Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William the Conqueror , who was a second cousin to King Edward the Confessor , succeeded as Duke of Normandy in 1035 , and believed that he was entitled to the crown of England , despite the fact that Harold II had fought along side him in his many battles against his great enemy , the King of France . |
| 2 | According to Pierre Rosenberg the museum will never succumb to showing paintings and sculpture , for example , together because that would be tantamount to sacrificing the traditional structure of scholarship at the museum . |
| 3 | I 'd read an article by Jon Mendlesohn in Rolling Stone , which emanated from a trip he took to Los Angeles the year before , which must have been about 1970 , that said that there was this guy who did weird songs and dressed up in dresses . |
| 4 | According to Kenneth Clarke the health minister there 's more to come . |
| 5 | The committee is indebted to our local councillors Mrs Beth Brereton and Hugh Fraser for their cheerful unending support and advice throughout the community , to George Lightheart , our community education officer and link with the education department and to Ian Watson the hall caretaker whose efforts frequently go beyond the call of his duties . |
| 6 | What is the lesson of all this , according to Richard Newstat the lesson is that techniques of persuasion are really the essential armoury of any president , any president who wishes to be successful . |
| 7 | The instructions which Mr. Tucker gave to the Burnham sub-branch made it clear that the bank was retaining for itself the responsibility of explaining to Mrs. O'Brien the effect and nature of the documents she was to sign . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) As I have indicated , I reject the evidence of the midwife that she read the form to Miss T. The midwife gave Miss T. no explanation at all and I find , like Bristow J. in Chatterton v. Gerson [ 1981 ] Q.B . |
| 9 | It was in the autumn of 1839 , after long meditation , that Amanda Fergusson proposed to Miss Logan the expedition to Arghuri . |
| 10 | Now it seemed to me that was n't a very erm reasonable balance and er comparing that with the with the Secretary of State 's recent pronouncements where he talks about local planning authorities needing to breathe fresh life into the countryside through their development plans and I want local planning authorities in rural areas to give the need to diversify the rural economy as much priority priority in their thinking as protecting the countryside and the two go hand in hand , and comparing those two er points I I would I would put to North Yorkshire the question , Do they think that the explanatory memorandum is is consistent with that er policy statement from the Secretary of State ? |
| 11 | In a swift readjustment of his property , Somerset and Berkshire were reunited with the earldom of Wessex , and Oxfordshire and Hereford went to Earl Ralph the King 's confused nephew . |
| 12 | ‘ For now , it seems , the prince has revealed to Sir Thomas the depth of his regard for you — even going so far as to say that if in due course he may not marry yourself , he will remain unwed . |
| 13 | The idea for a consortium was born of the year-old fiber channel alliance between HP and IBM , according to Ed Frymoyer the HP alliance manager who is also heading up FCSI . |
| 14 | As soon as he realised his mistake he tried to go into reverse , but once America sent troops to Saudi Arabia the dictator was trapped : only then did he make Kuwait the 19th province and drop all talk of withdrawing . |
| 15 | Many thanks to my two guests — to John Collinswood from Mechanical Management Services Limited in Thame , and to Roy Hill the Deputy Trading Standards Officer for Oxfordshire County Council . |
| 16 | The repealer James Stuart wrote to Samuel Smith the purity MP complaining that the bill had ‘ far too much of the police in it ’ . |
| 17 | He spotted Billy lounging against the far corner of the bar talking to Sooty Hill the joker . |
| 18 | In Borodin 's Overture to Prince Igor the orchestra established themselves convincingly with secure intonation and ensemble and some distinguished solo wind playing . |
| 19 | According to Prince Charles the watercolour medium ‘ quite literally refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can not reach ’ . |
| 20 | According to Mr Hagger the company has lost many thousands of pounds because it paid for a loan that was not forthcoming . |
| 21 | I have spoken to Mr Rhodes the owner ( there is no tenant ) of the land adjacent to the proposed site of the roadside seat as shown on your map . |
| 22 | this is the story of my life now in the bathroom I have had , I have had to pay a hundred pounds to Mr Butcher the plumber to put in a new shower thing because that was cheap and rough and eventually wore out should never have been put in . |
| 23 | Finally she asked to speak to Mr McGay the teacher who sent her home suffering from shock . |
| 24 | ‘ Careful , do n't switch off , ’ I said to Mr Thabane the cousin . |
| 25 | Clause 16 reserved to Mr Antoniades the power at any time to go into occupation of the flat jointly with Mr Villiers and Miss Bridger . |
| 26 | In 1897 Mr and Mrs Currer Briggs bought the most idyllic site they could lay their hands on and wrote to Mr Voysey the architect . |
| 27 | Colin Eisler of NYU 's Institute of Fine Arts explored why Durer associated Mary and Jesus with the animal kingdom in ‘ Our Lady of the animals ’ ; Peter Dreyer of the Morgan Library deattributed that repository 's ‘ Alpine landscape ’ drawing , generally ascribed to Pieter Breugel the Elder ; and Laurie Fusco and Gino Corti of the Getty Museum reappraised Lorenzo de' Medici as a collector , quoting 187 of the patron 's letters they recently discovered in the Archivio di Stato and Biblioteca Nazionale , Florence . |
| 28 | According to Joseph Rishel the aim is to ‘ try to get together the most serious pictures and pull together all the themes ’ . |
| 29 | To Gilbert Seldes the movie had ‘ no fixed form , no standards ’ and it was the first form ( of art and entertainment ) to be developed in the era of universal ( that is low-standard ) education . |
| 30 | Ruth took to Mrs Taylor the moment that lady opened the door . |