Example sentences of "to [pron] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went back on the last-minute promise to them to delay the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 2 | And that it 's up to them to do the research , to listen to advisers , parents , other students and so on , but at the end of the day it 's them that 's got to go and do the course . |
| 3 | Investigating their claims and describing how governments reacted to them form the theme of most of this book . |
| 4 | To assess the damages it is necessary to form a view upon three matters each of which is in greater or lesser degree one of speculation : ( 1 ) the value of the material benefits for his dependants which the deceased would have provided out of his earnings for each year in the future during which he would have provided for them had he not been killed : ( 2 ) the value of any material benefits which the dependants will be able to obtain in each such year from sources ( other than insurance ) which would not have been available to them had the deceased lived but which will become available to them as a result of his death : ( 3 ) the amount of the capital sum which , with prudent management , will produce annual amounts equal to the difference between ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ( that is " the dependency " ) for each of the years during which the deceased would have provided material benefits for the dependants had he not been killed . |
| 5 | If someone else is annoying us either deliberately or unconsciously , then we have to talk to them to explain the effect they are having on us . |
| 6 | my Lord er , to only just final conclusions my Lord the first conclusion is that nothing in community law , nothing in the directives in the insurance companies act can be pointed to by which grants powers to them to regulate the insurance markets . |
| 7 | While no one must know the extent to which she had been alarmed , she had no objection to them knowing the cause . |
| 8 | ‘ The ordinary people supported me before I was made WBC champion and I now owe it to them to let the public see me , ’ he said . |
| 9 | The new business groups were part of an imperial market and often this was far too important to them to risk the fragmentation of nationalism . |
| 10 | Of about 100 prisoners who had been on hunger strike since May 1 [ see p. 38179 ] protesting at the government 's alleged failure to free all political prisoners , 17 who were still fasting began accepting food in the days after Mandela appealed to them to abandon the fast , on June 6 . |
| 11 | But the attempt to assure us that directors are controlled by their shareholders must fail , for no matter how far the law goes in strengthening the powers conferred upon shareholders to monitor the managers of their company the reality is that where each shareholder only holds a tiny proportion of the share capital of the company none of the shareholders will avail themselves of the powers given to them to monitor the management . |
| 12 | The county council has since planted trees on that piece of land which has stopped gipsies from camping there but led to them using the verge instead . |
| 13 | Yet to them comes the promise that they are not worse off , but if anything better . |
| 14 | The mayoress appealed to them to drop the case and this is now being considered by the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 15 | A because the work has n't been done What I 'm trying to do is er to say give a balanced approach which seems to me to reflect the County Council 's view that er you really ca n't do it on the basis of a a a quick subjective assessment , it really needs to be the result of a l of a detailed body of work . |
| 16 | But I 'm unconvinced by the pause Marriner inserts between the main section and trio , which seems to me to lessen the effect of the oboes ' pivotal , punning Gs that lead into the trio 's C major . |
| 17 | I found myself lying to her , although my lies seemed to me to represent the truth as soon as I was out of Aisha 's house . |
| 18 | It 's now up to me to use the opportunity to breakthrough . ’ |
| 19 | I came across him when I was about 14 or 15 , and although I 'd played Chet Atkins-style fingerpicking before , it had n't occurred to me to use the bottleneck in conjunction with fingerpicking . |
| 20 | The common claim the that the stories are remarkable for their even tone seems to me to miss the point . |
| 21 | Adorno seems to me to situate the problem , without necessarily being the solution to it . |
| 22 | The reply given by Mrs. Bottomley centred around trade barriers not being acceptable and the answer appeared to me to contradict the action taken by America where President Bush has stated that Japanese imports are to be restricted . |
| 23 | The submissions made to your Lordships on the basis of the history of eleemosynary corporations do not seem to me to justify the drawing of such a distinction at the present time once it is accepted that certiorari can be available ( as in Thomas ) on some grounds . |
| 24 | Chloe says to me does the post office pay you ? |
| 25 | ‘ I feel it 's up to me to put the record straight . ’ |
| 26 | Thus inauthentic languageusing behaviour might well be effective language-learning behaviour , but to call the latter ‘ authentic ’ seems to me to confuse the issue . |
| 27 | It seems to me to magnify the difficulty of that particular operation if it has to be conducted under any sort of time pressure which the arrangements for the hearing on 3 February 1992 seemed to entail . |
| 28 | It does not seem to me to address the problem to say that if the producers produce the programmes the audience will supply the criticism . |
| 29 | It seems to me to reduce the passport to what it generally is in practice , a not too efficient identification card , of which few authorities take much real notice . |
| 30 | ‘ Mr. Howell 's argument , which found favour with Simon Brown J. , seems to me to approach the question from the wrong end . |