 11 | The supplying to you of the tape at this stage limits the use of the tape to research purposes . |
| 12 | 52 concerned the grant by the Shipping Controller of a licence to sell a ship under an unlawful condition as to the payment to him of a proportion of the sale price . |
| 13 | His final gift to him of the Mastership of Jesus College , Cambridge , resulted in scandal : Roger Andrewes was compelled to resign because he had embezzled college funds . |
| 14 | He had all their attention now , every eye was wide and bright upon him , Herluin and Robert irresistibly moved to hoping against hope , but very wary of disappointment , Nicol interested but bewildered , for nothing had been said to him of the loss of Saint Winifred 's reliquary , or the possibility that he might have had it aboard his wagon , and had been robbed of it with all the rest . |
| 15 | Two days later , Gloucester 's arrival in the inner court circle was further emphasized by the queen 's grant to him of the stewardship of her land with an annual fee of £100 . |
| 16 | Two days later , Gloucester 's arrival in the inner court circle was further emphasized by the queen 's grant to him of the stewardship of her land with an annual fee of £100 . |
| 17 | She lied to her father on the day of her escape when Lancelot says to her of the escape — Act 2 , Scene 5 , line 39–41 : |
| 18 | One night , Cindy , her friend , spoke to her of the cross of Jesus and said : ‘ He was paralysed too . ’ |
| 19 | As long as the volume of work undertaken by house-building firms is dependent either upon local authority contracts or upon the doling out at yearly or half-yearly intervals of a meagre number of individual licences , so long will increased productivity , and the gearing to it of the output of the building materials industry , be impossible . |
| 20 | The external threat to it of the restoration of Roman Catholicism through foreign invasion was in the long run less serious than that posed by the Puritans from within . |
| 21 | But the worst silence of all is when we take it for granted that they know how much they are still appreciated and that the calloused hands or fingers are symbols to us of the love and caring poured into our lives . |
| 22 | Positively , the theory asserts that there is something about the sensation which correlates with the stimulation being at a certain point , and which can thus , in time , become a sign to us of the stimulation being at that point . |
| 23 | The knowledge that we now have about fertilization and development of the human ovum speaks to us of the miracle of our existence . |