Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that the greater mathematical physicist Maxwell referred to them when making use ( separately ) of the " scalar " and " vector " parts of a quaternion , but the vector calculus of Gibbs and Heaviside ( in the 1880s ) seemed to suit the physicists better . |
| 2 | Now , they would be thought obscene public perception has changed and understood that animals are sentient beings and that we demean our humanity if we are cruel to them or permit cruelty . |
| 3 | Then he prophesied to them and made flesh and sinews come around them . |
| 4 | By five in the morning she had decided to go back , to return to them and forget music , blame her defection on a temporary post-natal madness . |
| 5 | No , it should be a permanent link , and er the calls will be er supported by the National Asthma Campaign and , as I said , it 's particularly er useful to newly diagnosed asthmatics in helping them to understand what 's happening to them and obtain advice , er . |
| 6 | Let's not make assumptions , let's y'know it 's up to them and y'know kind of er we should n't intrude into their private lives , that 's their personal decision and er should n't make assumptions about other people 's sexuality and all that kind of thing comes out . |
| 7 | These morbid thoughts occurred to me while watching Question time ( 5 May ) on BBC1 . |
| 8 | She shook her head , the dark hair glinting with moisture , her eyes turned to me and searching mine . |
| 9 | Did that exhibition suggest to you that Pop Art was a thrusting and lively activity with a relevance in contemporary art , or that it had become a comfortable and nostalgic moment in art history ? |
| 10 | When you or your travel agent asks for your holiday booking to be confirmed , we allocate your chosen holiday to you and give confirmation of the booking at that moment . |
| 11 | See ads in LRO for a supplier of your loom who is close to you or does mail order . |
| 12 | ‘ Like I said , I walked up to him and asked –in what the idea was . |
| 13 | Have n't I always taken my worries to Him and found ease ? ’ |
| 14 | I ran over to her and felt water dripping on my back and head . |
| 15 | They ran back to the house for breakfast , George excited at their success , Libby content with the same feeling she had had when she first persuaded the old pony to come up to her and accept sugar from her outstretched palm . |
| 16 | When it was rebuilt , Jews were forbidden to return to it or establish residence within its precincts . |
| 17 | To my utter astonishment the motion was passed unanimously and thereafter , and to my lesser astonishment , completely ignored ; at a by-election at Pollok the Liberal candidate devoted just ten out of the 150 lines of his election address to it and came bottom of the Poll . |
| 18 | By a notice of appeal dated 23 April 1992 the Treasury Solicitor appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) on a true construction of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 the court was precluded from making the order for examination ; ( 2 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in making the order and in holding that ( i ) it was possible to interpret section 9(4) of the Act so as not to preclude the order sought , ( ii ) the exclusion contained in section 9(4) was restricted to cases where the actual capacity in which the witness was called on to give evidence was a Crown capacity and that the fact that the evidence sought was acquired in the course of the witness 's employment as a servant of the Crown was not of itself sufficient to bring the case within the exclusion , ( iii ) the fact that the witness was now retired from his position was relevant to the question whether the exclusion in section 9(4) applied , ( iv ) if some other interpretation were possible , it would be unacceptable to approach section 9(4) as requiring the court to refuse to make the order that a witness who was competent and compellable within the United Kingdom should give evidence for foreign proceedings , ( v ) there was nothing in the material sought to be given in evidence which it could have been the policy or intention of the Act to have prevented being explored ; ( 3 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in approaching the question of capacity by concentrating on the position of the witness at the time that the evidence was to be given as opposed to the position of the witness at the time that he acquired the information which was the subject matter of the evidence and the nature content and source of such evidence ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly ignored the fact that the Crown as a party to the Hague Convention was in a position to give effect to it and to provide evidence to foreign courts in accordance with it without recourse to the court ; and ( 5 ) the judge had wrongly approached section 9(4) on the footing that it most likely addressed prejudice to the sovereignty of the state . |
| 19 | Should you despatch goods to us or perform work for us in accordance with this order without such an acknowledgement , this shall of itself be deemed an acknowledgement falling within this paragraph . |