Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I 'll have to you 've got ta give me chance to buy papa and grandma 's grandpa 's and I can wrap them up and give them to them at the golden wedding or ca n't I ?
2 Anyone wanting to get in touch with the Graingers can write to them at the above address .
3 Erm and then we 've just done a letter to them with the new prices .
4 Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary .
5 They were under no obligation to employ any of the prize-winners , who should be ‘ fully satisfied by the payment to them of the liberal premiums awarded to them ’ , and they considered that it would be ,
6 There are many possible ways in which one may incur tortious liability through the instrumentality of an animal under one 's control , but the fact that the agent happens to be animate rather than inanimate is immaterial , for while the common law , like other legal systems , developed special or additional rules of liability for animals , it did not deny the applicability to them of the general law .
7 It is not so much that those buyers who actually consume the Qm units are having to pay the higher price Pm for them , since the higher price represents the value to them of the marginal unit bought .
8 ‘ This is difficult to prove , and most archaeologists appear to be totally blind to the advantages that can be accorded to them through the effective and proper use of the metal detector ’ .
9 There was the soft tinkling of pagoda bells in the wind , the scent of jasmine and forsythia , of gardenia and chrysanthemum wafting to them through the great moon door in the wall .
10 Their acute hearing had already informed them that only one set of feet was running in the night , the light footfalls vibrating to them through the drum-like quality of the primeval forest floor .
11 Too often businessmen through reticence or unawareness neglect the resources available to them through the local banks and the purpose of this short article is to draw their attention to the servies and assistance available .
12 Although the survey vessel was now travelling at a speed faster than light , its occupants experienced no sense of progress other than that which was fed to them through the navigational telemetry .
13 A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window .
14 Davie Jess , a well known wag , entertained his mates with a flood of stories , many of which , as he said later , John Robertson , a man known to have a fine voice was asked to sing a song ; the only songs of which he knew the words were all hymns and soon rescuers gathered in the control room on the surface heard a strong , clear rendering of The Old Rugged Cross coming to them over the internal telephone system , with more than 100 trapped miners joining in the chorus .
15 Indigenous groups gained three seats in the Senate — two specially allotted to them under the new constitution and one elected .
16 Candidates for an overseas assignment should have had the opportunity to digest all information given to them on the new job , country , life style , compensation package and effects on their careers and families before being interviewed for the post .
17 ‘ … the impracticability of individual copyright holders administering their performing rights effectively means that membership of a performing right society is the only way in which composers , songwriters and music publishers can adequately protect their rights and receive what is due to them for the public use of their work . ’
18 The research will monitor what coping strategies governing bodies are using to deal with the tasks and responsibilities given to them by the new educational legislation and will also focus on the identification of power relations ( including gender and race/ethnicity ) , decision making processes and networks of influence operating in the eight governing bodies .
19 The Comite de Madres y Familiares de Presos , Desaparecidos y Asesinados Politicos de El Salvador , Monsenor Oscar Arnulfo Romero was founded in 1977 by 12 mothers at a Christmas Eve supper offered to them by the late Archbishop .
20 The committee declined to accept the view put to them by the Joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury that tribunals ought to be regarded as part of the machinery of public administration for which the Government should retain a close and continuing responsibility .
21 Thereafter controversy over the issue subsided until June 1967 , when eviction proceedings were taken against eleven families who had refused accommodation offered to them by the rural district council because it was at some distance from the city .
22 Even as far away as Australia commentators talked about a quiet revolution in the way Australians and their communities were responding to the types of learning challenges being presented to them by the changing social conditions of the 1970s and early 1980s .
23 This is a totalizing view of society , and implies a certain anti-pluralism : freedom of belief and action within certain parameters , which are to be decided either by those who appear righteous in the sight of God or by those who , at least , conform in their lawmaking to the advice given to them by the righteous .
24 However , the development of Australian unions has been markedly and uniquely influenced by the institutional support given to them by the federal arbitration system which has long played a fundamental role in wage-determination and the settlement of disputes ( see Chapter 5 ) .
25 The key to the achievement of a consensus lay in Hawke 's agreement to increase the financial autonomy of individual states by expanding their powers to raise taxes and by loosening controls on how they spent money transferred to them by the federal government .
26 the merits of such proposals as are referred to them by the Select Committee ;
27 These have now been cleaned up , but it took us some time to cope with this disgraceful state of affairs … the condition of these children , and the behaviour of many of the mothers , has completely dissipated the goodwill and welcome accorded to them by the Welsh people , whose hospitality is proverbial .
28 Dependent on relief helicoptered to them by the American armed forces , the mountain refugees are still losing their young and their old to malnutrition , cold and disease .
29 Will my hon. Friend the Minister bear it in mind that many of the frauds that have come to the attention of our regulating authorities were first discovered and reported to them by the American SEC ?
30 Sadly , as I shall explain , the facts do not bear out the interpretation given to them by the Foreign Secretary .
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