Example sentences of "to [noun] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He received from one of those organisations , the Board of Guardians , food , clothing , a little money to tide him over the worst first weeks , and the address of a family who would provide a room and warmth . |
| 2 | Perhaps you will have a part-time job and a small capital reserve to tide you over the lean years until the farm is pulling its weight . |
| 3 | Someone may grab your collar with both hands in order to head-butt you in the face , or may seize you by the hair to punch you . |
| 4 | Some time previously and after a wait of five years my name had been proposed and seconded for membership , but when my proposer heard that two members were of a mind to blackball me in the ballot , he ( without telling me ) withdrew my candidature . |
| 5 | Lewis reached his third Test fifty before edging a flowery drive , and Salisbury recovered from an excruciating blow on the box from Waqar to bang him through the covers and generally give the impression that he might soon be worth a sport higher than No. 9 in the order . |
| 6 | He would try and remember to post it in the Sandyford Toll Receiving House on the way back , if nothing else intervened . |
| 7 | I went to post it in the index book I 've got it 's stopped it 's been in |
| 8 | Third , she claims to have authorisation from Mephistco to boot me off the assignment . |
| 9 | Our impact on industry through our green works campaign is there for all to see and from that point of view to encase it within the health and safety review is vitally important for all of us when we take the policy back to our members and advise them of the way in which we intend to go forward . |
| 10 | Even so , I had been surprised when he agreed to back me on the amateur circuit for one year after I left the university . |
| 11 | Every so often the animal would rear , lashing out with his sharpened hooves , as the men struggled with a stream of oaths to back it into the stable . |
| 12 | To hold an anti-contraceptive view is one thing , but to enshrine it in the law of the land is another . |
| 13 | In an interview soon after his appointment as Director General , Joe Pilling , a senior civil servant , was quoted as saying that the transformation of the Prison Service into an executive agency would help to distance it from the Home Office and achieve greater operational freedom , adding : |
| 14 | Quite how one of the other magazines managed to rate it as the ‘ top keyboard at the moment ’ is utterly beyond me ! |
| 15 | This is why we do not want to abandon the term inner city , either analytically or politically , only to ground it in the academic debates which have reproduced it conceptually , the political debates that have refashioned it discursively and , most significantly , the social injustices and inequalities that lend the term its emotive power and mobilising force . |
| 16 | But as he tried to think of his work ( Charles had long since ceased to grace it with the name of ‘ his career ’ ) , his thoughts kept returning to the Steen situation . |
| 17 | Kennedy immediately called together a special Executive Committee ( the " Ex Comm " ) to advice him on the handling of the crisis . |
| 18 | He turned to look at her , his glance intended to skewer her to the spot , forcing her to clutch self-consciously at the kimono she had slipped on while she had a nap after the arduous car journey into the mountains with Peter just now . |
| 19 | Sylvie Guillem , the exquisite prima ballerina , had been procured to dance for it ; chanteuses of international renown were to sing for it ; the Gypsy Kings would be there to serenade it at the top of their lungs . |
| 20 | Using this last possibility , Spenser implies that the English acting firmly against Ireland might demonstrate that they have purified the fault which was going to cause Ireland to scourge them in the first place , namely a tameness in executing God 's designs against savage immorality . |
| 21 | Then , waving aloft a sheaf of papers , he uttered the famous lie that was to catapult him into the limelight for four years : ‘ I have here in my hand a list of 205 names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department . ’ |
| 22 | She found it very difficult to get out of bed , so we moved life to centre it in the bedroom . |
| 23 | Unfortunately it was received too late to go through the formal council procedure , but I do hope that you allow me to hand it to the council secretary later who it is addressed to . |
| 24 | I phoned Shirley , a friend I 'd made who ran a travel agency , and asked her to book me on the mid-day Concorde . |
| 25 | It might be diplomatic to humour him for the moment … |
| 26 | John McVurich , alledged diviner , being summond and not compared recommended him to the session of Kilarrow to processe him for the same . |
| 27 | In my judgment , once it is recognised , as inevitably it must be , that a self-regulating organisation may have to act with urgency in order to achieve its purpose , then it would be undesirable to cumber it with the necessity to make a judgment as to whether time admits of an opportunity to make representations . |
| 28 | In my judgment , once it is recognised , as inevitably it must be , that a self-regulating organisation may have to act with urgency in order to achieve its purpose , then it would be undesirable to cumber it with the necessity to make a judgment as to whether time admits of an opportunity to make representations . |
| 29 | He was reaching out from death to hurt me in the same old way , only this time I did n't have to know . |
| 30 | Luigi pretended to cuff him across the ear . |