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

No	Sentence
1	And yesterday their lawyer told the Old Bailey : ‘ It brought home to them the serious nature of what they had done . ’
2	She sought out Alix , to tell her of her plans to remarry , and they spent a long evening , over spaghetti and Hirondelle , talking of what already seemed to them the distant past .
3	That William and Mary Prince and Princesse of Orange bee and bee declared , King and Queen of England France and Ireland and the Dominions there unto belonging to hold the Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdom 's and Dominions to them the said Prince and Princesss during their lives and the life of the Survivor of them and that the Sole and full exercise of the Regall Power be only in and executed by the said Prince of Orange in the Names of the said Prince and Princesse during their Joynt lives And after their deceases the said Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdoms and Dominions to be to the heires of the body of the said Princesse : And for default of such Issue to the Princesse Anne of Denmarke and the heires of her body .
4	‘ I have been alarmed at the easy way the Labour Party has in recent years allowed certain factions in society to dictate to them the philosophical approach they should be following .
5	To them the traditional emphasis on voluntarism and private initiative , which had laid the foundation for Nonconformist power , needed re-examination or what a later generation would call ‘ rationalization ’ .
6	Lord Reid delivered the leading opinion in the House of Lords and he stated the general principles in fatal accidents claims as follows at p217 : They [ the dependants ] are entitled to such a sum as will make good to them the financial loss which they have suffered and will suffer as a result of the death .
7	According to them the capitalist representation of labour , the idea that labour is a thing which can be bought and sold , came about as a result of certain economic and technical developments in medieval towns .
8	We have put to them the intimate questions teachers and parents are too afraid to ask .
9	We have been all around Britain to put to them the intimate questions teachers and parents were too afraid to ask .
10	The Leader of the Party in the House of Lords , the Chief Whip in the House of Lords , the chairman of the National Union and the chairman of the Executive of the National Union , together with the president of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association , will on the Monday attend a meeting of the Executive of the 1922 Committee for the purpose of conveying to them the collective views of the peers in receipt of the Conservative whip , the National Union and the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association respectively .
11	I read this poem to a group of 10- and 11-year-old children , pointing out to them the physical immediacy of phrases like ‘ tummy jiggled ’ , ‘ ears/Were cold ’ and ‘ teeth on edge ’ .
12	In his address to them the Holy Father stressed that the era of Missionaries has not ended .
13	Conversely slave-owners and self-lords on the whole stood by the system because it seemed to them the very foundation of their society and their class .
14	By mid-1939 , in addition to finding places to live for children who arrived without guarantors , the committees had delegated to them the twice-yearly inspection of homes , arrangements for schooling and vocational training , and the task of sorting out any difficulties over religious education .
15	I have now received the draft Contract from the vendor 's solicitors and I have accordingly despatched to them the Preliminary Enquiries arising thereon and also my local search with East Herts District Council .
16	Reveal to me the great secret .
17	To me the small group of birds on the sand-spit looked just like little terns , but it is a bird I have never seen in Shetland , so I am not familiar with it .
18	‘ Napkins , ’ laughed a young wife to me the following day .
19	We 've had that 's that 's the observation I was gon na make , that 's er just so happens that that almost the amount that 's gon na be turned round to me the following week that that
20	One thing about the strategy is that it seems to me the ultimate goal is perhaps to get rid of the warlords
21	No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ?
22	I dare not ask directly what is the precise matter but I see in Mr Browning 's eyes an anxiety deeper than usual and he confessed to me the other day that he fears there may be water on the lung .
23	‘ Oh , he was rather offensive to me the other day . ’
24	Somebody mentioned this to me the other day
25	‘ Yes , Martha 's mother , Susan Sowerby , spoke to me the other day .
26	‘ Forgive me if I seem to be playing the amateur sleuth once again , but something else occurred to me the other day , which might or might not be of interest to you . ’
27	He must have read her note to me the other day , because this is just a truncated version of it .
28	Adam gave it to me the other day so that I could lock up .
29	The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place .
30	Of course , he does not care a rap whether it is true or not — but he is dreadfully afraid that by prematurely espousing it he might lose some subscribers , though he acknowledged to me the other day he thought it would be generally accepted before long . ’