Example sentences of "to [pers pn] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he concludes that ordinary moral judgements express the erroneous view that there are objective features of the world which intrinsically ( and not merely because , as a matter of contingent fact , we respond to them in certain ways ) require something of us . |
| 2 | References to them in contemporary documents increased during the second half of the thirteenth century . |
| 3 | Tell the hijackers I will talk to them in five minutes . |
| 4 | They must have known if proceedings were taken for penalties it would be open to them in such proceedings to raise the question as to whether the duties were payable or not , as they did , in fact , in 1906 . |
| 5 | It 's about collison of cultures in Britain since the end of the war , and it looks at the way that some artists of non-British origin have come to terms with modern art — or , rather , have made a personal art by calling on ways of expression that might have been absolutely native to them in other countries than this . |
| 6 | For the rest , the Emperor maintained them out of his privy purse , showing to them in many instances a generosity far beyond their worth . |
| 7 | The acceptance of such reasoning required Lord Hailsham to address anew the question of the mental element required for lack of consent in rape , since the nineteenth century judges upon whom he relied had never had the matter presented to them in these terms . |
| 8 | These questions are extremely difficult to answer from empirical data historically , but their importance means inevitably that I shall return to them in later chapters . |
| 9 | A royal grant ( S 952 ) of dubious authenticity to Christ Church Canterbury from 1018 is witnessed by a Haldenne princeps regis who also appears ( as Haldan princeps ) as a donor of land to them in later obituaries . |
| 10 | He would soon argue for a Whitmanesque , democratic art , drawn from the people and distributed to them in popular editions , accessible to all and finding its way into ‘ workmen 's houses and farms ’ . |
| 11 | The alternative was to give it to them in 50 crates . ’ |
| 12 | The fact that we call both our mother 's brother and father 's brother by the same term does not mean that we are unaware of the fact that we are related to them in different ways or that we can not express this difference by using such phrases as ‘ my uncle on my mother 's side ’ . |
| 13 | He was alongside them , to reveal himself to them in human terms , and to rescue them from the self-induced estrangement into which they had fallen . |
| 14 | Can we give it to them in ten weeks ? |
| 15 | Er yes Mr Chairman , I mean I assume this thing gives us a fairly embryonic stage , I hope it 's not intended in any way as a finished article , it seems to me in many cases er a state into the obvious er I 'd hope that our employees would be polite people , erm you know this is a great step forward to putting down on a paper , I do n't know , but I mean |
| 16 | I 'm a layman to you and you 're a layman to me in many senses , and therefore erm the , the , the fact that our students are in effect very often laymen is not something that detracts from their motivation to study , in many instances it 's something that gives it stimulus and underlines it . |
| 17 | ‘ At Oxford , people defined themselves in class terms and this was all a tremendous shock to me in many ways . ’ |
| 18 | It will also be an interesting as well as expensive trip to me in other points . |
| 19 | Against this learned account , I have to weigh what it felt like at the time , and the message of the history that was delivered up to me in small doses : that not being hungry and having a bed to sleep in at night , we had a good childhood , were better than other people , were lucky little girls . |
| 20 | Several former masons , or close relatives of those still in the Brotherhood , have spoken to me in similar ways . |
| 21 | He is absolutely inferior to me in all ways . |
| 22 | In less than one year certain people have received an increase more than has come to me in 11 years . |
| 23 | Now I said to Ken that 'll be your christmas present to me in nineteen years and that 'll do me a treat cos that 's really worth it . |
| 24 | But by the time I had got it out of the packet and placed it between my lips , he had lighted a cerillo and was holding it out to me in cupped hands , smiling above the soft yellow flame whose elvish reflection danced in his blue eyes . |
| 25 | It was not delivered to me in clear words , but in some sort of squeaky Other Side music with which he aided my understanding . |
| 26 | Now it seems to me with erm with great respect from the view of the taxing officer , that er it 's quite clear that er both parties were holding han were holding their hands in relation to a question of taxation because negotiations were going on between the parties and indeed the defendants were being requested er not to proceed with taxation but to see if they could obtain an overall assessment and the point was met to the defendants barrister , telling quite frankly there would n't be much advantage in the defendants pushing on with erm taxation because they 'd only , they would have to look to his interest in the property to get payment , it seems to me in those circumstances that it can not be said that erm the plaintiffs were in any way acting improperly and not seeking to have the costs taxed during the period while the negotiations were being carried on er because effectively and |
| 27 | I mean it seems to me in those cases a secret ballot is highly desirable and coercion would be more of a danger than people voting er from the mo wrong moral motivation . |
| 28 | It was very little money really , but to me in those days it seemed like a lot . |
| 29 | I was thirteen then , and you were a hero to me in those days . |
| 30 | It 's a great thing to keep them from and to me in those days . |